yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
usurp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ūsūrpō.
Inflected forms:
form: usurps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: usurping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: usurped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: usurped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To seize and hold or use (powers, an office, a coat of arms, a right or copyright, etc) from another, without right (usually by illegitimate means).
pos: verb
examples: [S]o he dies,
But soon revives, Death over him no power
Shall long usurp […]
[…] usurped or took any name or title of honor or dignity. In many cases it happened that persons who had usurped arms without authority, entered their names […]
In this case, you have usurped the copyright owner's reasonably expected right to make a derivative work[.]
Most Republicans in Congress are complying as Mr. Trump usurps the power of the national legislature, as laid out in Article 1 of the Constitution.
gloss: To take the place the place of someone or something else; to supplant.
pos: verb
examples: But if now / You ſhould (as cruell fathers do) proclame / Your right, and Tyrant like uſurp the glory / Of my peculiar honours, not deriv'd / From ſucceſſary, but purchas'd with my bloud, / Then I muſt ſtand firſt Champion for my ſelfe, / Againſt all interpoſers.
Jones answered all his questions with much civility, though he never remembered to have seen the petty-fogger before; and though he concluded, from the outward appearance and behaviour of the man, that he usurped a freedom with his betters, to which he was by no means intitled.
The recent authorities have usefully drawn attention to the need to ensure that any assessment of the merits of a case does not usurp careful attention to the criteria in section 10(9), to which we now turn.
gloss: To make use of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: "[…] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […]"
Related words: rape
raptor
ravish
use
utility
appropriate
Derived words: nonusurping
reusurp
unusurping
usurpable
usurpation
usurper
usurpingly
usurpious
usurpment
Translations:
happi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 法被 (happi).
Inflected forms:
form: happis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: happi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loose, informal Japanese coat normally decorated with a distinctive crest.
pos: noun
Translations:
Shakespearean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Shakespeare
English -ean
English Shakespearean
From Shakespeare + -ean.
Inflected forms:
form: more Shakespearean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Shakespearean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Shakespearian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Shakesperian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Shaksperian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Shakespeareans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shakespearian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shakesperian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Shaksperian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.
pos: adj
examples: […]there were those who had them set far over back—wide-awake men, who wanted a clear prospect; while careless men, who did not know, or care, how their hats sat, had them shaking about in all directions. The various hats, in fact, were quite a Shakespearean study.
The boisterous Bulmer playfully made a pass at him with his drawn sword, going forward with the lunge in the proper fencing fashion, and making a somewhat too familiar Shakespearean quotation about a rodent and a Venetian coin.
Meanwhile, I presided over the Senate. I also dined quite frequently with the President who continued to delight and fascinate me with his conversation, not to mention his wonderful malice which was positively Shakespearean in its variety.
There was indeed something Shakespearean about both the service in the abbey and the marches that surrounded it. By Shakespearean I mean there was a blend of pageantry, procession, music and mystery.
This is the distinctive milieu of Succession, the HBO juggernaut which turned the pitiful exploits of a bunch of media mogul failsons into Shakespearean drama for four critically acclaimed seasons.
gloss: Derivative of Shakespeare's works or authorship.
pos: adj
gloss: Composed of Shakespearean sonnets.
pos: adj
gloss: A scholar of the works of Shakespeare.
pos: noun
examples: Another lawyer and well-known Shakespearian, Richard Grant White, says: "No dramatist of the time, not even [Francis] Beaumont, who was the younger son of a judge of the Common Pleas, and who after studying in the Inns of Court abandoned law for the drama, used legal phrases with Shakespeare's readiness and exactness.[…]"
gloss: A person trained to act in Shakespeare's plays.
pos: noun
Translations:
feeble
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
From Middle English feble, from Anglo-Norman feble (“weak, feeble”) (compare French faible), from Latin flēbilis (“tearful, mournful, lamentable”) by dissimilation, from fleō (“to weep, cry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-. Doublet of foible.
Inflected forms:
form: feebler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: feeblest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deficient in physical strength.
pos: adj
examples: Though she appeared old and feeble, she could still throw a ball.
Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
A poor Epitome of Roman Greatneſs,
And, cover’d with Numidian Guards, directs
A feeble Army, and an empty Senate,
Remnants of mighty Battels fought in vain.
You've had your time
Gonna walk that line
Like a living travesty,
Endlessly bound to your sins
I'll hunt you down in time
You're just a feeble swine
How can I compromise
When all you do is deny
France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.
gloss: Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
pos: adj
examples: That was a feeble excuse for an example.
Derived words: enfeeble
feeble-brained
feeble-minded
feebleness
feeblesome
feeblish
feebly
forcible-feeble
overfeeble
unfeeble
Translations:
feeling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Base: feel
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more feeling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feeling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: feelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Emotionally sensitive.
pos: adj
examples: Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
gloss: Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
pos: adj
examples: He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
gloss: Sensation, particularly through the skin.
pos: noun
examples: The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
gloss: Emotion; impression.
pos: noun
examples: The house gave me a feeling of dread.
Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
gloss: Emotional state or well-being.
pos: noun
examples: You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
gloss: Emotional attraction or desire.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: Many people still have feelings for their first love.
You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
You can say it's just the way you are
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason
gloss: Intuition.
pos: noun
examples: He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you
gloss: An opinion, an attitude.
pos: noun
examples: When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.
Derived words: bad feeling
feelingful
feeling in one's waters
feelingless
feelingly
feelingness
feelpinion
fellow-feeling
fellow feeling
floating feeling
gut feeling
hard feelings
hurt feelings
ill feeling
misfeeling
mixed feelings
nonfeeling
no sense no feeling
race feeling
self-feeling
sinking feeling
that tired feeling
underfeeling
unfeeling
where there's no sense there's no feeling
Translations:
hanging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
board-games
chess
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
publishing
sports
typography
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Base: hang
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: hangings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suspended.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
gloss: Unprotected and exposed to capture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: hanging breaking ball
hanging slider
gloss: Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you.
LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth.
MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad.
LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging.
gloss: Extending beyond the margins of a page.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: hanging punctuation
gloss: The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
No, Sir, 'tis fear of Hanging. Who would not ſteal, or do Murder, every time his Fingers itch'd at it, were it not for fear of the Gallows?
Public hangings were abolished in 1868 by Act of Parliament.
Along with trial by ordeal, hanging was the most effective deterrent that could be devised in an age without police or prisons.
It was just too bad that Milosevic died of "natural" causes in his cell in 2006 before he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, although a hanging would have been preferable.
gloss: Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
gloss: The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
Related words: portière
portiere
Derived words: antihanging
bedhanging
crapehanging
crepehanging
hanging judge
hanging offence
hanging tree
paperhanging
unexpected hanging paradox
wall hanging
wallhanging
Translations:
yell
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ȝellen, yellen, from Old English ġiellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellaną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).
Inflected forms:
form: yells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yelled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To convey by shouting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He yelled directions to the party from the car.
gloss: To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
usually
examples: If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.
They sent another email yelling at us to get our reports in on time. (or) They sent another email yelling about how we had to get our reports in on time.
Nobody likes to receive an email yelling 'ASAP' right in the subject line.
that uncle sent some … email yelling about how changing the name of Fort Bragg was outrageous
gloss: A shout.
pos: noun
gloss: A phrase to be shouted.
pos: noun
examples: After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings[…]
gloss: dry (of cow)
pos: adj
tags: Ulster
not-comparable
Related words: gale
yelp
Derived words: yell at a cloud
yell at cloud
yell at clouds
yell at the cloud
yell at the clouds
yeller
yell out
yell silently
yelly
cell yell
give one a yell
rebel yell
Tarzan yell
Translations:
wishbone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
automotive
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From wish + bone.
Compound parts: wish
bone
Inflected forms:
form: wishbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wishbones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wishboning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wishboned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wishboned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
pos: noun
gloss: A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.
pos: noun
gloss: Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular kind of offensive formation. See wishbone formation.
pos: noun
gloss: A suspension component similar in shape to a chicken wishbone.
pos: noun
gloss: To form into a wishbone-like shape; to fork.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: wishbone bush
wishbone flower
wishboning
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: յատեզ
roman: yatez
lang: Belarusian
word: грудная костка
roman: hrudnaja kóstka
lang: Belarusian
word: вілка
roman: vilka
lang: Bulgarian
word: ядец
roman: jadec
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 叉骨
roman: chāgǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 如願骨 /如愿骨
roman: rúyuàngǔ
lang: Chuvash
word: йӗтес
roman: jĕt̬es
lang: Danish
word: ønskeben
lang: Dutch
word: vorkbeen
lang: Esperanto
word: forketo
lang: Finnish
word: toivomusluu
lang: Finnish
word: hankaluu
lang: French
word: fourchette
lang: French
word: lunette
lang: German
word: Gabelbein
lang: Greek
word: γιάντες
roman: giántes
lang: Hungarian
word: villacsont
lang: Icelandic
word: óskabein
lang: Icelandic
word: gleraugnabein
lang: Italian
word: forcella
lang: Italian
word: forchetta
lang: Japanese
word: 叉骨
roman: sakotsu
lang: Komi-Zyrian
word: додь
roman: doď
lang: Macedonian
word: јадец
roman: jadec
lang: Eastern Mari
word: келделу
roman: keldelu
lang: Eastern Mari
word: ятас
roman: jatas
lang: Western Mari
word: йӓтӓс
roman: jätäs
lang: Western Mari
word: вӹцӓш
roman: vÿcäš
lang: Polish
word: widełki
lang: Portuguese
word: fúrcula
lang: Portuguese
word: ossinho da sorte
lang: Romanian
word: iadeș
lang: Russian
word: ду́жка
roman: dúžka
lang: Russian
word: ви́лочка
roman: víločka
lang: Scots
word: fortuin bane
lang: Scots
word: thochtbane
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: јадац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ломилица
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jadac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: lomilica
lang: Spanish
word: espoleta
lang: Swedish
word: gaffelben
lang: Swedish
word: önskeben
lang: Tatar
word: ядәч
roman: yädäç
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: اوچرجاق
roman: uçurcak
lang: Udmurt
word: эчешонлы
roman: ećešonly
lang: Udmurt
word: ӟатаслы
roman: dźatasly
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́лочка
roman: výločka
lang: Welsh
word: asgwrn tynnu
love-struck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From love + struck.
Compound parts: love
struck
Inflected forms:
form: more love-struck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most love-struck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lovestruck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: struck by (usually romantic) love; smitten.
pos: adj
examples: Fay Wray was hoisted into the air by the love-struck ape.
Translations:
pouch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *puhô
Frankish *pokōbor.
Old French puche
Old Northern French pouchebor.
Middle English pouche
English pouch
From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Inflected forms:
form: pouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pouches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pouching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pouched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pouched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
pos: noun
gloss: An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
pos: noun
gloss: Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
pos: noun
gloss: A protuberant belly; a paunch.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
slang
gloss: A cyst or sac containing fluid.
pos: noun
examples: […]form a large Pouch or Cyst
gloss: A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
pos: noun
gloss: A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
pos: noun
gloss: To enclose within a pouch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The beggar pouched the coin.
gloss: To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
gloss: To swallow.
pos: verb
examples: And, to name no more, the common Heron hath its most remarkable Parts adapted to this Service; long Legs for wading; and a long Neck answerable thereto to reach Prey; a wide, extensive Throat to pouch it; long Toes, with strong hooked Talons […]
[…] but if they shake the line and move, after they have remained still three or four minutes, you may conclude the fish has pouched the bait and feels the hooks, then wind up your slack and strike, but not violently, and always mind to keep the point of your rod a little raised while you are playing and killing your fish […]
gloss: To pout.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not.
gloss: To pocket; to put up with.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller
Related words: bag
pocket
sack
Derived words: abdominal pouch
brood pouch
Faraday pouch
laryngeal pouch
manpouch
Morison's pouch
nicotine pouch
Pavlov pouch
pencil pouch
pillow pouch
posing pouch
Poucher
pouchful
pouchitis
pouchless
pouchlike
pouchling
pouchmaker
pouchmaking
pouch of Morison
pouchy
pseudopouch
Rathke's pouch
retortable pouch
retort pouch
shepherd's pouch
Translations:
lugubrious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”), with the suffix -ious.
Inflected forms:
form: more lugubrious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lugubrious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
pos: adj
examples: His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
The exaggeration with darkness imparted to the glooms of this region impressed Henchard more than he had expected. The lugubrious harmony of the spot with his domestic situation was too perfect for him, impatient of effects, scenes, and adumbrations.
There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.
I poured one big drink in a water glass, and we had slugs. Oh, it was sweet and delicious and worth my whole lugubrious voyage.
The congregation was "spellbound unto the Meekest of its Members," and none more so than Rick himself, who sits in an enraptured trance, nodding his broad head to the cadences of Makepeace's rhetoric, even though every Welsh note of it — to the excited ears and eyes of those around him — is hurled at Rick personally down the length of the aisle, and rammed home with a botched stab of the lugubrious Watermaster forefinger.
Translations:
hearing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English herynge, equivalent to hear + -ing.
Base: hear
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more hearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
pos: adj
examples: Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
gloss: The sense used to perceive sound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
gloss: The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
gloss: Something heard; a report or piece of news.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: More evidence followed. Evidence as to the financial difficulties in which the prisoner had found himself at the end of July. Evidence as to his intrigue with Mrs. Raikes—poor Mary, that must have been bitter hearing for a woman of her pride.
gloss: The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
gloss: A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
gloss: A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
gloss: A scolding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
informal
uncountable
Antonyms: deaf
nonhearing
Translations:
karoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originates from the Khoikhoi word karo (meaning dry, and hard)
Inflected forms:
form: karoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: The herd is kept in an enclosure with wire fence about 7 feet high[…] They eat grass and karoo, but prefer bush of every kind, even eating the bitter aloe.
Derived words: karoid
Translations:
tot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of total (“to sum”).
Inflected forms:
form: tots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: totting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: totted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: totted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sum or total.
pos: verb
examples: There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
gloss: To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
pos: verb
tags: UK
historical
examples: a totted debt
Derived words: tot up
Translations:
ineluctable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French inéluctable (whence in- + e- and -able), from Latin inēlūctābilis, from in- + ēlūctor (“struggle out”) + -bilis.
Affixes: in-#Etymology_3
e-#Etymology_1
Inflected forms:
form: more ineluctable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ineluctable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
pos: adj
examples: God indeed (if it please him) can by his absolute power over his Creature, make him act this thing, or take that thing, by ineluctable Necessity, and whether he will or no.
They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.
He was aware instantly of an opposition in his members, unanimous and invincible, clinging to life with a single and fixed resolve, finger by finger, sinew by sinew; something that was at once he and not he—at once within and without him;—the shutting of some miniature valve in his brain, which a single manly thought should suffice to open—and the grasp of an external fate ineluctable as gravity.
I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.
For the self-regulating market was now believed to follow from the inexorable laws of Nature, and the unshackling of the market to be an ineluctable necessity.
Captain Kirk! And the ineluctible Mr. Spock. Welcome to Motherlode, gentlemen. Interested in purchasing a little love?
Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.
[…] The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.
As we've seen, the Manifesto’s argument for the ineluctable impoverishment of the working class under capitalism, for example, has not been borne out.
Translations:
sanitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sanitary + -ation.
Base: sanitary
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: sanitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
gloss: The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sanitarian
sanitary
sanitisation
sanitise
sanitization
sanitize
sanitational
disease
disinfection
microorganisms
sewage
Derived words: ecosan
insanitation
phytosanitation
sanitation engineer
sanitation engineering
sanitationist
sanitationless
sanitation worker
unsanitation
zoosanitation
Translations:
diopter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From Latin dioptra, from Ancient Greek διόπτρα (dióptra).
Inflected forms:
form: diopters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dioptra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dioptre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dioptry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
pos: noun
gloss: The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
pos: noun
gloss: A lens element attached to the front of a photographic lens to shorten the lens's minimum focus distance; also called a "close-up filter".
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Any lens system, such as a telescope.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A theodolite or similar surveyor’s angle measuring device.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An alidade.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A surgical speculum.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An instrument for drawing the skull by projections.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
parenteral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From par- + enteral; early 20th century.
Base: enteral
Affixes: par-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Administered by some means that avoids the gastrointestinal tract, particularly intravenously or by injection.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Terbinafine is available in 250 mg tablets and in a topical 1% ointment. There is no parenteral form available.
Antonyms: enteral
enteric
Translations:
subcutaneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin subcutāneus, from sub- + cutis (“skin”) + adjectival suffix -āneus.
Inflected forms:
form: more subcutaneous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most subcutaneous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.
pos: adj
Translations:
intramuscular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin intramuscularis, from prefix intra-, "within", + musculum, "muscle".
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inside a muscle or the muscles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intravenous
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English venous
English intravenous
From intra- + venous.
Inflected forms:
form: IV
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Inside the veins.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ikenna had typhoid and had been admitted at the hospital, receiving intravenous injections.
The inside of the vehicle is pretty sparse and there are no oxygen tanks, intravenous drips or machines that go "ping."
gloss: A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Get his morphine intravenous started stat!
Translations:
mundane
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundānus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn.
(ordinary): Compare typologically Russian несусве́тный (nesusvétnyj) (<~ не- (ne-) + (rare) сусве́тный (susvétnyj) < свет (svet)).
Inflected forms:
form: mundaner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mundanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mundanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
pos: adj
examples: Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.
gloss: Ordinary; not new.
pos: adj
gloss: Tedious; repetitive and boring.
pos: adj
gloss: An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
pos: noun
gloss: A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.
The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’
Some people just think your ^([sic]) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot ^([sic]) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.
gloss: A person who is not a Satanist.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.
Synonyms: mainstreamer
banausic
mundane
Antonyms: athlete
empath
genius
intellectual
mad scientist
magician
maverick
medium
oracle
polymath
prodigy
psychic
strange person
superhuman
Related words: mundane on Wikipedia. Article on the use of as a derogatory term.
Derived words: antemundane
circummundane
extramundane
inframundane
intermundane
intramundane
mundania
mundanism
mundie
nonmundane
submundane
supermundane
supramundane
transmundane
ultramundane
unmundane
mundanely
mundaneness
mundanity
Translations:
stoicism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin stōicismus. By surface analysis, stoic + -ism. First attested in the 1620s.
Inflected forms:
form: stoicisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Stoicism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
Although very distant from the lives of her subjects – she never went to school and had only the most fleeting experiences of being on equal terms with anyone – she grew into a much respected figure, admired for her stoicism and diligence
Derived words: neostoicism
Translations:
flamberge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From French.
Inflected forms:
form: flamberges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flamberg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.
pos: noun
examples: The wavy, cutting surface appears in the ‘flamberge,’ to which flame gave a name: it is nowhere better developed than in the beautiful Malay kris (crease). The object seems to be that of increasing the cutting surface.
Translations:
serious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Italic *sēros
Latin sērus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
?
Proto-Indo-European *swer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *swerjos?
Latin sērius
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Medieval Latin sēriōsus
Old French serieuxbor.
Middle English seryows
English serious
From Middle English seryows, from Old French serieux, from Medieval Latin sēriōsus, an extension of Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). (If this root is correct, cognate with German schwer (“heavy, difficult, severe”), Old English swǣr (“heavy, grave, grievous”). More at swear, sweer. However, see sērius for an alternative derivation of the Latin.)
Inflected forms:
form: more serious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most serious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition.
pos: adj
examples: deadly serious
It was a surprise to see the captain, who had always seemed so serious, laugh so heartily.
gloss: Important; weighty; not insignificant.
pos: adj
examples: This is a serious problem. We'll need our best experts.
gloss: Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.
pos: adj
examples: After all these years, we're finally getting serious attention.
He says he wants to buy the team, but is he serious?
gloss: Committed.
pos: adj
Synonyms: austere
frightful
demure
serious
grave
earnest
grievous
lack-laughter
thoughtful
sad
sage
saturnine
sedate
solemn
solemncholy
sober
somber
sombre
staid
stern
sweer
weightsome
weighty
Antonyms: trifling
unimportant
jesting
gaudy
witty
Related words: important
sullen
Derived words: ha ha only serious
hyperserious
jocoserious
nonserious
overserious
self-serious
semiserious
seriositude
serious as a heart attack
seriously
serious-minded
serious-mindedly
serious-mindedness
seriousness
srs
superserious
take serious
ultraserious
unserious
why so serious
Translations:
sunglasses
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
English glasses
English sunglasses
From sun + glasses.
Inflected forms:
form: sunglass
pos: noun
tags: attributive
form: sun glasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sun-glasses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light, and may also be worn as a fashion accessory.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: It is impossible to know accurately how you look in your sunglasses.
gloss: A person wearing sunglasses
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: My seat’s been taken by some sunglasses asking 'bout a scar
Synonyms: shades
sunnies
cooling glasses
smoked glasses
smoked spectacles
sunspecs
Derived words: aviator sunglasses
Irish sunglasses
pair of sunglasses
Translations:
sunnies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From sunglasses + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), retaining the plural form.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sunglasses.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: She took off her sunnies and polished them, a little vigorously.
With Heath wearing a black beanie and his trademark sunnies, the couple arrived in Perth at 12.20 p.m. after flying in from the US via Sydney.
2009, Susan Lyons, Sex Drive, Kensington Press, US, page 160,
“Sunscreen for you.” Her skin was a light golden brown. “And sunnies and a hat.” He slipped on his own sunglasses.
Bring the Prada sunnies, the papers and an appetite if you′re heading here for breakfast.
I can see it now: these sunnies are going to be your fave in no time!.
Translations:
cooked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the past tense of the verb cook.
Inflected forms:
form: more cooked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cooked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prepared by cooking.
pos: adj
gloss: Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.
Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.
[S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.
gloss: Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
pos: adj
examples: But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked.
gloss: Done in, exhausted, pooped.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
slang
examples: If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked.
Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.
gloss: Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
especially
slang
gloss: Hungover.
pos: adj
gloss: Brain-damaged from drug use.
pos: adj
examples: Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.
gloss: Of a person: crazy, insane.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
derogatory
figuratively
slang
Related words: cook the books
someone's goose is cooked
Derived words: cooked mode
cookedness
homecooked
more than someone has had cooked dinners
noncooked
pre-cooked
ready-cooked
someone's goose is cooked
Translations:
wrist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
engineering
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
skating
sports
Etymology: From Middle English wrist, from Old English wrist, from Proto-West Germanic *wristu, from Proto-Germanic *wristuz (compare Old Frisian wrist, Low German Wrist, German Rist (“back of hand, instep, withers”), Swedish vrist), from Proto-Germanic *wrīþaną (“to twist, turn”). More at writhe.
Inflected forms:
form: wrists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wrists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wristing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wristed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wristed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense.
pos: noun
examples: With a flick of the wrist, he threw the frisbee to a team-mate.
gloss: A stud or pin which forms a journal.
pos: noun
gloss: To hit a wrist shot.
pos: verb
Derived words: bridle wrist
limp of the wrist
limp-wrist
limp-wristed
one off the wrist
slap on the wrist
slap someone's wrist
wrist band
wristband
wrist banger
wrist drop
wrist-fall
wristguard
wristless
wrist pad
wrist pin
wristpin
wrist plate
wrist rest
wrist-slap
wrist spin
wrist spinner
wrist strap
wriststrap
wrist-top
wristwarmer
wrist watch
wristwatch
wrist-winged glider
wrist wrap
wristy
Translations:
blowfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blowflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blow fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, or open wounds.
pos: noun
examples: The blowfly was her next victim, but an unexciting one. Pulling off its legs, she placed it with the hornet, and both lay side by side unprotestingly.
What is a blow-fly? That is what I thought when I saw them: blow-flies. Is there something dead around here that has not yet begun to stink? I cannot discover where they are coming from; they just appear in the light of the lamp, attracted by the warmth, I suppose, and fly up against the bulb and then drop stunned on the table and flop about groggily until I sweep them away with my sleeve.
Translations:
misanthrope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) and ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man; human”); compare miser.
Inflected forms:
form: misanthropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has a negative view of the entire human race.
pos: noun
examples: Alas, poor Dean! his only scope
Was to be held a misanthrope.
I cannot love evergreens—they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind—sympathy.
gloss: Someone who distrusts or avoids other people.
pos: noun
Synonyms: misanthropist
Antonyms: philanthrope
Related words: misanthropy
misanthropic
misandry
misogyny
misopedia
philanthropy
philanthropic
philanthropist
philandry
philogyny
philopedia
Timonist
xenophobe
Derived words: womanthrope
Translations:
derisively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From derisive + -ly.
Base: derisive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more derisively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most derisively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly.
pos: adv
examples: As ſometimes, with us, a queſtion is put deriſively, in the form of an aſſertion, when the propoſer conceives, as ſeems to have happened here, ſome abſurdity in the thing, I thought it beſt, after the example of ſo many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expreſſion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent.
In the personal bearing of Gustavus Adolphus [of Sweden], more distinctly than in his high aims, it now became evident that he deemed himself free from the obligations of deference to others, and regarded his own aspirations as his sole standard of action; he expressed himself to the Marquis as disapproving of the French King's course because he did not set himself up as the reformer of his Church, and he spoke derisively of the Pope.
["]And suddenly he notices the workman at a distance standing there and smiling deceitfully, that is, not deceitfully though, I'm wrong there, what is it …?" / "Derisively," Versilov prompted him discreetly. / "Derisively, yes, a little derisively, that kind, good Russian smile, you know; the great personage was in a bad humour, you understand: 'What are you waiting here for, big beard?' said he. 'Who are you?'"
Translations:
headbutt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + butt.
Compound parts: head
butt
Inflected forms:
form: headbutts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: head butt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: head-butt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: headbutts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: headbutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: headbutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: headbutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: head butt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: head-butt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into an opponent or object, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.
pos: noun
gloss: To deliver a sharp blow by driving the head into an opponent or object.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then he got down on his hands and knees and pretended to headbutt the cat: 'Come on, come on, little ram! Let's see your horns!'
Translations:
Karelian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Swedish Karelender.
Finnish Karjalader.
Medieval Latin Carēliabor.
English Karelia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Karelian
From Karelia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Karelians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the region of Karelia, politically split between the administrative regions of North Karelia and South Karelia, Finland and the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the region of Karelia.
pos: noun
Translations: