yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
taciturn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from taciturnity, from Middle English taciturnite, from Latin taciturnitās; or alternatively from French taciturne, likely reinforced by Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (“secret, tacit”).
Inflected forms:
form: more taciturn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most taciturn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
pos: adj
examples: The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
Antonyms: prolix
talkative
verbose
Translations:
sententious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sententiōsus, from sententia (“opinion, purpose”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sententious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sententious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so.
pos: adj
examples: His sententious remarks quickly bored the audience.
gloss: Full of meaning.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: sentential
Derived words: oversententious
sententiosity
sententiously
sententiousness
unsententious
Translations:
iconoclastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English iconoclast
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English iconoclastic
From iconoclast + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more iconoclastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iconoclastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm.
pos: adj
examples: Many of Thomas Hardy's works were considered iconoclastic in his day.
I pose the iconoclastic suggestion that even at this late stage in B.R. dieselisation, rigid standardisation might be a shibboleth.
Harnessing its cultural cachet is not without problems, because some of these artists—true to their iconoclastic nature—resist being boxed in, dictated to or otherwise controlled.
“Hans Linde was an iconoclastic, original thinker, whose innovative ideas that state constitutions might afford greater protections than the federal Constitution, and that courts need to have an understanding of the legislative and administrative processes, are now conventional wisdom,” Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, said in an email.
Antonyms: iconodulic
Translations:
concomitant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: First attested 1607; from Middle French concomitant, from Latin concomitāns, the present participle of concomitor (“to accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitor (“to accompany”), from comes (“companion”).
Inflected forms:
form: concomitants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Accompanying; conjoining; attending; concurrent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It has therefore pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, and to the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure, […]
It is a difficulty to know what view one should adopt; she may drag on for two whole years; in that time her good fortune, with all its concomitant advantages, would be insured to her connexions, after which her death would be the most interesting thing possible, and make an astounding impression.
The visitors saw the measures taken immediately before, during, and after an "air raid", which included a gas and high-explosive bomb attack. The concomitant noise "effects" sounded grimly realistic.
The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.
With technological improvement, therefore, it will become possible, in a succession of steady states, to have a larger and larger amount of capital equipment available to each representative worker in the economy, with a concomitant rise in productivity.
gloss: Of or relating to the grammatical aspect which expresses that a secondary action is occurring simultaneously to the primary action of the statement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something happening or existing at the same time.
pos: noun
examples: The reflection, that but the next day was to transport her far from London, had, in chasing distrust, with its natural concomitants, restraint and reserve, given a sweet and placid composure to her demeanour.
It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.
A major concomitant of the advent of diesel traction has been a vast increase in the amount of electrical equipment needing overhaul.
The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
gloss: An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
pos: noun
Synonyms: divariant
Related words: concomitance
concomitantly
concomitate
Translations:
malignant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French malignant, from Late Latin malignans. See malign.
Inflected forms:
form: more malignant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most malignant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: malignants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
pos: adj
examples: malignant temper; malignant revenge; malignant infection
[…]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.
gloss: Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
pos: adj
examples: malignant diphtheria
a malignant tumor
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
gloss: A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society.
pos: noun
examples: As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants […]
A malignant in a position of real power immediately becomes a tyrant.
gloss: A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
obsolete
Related words: malign
Derived words: bovine malignant catarrhal fever
hematomalignant
malignancy
malignant catarrhal fever
malignant edema
malignantly
malignin
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
non-malignant
nonmalignant
paramalignant
premalignant
promalignant
pseudomalignant
semimalignant
unmalignant
Translations:
immutable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English immutable, from Latin immūtābilis (“unchangeable”); im- + mutable.
Base: mutable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: immutables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be changed without exception.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The government has enacted an immutable law.
Mutable as is our nature, it delights in the immutable: and we expect as much constancy as if all time, to say nothing of our own changeableness, had not shewn that ever "the fashion of this world passeth away."
In the trustless cryptocurrency world, you can still trust the cryptocurrency community and its mechanisms to ensure that the blockchain contains an accurate and immutable—unchangeable—record of cryptocurrency transactions.
gloss: Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Constants are immutable.
gloss: Something that cannot be changed.
pos: noun
Synonyms: bateless
fixed
immutable
inalterable
invariable
permanent
perma-
perpetual
unabateable
unalterable
unchangeable
undeviating
Antonyms: mutable
nonimmutable
Related words: perennial
changeless
indomitable
Derived words: immutableness
immutably
strongly immutable
weakly immutable
Translations:
garrulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin garrulus (“talkative”) + -ous, from the verb garriō (“to chatter”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more garrulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most garrulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
pos: adj
examples: She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.
Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.
gloss: Excessively wordy and rambling.
pos: adj
Related words: garrulity
Derived words: garrulously
garrulousness
ungarrulous
Translations:
iniquitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From iniquity + -ous (suffix forming adjectives indicating the presence of a quality in any degree (typically an abundance)).
Base: iniquity
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more iniquitous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iniquitous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”).
pos: adj
examples: "It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn. But if you will listen to his letter, you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself."
Are you aware, sir, that we have gone to enormous expense to resist this iniquitous attempt of yours?
The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any lingering hope he had of getting acquainted with Dede Mason.
gloss: Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”).
pos: adj
examples: It is a Maxim among theſe Men, That vvhatever has been done before may legally be done again: And therefore they take ſpecial Care to record all the Deciſions formerly made, even thoſe vvhich have through Ignorance or Corruption contradicted the Rules of common Juſtice, and the general Reaſon of Mankind. Theſe, under the Name of Precedents, they produce as Authorities, and thereby endeavour to juſtify the moſt iniquitous Opinions; […]
[Judicial independence] operates as a check upon the legiſlative body in paſſing them [unjust and partial laws]; vvho, perceiving that obſtacles to the ſucceſs of an iniquitous intention are to be expected from the ſcruples of the courts, are in a manner compelled by the very motives of the injuſtice they mediate, to qualify their attempts.
The majority of the jury which tried Barbara Napier, having acquitted her of attendance at the North Berwick meeting, were themselves threatened with a trial for wilful error upon an assize, and could only escape from severe censure and punishment by pleading Guilty, and submitting themselves to the king's pleasure. This rigorous and iniquitous conduct shows a sufficient reason why there should be so few acquittals from a charge of witchcraft, where the juries were so much at the mercy of the Crown.
There had been a good deal of dealers' yea and nay about it [a watercolour painting], whether it was for sale or not; it was a smaller drawing than most of the England and Wales series, and there were many hints in the market about its being iniquitous in price.
I've had it. That's it George! For one year now, I've been providing X-rated entertainment and you reciprocate with PG! It's an iniquitous arrangement!
Related words: iniquity
iniquous
Derived words: iniquitously
iniquitousness
Translations:
quiescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
communications
cytology
journalism
literature
media
medicine
natural-sciences
orthography
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin quiēscēns, quiēscentem.
Inflected forms:
form: more quiescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quiescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inactive, quiet, at rest.
pos: adj
examples: The bats were quiescent at that time of day, so we slowly entered the cave.
In times of national security, the feeling of Patriotism among the masses is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist—in their case national glory or national danger awakens it, and it leaps up armed cap-a-pie.
Movement was then observed in a part of the wall which had been quiescent, and another group of struts was therefore constructed, again during traffic hours as well as at night.
After all, nations are pouring massive resources into military applications of AI, and many citizens don’t know or don’t care. Yet that quiescent attitude may change over time, as the domestic use of AI surveillance ratchets up, and that technology is increasingly identified with shadowy apparatuses of control, rather than democratically accountable local powers.
“It's like the opposite of punk, isn't it?” he said jokingly in 2016 while discussing his influence on other musicians. “I've subdued a generation.” But [James] Blake is not so quiescent after all.
gloss: Not sounded; silent.
pos: adj
examples: The k is quiescent in "knight" and "know".
gloss: Non-proliferating.
pos: adj
Related words: acquiescent
quiesce
Derived words: angioquiescent
immunoquiescent
nonquiescent
quiescence
quiescently
quiescin
semiquiescent
unquiescent
Translations:
inculcate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inculcātus, perfect passive participle of inculcō (“impress upon, force upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + calcō (“tread upon, trample”), from calx (“heel”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: inculcates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inculcating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inculcated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inculcated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To teach by repeated instruction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Those impious Pigs,
Who, by frequent squeaks, have dared impugn
The settled Swellfoot system, or to make
Irreverent mockery of the genuflexions
Inculcated by the arch-priest, have been whipt
Into a loyal and an orthodox whine.
she had a perfect Parisian accent, was musical—all French women sing—had a great deal of tournure, the value of which she was always inculcating on her pupils: "La Grace plus belle que la beauté," was invariably the quotation when putting on her shawl; and, it must be confessed, that never did five English girls put on shawls to such perfection.
But wordless conditioning […] cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour.
gloss: To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: all preachers , especially such as be of good temper , and have wisdom with conscience , ought to inculcate and beat upon a peace , silence , and surseance
The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.
The institutional forces — school, psychiatry, police — that inculcate conformity and enforce heterosexuality in gay youth.
But there is also real opposition to Nato expansion - and even to Nato's continued existence after the Cold War.
This is a view shared by a very large part of Russia's military and foreign affairs establishment.
Educated and trained during the Soviet period, they are still inculcated with notions of super-power military might.
It has been painful for these people to see Nato's outer edge creep ever closer to what was once the frontier of the USSR.
Derived words: inculcative
reinculcate
uninculcated
Translations:
dubious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dubiusbor.
English dubious
From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.).
Inflected forms:
form: more dubious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dubious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
pos: adj
examples: After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.
They were renowned as people of dubious morals.
There are several reasons why the line's future is now dubious. With the exception of Horsmonden, the stations are most inconveniently sited. This is largely because the Wealden villages were built on ridges, and in fact most Wealden stations are badly placed.
Evasive, womanising, boastful, malicious, untrustworthy, an inveterate gambler who combined his mediocre military career with running a high-class brothel, permanently cash strapped and viciously quarrelsome, his character is as dubious as his unsavoury appearance.
Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
gloss: In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.
pos: adj
examples: She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.
Last year, President Obama had large majorities in Congress and hopes of passing a comprehensive climate and energy bill. Next year, he faces a new Congress much more dubious about the reality of climate change and considerably more hostile to international efforts to deal with it.
gloss: Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.
pos: adj
Related words: doubtful
doubt
Derived words: dubious honor
dubious honour
dubiously
dubiousness
dubious tiger moth
indubious
superdubious
undubious
Translations:
ameliorate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of meliorate after French améliorer.
Inflected forms:
form: ameliorates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ameliorating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ameliorated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ameliorated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
Unless... you could help me find a third party. [...] Someone who can... ameliorate the situation.
We further show that an implementable rule for the central bank's long bond portfolio significantly ameliorates the adverse consequences of a binding ZLB on the policy rate.
gloss: To become better; improve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: deteriorate
worsen
Related words: amelioration
ameliorative
ameliorable
inameliorable
meliorate
alleviate
mitigate
Derived words: amelioratingly
ameliorator
amelioratory
Translations:
eschew
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English eschewen, from Anglo-Norman eschiver, (third-person present eschiu), from Frankish *skiuhijan (“to dread, shun, avoid”); thus a doublet of skew.
For the pronunciation with /ʃ/, compare the development of marshal from Middle English marschal (/marsˈt͡ʃaːl/) or Middle English myssheve, variant of myschef (“hardship”). Variants in /sk/ are either from unattested Middle English *eskewen (from Old Northern French eskiver; compare skew) or are spelling pronunciations.
See also French esquiver.
Inflected forms:
form: eschews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eschewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eschewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eschewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: And peraduenture my lady the quene sente for hym to that entente that syr Launcelot shold come to her good grace pryuely and secretely wenynge to her that hit was best so to do in eschewyng & dredyng of sklaunder
"And peradventure my lady, the queen, sent for him to that intent that Sir Launcelot should come to her good grace privily and secretly, weening to her that it was best so to do, in eschewing and dreading of slander"
What cannot be eschew'd must be embrac'd.
Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Above all, let her eschew the impertinence of invention; let her leave genius to her milliner.
He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
Translations:
leeway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lee (“side away from the wind”) + way.
Compound parts: lee
way
Inflected forms:
form: leeways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The drift of a ship or aeroplane in a leeward direction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A varying degree or amount of freedom or flexibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I don't think we have a lot of leeway when it comes to proper formatting.
It was 1.6 [a.m.] when we got the road, and now we had 13 lost minutes to regain. But the "Condor" schedule has so much leeway that, with the diesel power, the loss was easily recouped.
2005, James Gosling et al., The Java Language Specification, Third Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, →ISBN, section 15.4 “FP-strict Expressions”,
Within an expression that is not FP-strict, some leeway is granted for an implementation to use an extended exponent range to represent intermediate results; […]
"There's an hourly service to Nunthorpe and by the time you add in the Whitby trains as well there is hardly any leeway on the single line between Middlesbrough and Nunthorpe so it would involve quite significant infrastructure on the existing railway."
gloss: An adverse discrepancy or variation in a cumulative process, usually in the phrase make up leeway.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: [...] there was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.
Related words: lee
leeward
Translations:
leeward
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lee
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English leeward
From lee (“side away from the wind”) + -ward (“direction”).
Inflected forms:
form: more leeward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leeward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leewardmost
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more leeward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most leeward
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On the side sheltered from the wind; in that direction.
pos: adj
gloss: Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind.
pos: adv
examples: Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]
Antonyms: windward
upwind
Translations:
gratitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
Latin grātus
Proto-Indo-European *-tu-
Proto-Indo-European *-d-
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Italic *tūdō
Latin -tūdō
Medieval Latin gratitudōlbor.
French gratitudebor.
English gratitude
From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”). Displaced Old English þancung.
Inflected forms:
form: gratitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grateful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She showed deep gratitude for the support she received.
He bowed his head in gratitude to the donors.
Words cannot express my gratitude for your kindness.
She felt overwhelming gratitude towards her parents.
Translations:
plenipotentiary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Medieval Latin plēnipotentiārius (“having full power”), Late Latin plēnipotēns, from plēnus (“full”) + potēns (“mighty, powerful”).
Compound parts: plēnus
potēns
Inflected forms:
form: plenipotentiaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person invested with full powers, especially as the diplomatic agent of a sovereign state, (originally) charged with handling a certain matter.
pos: noun
examples: None but the like-minded can come plenipotentiary to our court.
1937, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and Others', Overlook, Woodstock: 2002, p 232.
Meeting him in the street and ignoring the foul bowler hat he wore on his walks abroad, you would have put him down as a Bishop in mufti or, at the least, a plenipotentiary at one of the better courts.
Two of them are hanging up there on Golgotha, and that ought to be enough to show the authority of Rome’s ah plenipotentiary.
gloss: Invested with full power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: omnicompetent; omnipotent, almighty, all-powerful
It was written of Henry George Ward, M.P. for Sheffield from 1837 to 1849, that "he was also much occupied with railway enterprise in the days of early speculation." This suggests a hard-bitten man of commerce, but Ward had served in the Diplomatic Service and he was Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico before retiring in 1827 at the age of 30.
gloss: Of or relating to a plenipotentiary agent
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: plenipotent
Translations:
tabor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French tabour, from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), ultimately from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tambour and tanbur.
Inflected forms:
form: tabors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tabors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taboring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tabored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tabored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small drum.
pos: noun
gloss: A small drum.
pos: noun
examples: Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
gloss: To make (a sound) with a tabor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strike lightly and frequently.
pos: verb
Derived words: taborist
taborer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: барабанче
roman: barabanče
lang: Catalan
word: tabalet
lang: French
word: tambour
lang: Galician
word: tamboril
lang: Hebrew
word: תוף תבור
roman: tof tavor
lang: Manx
word: dollan
lang: Russian
word: ма́ленький бараба́н
roman: málenʹkij barabán
lang: Spanish
word: tamboril
bin
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle English bynne, from Old English binn (“crib, manger”), from Late Latin benna or a Celtic language, possibly Proto-Brythonic *benn (“cart, carriage”) (whence Middle Welsh benn, Old Breton benn (“caisson”), modern Welsh ben), from Proto-Celtic *bend(n)ā (whence Gaulish benna). Compare German Benne (“wheelbarrow”) and Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben and as a borrowing, West Frisian bin (both "wicker basket").
Inflected forms:
form: bins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: binning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: binned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: binned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
examples: He put the bank statement in the shoebox marked "Bank Statements" and binned the rest.
gloss: To throw away, reject, give up.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
examples: This splendid eloquence was promptly binned by the pope, […]
The CC [Co-ordinating Centre] had long since binned the idea of catching the regular shuttle service, […]
NR also wants more effort made to bin out-of-date 1970s technology, but only replacing it with equipment that meets customer needs, rather than high-tech kit just for the sake of it.
gloss: To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
pos: verb
gloss: To place into a bin for storage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bin wine
Translations:
bluish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blewissh, blewisch (also Middle English bloysh), equivalent to blue + -ish.
Base: blue
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more bluish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bluish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blueish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
pos: adj
examples: Riding high on love's true bluish light
gloss: Somewhat depressed; sad.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: To this day, I usually read my Bible a couple of times a day, and I still enjoy attempting to express my feelings through poetry, especially when I'm feeling bluish.
Synonyms: bluey
bluish
caesious
cerulescent
Antonyms: achromatic
colorless
Related words: bluing
cold
Derived words: bluishly
bluishness
Translations:
aquarelle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aquarelle, from obsolete Italian acquarella (“watercolour”) (later acquarello and acquerello).
Inflected forms:
form: aquarelles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A watercolour (painting)
pos: noun
examples: He looked out between whiles at the pleasant English land, an April aquarelle washed in with wondrous breadth.
He wandered about the house, looking into several rooms, and only partially at rest when he discovered Caroline in one, engaged upon some of her aquarelle sketches.
gloss: A printed picture coloured by the application of watercolour through stencils, using a different stencil for each colour.
pos: noun
Derived words: aquarellist
Translations:
bruise
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):
* Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
* Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.
Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Inflected forms:
form: bruises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bruising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bruised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bruised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bruize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: brise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bruises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bruize
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: brise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it; to contuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is as I have spoken: the testing first, next the bruising, and in the last bout the breaking and killing.
gloss: To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Bananas bruise easily.
gloss: To become bruised.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I bruise easily.
gloss: To fight with the fists; to box.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
gloss: To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego.
I was bruised by such wanton criticism.
gloss: To impair (gin) by shaking rather than stirring.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
pos: noun
gloss: A dark mark on fruit or vegetables caused by a blow to the surface.
pos: noun
Synonyms: contusion
Derived words: bruisability
bruisable
bruisedness
bruiser
bruise up
bruising
unbruised
bruiseless
bruiselike
bruisewort
bruisy
tobruise
Translations:
purplish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English purple
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English purplish
From purple + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more purplish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most purplish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat purple in colour/color.
pos: adj
Antonyms: achromatic
colorless
Translations:
Sony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A combination of Latin sonus (“sound”) and sonny (“boy”, diminutive).
Inflected forms:
form: Sonys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device produced by Sony.
pos: noun
examples: Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.
It’s not clear what the witch doctors are doing, but the scientists have been wandering the riverbank with their Sonys or Hitachis, playing the recorded chirpings of newly hatched crocodiles in hopes of either stirring maternal instinct in the (almost surely) female man-eater or tempting her to infanticidal cannibalism, which would be far more likely.
My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.
My personal choice would be to drag these vultures from their rental cars and gently disassemble their Sonys.
He also figured more and more people got their current events from television, and so he put most of his effort into soliciting the unwashed masses who sat bug-eyed before their Sonys.
Translations:
cereal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French céréale (“having to do with cereal”), from Latin Cerealis (“of or relating to Ceres”), from Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Latin sincerus (English sincere) and Latin crēscō (“grow”) (English crescent). The adjective is equivalent to Cere(s) + -al.
Base: Ceres
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: cereals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of grass (such as wheat, rice or oats) cultivated for its edible grains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The grains of such a grass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Breakfast cereal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Would you like some cereal?
Which cereal would you like for breakfast?
a bowl of cereal
gloss: Of or relating to cereal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wheat .. is, of all the cereal seeds, the best adapted to the making of bread.
Millet, the smallest of all the cereal seeds cultivated for food, grows on arid soils, where rice and maize cannot be successfully cultivated, […]
The river flows on, washing the base of the sandstone fossiliferous bank at Preston-bridge,—lightening up the rich valley of Preston-haugh,—lending beauty to the open demesnes of Broomhouse, and to the sylvan and cereal grounds of Blanerne; […]
The species printed in small capitals are Corn-producing or Cereal Grasses, called Cereals, from Ceres, the Roman goddess of Corn.
Related words: crescent
sincere
Derived words: cereal bar
cereal dust
cerealic
cerealin
cerealist
cereal killer
cereal leaf beetle
cerealogy
noncereal
pee in someone's cereal
piss in someone's cereal
pseudocereal
shit in someone's cereal
Translations:
barley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew.
Base: bere
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: barleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The seed of Job's tears. (Coix lacryma-jobi)
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
uncountable
usually
Derived words: barley beer
barley-bird
barleybrake
barley bread
barley-bree
barley-broo
barley-broth
barley coal
barleycorn
barley fork
barley grass
barley-hood
barley itch
barley jointworm
barleylike
barleymeal
barley midge
Barley mild mosaic bymovirus
barley moon
barleymow
barley reel
barley sack
barley sandwich
barley scab fungus
barley scald
barley smut
Barley stripe mosaic virus
barley-sugar
barley sugar
barley twist
barley-water
barley water
barley-wine
barley wine
barley worm
Barley yellow striate mosaic virus
caustic barley
common barley
four-rowed barley
foxtail barley
Himalayan barley
hulled barley
Indian caustic barley
little barley
meadow barley
mouse barley
nonbarley
pearl barley
Scotch barley
sea barley
six-rowed barley
sprat barley
squirreltail barley
Tibetan barley
two-rowed barley
wall barley
wild barley
Translations:
millet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French millet; from Latin milium, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”), see also Ancient Greek μελίνη (melínē, “millet”) and Lithuanian málnos (“millet”). Not related to مِلَّة (milla).
Inflected forms:
form: millets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Tobias said, ‘Don't bother. Elena's allergic to all known food groups. The only thing she eats here is seasoned millet and rainwater they bring down from Vermont in a zinc can.’
gloss: Common millet, in particular of species Panicum miliaceum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
Derived words: adlay millet
African millet
Australian millet
barnyard millet
black millet
broomcorn millet
broomtail millet
browntop millet
bulrush millet
burgu millet
Chinese millet
common millet
coracan millet
finger millet
fonio millet
foxtail millet
German millet
gray millet
great millet
Guinea millet
hog millet
Indian barnyard millet
Indian millet
Italian millet
Japanese barnyard millet
Japanese millet
kodo millet
little millet
millet butterflyfish
milletmeal
millet skipper
milletgrass
millet grass
native millet
pearl millet
Polish millet
proso millet
red millet
sawa millet
shama millet Echinochloa colona)
water millet
white millet
wild foxtail millet
wood millet
Translations:
sorghum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian).
Inflected forms:
form: sorghums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sorgum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sourgum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,
The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).
1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,
Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.
2008, Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,
Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum, and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).
gloss: Sorghum syrup.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
countable
uncountable
Related words: sorgolactone
Derived words: sorghum downy mildew
sorghum midge
sorghum syrup
sorghum molasses
sweet sorghum
sorghum rum
sorghum whiskey
sorghum whisky
yellow sorghum stunt
Translations:
fodder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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Etymology: From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food.
Inflected forms:
form: fodders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
gloss: A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
gloss: Tracing paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
gloss: The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was^([sic]) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where^([sic]) the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
Insane Roman! (4) […] Look in -sane Roman and you'll uncover NERO, the insane Roman. Dovetailing the signpost — in — with the hidden fodder — sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.
gloss: People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.
cannon fodder
The Russian government was not interested in who will pay the mortgage or take care of his pregnant wife. It simply wanted more fodder for its war.
Derived words: background fodder
bumfodder
cannon fodder
fodderer
fodderless
fodder melon
fodder radish
greenfodder
jail fodder
lobby fodder
Translations:
vetch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.
Inflected forms:
form: vetches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fitch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tare
Derived words: American vetch
bard vetch
Bithynian vetch
bitter vetch
blister vetch
black vetch
bush vetch
Carolina wood vetch
chickling vetch
common vetch
cow vetch
deervetch
fine-leaved vetch
fodder vetch
French vetch
garden vetch
giant vetch
hairy vetch
Hawaiian vetch
horseshoe vetch
Hungarian vetch
Kashubian vetch
kidney vetch
mat vetch
milkvetch
narrow-leaved vetch
pea-flowered vetch
poisonvetch
purple vetch
pygmyflower vetch
single-flowered vetch
slender vetch
smooth vetch
spring vetch
tufted vetch
upright vetch
vetchling
vetchy
winter vetch
wood bitter-vetch
wood vetch
yellow vetch
Translations: