yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
potential
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”). By surface analysis, potent + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: potentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.
Comrades, our own fleet doesn't know our full potential. They will do everything possible to test us, but they will only test their own embarrassment.
With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.
gloss: The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances.
gloss: Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: And hath, in his effect, a voice potential
gloss: irrotational
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).
gloss: irrotational (see potential flow on Wikipedia)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).
gloss: Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: noumenon
spirit
Antonyms: matter
phenomenon
Related words: potence
potency
potent
potentate
potentiality
Derived words: after-potential
afterpotential
biopotential
eigenpotential
electropotential
geopotential
hydropotential
multipotential
myopotential
overpotential
postpotential
prepotential
pseudopotential
quasipotential
subpotential
superpotential
tripotential
underpotential
vectorpotential
zetapotential
bipotential
electrochemical potential
equipotential
immunopotential
interpotential
isopotential
nonpotential
oligopotential
omnipotential
potential difference
potential energy
potentialism
potentialist
potentialize
potentially
potential mood
potentialness
potential temperature
potential verb
potential well
unipotential
Translations:
poverty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertās, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor.
Inflected forms:
form: poverties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: get into poverty
get out of poverty
escape from poverty
From there Prince Rupert, the Royalist general and nephew of Charles I, demanded over £2,000 from the mayor of Leicester to pay the king's forces who were camped around Queniborough. The mayor, however, pleaded poverty and sent only £500.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: A deficiency of something needed or desired
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: poverty of soil
poverty of the blood
poverty of spirit
Synonyms: beggary
brokeness
destitution
impecuniosity
impecuniousness
indigence
mendicancy
mendicity
misery
neediness
pauperism
penury
poverty
privation
reduced circumstances
straitened circumstances
Antonyms: abundance
decadence
lap of luxury
luxury
riches
richness
wanting for nothing
wealth
wealthiness
Related words: impoverish
poor
poorness
aporophobia
broke-ass
hardship
have nothing to lose
keep the wolf from the door
possessionlessness
impoverished
pauper
Derived words: antipoverty
digital poverty
energy poverty
fuel poverty
furniture poverty
hygiene poverty
income poverty
nonpoverty
period poverty
poverty grass
poverty is a mindset
poverty is a state of mind
povertyism
poverty line
poverty of the stimulus
poverty poker
poverty porn
poverty-ridden
poverty-stricken
poverty-struck
poverty trap
povo
primary poverty
secondary poverty
transport poverty
ultrapoverty
Translations:
pout
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare Norwegian pute (“pillow, cushion”), dial. Swedish puta (“to be puffed out”), Danish pude (“pillow, cushion”)), from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”) (compare English eelpout, Dutch puit, Low German puddig (“inflated”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”)).
Inflected forms:
form: pouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pouted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To push out one's lips; especially, to do so in a gesture of dismay, either serious or playful.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To say while pouting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Don't you love me any more?" she pouted.
gloss: One's facial expression when pouting.
pos: noun
examples: 2008, Vladimir Nabokov, Natasha, written 1924, translated by Dmitri Nabokov
With a pout, Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.
gloss: A fit of sulking or sullenness.
pos: noun
Synonyms: moue
Related words: duckface
pucker
Derived words: apout
pouter
poutingly
pouting
poutish
pouty
ocean pout
poutful
poutrage
poutsome
trout pout
turkey pout
Translations:
prate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”).
Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).
Inflected forms:
form: prates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Urania speaks with darken’d brow:
⁠‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;
⁠This faith has many a purer priest,
And many an abler voice than thou: […]’
They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud.
Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family.
Derived words: prattle
Translations:
precipitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin praeceps, praecipit- + -ous, from obsolete French précipiteux, from Vulgar Latin *praecipitosus, from praecipitō, from praeceps, praecipit- + -ō, from prae- (“before”) + caput (“head”). Equivalent to precipice (“steep cliff, brink”) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Steep, like a precipice
pos: adj
examples: a precipitous cliff
a precipitous mountain
a precipitous decline
a precipitous drop
About this time our journey began to be pleasant again. The weather warm, yet not disagreeably so, the grass abundant and of an excellent quality, the road not greatly precipitous, the scenery enchanting.
When the wind is in the right direction, hang-gliders launch themselves giddily into space from the precipitous bank.
gloss: Headlong
pos: adj
examples: a precipitous fall
gloss: Hasty; rash; quick; sudden
pos: adj
examples: precipitous attempts
[…]humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants, from perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.
Synonyms: hotheaded
impetuous
subitaneous
abrupt
Derived words: precipitously
precipitousness
Translations:
predecease
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English decease
English predecease
From pre- + decease.
Inflected forms:
form: predeceases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: predeceases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: predeceasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: predeceased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: predeceased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The death of one person or thing before another.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.
gloss: To die sooner than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Husbands usually predecease their wives.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, predeceased his father and never became king.
If children prædeceaſe progenitours, / VVe are their ofſpring and they none of ours.
The death of cardinal York extinguished the descendants of James II., and as he had no brother but Charles II., who prædeceased him without legitimate issue, the succession the opened to the descendants of his sister, the princess Henrietta Maria, wife of Phillippe, duke of Orleans.
Two brothers and a sister predeceased him. Bergoglio is survived by a sister, María Elena.
Antonyms: outlive
postdecease
survive
Translations:
predecessor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English predecessour, from Old French predecesseor (“forebear”), from Late Latin praedēcessor, from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + Latin dēcessor (“retiring officer”), from Latin dēcēdō (“to retire, to die”) (English decease).
Inflected forms:
form: predecessors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prædecessor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: predecessour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
pos: noun
examples: I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
"The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
gloss: A model or type of machinery or device which precedes the current (or later) one. Usually used to describe an earlier, outdated model.
pos: noun
examples: The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
gloss: A vertex having a directed path to another vertex
pos: noun
Synonyms: forerunner
foreganger
ancestor
antecessor
precursor
ancient
elder
precessor
predecessor
Antonyms: successor
Related words: decease
deceased
predecessive
successive
successor
Derived words: predecessoress
predecessorial
predecessorship
predecessory
Translations:
prenatal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālisbor.
Middle English natal
English natal
English prenatal
From pre- + natal.
Inflected forms:
form: prenatals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being or happening before birth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Holonym: perinatal
prenatal care
prenatal vitamins
prenatal exposure
If you check the fitnessy corners of Instagram, prenatal workouts are intense and impressive AF.
At 9 months, the researchers found deficits in motor function in infants with prenatal exposure to naled.
gloss: A person who is expecting to give birth.
pos: noun
gloss: A dietary supplement to be taken by somebody expecting to give birth.
pos: noun
examples: She was recommended a course of zinc prenatals.
Translations:
prevail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prevailen, from Old French prevaler, from Latin praevaleō (“be very able or more able, be superior, prevail”), from prae (“before”) + valeō (“be able or powerful”). Displaced native Old English rīcsian.
Inflected forms:
form: prevails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prevailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prevailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prevailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prævail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prævaile
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prævale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.
Sunny skies will prevail across the Northeast.
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Liverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp's side prevailed.
gloss: To triumph; to be victorious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There are a number of SCPs and tales that look at potential apocalypses, but rarely with such totality as SCP-2935, a parallel dimension in which death prevailed.
Zakharova also made light of Moore’s claims that Russia will not be able to regain momentum in the war after the MI6 chief said he was”optimistic”^([sic]) Ukraine would prevail against the Russian invasion.
gloss: To be current, widespread, or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.
gloss: To succeed in persuading or inducing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: I prevailed on him to wait.
Jones began to be very importunate with the lady to unmask; and at length having prevailed, there appeared not Mrs Fitzpatrick, but the Lady Bellaston herself.
gloss: To avail.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: prevalence
prevalent
Derived words: cooler heads must prevail
cooler heads prevail
cooler heads will prevail
cool heads must prevail
cool heads prevail
cool heads will prevail
prevailer
prevailment
prevail upon
saner heads prevail
saner heads will prevail
Translations:
prevalence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French prévalencebor.
English prevalence
Borrowed from Middle French prévalence.
Inflected forms:
form: prevalences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.
gloss: The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: prevail
prevalent
incidence
Derived words: coprevalence
coproprevalence
genoprevalence
immunoprevalence
nonprevalence
seroprevalence
Translations:
prey
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English preye, prei, preyȝe, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French preie, one of the variants of proie, from Latin praeda. Compare predator. Doublet of prede.
Inflected forms:
form: preys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The deer became prey to the lion.
Already sees herself the monster's prey.
gloss: A person or thing given up as a victim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk […]
Being so inflexible, the railway was easy prey to road competition, and the arrival of unregulated lorry transport from farm fields to town centres quickly captured all locally generated business.
gloss: A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rabbit was eaten by the coyote, so the rabbit is the coyote's prey.
Stranded without any weapons, we made very easy prey.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey.
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
gloss: Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: And they brought the captiues, and the pray, and the spoile vnto Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, vnto the campe at the plaines of Moab, which are by Iordan neere Iericho.
gloss: The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, […] lion in prey.
gloss: The victim of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He became the prey of dengue.
gloss: To act as a predator.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The ridge had been a haven for birds and small earth creatures, creeping, crawling, and hopping in a little world of balanced ecology where wild things preyed and were preyed upon […]
Derived words: beast of prey
bird of prey
easy prey
fall prey
prey drive
prey eyes
preyful
Translations:
pride
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.
Inflected forms:
form: prides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: priding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pryde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: I pride myself on being a good judge of character.
Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.
RAIB prides itself on being able to send any of its inspectors to site with sufficient investigative skills and technical knowledge to gather evidence for any type of accident.
Translations:
primacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Old French primacie, from Medieval Latin primatia (“office of a church primate”), from Latin primas plus a suffix corresponding to -acy. By surface analysis, prime + -acy.
Inflected forms:
form: primacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: establish the primacy of something
acknowledge the primacy of something
assert primacy
The court affirmed the primacy of federal law.
He argued for the primacy of reason over emotion.
I am reading Nick Sousanis’ PhD dissertation-as-a-comic Unflattening. It debunks the primacy of word over image in Western culture and suggests that the two are equal partners in meaning-making.
In clinical practice, the generation of diagnostic hypotheses occurs especially readily and rapidly in subdisciplines such as dermatology, where gross appearance of lesions is of particular importance diagnostically[…]. The primacy of macroscopy in paleopathology means that the activation of skeletal disease scripts occurs with similar facility and rapidity when skeletal remains are examined.
gloss: Excellence; supremacy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: The office, rank, or character of a primate, it being the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor in Eastern Orthodoxy, emphasized the many areas of agreement between Pope Francis and himself in response to the social concerns of the day.
gloss: The office or dignity of an archbishop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: coprimacy
primacist
primacy effect
Translations:
primeval
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin primaevus (“in the first or earliest period of life”) + -al, from primus (“first”) + aevum (“time, age”); see prime and age.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more primeval
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most primeval
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: primaeval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: primæval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to the first ages.
pos: adj
examples: a primeval galaxy
And Tarzan had to be contented with that arrangement, though he would have liked it well enough to have set off the next morning—he was as impatient as a child. Really Tarzan of the Apes was but a child, or a primeval man, which is the same thing in a way.
gloss: Primary; original.
pos: adj
examples: A letter from Mr. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson to Mr. Bayley, was then read, giving an outline of the theocracy of the Buddha system of Nepal. […] According to the information now communicated, the northern Buddhas acknowledge four sets of divine beings, or of superhuman objects of veneration. The first of these is, contrary to the generally supposed atheistical tendency of the faith, one primæval and uncreated deity. This first Buddha manifested five of his attributes, as five secondary Buddhas; in one of whom, Amitabha, or the 'immeasurably splendid,' in Prakrit and Pali, Amitabo, we recognise the Amito of the Japanese.
But if life has a happiness over which the primeval curse has passed and harmed not, it is the early and long enduring affection of blood and habit.
gloss: Primitive.
pos: adj
examples: If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
Derived words: primeval forest
forest primeval
primevality
primevally
primevalness
primeval soup
Translations:
priority
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
transport
Etymology: From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās.
Surface analysis: prior + -ity.
Base: prior
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: priorities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An item's relative importance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
gloss: A goal of a person or an organisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
gloss: The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In bankruptcy law, a business' debt to its employees has priority over its debt to a landlord, so the employees must be paid first.
But it's now platform extension work which will allow the station to handle LNER Azuma trains which needs to take priority, if a direct service to London King's Cross is to begin in 2021.
gloss: A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
gloss: Precedence; superior rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
Sozomen is not criticizing Constantine but rather asserting that bishops have priority over emperors, in case the readers might not have understood this […]
Who has priority, one's mother or one's wife? Question: To whom should a married man should give much preference, either his mother or wife?
The Holy Ghost is here and He has priority—remember that. The Holy Ghost has priority over your pastor, your church, your teachers—priority over every human thing. He is God, and being God, His voice has priority over all voices,[…]
gloss: Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: anteriority
Antonyms: disfocus
Derived words: aperture priority
aperture-priority
get one's priorities right
get one's priorities straight
Marcan priority
Markan priority
nonpriority
prioritarian
prioritied
prioritise
prioritize
prioritization
priority queue
priority road
priority seat
shutter priority
subpriority
top priority
unpriority
Translations:
prise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English noun prise (“taking of something”), from Old French prise (“seizure; taking; capture”), past participle of prendre (“to take”). Doublet of prize.
Inflected forms:
form: prises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
pos: verb
examples: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked.
Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart!
Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products.
Many prefectural governments operate support centers for families of hikikomori, but they are staffed by nonspecialists. The priority is to help prise hikikomori out of their rooms and get them back to work, a solution that may leave psychological issues unaddressed.
gloss: To extract something that is difficult to obtain.
pos: verb
examples: prise information out of someone
Translations:
procreative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin prōcreātīvus. By surface analysis, procreate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more procreative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most procreative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the power to beget; generative.
pos: adj
examples: The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.
Translations:
profligate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1535, the verb in 1542; borrowed from Latin prōflīgātus, perfect passive participle of prōflīgō (“to strike down, cast down”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 an 3) and pro-), from prō- (“forward”) + flīgō (“to strike, dash”) + -ō (1st conjugation compound verb-forming suffix). Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more profligate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most profligate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: profligates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
pos: adj
examples: [H]er Reputation—That—I have no Reaſon to believe is in Queſtion—But then hovv long her profligate Courſe of Pleaſures may make her able to keep it—is a ſhocking Queſtion! and her Preſumption VVhile ſhe keeps it—inſupportable!
His undignified and profligate exile—needy suitor to-day to the only heiress of the royal French blood, and to-morrow to one of the nieces of the Italian adventurer, Mazarin. Utterly neglectful of what he owes to the kingdom which he hopes to regain, Charles has learned but adversity's worst lesson—expediency.
Jay Rodriguez headed over and Dani Osvaldo might have done better with only David De Gea to beat and, as Southampton bordered on the profligate, United were far more ruthless.
This luxury-loving and profligate shell company is registered at a betting shop on the Caledonian Road, an unlovely thoroughfare in North London on which you'd be more likely to find amphetamines than a top-notch lawyer.
gloss: Immoral; abandoned to vice.
pos: adj
examples: Made prostitute and profligate the muse.
Time ſenſibly all things impairs; / Our fathers have been worſe than theirs; / And we than ours; next age will ſee / A race more profligate than we / (With all the pains we take) have ſkill enough to be.
gloss: Overthrown, ruined.
pos: adj
tags: adjective
error-misspelling
participle
examples: The foe is profligate, and run.
gloss: An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
pos: noun
examples: Have you come to Nelson seeking your death, profligate?
gloss: An overly wasteful or extravagant individual.
pos: noun
examples: He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
Derived words: profligacy
profligately
profligateness
unprofligate
Translations:
prophylactic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin prophylacticus, from Ancient Greek προφυλακτικός (prophulaktikós, “prophylactic”).
Inflected forms:
form: prophylactics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more prophylactic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prophylactic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
pos: noun
gloss: A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
pos: noun
tags: US
specifically
examples: It is not clear whether such education is to be directed to homosexuals (for whom prophylactics are not a contraceptive) or to heterosexuals as well (for whom prophylactics are a contraceptive).
Given the widespread use of coitus interruptus and male prophylactics as contraceptive practices in France […]
Some men put the prophylactic on just the tip of the penis: this is a mistake, because the prophylactic will come off.
gloss: Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The securities laws are a prophylactic against stock fraud.
Since tere are increasingly powerful anti-free speech tendencies in the left in general and in the Lesbian and Gay movements in particular in the form of the antiporn movement and other tendencies, I will quote extensively from the second chapter of On Liberty, "On The Liberty Of Thought And Discussion," as a valuable and much needed prophylactic to these trends.
gloss: Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease or pregnancy.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: профилактика
roman: profilaktika
lang: Catalan
word: profilàctic
lang: Finnish
word: ennalta ehkäisevä lääke
lang: Finnish
word: profylaksi
lang: Finnish
word: ehkäisyväline
lang: Greek
word: προφυλακτικό
roman: profylaktikó
lang: Indonesian
word: profilaksis
lang: Irish
word: urchosc
lang: Polish
word: środek profilaktyczny
lang: Polish
word: środek zapobiegawczy
prosper
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French prosperer, from Latin prosperō (“to render happy”), from prosperus (“prosperous”), from Proto-Italic *prosparos, from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- (“to succeed”), whence also Latin spēs (“hope, expectation”).
Inflected forms:
form: prospers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prospering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prospered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prospered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prospre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. She, one may believe, was ready enough to listen. As she walked with him by the Sker water his words were like musick to her ears, and Alison within doors laughed to herself and saw her devices prosper.
gloss: To grow; to increase.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
gloss: To favor; to render successful.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Prosper thou our handiwork.
Greensleeues now farewel adue
God I pray to prosper thee:
For I am stil thy louer true,
come once againe and loue me.
The Gods defenders of the innocent,
Will neuer proſper your intended driftes,
That thus oppreſſe poore friendles paſſengers.
All things concur to prosper our design.
Synonyms: prosper
do well
do well for oneself
gain
grow
thrive
flourish
succeed
Antonyms: decline
fail
fall
fall on hard times
go awry
go downhill
go pear-shaped
go to pot
go to shit
go to the dogs
go down the toilet
go wrong
Derived words: cheaters never prosper
cheats never prosper
ill-gotten gains never prosper
live long and prosper
prosperer
prosperingly
prosperity
prosperless
prosperous
unprospered
Translations:
protean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Πρωτεύς (Prōteús)bor.
English Proteus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English protean
From Proteus + -an, referrring to the Greek warden of sea-beasts, renowned for his ability to change shape.
Base: Proteus
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: proteans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A protein that has been slightly modified by water, dilute acid, or enzymes, but not modified to the extent of a metaprotein.
pos: noun
Translations:
provocative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French provocatif, and its source, Late Latin provocativus, from Latin provocare.
Inflected forms:
form: more provocative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most provocative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: provocatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving or tending to elicit a strong, often negative sentiment in another person; exasperating.
pos: adj
gloss: Serving or tending to excite, stimulate or arouse sexual interest; sexy.
pos: adj
gloss: Provoking or triggering any response.
pos: adj
examples: [I]t is a terrible long and slippery descent, and a shocking bad road. At the bottom, however, there is a pleasant public; whereat we must really take a modest quencher, for the down air is provocative of thirst.
And the ‘wailing noise,’ which had induced the prosaic, indurated London cabman to get twice off his box to see what was the matter, what anguish had been provocative of that?
gloss: Something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac.
pos: noun
examples: She used by way of Provocative, to read the wanton Verses of her Paramour in the day time [...].
[A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
In Turkey, Iran, and Syria salep is popular as a restorative and also as a provocative to amatory activity.
Related words: provoke
provocation
provocator
provocateur
Derived words: bronchoprovocative
nonprovocative
provocatively
provocativeness
unprovocative
Translations:
prurient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prūriēns, present participle of prūriō (“itch”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prurient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prurient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
pos: adj
examples: We know that at that period certain indecencies in the dresses, even of those who were considered as the most refined and polished men of the age, were not only tolerated but ostentatiously displayed, and every sort of device that the most prurient mind could think of was had recourse to, to attract attention or excite a smile.
For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.
It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts.
gloss: Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
pos: adj
examples: […]nor is it more prurient or lascivious than many productions to be found in a circulating library.
But in contemporary consumerist societies, when the kids are safely in bed, television programs allow viewers to indulge their more prurient interests.
gloss: Curious, especially inappropriately so.
pos: adj
examples: Had she known that prurient anecdotes, breaches of confidence, scandalous facts, and cruel observations, were intended to constitute the matter and to enhance the price, her very heart would have broken under the affliction such a disgraceful proceeding exhibited,...
Much of my discussion in the previous two chapters has focused on the dichotomy in Alemán's novel between the author's stated interest in moral didacticism and the more prurient appeal of the novel's representations of material privation and violent spectacle.
Related words: prurition
pruritus
Derived words: nonprurient
prurience
pruriency
prurient interest
pruriently
unprurient
Translations:
pry
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is inherited from Middle English prien, pryen (“to look closely, peer into, pry, spy”) [and other forms], from Old English *prīwan, *prēowian (“to look narrowly, to squint at”), attested by Old English beprīwan, beprēwan (“to wink”); further etymology unknown, but probably akin to Old English *prēowot (“closing of the eyes”), attested only in combination – compare prēowthwīl (“blink or twinkling of an eye, moment”), princ (“a wink”): see prink.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: pries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [W]omen haue eagles eyes, / To prie euen to the heart, and why not you?
[…] to elude, thus wrapt in miſt / Of midnight vapor glide obſcure, and prie / In every Buſh and brake, where hap may finde / The Serpent ſleeping, […]
And choice of studious friends had he / Of Bolton's dear fraternity: / […] / [I]n their cells with him did pry / For other lore,—through strong desire / Searching the earth with chemic fire: […]
gloss: To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Watch thou, and wake when others be aſleepe, / To prie into the ſecrets of the State, […]
We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.
I don't mean to pry, but could you tell me where you got that scarf?
to pry into someone's affairs
gloss: To peer at (something) closely; also, to look into (a matter, etc.) thoroughly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The two ship's corporals went among the sailors by the names of Leggs and Pounce; […] Bland, the master-at-arms, ravished with their dexterity in prying out offenders, used to call them his two right hands.
gloss: An act of prying; a close and curious look.
pos: noun
examples: With those beauties, scarce discern'd, / Kept with such sweet privacy, / That they seldom meet the eye / Of the little loves that fly / Round about with eager pry.
gloss: A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker.
pos: noun
Related words: Paul Pry
Derived words: pryer
prying
pryingly
prier
Translations:
psalm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
Etymology: From Middle English salm or psalme, from Old English psealm, later reinforced from Old French psalme (modern French psaume), both from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “the sound emanating from twitching or twanging perhaps with the hands or fingers, mostly of musical strings”) (from ψάλλω (psállō, “to make a sound by striking, touching, plucking, rubbing, twanging, or vibrating”)), but later in New Testament times the meaning of ψαλμός (psalmós) evolved from its Classical meaning of "a tune played to the harp" to a more general tune that could be played with any instrument; even a song sung with or without musical accompaniment. By the Byzantine Period, it lost all of its instrumental nuances.
Inflected forms:
form: psalms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: psalms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: psalming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: psalmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: psalmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
pos: noun
gloss: To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing
pos: verb
examples: to psalm his praises.
I psalmed like a Moslem high in his mosque. And like a Greek priest, I sang the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
Related words: psalter
Derived words: psalmbook
psalmic
psalmist
psalmless
psalmodic
psalmody
psalm-smiter
Psalms
psalmwriter
Translations:
purlieu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English purlewe (“piece of land on the edge of a forest”), modification under the influence of Old French lieu (“place”) of porale, purale (“royal perambulation”), from Old French porale, from poraler (“to traverse”), from por- (“forth”) (from Latin prō-) + aler, aller (“to go”).
Inflected forms:
form: purlieus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: purlieux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood; milieu.
pos: noun
examples: Whether Lady Anne knew or suspected who it was that drew his steps from the purlieus of fashion he knew not, nor held himself bound to explain.
Bred up, like a bailiff or a shabby attorney, about the purlieus of the Inns of Court, Shepherd’s Inn is always to be found in the close neighbourhood of Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, and the Temple.
He seemed to wish to keep hold of him, and looked at him strangely, over his spectacles... when he learned that Hyacinth had taken a lodging not in their old familiar quarter but in the unexplored purlieus of Westminster.
Wide blank courtyards surround the walls of this marvel, a little town hangs respectfully about its purlieus, and from far away across the plain, even from the streets of Madrid herself, you can see it brooding there on the edge of the mountains, looking at once holy, menacing and obsessed.
The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
I wanted a beer, but coffee was undeniably easier to be had in the purlieus of the University, so we went into a cafe.
Translations:
purposeful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From purpose + -ful.
Base: purpose
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more purposeful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most purposeful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having purpose: having intention or meaning; intentional.
pos: adj
examples: […] particular improvements in the teacher's stimulation and direction of the purposeful activities of children. It indicates, in this particular, growth of the teacher in guiding the purposeful activities of boys and girls. The purposes, in brief, are : 1. Primary purpose: to enable the teacher to grow continuously in stimulating and directing the purposeful activities of boys and girls. 2. Secondary purpose: to reveal teaching difficulties […]
[…] spend purposeful time with my grandparents where we found out more about each other and had some interesting discussions.
gloss: Having a purpose in mind; resolute; determined, full of determination.
pos: adj
examples: An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
Synonyms: intentional
purposive
Related words: purposive
nose to the grindstone
Derived words: multipurposeful
nonpurposeful
purposeful availment
purposefully
purposefulness
semipurposeful
unpurposeful
Translations: