yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
scholarship
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scholar
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English scholarship
From scholar + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: scholarships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scholarships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scholarshiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scholarshipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scholarshiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scholarshiped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scholarshipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scholarshipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A grant-in-aid to a student.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.
There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.
gloss: The character or qualities of a scholar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
gloss: The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: To attend an institution on a scholarship.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
gloss: To grant a scholarship to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
Related words: school
scholar
scholarly
scholarism
scholastic
scholasticism
scholasticate
researchship
Derived words: pseudo-scholarship
scholarshipper
Translations:
vendetta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vendetta (“revenge”), from Latin vindicta. See vindicate, avenge.
Inflected forms:
form: vendettas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vendette
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Revenge.
pos: noun
gloss: A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged: a blood feud.
pos: noun
examples: The families had been locked in a bitter vendetta for generations.
gloss: A motivational grudge against a person or faction, which may or may not be reciprocated; the state of having it in for someone.
pos: noun
examples: personal vendetta
blood vendetta
Derived words: vendettist
Translations:
venerable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vénérable, from Old French, from Latin venerabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more venerable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most venerable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
pos: adj
examples: Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
gloss: Worthy of reverence.
pos: adj
examples: We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the pacific yet august light of abiding memories.
gloss: Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
pos: adj
examples: And then bills were sent in, and the question arose, what could Jude do with his great-aunt's heavy old furniture if he left the town to travel he knew not whither? This, and the necessity of ready money, compelled him to decide on an auction, much as he would have preferred to keep the venerable goods.
gloss: Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
pos: adj
gloss: Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.
pos: adj
Translations:
grant-in-aid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grants-in-aid
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The giving of national funds to subsidize a local or regional project.
pos: noun
gloss: Providing funds to an institution (such as a school) or person to subsidize a specific project or activity, such as a scholarship.
pos: noun
Translations:
veneration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio.
Inflected forms:
form: venerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Profound reverence, respect or awe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.
gloss: Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: venereal
Venus
Translations:
vengeful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From venge + -ful.
Base: venge
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more vengeful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vengeful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
pos: adj
examples: His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.
Antonyms: conciliatory
forgiving
placable
unrevengeful
unvengeful
unvindictive
Translations:
ventilate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin ventilātus, past participle of ventilō.
Inflected forms:
form: ventilates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ventilating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ventilated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ventilated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
pos: verb
gloss: To circulate air through a building, etc.
pos: verb
gloss: To provide with a vent.
pos: verb
gloss: To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
pos: verb
gloss: To expose something to public examination or discussion.
pos: verb
examples: "Well, I did my best. I had no hopes, and it has worked out as I thought. It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice."
The WR has dropped its plan to close Yeovil Junction station. As we predicted on page 376 of the June issue, there has been strong opposition to the suggestion and on July 10 local opinion ventilated its case at a Yeovil Town Hall meeting attended by Mr. G. F. Fiennes, General Manager of the WR.
gloss: To provide manual or mechanical breathing to (a patient).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To breathe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Patients with cervical injuries usually arrive in the intensive care unit (ICU) already intubated. However, with some high thoracic or low cervical lesions, patients who ventilate independently in the emergency department may arrive in the ICU without assisted ventilation.
gloss: To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: If we went in and there was no burglar, and we got into a shooting with the homeowner and ventilated him, that would be a little difficult to explain.
Related words: ventilation
Derived words: reventilate
Translations:
interruption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English interrupcioun, from Old French interrupcion, from Latin interruptio.
Inflected forms:
form: interruptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on.
gloss: the act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: moratorium
recess
Related words: dead air
Derived words: flight interruption manifest
interruptionless
interruption science
manterruption
power interruption
self-interruption
uninterruption
Translations:
ventilator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From ventilate + -or; cf. Latin ventilator.
Base: ventilate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: ventilators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine that moves breathable air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe sufficiently.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: respirator
gloss: Some behaviour or happening that relieves a tense atmosphere or situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: A lover's quarrel is made up of jealousies, doubts, hopes, fears, and all sorts of fantastic fancies: a matrimonial dispute, on the contrary, is composed of familiar and ordinary matter, a sort of ventilator to the temper!
gloss: A play or an actor so bad as to empty the theater.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Derived words: screw ventilator
tank ventilator
Translations:
ventricle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventriculus.
Inflected forms:
form: ventricles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
pos: noun
examples: The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.
gloss: Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
pos: noun
examples: the ventricle of memory
gloss: Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: [On birds] Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles, and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) […]
gloss: Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: interventricular
intraventricular
ventriculated
ventriculus
Derived words: ventricular
ventriculate
ventriculo-
ventricul-
Translations:
ventriloquist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ventriloquy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English ventriloquist
From ventriloquy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: ventriloquists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
pos: noun
examples: Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"
Translations:
ventriloquism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ventriloquy
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 ventriloquism
From ventriloquy + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: ventriloquisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
verbosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French verbosité, from Late Latin verbōsitās. By surface analysis, verbose + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: verbosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: With Christie's words about "all-talk-no-action" in mind, notice that Obama and his two secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, as well as his vice president, Joe Biden, were all senators, the last two serving for two or three decades, respectively. Not forgetting the ill-fated secretary of defense, Senator Chuck Hagel. Their capacity for talking so much and saying so little is astonishing. Their verbosity is unpalatable.
Antonyms: succinctness
Translations:
verger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English verge
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English verger
From verge (“rod”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: vergers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: virger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
pos: noun
gloss: A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: "We have often seen each other," said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, "when I have been at church here."
As soon as we were all in the night the verger rolled shut the doors and blotted out the chandeliers.
gloss: An usher; also, in major ecclesiastical landmarks, a tour guide.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
gloss: An attendant upon a dignitary, such as a bishop or dean, a justice, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: When she came to her place she opened the book, and perused it, and saw the pictures, but frowned and blushed; and then shut it, (of which several took notice,) and calling the verger, bade him bring her the old book, wherein she was formerly wont to read.
Translations:
versed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more versed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most versed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Knowledgeable or skilled, either through study or experience; familiar; practiced.
pos: adj
examples: deep versed in books and shallow in himself
opinions […] derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of his age
These men were versed in the details of business.
I mean no disrespect for such knowledge, if anyone really is versed in it – I do not want any more lawsuits brought against me by Meletus – but the fact is, gentlemen, that I take no interest in it.
Translations:
vespers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us.
Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.
Base: vesper
Affixes: -us
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
uncountable
gloss: A massacre
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
uncountable
Related words: evensong
smokefall
Derived words: Sicilian Vespers
Asiatic Vespers
Translations:
vested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: more vested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Settled, fixed or absolute, with no contingencies.
pos: adj
examples: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
gloss: Dressed or clothed, especially in vestments.
pos: adj
examples: The Pope, vested in mitre and cope, is greeted by a newly created Cardinal.
Synonyms: raimented
Derived words: vested interest
vested remainder
vested remainder subject to open
vested school
Translations:
vestment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English vestement, vestment, from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum. By surface analysis, vest + -ment. Compare French vêtement.
Inflected forms:
form: vestments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A robe, gown, or other article of clothing worn as an indication of office.
pos: noun
examples: The priest wore a white vestment during the ceremony.
Medieval paintings often depict bishops in ornate vestments.
gloss: Any of the special articles of clothing worn by members of the clergy etc., especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist.
pos: noun
examples: liturgical vestment
ceremonial vestment
ecclesiastical vestment
gloss: Clothing.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: An article of clothing, especially an outer garment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: invest
vest
vestibule
vesture
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: roucho
lang: Czech
word: háv
lang: Czech
word: oděv
lang: Georgian
word: სამოსელი
roman: samoseli
lang: German
word: Ornat
lang: Greek
word: άμφιο
roman: ámfio
lang: Hungarian
word: ornátus
lang: Hungarian
word: miseruha
lang: Irish
word: éide
lang: Irish
word: brat altóra
lang: Macedonian
word: о́дежда
roman: ódežda
lang: Polish
word: ornat
lang: Russian
word: облаче́ние
roman: oblačénije
veterinary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin veterīnārius, from veterīnus and veterīnae (“cattle;"beasts of burden/of draught"”); compare with veterinarian.
Inflected forms:
form: more veterinary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most veterinary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: veterinaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the medical or surgical treatment of non-human animals, especially domestic and farm animals.
pos: adj
examples: Max used all his veterinary knowledge to save the goose stuck in the fence.
The talented artist quickly became fluent in English, found work at a pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant.
gloss: A veterinary surgeon; a veterinarian.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Ward may rightly be considered the wizard of the north, for he was the pioneer of "practical pussyology" apart from the regular qualified veterinary who may look with a kind and pitying eye on cats' ailments and infirmities […]
Translations:
vexatious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: a 1650 vexation + -ous
Base: vexation
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more vexatious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vexatious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
pos: adj
examples: Although this letter is vexatious, I must not forget that my little entertainment has brought me a visiter in the Marquess of Wentworthdale, on an errand of no small moment, as the Countess of Rotheles may soon learn, to her surprise, for I shall, probably, see him at the Opera to-night.
gloss: Full of trouble or disquiet
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: He leads a vexatious life.
gloss: Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
pos: adj
examples: a vexatious lawsuit
gloss: In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
pos: adj
examples: a vexatious litigant
Related words: vex
vexation
Derived words: vexatiously
vexatiousness
Translations:
vexed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English vexed, vexede, vexit, vixid, equivalent to vex + -ed.
Base: vex
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more vexed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vexed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: annoyed, irritated or distressed
pos: adj
examples: She became more and more vexed as she struggled to cope with the demands of the job.
He would be left in no doubt that they were annoyed. He might even go so far as to deduce that they were quite vexed.
gloss: much debated, discussed or disputed
pos: adj
examples: The question, however, as to whether rinderpest bile is capable of producing the disease in a herd innoculated with it is a very vexed one, and round this point heated controversies have been waged in other places than in Natal.
I leave aside the vexed questions about whether one or two peploi were woven and presented to Athena during the Greater (every four years) and Lesser (every year) Panathenaic festivals […]
Derived words: vexedly
Translations:
viaduct
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: transport
Etymology: A blend of Latin via (“highway; road”) + English (aque)duct.
Inflected forms:
form: viaducts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bridge with several spans that carries rail or road traffic over a valley or other obstacles.
pos: noun
examples: […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
Translations:
vibrant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From French vibrant, from Latin vibrans, present participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”). See vibrate.
Inflected forms:
form: more vibrant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vibrant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vibrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pulsing with energy or activity.
pos: adj
examples: He has a vibrant personality.
gloss: Lively and vigorous.
pos: adj
gloss: Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
pos: adj
examples: Mock their pale vigils, void and vain, / Whether, more curious than humane, / Like Augurs old, they pore / On the still-vibrant fibre's frame;
A vibrant voice in the true sense is of course desirable
gloss: Bright.
pos: adj
gloss: Any of a class of consonants including taps and trills.
pos: noun
Synonyms: energetic
spirited
remugient
Related words: vibrate
vibration
vibrantly
vibrator
Translations:
vibration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
parapsychology
physical-sciences
physics
pseudoscience
Etymology: From French vibration, from Latin vibrātiō (“a shaking or brandishing”), from vibrō (“shake, vibrate”); see vibrate. Morphologically vibrate + -ion.
Base: vibrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: vibrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of vibrating or the condition of being vibrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any periodic process, especially a rapid linear motion of a body about an equilibrium position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single complete vibrating motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The moon, which had been slowly ascending, now shone through an open space between the trees; and the rippling waters of the brook gave back her light in luminous vibrations.
gloss: A vibrational energy of spiritual nature through which mediumistic and other paranormal phenomena are conveyed or affected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "And the sitters?" "I expect Professor Challenger may wish to bring a friend or two of his own." "They will form a horrible block of vibrations! We must have some of our own sympathetic people to counteract it."
"Witches feel that anyone who is against them has to be destroyed. The method is to give the victim what we call a whispering. It is similar to the aborigine ceremony in Australia of singing someone to death. The witches gather in a circle and focus their hate on the persons they have in mind. These vibrations from their minds and voices carry whispers to the one who they are working against."
gloss: An instinctively sensed emotional aura or atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
in-plural
often
slang
uncountable
examples: I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.
The procession circled the district, symbolically purging the area of its “evil,” which paraders described as the “bad vibrations” from tourists and youths in Hippie clothes not living up to Hippie standards.
Could it be she's just friendly / And that's nothing to get all excited about / On the other hand she could be answering / The good vibrations I'm sendin' out
Related words: vibrant
vibrate
vibratiuncle
vibrato
vibrator
Derived words: hand-arm vibration syndrome
phantom vibration syndrome
sympathetic vibration
vibration control
vibration white finger
Translations:
vicarage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vicar
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English vicarage
From vicar + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: vicarages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The residence of a vicar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
gloss: The benefice, duties, or office of a vicar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: vicarate
Translations:
doubtful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doutfull, douteful, equivalent to doubt + -ful.
Base: doubt
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more doubtful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doubtful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: doubtfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: doubtfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doubtfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to, or causing doubt.
pos: adj
gloss: Experiencing or showing doubt, skeptical.
pos: adj
gloss: Undecided or of uncertain outcome.
pos: adj
gloss: Fearsome, dreadful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Improbable or unlikely.
pos: adj
gloss: Suspicious, or of dubious character.
pos: adj
examples: Yet it is not the predominant views of the experts but the views of a minority, mostly of rather doubtful standing in their profession, which are taken up and spread by the intellectuals.
gloss: Unclear or unreliable.
pos: adj
examples: The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.
gloss: A doubtful person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: They had their lists of Liberals and of the doubtfuls who still remained doubtful. As the election drew near, the force of the whole organization was turned upon these unrepentant doubtfuls.
Derived words: Doubtful Creek
doubtfully
doubtfulness
undoubtful
Translations:
viceroy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vice-roy, from vice- + roy (“king”). Compare viscount.
Inflected forms:
form: viceroys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vice-roi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
pos: noun
examples: Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up.
Mike Davis, a former Senate GOP staffer on Supreme Court nominations and current “viceroy” of Trumpworld, wrote that Alito was “gleefully packing up his chambers” after the 2024 election.
gloss: A zongdu.
pos: noun
gloss: An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
pos: noun
Related words: roy
governor-general
governor general
lord lieutenant
Translations:
interrupt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Inflected forms:
form: interrupts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interrupting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interrupted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interrupted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interrumpt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interroupt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interrout
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interrupts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interrumpt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interroupt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: interrout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
Do not interrupt me in my course.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
gloss: To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
gloss: To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
gloss: An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
pos: noun
examples: The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
Synonyms: interject
Antonyms: continue
resume
Related words: abrupt
corrupt
disrupt
Derived words: interruptable
interruptee
interrupter
interruptible
interruptingly
interruption
interruptive
interruptless
interrupt request
manterrupt
noninterrupt
reinterrupt
self-interrupt
those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it
uninterrupting
Translations:
vicinity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vicine + -ity, from Latin vīcīnitās (“neighborhood”) (compare French vicinité), from vīcīnus (“neighbor”) (compare French voisin), from vīcus (“village”).
Base: vicine
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: vicinities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Proximity; the state of being near.
pos: noun
examples: There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
gloss: Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.
pos: noun
examples: There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas.
O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler, reporting from Bangkok, said hundreds of Yingluck's supporters gathered outside the Bangkok Supreme Court to await the verdict but were not allowed in the vicinity.
gloss: Approximate size or amount.
pos: noun
examples: I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.
Translations:
ongoing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From on + going, related to the phrasal verb go on.
Base: on
Inflected forms:
form: on-going
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: ongoings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: on-going
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Continuing, permanent, lasting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Major refurbishments will be made over the next ten years. We have nine wooden viaducts along the line - it's an ongoing programme," he says.
gloss: Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something that is going on; a happening.
pos: noun
examples: We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.
Derived words: ongoing covid
ongoingly
ongoingness
Translations:
vicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English vicious, from Anglo-Norman vicious, (modern French vicieux), from Latin vitiōsus, from vitium (“fault, vice”). Equivalent to vice + -ous.
Base: vice
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more vicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: viciouser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: viciousest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vitious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Violent, destructive and cruel.
pos: adj
gloss: Savage and aggressive.
pos: adj
examples: He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
gloss: Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
Admiral Crawford was a man of vicious conduct, who chose, instead of retaining his niece, to bring his mistress under his own roof
A murrain on you, Reverend Apse/I hope you get caught in a vicious moral lapse.
Synonyms: scathy
Related words: vice#Related_terms
Derived words: vicious circle
vicious cycle
vicious intromission
Translations:
viciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English viciousnesse; equivalent to vicious + -ness.
Base: vicious
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: viciousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the characteristic of being vicious
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the desire to cause harm to others; extreme cruelty
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
interfere
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Old French entreferir, from entre- + ferir (“to hit, to strike”), itself from the Latin verb ferio.
Inflected forms:
form: interferes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interfering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interfered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interfered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enterfere
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.
I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.
gloss: Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.
Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.
gloss: Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.
pos: verb
gloss: To sexually molest, especially of a child.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.
Related words: busy body
interferometry
Derived words: interferant
interference
interferer
interferingly
interferingness
interferogram
interferometer
interferon
noninterfering
reinterfere
small interfering RNA
uninterfered
Translations:
lota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi लोटा (loṭā) / Urdu لوٹا (loṭā).
(person who switches loyalties): From the fact that the lota pot has a tendency to fall over and roll around, as it is not stable sitting on its base.
Inflected forms:
form: lotas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
examples: She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water.
gloss: A person who switches loyalties, especially from one political party to another, engaging in lotacracy.
pos: noun
Translations:
vicariance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geography
geology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From vicariant + -ance.
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: vicariances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The separation of a group of organisms by a geographic barrier, resulting in differentiation of the original group into new varieties or species.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such an old origin for parts of Sulawesi would explain its unique biota and high species richness; species would have rafted along on these fragments from worlds since long lost (a process known as vicariance).
gloss: The geological event which produces such a barrier (volcano, earthquake, etc)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of experiencing an event by proxy through an empathic link with the person who is experiencing the event firsthand.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
Related words: vicariated
Translations:
immeasurable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inmesurable, ynmesurable; equivalent to im- + measurable.
Base: measurable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: immeasurables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: impossible to measure
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Give me your hand, and in a few minutes we shall be in my own dwelling, amid those immeasurable deserts where only my story may be communicated.
There is also the former Great Central main line which, though it climbs to an almost equal altitude at Dunford, has the immeasurable advantage of electric traction.
gloss: vast
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "His contribution has been immeasurable," Bush said in a statement. "I value his judgment, and I treasure his friendship."
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
gloss: anything that cannot be measured
pos: noun
examples: And inspiring good relationships is all about immeasurables: it is about inspiring purpose, compassion and attentiveness.
Synonyms: immensurable
unmeasurable
Antonyms: measurable
Derived words: immeasurable light
immeasurableness
immeasurably
Translations:
balaclava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the city of Balaklava in Crimea, from Ottoman Turkish بالقلاوه (modern Turkish balıklava), alteration of بالقلاغه (balıklaga, “fishing ground”). During the Crimean War the British troops suffered from cold due to improper clothing. When the news spread in the home front after the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, the people began knitting warm clothing for the soldiers, including woollen caps to be worn under the helmet, which were named balaclavas by the troops.
Inflected forms:
form: balaclavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.
pos: noun
gloss: A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater protection.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
examples: George Ronald Waite, 33, known as Balaclava Bill because of the dark blue woollen hood he wore while robbing seven banks of $46,200 over the past two years, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in Kingston Penitentiary.
Derived words: balaclavaed
Translations:
windlass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wyndlas, wyndelas, wyndlasse, wyndelasse, probably an alteration (due to Middle English windel) of Middle English windas, wyndas, wyndace, from Anglo-Norman windase, windeis and Old Northern French windas (compare Old French guindas, Medieval Latin windasius, windasa), from Old Norse vindáss (“windlass”, literally “winding-pole”), from vinda (“to wind”) + áss (“pole”). Compare Icelandic vindilass.
Inflected forms:
form: windlasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: windless
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: windlasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: windlassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: windlassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: windlassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: windless
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various forms of winch, in which a rope or cable is wound around a cylinder, used for lifting heavy weights
pos: noun
gloss: A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course.
pos: noun
examples: With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.
gloss: An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.
pos: noun
gloss: To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass.
pos: verb
examples: A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.
gloss: To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.
pos: verb
examples: He could not expect to allure him forward, and therefore drives him as far back as he can; that so he may be the more sure of him at the rebound; as a skilful woodsman, that by windlassing presently gets a shoot, which, without taking a compass and thereby a commodious stand, he could never have obtained.
Derived words: Spanish windlass
Translations:
longish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English long
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English longish
From long + -ish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat long.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html
"How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)
She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
Translations:
virility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From virile + -ity, from Middle French virilité, from Latin virīlitās.
Base: virile
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: virilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being virile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Woolen threads were an occult means, according to the Roman poet Horace, of depriving a person of virility.
gloss: Manly character, quality, or nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability of a man to procreate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
Synonyms: masculinity
Antonyms: femininity
muliebrity
Related words: virile
Derived words: viropause
Translations:
charged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more charged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most charged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing strong emotion.
pos: adj
examples: a charged issue in American politics
gloss: Showing or having strong emotion.
pos: adj
examples: an emotionally charged plea
gloss: Fraught with emotion; tense.
pos: adj
examples: It was an emotionally charged moment when President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress for the first time during his administration. It was also a charged moment because of failing economies in the US and around the world. Congress and the public waited to hear how he proposed to help solve the problem. President Obama suggested several strategies[…]
Eva approached me , and her closeness made my senses come alive. There was a charged moment where words seemed superfluous. She finally broke the silence. "So, Killian, why did you really want me here on stage? You insisted that I didn't need to audition. Was this even about the music?"
gloss: Having electricity.
pos: adj
examples: charged particles
a charged phone
Derived words: chargedness
charged particle
countercharged
decharged
electrocharged
hypercharged
millicharged
minicharged
monocharged
multicharged
noncharged
turbocharged
uncharged
Translations: