yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unpardonable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English pardonable
English unpardonable
From un- + pardonable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unpardonable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpardonable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: impossible to pardon; impossible to excuse or justify
pos: adj
examples: And you will ſee it really may happen in this very happy land, that men who are rich may commit, with impunity, crimes infinitely more unpardonable, becauſe they are committed with leſs temptation, than thoſe for which “little villains” ſuffer every day—crimes which involve in their conſequences the moſt fatal events.
"I can understand your being wicked," she said keenly, "but not your being cowardly. That is and was unpardonable."
To lose a game was bad enough, but to round on a comrade was unpardonable; while to lose from the game a half-back of Cameron's calibre was unthinkable.
It would be unpardonable to ignore the repeated lessons of history.
Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
Antonyms: pardonable
Translations:
shoreward
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shore
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English shoreward
From shore + -ward.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the direction of the shoreline, relatively speaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When he felt him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress down-stream amazingly rapid.
The shoreward arms of the north and south cantilevers were built into masonry abutments.
gloss: Facing the shore.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If their enemies were really on the watch, if they had beleaguered the shoreward end of the pier, he and Lord Foxham were taken in a posture of poor defence […]
Felixstowe's pier was cut short during the Second World War as an anti-invasion measure. Although its pierhead was subsequently demolished in the 1950s, a new £3 million shoreward building opened in August 2017.
gloss: Toward the shore.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, / "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."
gloss: The side facing the shore.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] when they sawe our boates comming to the shoreward, they began to runne away, with a great clamour and outcrie […]
Translations:
warhorse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
theater
war
Etymology: From war + horse.
Compound parts: war
horse
Inflected forms:
form: warhorses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armoured knight.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Just within the inner edge of the circle stood a soldier, in the military attire of a strange nation; and without it was his warhorse, in the center of a collection of mounted domestics, seemingly in readiness to undertake some distant journey.
As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his war-horse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm.
gloss: An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: Near-synonym: workhorse
Among other accidents of that year was a Democratic president. Judge Atwood was a warhorse of Democracy.
Certainly this was a bold proposal to an old warhorse like Ecuyer, and, like a true English bulldog, he voiced a reply which made the Indians wince.
“I don't know. I never notice much. Oh, they do kid me about not being in the army—especially the old warhorses, the old men that aren't going themselves. And this Bogart boy. And Mr. Hicks's son—he's a horrible brat. But probably he's licensed to say what he thinks about his father's hired man!”
Srinath: India's warhorse [title]
gloss: A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
pos: noun
examples: a Wagner warhorse
I remember taking the old warhorse, “Una Voce Poco Fa,” from Il Barbiere (Rossini) to three of the greatest living singing masters in Italy.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo[…] presented a typical program of Russian warhorses of the 19th and early 20th centuries[…]
A Mendelssohn Warhorse Gets the Perlman Treatment [title]
[…] the ROH mounts a new production of an Italian repertory warhorse that is fully on the level of the one it replaces […
Translations:
raindrop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English rein-drope, reyn-drope, reyn drope, from Old English reġndropa, from Proto-Germanic *regnadrupô. Equivalent to rain + drop. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Riendruppe, West Frisian reindrip, Dutch regendroppel, regendruppel, German Low German Regendrüpp, German Regentropfen, Swedish regndroppe, Icelandic regndropi.
Compound parts: rain
drop
Inflected forms:
form: raindrops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single droplet of rainwater that has just fallen or is falling from the sky.
pos: noun
examples: It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.
1969, Hal David (lyricist), “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head”.
Translations:
geniality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin geniālitās, and perhaps also partly formed within English as genial + -ity.
Base: genial
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: genialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place. Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around.
[…] and yet there was such a wilful geniality about him, such a strenuous air of being off duty and forgetting his rank, that no one was ever quite at ease in his presence.
Translations:
ribulose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ribuloses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a ketopentose whose phosphate derivatives participate in photosynthesis
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tectonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: 1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, “pertaining to building”), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “carpenter, joiner, maker”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to make”) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) + -ic (“pertaining to”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Structural.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A boiling hot rock planet with extreme tectonic activity, Parnassus is home to many volcanic mountains. Surface scans reveal several geothermal and solar power stations, tapping the planet's abundant energy.
At some point, Venus may have had its own form of plate tectonics – possibly different from the plate tectonics here on Earth. Water and rock measurements obtained from the DAVINCI mission, combined with the Venus global mapping information by NASA’s VERITAS mission, another recently selected mission to Venus that is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, can be used to decipher how these tectonic patterns may have operated on Venus, and why the planet was unable to sustain them in a fashion similar to Earth.
gloss: Momentous, utter, vast.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: But it would be a mistake to imagine that we are benignly coming full circle, or even that we are finding that the old ways are still the most efficient. A tectonic shift has occurred.
Related words: lithotectonic
tectonics
Derived words: geotectonic
glaciotectonic
morphotectonic
neotectonic
nontectonic
orthotectonic
palaeotectonic
paleotectonic
paratectonic
plumbotectonic
posttectonic
seismotectonic
sematectonic
syntectonic
tectonically
tectonicist
tectonic keratoplasty
tectonic plate
tectonic uplift
tectonic weapon
Translations:
variably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English variable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English variably
From variable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more variably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most variably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a variable manner.
pos: adv
Antonyms: invariably
Translations:
rodenticide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rodent
Latin -i-bor.
English -i-
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.
Proto-Italic *kaidō
Latin caedō
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -a
Latin -cīdader.
Middle French -cidebor.
English -cide
English rodenticide
From rodent + -i- + -cide.
Inflected forms:
form: rodenticides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any toxic substance used to kill rodent pests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since this type of control program tends to reduce the population before it spreads over large areas, it will likely result in the use of less rodenticide in the area.
Translations:
nebulization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nebula
English -ization
English nebulization
From nebula + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: nebulizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of forming nebulae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The conversion of a liquid to a fine spray.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: aerosolization
atomization
Translations:
aerosolized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: aerosolised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dispersed as an aerosol; particulate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coulombic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From coulomb + -ic.
Base: coulomb
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: electric
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: relating to Coulomb's law and the force it involves
pos: adj
Derived words: coulombically
Translations:
convulsively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English convulsive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English convulsively
From convulsive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more convulsively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most convulsively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a convulsive manner.
pos: adv
examples: But his words died in a strange gurgling in the throat; the eyes suddenly became fixed; the mouth fell; once he stretched out his hands convulsively, but they instantly relaxed, and his head sunk on Norbourne's arm.
Her thumb and nail lightly flicked the palm of my hand until I could bear it no longer and closed my hand convulsively over hers.
Translations:
third-string
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: belonging to the third string of a team; one who plays behind the first and second strings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The young college quarterback was on the third-string, and played only during blowouts.
gloss: a substitute or replacement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mesmerizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mesmerizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mesmerizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.
pos: adj
examples: a mesmerizing lava lamp
As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
Translations:
impassioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impassion
English -ed
English impassioned
From impassion + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more impassioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impassioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: empassioned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
pos: adj
examples: She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
Of course, when I mentioned walking from one end of the platform to another (to change ends, or to check for possible hazards or obstructions), he gave a very impassioned defence of drivers having multiple exercises and jobs to finish - which is very true.
Translations:
beheading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English behead
English -ing
English beheading
From behead + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: beheadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of a person being beheaded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.
The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.
Translations:
beheaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having had one's head cut off.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.
Translations:
calorimetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin calor (“warmth, heat”) + -metry.
Affixes: -metry
Inflected forms:
form: calorimetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of measuring the heat absorbed or evolved during the course of a chemical reaction or change of state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) or differential thermal analysis (DTA) scans (Section 5.5.3) can be employed to distinguish an enantiotrope from a monotrope.
gloss: A wide headband that covers the ears, for wearing on cold days.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: calorimeter
calorimetric
Derived words: adsorption calorimetry
biocalorimetry
differential scanning calorimetry
magnetocalorimetry
microcalorimetry
nanocalorimetry
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: calorimetría
lang: Catalan
word: calorimetria
lang: Czech
word: kalorimetrie
lang: Finnish
word: kalorimetria
lang: French
word: calorimétrie
lang: Galician
word: calorimetría
lang: German
word: Kalorimetrie
lang: Hungarian
word: kalorimetria
lang: Indonesian
word: kalorimetri
lang: Irish
word: calraiméadracht
lang: Italian
word: calorimetria
lang: Romanian
word: calorimetrie
lang: Spanish
word: calorimetría
philandering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: philanderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of one who philanders.
pos: noun
examples: She wont be convinced by anything short of it; because, you see, I've had some tremendous philanderings before, and have gone back to her after them.
Straight critics […] were shocked by the explicit depiction of Peter's sexual philanderings, scenes that in 1977 are ho-hum in their shock value.
Translations:
mayordomo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish mayordomo. Doublet of majordomo.
Inflected forms:
form: mayordomos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A butler or majordomo in Spain or Latin America.
pos: noun
Translations:
cynicism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Cynicism, cynic + -ism; compare cynism.
Base: cynic
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: cynicisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A distrustful attitude.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others, due to belief that people are motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: cynic
cynical
cynically
Derived words: legal cynicism
Translations:
Kev
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: Kevs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A working-class male.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
examples: […] the middle-class males we interviewed also reported that they had to take security measures in relation to fears about intimidation from working-class 'Kevs', as well as racialised anxieties about black youth.
Translations:
yus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”)
Inflected forms:
form: yuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.
pos: noun
Translations:
creaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: creamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cookery technique in which fat and sugar are mixed together with the incorporation of air to form a cream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which something is creamed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The number of creamings necessary to reduce the impurities to a negligible amount was estimated from the relative volumes of the upper and lower layers, by assuming that the soluble impurities were uniformly distributed between the layers […]
Derived words: creaming soda
Translations:
deadheading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deadheadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of dead flowers from a plant in order to encourage the growth of new ones, and to prevent the production of seeds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The driving of an unladen vehicle, such as a bus with no passengers, in order to take it from one place to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
feted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more feted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Honoured; celebrated.
pos: adj
Translations:
onrushing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English on-
English rushing
English onrushing
From on- + rushing.
Inflected forms:
form: more onrushing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most onrushing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: rushing or flowing forward
pos: adj
examples: The Spaniard was forced off his line to clear from the onrushing John Sutton before a full-stretch save to keep an Arvydas Novikovas effort from finding the top corner from 25 yards.
gloss: attacking
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: streaming
Translations:
outmaneuvered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more outmaneuvered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outmaneuvered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outmanœuvered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: outmanoeuvered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: overcome by the maneuvering of others.
pos: adj
Translations:
overfeeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overfeedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive feeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It must not be wrongly inferred that these overfeedings bring on the attack, for this will occur no matter how sharply the food-supply may be controlled.
Translations:
pepperbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From pepper + box.
Compound parts: pepper
box
Inflected forms:
form: pepperboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pepper shaker.
pos: noun
gloss: A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.
pos: noun
examples: She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.
gloss: A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.
pos: noun
gloss: A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.
pos: noun
examples: Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.
gloss: Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: I also remember the old Royal Mews that stood on the site of the present trumpery National Gallery, with its too suggestive pepper-boxes; […]
Its architect, Wilkins, had the misfortune to be chosen to erect our much-abused National Gallery building, with its condemned "pepper-boxes" of cupolas; […]
Translations:
perceptibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perceptible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perceptibly
From perceptible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perceptibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perceptibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perceptible manner; noticeably.
pos: adv
examples: "Where'd you get it?" demanded Limpet, perceptibly livening up for the first time since the curate's entrance.
The five games left Botvinnik still one point back, still fighting but, it seemed, perceptibly tiring.
Antonyms: imperceivably
imperceptibly
imperceptively
unperceivably
Translations:
plethoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin plethoricus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek πληθωρικός (plēthōrikós), from πληθώρα (plēthṓra, “plethora”). By surface analysis, plethora + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more plethoric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plethoric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
pos: adj
examples: a horse-leech, whose deep maw
The plethoric King Swellfoot could not fill,
And who, till full, will cling for ever.
If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
gloss: Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely, abundant, varied.
pos: adj
examples: the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.
gloss: Full or excessively full.
pos: adj
examples: Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack!
See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack,
In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!
Related words: plethora
Derived words: antiplethoric
Translations:
preeminently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English preeminent
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 preeminently
From preeminent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more preeminently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most preeminently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: pre-eminently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: preëminently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In a preeminent manner.
pos: adv
examples: [T]he traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region, such as Warwickshire at that time was, is usually exact as well as tenacious; and, with respect to [William] Shakespeare in particular, we may presume it to have been full and circumstantial through the generation succeeding to his own, not only from the curiosity, and perhaps something of a scandalous interest, which would pursue the motions of one living so large a part of his life at a distance from his wife, but also from the final reverence and honor which would settle upon the memory of a poet so preëminently successful; […]
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Translations:
resiliency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.
Proto-Italic *saljō
Latin saliō
Latin resiliō
English -ency
English resiliency
From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + English -ency.
Inflected forms:
form: resiliencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of resilience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
revivalist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English revival
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 revivalist
From revival + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: revivalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more revivalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most revivalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who seeks to revive something.
pos: noun
examples: an Art Deco revivalist
And in 1975 one of the hottest Austin ensembles was the posthippie western swing revivalist group known as Asleep at the Wheel.
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway revivalists have unexpectedly been given a second chance to purchase the station, after the original sale deal fell through.
gloss: An evangelistic preacher.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Evangelistic.
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
seared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more seared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: blackened by heat; scorched; burned
pos: adj
gloss: having the surface cooked and crispened (particularly by cooking on a grill or pan)
pos: adj
examples: I’m getting more of a seared bite on the Impossible Whopper than I’m getting on the actual Whopper.
Derived words: searedness
unseared
Translations:
surcharged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: overprinted with a new value
pos: adj
Translations:
cockeyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kukkaz
Proto-West Germanic *kokk
Old English cocc
Middle English cok
English cock
English eyed
English cockeyed
From cock + eyed.
Inflected forms:
form: more cockeyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cockeyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cock-eyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.
pos: adj
gloss: Crooked or askew.
pos: adj
examples: 1950, Langston Hughes, Simple Speaks His Mind, Chapter 12, in The Early Simple Stories, The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 7, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 60–61,
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg.
The Velcro closure of one sneaker had come loose and stuck up like a cockeyed tongue.
gloss: Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.
As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.
While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
examples: In the private office he said, "Mr. Barrow, I was going to quit."
 "Don't do that, son! You're the only executive I've got that isn't cockeyed all the time! […]"
Related words: cockeye
Derived words: cockeyedly
cockeyedness
Translations:
houseguest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + guest.
Compound parts: house
guest
Inflected forms:
form: houseguests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who visits and stays at someone else's house, usually for one or more nights.
pos: noun
examples: We had houseguests for weeks after the wedding.
Translations:
licensing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: licensings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A giving of license to do something; sanction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To fence Truth about with prohibition and licensings, the weak inventions of fear and policy, is to doubt her strength, and vainly to imagine that she needs our protection in the battle that she is for ever waging with falsehood and with error.
As a result of these irregular ordinations and licensings, a rupture occurred between prorevival ministers in southern Kentucky and more conservative members of the Synod of Kentucky.
Translations:
self-contempt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English contempt
English self-contempt
From self- + contempt.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of contempt toward oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [R]egard this Earth / Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou / Requitest for knee-worship, prayer, and praise, / And toil, and hecatombs of broken hearts, / With fear and self-contempt and barren hope.
Translations:
self-pity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English pity
English self-pity
From self- + pity.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of pity for oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.
Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.
Translations:
wartime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English war
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English wartime
From war + time.
Inflected forms:
form: wartimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: war time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
uncountable
examples: But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
Antonyms: peacetime
Translations:
whetted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone the process of whetting; sharpened or honed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.
gloss: (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The inside of a valve has whetted parts constructed of corrosion-resistant material.
Translations:
unselfish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English selfish
English unselfish
From un- + selfish.
Inflected forms:
form: more unselfish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unselfish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not selfish.
pos: adj
examples: The man was in an unselfish mood that day, so decided to give a £20 note to the next charity he came across.
There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve. It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday.
Antonyms: selfish
Translations:
anamorphosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναμόρφωσις (anamórphōsis).
Inflected forms:
form: anamorphoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A distorted image of an object that may be viewed correctly from a specific angle or with a specific mirror.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of this kind of image distortion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An abnormal form of some lichens or fungi that gives the appearance of a different species.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: anamorphic
Derived words: anamorphoscope
euanamorphosis
hemianamorphosis
teloanamorphosis
Translations:
clipper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
entomology
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.
Base: clip
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: clippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clippers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clippering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clippered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clippered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything or anyone that clips.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, perhaps I’d better begin there, at the moment when I […] asked a question carelessly enough of one of the locals, who was clipping a hedge in a desultory fashion nearby. […] When I passed my hedge clipper again, he said, […]
gloss: A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Something that moves swiftly; especially:
pos: noun
examples: And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights,
gloss: Something that moves swiftly; especially:
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper.
Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief than those barterers of forged lies, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper, two convicted witches – across the Common […]
gloss: A confidence trickster; a conman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "You have head enough for both of us, Beck," said he. "You're sure to get us out of the scrape. I never saw your equal, and I've met with some clippers in my time too."
gloss: Anything showy or first-rate.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: Well, he was courtin' Sister Sall. She was a real handsum looking gal; […] a real clipper, and as full of fun and frolic as a kitten.
gloss: To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rocks was having his hair clippered by another prisoner when Collins calmly walked past and sliced open the side of his face without breaking his stride.
Derived words: Alberta clipper
Baltimore clipper
Canadian clipper
clipper system
Colorado clipper
nail clipper
tea clipper
Translations:
cobbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
government
military
mining
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cob
English -ing
English cobbing
From cob + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cobbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood or a handsaw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Previous to the infliction of cobbing, or booting, the delinquent is fairly tried by a court, consisting of–a president, the oldest soldier; members, next two oldest soldiers, youngest soldier, next youngest soldier.
gloss: The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is, therefore, always so arranged that the dressing progresses gradually through all the operations, beginning in the mine and ending with the cobbing, or, as the case may be. with the concentration.
To-day, however, cobbing is still an important operation, carried out with a three-fold purpose: first, to separate pure masses of different minerals from one another and from adhereing pieces of gangue, preparing them at once for the market with qa minimum loss from comminution; secondly, to separate several classes of crussing ores according to the predominance of one or the other of the different minerals they contains; and lastly, to produce a classification according to the nature of the gangue.
Wheeler provides greater detail on ore treatment, such as traditional cobbing and sorting methods.
gloss: The production of cobs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In America, Canada, and Central Europe, for example, snow lies feet deep on the ground in the winter, and the summers are sufficiently hot to enable maize to be grown successfully for cobbing,
There were highly significant differences in percent cobbing between the two fertilizer levels, with the unfertilized treatment producing significantly more cobs than the fertilized treatment.
Symptom is stunting of plant, premature wilting of leaves, chlorotic stripes on young leaves, leaf purpling, excessive tillering and cobbing and formation of barren cobs.
Translations:
Goliath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).
Inflected forms:
form: Goliaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any large person or thing; someone or something that is abnormally large or powerful.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: That Goliath is so big and strong, the little man will never stand a chance against him if he on his wrong side.
The whisky category is a Goliath within the drinks industry.
gloss: A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 27 liters, equivalent to 36 standard bottles.
pos: noun
Translations:
Beltway
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Extended from beltway (“freeway encircling a city”); compare also highway.
Inflected forms:
form: more Beltway
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Beltway
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the culture of Washington, D.C., sometimes with a suggestion of its elitism or insularity; politicized.
pos: adj
examples: Apparently wishing to go Beltway in a big way, the Gap reportedly solicited Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos and media adviser Mandy Grunwald to pose for ads, but were turned down.
In a typical indictment, one columnist recently called some piece of Washington policymaking "too secret, too expert, too Beltway."
2002 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/nochild/lemann.html
Your New Yorker article posed the question, "Can the president's education crusade survive Beltway politics?"
And wouldn't you know, the real-life Dean, in a real-life debate, used a line the show's writers had proposed for him. Nothing more Beltway than that.
Then he went Beltway and started rooting for the Orioles.
Translations:
cultist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cult
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 cultist
From cult + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: cultists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a cult.
pos: noun
Translations:
rarefaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French raréfaction. By surface analysis, rarefy + -faction.
Inflected forms:
form: rarefactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reduction in the density of a material, especially that of a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]his ſeal'd vial, being broken under water, ſuck'd in a conſiderable quantity of it, whether, becauſe of ſome little rarefaction of the Air included in the ſealing, or becauſe of the infrigidation of that Air by the ſnow, or for both theſe Reaſons, or any other, I ſhall not Now diſpute.
Antonyms: compression
Translations:
onwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-der.
Proto-Germanic *an
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
English -wards
English onwards
From on + -wards.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Onward.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Steam also takes charge of South Eastern (former P.L.M.) trains from Paris to Marseilles and the Riviera from Lyons onwards, and of Western Region trains from Le Mans onwards, as also between Paris and Dieppe and Le Havre.
A Class 158 relegated from express duties turns up to transport me via the flower-bedecked Brighouse station to the trans-Pennine main line at Bradley Junction and onwards to Huddersfield.
Translations:
interception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interceptiō; compare French interception.
Inflected forms:
form: interceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A passing play where the ball is caught by the opposing team.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pass that is intercepted by an opposing player.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: precipitation that does not reach the soil, but is instead intercepted by the leaves, branches of plants and the forest floor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: interception try
lawful interception
interceptional
Translations:
visibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English visible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English visibly
From visible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more visibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most visibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a visible manner; openly.
pos: adv
examples: He was visibly upset while reading the news live on air about the school shooting.
Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.
The question, which visibly moved Clinton, delves into an area of the candidate’s life that is deeply personal but rarely discussed. Clinton’s friends and confidants describe the former first lady as a devout Methodist whose faith guides much of what she does.
Antonyms: hiddenly
invisibly
latently
Translations:
brutality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brutal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English brutality
From brutal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: brutalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being brutal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cruel or savage act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police[…]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
gloss: The use of excessive physical force, often in the form of violence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: police brutality
school brutality
Derived words: police brutality
Translations:
gilbert
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after William Gilbert (astronomer).
Inflected forms:
form: gilberts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The CGS unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
pos: noun
Translations:
barfi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani برفی / बर्फ़ी (barfī).
Inflected forms:
form: barfis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: borfee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: burfee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: burfi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indian dessert made from sweetened, condensed milk flavoured with fruit and spices.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr. Alam said.
Translations: