yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
recede
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English receden, from Middle French receder and its etymon Latin recedere (“to withdraw; to go back”), from re- + cedere (“to go”).
Inflected forms:
form: recedes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: receding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: receded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: receded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
pos: verb
examples: Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from th' insulted shore.
All bodies moved circularly have a perpetual endeavour to recede from the center.
gloss: To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
pos: verb
examples: to recede conquered territory
gloss: To take back.
pos: verb
Related words: cede
recedence
recession
recess
recessive
Derived words: receding
Translations:
RP
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: RPs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: RP's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: RPing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: RP'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: RPed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RPed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: RP'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RP'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: RP'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RP'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To roleplay.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I hope you enjoyed this snapshot of why D&D is a great intro into RP'ing. Next week, get your katanas, miniguns, Bulldog-Step vans, and Earth Spirits out. We’re talking Shadowrun. See you then!
Translations:
meditation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
Inflected forms:
form: meditations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Free-associating on paper is valuable—letting loose, as I described in the last chapter, and writing whatever you feel like writing, any way you want. It’s valuable when you’re learning to write to help you deal with fear, and it continues to be a useful technique for starting a piece of writing or moving beyond a point where you’re stuck. It’s a good way to develop characters and story by drawing on unconscious associations, free-associating about something (a process that used to be called meditation before meditation came to mean emptying your mind). […] Writing to communicate is a different matter. Professional writers, without exception so far as I know, consider unstructured, unedited free association to be at best only the first stage of writing. Not even Jack Kerouac wrote that way, although he tried to make it look as if he did.
gloss: A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
gloss: A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Careful and thorough thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: deep meditation
in meditation
He was lost in careful meditation on how best to proceed when a sudden phone call forced him to decide.
Related words: meditate
meditative
meditationist
meditativeness
premeditation
mentation
Derived words: beditation
mass meditation
meditational
nonmeditation
theta meditation
transcendental meditation
Translations:
meditate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: meditates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meditating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meditated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meditated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To consider; to reflect on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] yet I can by no means be persuaded that he could find leisure enough to write so many copies of it in his solitudes and sufferings, in the midst of treaties, in the hurry of removals, while he meditated his escape, and was strictly observ'd by his guards.
He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances.
Related words: meditative
meditation
meditator
Derived words: meditater
meditatingly
meditatist
nonmeditating
remeditate
Translations:
weaver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wevere, wever, from Old English *wefere, *wifre, *wæfre (“weaver”, in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *webārī. By surface analysis, weave + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Weeuwer (“weaver”), Dutch wever (“weaver”), German Low German Wever (“weaver”), German Weber (“weaver”), Swedish vävare (“weaver”), Icelandic vefari (“weaver”).
Inflected forms:
form: weavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
pos: noun
examples: The Silks, varniſh'd Works, Ink, Paper, and in general every thing that comes, both from Nan-king and the other Cities of the Province, which carry on an aſtoniſhing Trade, is much more eſteem'd and dear, than what is brought from other Provinces. In the City Shang-hay only, and the Villages belonging to it, they reckon above 200,000 Weavers of Callico.
gloss: A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
pos: noun
examples: To add a new weaver, simply soak a new one, slide one end under a rib (over the old weaver) and continue weaving with both of them until the old one runs out. […] If your weaver has dried, rewet it and weave several rows as in Diagram 26.
gloss: A weaverbird.
pos: noun
gloss: An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
pos: noun
Related words: weave
Webb
Webber
Webster
Derived words: baya weaver
dwarf cobweb weaver spider
funnel weaver
golden silk orb-weaver
lentil-weaver
meshweb weaver
peace weaver
red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
sheet weaver
sociable weaver
southern masked weaver
sparrow-weaver
speckle-fronted weaver
village weaver
Weaver
weaver ant
yellow-mantled weaver
Translations:
prankster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from prank + -ster.
Base: prank
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: pranksters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who performs pranks.
pos: noun
examples: A skilled prankster.
She became famous as a prankster.
He loves being a prankster and is often seen pulling off several pranks on his bullies.
Translations:
trickster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trick
Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā
Old English -estre
Middle English -estere
English -ster
English trickster
From trick + -ster.
Inflected forms:
form: tricksters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tricksters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trickstering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trickstered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trickstered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.
pos: noun
examples: 1991, Alan R. Velie (compiler and editor), American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Revised edition, page 44,
The trickster is one of the oldest and most widespread of mythological and literary figures. […] As the name implies, the trickster is, on one level—probably the most important—an amoral practical joker who wanders about playing pranks on unsuspecting victims […] With all the fluctuations, certain things about the trickster are predictable: he is always a wanderer, always hungry, and usually oversexed.
Tricksters abound in folktales […] .
And let us begin with those sympathetic elements, the tricksters who obtain the lovers and the land, always at the expense of fools and knaves, sometimes at the expense of other tricksters.
gloss: One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
pos: noun
examples: A skilled trickster knows how to outsmart their enemies with ease.
gloss: One who performs tricks (parts of a magician act or entertainingly difficult physical actions).
pos: noun
examples: Our fellow trickster will perform some impressive magic tricks tonight.
gloss: An impish or playful person.
pos: noun
gloss: A fraud or cheat (person who performs a trick or hoax full of falsehoods for the purpose of unlawful gain).
pos: noun
examples: That shady trickster faked being a psychic advisor to spread misinformation and gain profit.
She's easy game for a trickster like him.
gloss: To engage in the antics of a trickster; to play tricks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: confidence trickster
three-card trickster
trick
Derived words: tricksterish
tricksterism
trickstress
Translations:
malaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian malaria, formed from mal- (“bad”) and aria (“air”). Introduced into English by the Scottish geologist John MacCulloch (1773–1835). Displaced native Old English unlyft (literally “bad air”).
Inflected forms:
form: malarias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease spread by mosquito, in which a protozoan, Plasmodium, multiplies in blood every few days.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Supposed poisonous air arising from marshy districts, once thought to cause fever.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The doctor had his hands full, as the air was so impregnated with malaria that men who had only landed some twenty-four hours were laid low with this extraordinarily violent type of fever.
Derived words: airport malaria
antimalaria
antimalarial
falciparum malaria
knowlesi malaria
malarial
malariametric
malaria mosquito
malaria net
malarigenous
malarin
malarioid
malariologist
malariology
malarious
nonmalaria
vivax malaria
Translations:
Nepali
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Nepal
English -i
English Nepali
From Nepal + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: Nepalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Nepal, the Nepali people or the Nepali language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Born in Naradevi, Kathmandu on April 27, 1990 to a father who practiced traditional Ayurvedic medicine and a homemaker mother, Shah stands out among Nepali politicians, not only for his signature black rectangular glasses, but for his roots in hip-hop.
gloss: A person from Nepal or of Nepali descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
eigenfunction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe
Proto-Germanic *aiganą
Proto-Germanic *aiganaz
Proto-West Germanic *aigan
Old High German eigan
Middle High German eigen
German eigenbor.
English eigen-
Old French fonction
Middle French functionbor.
English function
English eigenfunction
From eigen- + function.
Inflected forms:
form: eigenfunctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A function ϕ such that, for a given linear operator D, Dϕ=λϕ for some scalar λ (called an eigenvalue).
pos: noun
examples: For many quantum-mechanical problems it is important to investigate the change of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions with the continuous change of one or more parameters. The case in which one knows the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for two special values of the parameters, and is interested in the region in between is particularly interesting.
Problems that require an investigation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions arise in connection with numerous topics in mechanics, the theory of vibrations and stability, hydrodynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, etc.
Translations:
inexpensive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English expensive
English inexpensive
From in- + expensive.
Inflected forms:
form: more inexpensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inexpensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap.
pos: adj
examples: Cameras for black and white recording are relatively inexpensive, but color cameras cost twice to four times as much.
And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
gloss: Not extravagant in expenditure.
pos: adj
examples: The Swiss people are frugal and inexpensive in their own habits […]
Derived words: inexpensively
inexpensiveness
Translations:
airport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + port.
Compound parts: air
port
Inflected forms:
form: airports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.
pos: noun
examples: She met Sam and the others at the airport at 7:00 am.
In the Indianapolis airport, for example, travelers spend an average of 94 minutes in the terminal and presecurity areas before boarding their flights.
Because of this, and contrary to popular belief, British airports primarily act as giant wealth extractors, transporting our richest citizens out of the country as often as possible to take their money overseas.
With more people than ever flying, cities around the world are building new airports and upgrading old terminals to create facilities capable of handling tens of millions of passengers. […] The world’s favorite airport and Asian mega-hub, Singapore Changi, is eagerly working towards opening its new Jewel and Terminal 5.
Translations:
tendon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
business
construction
manufacturing
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.
Inflected forms:
form: tendons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
pos: noun
examples: I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.
gloss: The hamstring of a quadruped.
pos: noun
gloss: A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.
pos: noun
Related words: ligament
Derived words: Achilles tendon
Achilles’ tendon
calcaneal tendon
endotendon
intertendon
intratendon
mesotendon
midtendon
musculotendon
neotendon
paratendon
peritendon
quadriceps tendon
subtendon
tendinopathy
tendonectomy
tendonitis
tendon of Achilles
tendony
Translations:
indignation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English indignacioun, borrowed from Old French indignation, from Latin indignātiō, from indignor (“to scorn, resent”), from indignus (“unworthy, not fitting”), from in- (“not”) + dignus (“worthy, appropriate”). Attested since ca. 1374. Doublet of indignatio.
Inflected forms:
form: indignations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He protested in indignation.
The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.
gloss: A self-righteous anger or disgust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: deign
dignify
indign
indignant
undignified
Translations:
digraph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Blend of directed + graph.
Compound parts: directed
graph
Inflected forms:
form: digraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A directed graph.
pos: noun
Translations:
velopharyngeal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weg-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-der.?
Proto-Italic *wekslom
Latin vēlumder.
English velo-
Ancient Greek φάρυγξ (phárunx)bor.
Late Latin pharynx
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Late Latin -eus
Late Latin pharyngeus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English pharyngeal
English velopharyngeal
From velo- + pharyngeal.
Inflected forms:
form: more velopharyngeal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most velopharyngeal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: velopharyngeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)
pos: adj
gloss: A sound articulated at the velopharynx.
pos: noun
Translations:
lag
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Possibly of North Germanic origin.
Inflected forms:
form: lags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Late.
pos: adj
examples: Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.
gloss: Last; long-delayed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: the lag end of my life
gloss: Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
pos: adj
examples: We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay.
gloss: To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
pos: verb
examples: Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.
Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost
1717, The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated into English verse under the direction of Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, William Congreve and other eminent hands
While he, whose tardy feet had lagg'd behind, / Was doom'd the sad reward of death to find.
Brown skeletons of leaves that lag / My forest-brook along
Over the next fifty years, by most indicators dear to economists, the country remained the richest in the world. But by another set of numbers—longevity and income inequality—it began to lag behind Northern Europe and Japan.
gloss: To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
pos: verb
examples: Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.
Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.
gloss: To respond slowly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: My phone is starting to lag.
gloss: To transport as a punishment for crime.
pos: verb
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: She lags us if we poach.
gloss: To arrest or apprehend.
pos: verb
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: "We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it."
gloss: To slacken
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Interest in the scandal will never lag.
The weight would lagge thee that art wont to flye.
Related words: tardy
Derived words: lagging jacket
lag behind
lagging
lagging strand
lag off
Translations:
lagging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: from lag
Inflected forms:
form: more lagging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lagging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: laggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: falling behind, not keeping up the pace
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
pos: adj
examples: A leading wave is one which reaches its maximum value before another, which is thus a lagging wave
gloss: The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The material so used.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A prison sentence, originally one of at least three years.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
usually
examples: "Whether you'll get a nine or a lagging depends on the answer you give me, Mrs. Inglethorne."
Related words: jet-lagging
Derived words: lagging indicator
laggingly
unlagging
beggar's lagging
tramp's lagging
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: tepelná izolace
lang: Greek
word: θερμομονωτικό υλικό
roman: thermomonotikó ylikó
electrolysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday. From electro- + -lysis (“a loosening”). Originally of tumors, later (1909) of hair removal.
Base: electro
Inflected forms:
form: electrolyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But current leakage in a Tube tunnel can cause electrolysis to occur in steel retaining walls, which in turn causes them to rust; it could also damage the foundations of nearby buildings.
gloss: The destruction of hair roots by means of an electric current.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: electrolytic
electrolyze
electroplating
Derived words: cycloelectrolysis
photoelectrolysis
Translations:
miserable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French miserable, from Old French, from Latin miserabilis, equivalent to miser + -able.
Base: miser
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more miserable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miserable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: miserables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
pos: adj
examples: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation
gloss: Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
pos: adj
examples: He's good at some sports, like tennis, but he's just miserable at football.
gloss: Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
pos: adj
examples: a miserable sinner
In a month's collecting at Wonosalem and Djapannan I accumulated ninety-eight species of birds, but a most miserable lot of insects.
gloss: Causing unhappiness or misery.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: For what's more miserable than discontent?
gloss: Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: the liberal-hearted man is by the opinion of the prodigal miserable, and by the judgment of the miserable lavish
gloss: Negative minded, unpleasant to be around.
pos: adj
gloss: A miserable person; a wretch.
pos: noun
examples: Dona Carmen repaired to the balcony to chat and jest with, and at, these miserables, who stopped before the door to rest in their progress. All pretended poverty while literally groaning under the weight of their riches.
The charge that those who played Jesus in these representations were treated badly by the plays' Jews and Romans left one commissioner cold: in his view, these miserables were beaten much less severely by the players than they were by their actual lords or curacas.
gloss: A state of misery or melancholy.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
with-definite-article
examples: By 3:00 P.M. both DeeDee and Sandra's pants were thoroughly soaked, and this unhappy circumstance gave DeeDee a bad case of the miserables.
Related words: miser
misery
Derived words: immiseration
immiserization
mimsy
miserabilism
miserabilist
miserability
miserable as a wet hen
miserableness
miserablism
miserablist
miserably
unmiserable
Translations:
lesion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
law
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lesioun (“physical injuring of the body”), from Old French lesion (“hurt, offense, wrong, injury, wound”), from Latin laesiō (“hurt, harm, injury”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from laesus (“hurt, injured, wounded, damaged”), past participle of laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”).
Inflected forms:
form: lesions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: læsion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lesions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lesioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lesioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lesioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: læsion
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A wound or injury.
pos: noun
gloss: An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.
pos: noun
gloss: Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
pos: noun
gloss: Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.
pos: noun
gloss: To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: allide
allision
collide
collision
elide
elision
lese majesty
lèse majesté
Derived words: cryolesion
hemilesion
immunolesion
indolent lesion of epithelial origin
interlesion
ipsilesional
lesional
lesionectomy
lesionless
lesionlike
microlesion
multilesion
nonlesion
Olney's lesions
perilesion
photolesion
postlesion
prelesion
pseudolesion
radiolesion
translesion
Translations:
seiche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Swiss French seiche, perhaps from German Seiche (“sinking”).
Inflected forms:
form: seiches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short-term standing wave oscillation of the water level in a lake, or other confined body of water such as a fjord, characteristic of its geometry.
pos: noun
examples: In September 2023, we detected the start of a 9-day-long, global . . . very-long-period seismic signal, originating from East Greenland. . . .this event started with a glacial thinning-induced rock-ice avalanche of 25 million cubic meters plunging into Dickson Fjord, triggering a 200-meter-high tsunami. Simulations show that the tsunami stabilized into a 7-meter-high long-duration seiche with a frequency. . .and slow amplitude decay that were nearly identical to the seismic signal. An oscillating, fjord-transverse single force . . . reproduced the seismic amplitudes and their radiation pattern relative to the fjord, demonstrating how a seiche directly caused the 9-day-long seismic signal.
Translations:
Austro-Hungarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Austro- + Hungarian, after Austria-Hungary.
Base: Hungarian
Affixes: Austro-
Inflected forms:
form: Austro-Hungarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to Austria-Hungary.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
gloss: A person from Austria-Hungary.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
balm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bawme, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Middle French baume, from Old French basme, from Latin balsamum, itself from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon). Spelling modified 16th c. to conform to Latin etymology. Doublet of balsam and desman.
Inflected forms:
form: balms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: balms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: balming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An aromatic preparation for embalming the dead.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant or tree yielding such substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something soothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Classical music is a sweet balm for our sorrows.
BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
gloss: The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horsebalm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured / With full bags of spices!
gloss: To soothe; to mitigate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews
Related words: lotion
ointment
unguent
Derived words: Balmer
balmless
balmlike
balm of Gilead
balm of Judea
balm of Mecca
balm tea
balmy
balmyard
basil balm
beard balm
embalm
heart balm
heart-balm
lip balm
spotted bee balm
tiger balm
Vietnamese balm
Translations:
garnet
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.
Inflected forms:
form: garnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garnets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: garneting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: garneted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: garneted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.
How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
gloss: A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a dark red colour.
pos: adj
gloss: To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: grenade
pomegranate
Derived words: common garnet
cross-garnet
demantoid garnet
garnetberry
garnet brown
garnetiferous
garnet-throated hummingbird
garnet yam
garnierite
gooseberry garnet
hydrogarnet
mandarin garnet
Queen Garnet plum
rose garnet
tsavorite garnet
YAG
yttrium iron garnet
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: тъмно червен
roman: tǎmno červen
lang: Catalan
word: granat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 石榴色
roman: shíliùsè
lang: Finnish
word: granaatinpunainen
lang: Finnish
word: tummanpunainen
lang: French
word: grenat
lang: Georgian
word: გრანატისფერი
roman: granaṭisperi
lang: Georgian
word: ძოწისფერი
roman: ʒoc̣isperi
lang: German
word: Granat
lang: German
word: Granatrot
lang: Greek
word: γκρενά
roman: gkrená
lang: Japanese
word: ガーネット色
roman: gānettoshoku
lang: Persian
word: بیجادهگون
roman: bijâde-gun
lang: Polish
word: kolor ciemnoczerwony
lang: Portuguese
word: grená
lang: Russian
word: грана́товый
roman: granátovyj
lang: Spanish
word: granate
lang: Tagalog
word: granate
lang: Turkish
word: lal
cyborg
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Blend of cybernetic + organism. Coined by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes in 1960.
Compound parts: cybernetic
organism
Inflected forms:
form: cyborgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cyborgs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cyborging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cyborged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cyborged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A being which is part machine and part organic.
pos: noun
examples: I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.
Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.
... Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University. Warwick is no stranger to publicity. His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances. With commendable honesty, he also acknowledges the amount of (unfair, obviously) criticism he has received for being greedy for media attention. That isn't the main thrust of the book, though, which is rather an account of why he is turning himself into a cyborg.
The cyborg subject, with its pacemakers, drug regimes and artificial limbs, is usually also the first world middle to upper-class economic subject with a conscious incentive to preserve life for as long as possible under the best possible conditions.
On the track of John and Kate is the T-X (Kristanna Loken), a blond female cyborg so metallically single-minded, and so impervious to blandishment and punishment alike, that, from where I was sitting, she looked to be our best hope of getting a woman into the Oval Office.
Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
gloss: A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.
pos: noun
gloss: To convert (something) into a cyborg.
pos: verb
Synonyms: bion
cybernetic organism
cyberman
Related words: borg
Derived words: cyborgian
cyborglike
eyeborg
fyborg
Translations:
bion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Back-formation from bionic.
Inflected forms:
form: bions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cyborg or robot.
pos: noun
Antonyms: morphon
Translations:
bionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of bio- + electronic. The superhuman sense is attributed to the TV shows The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978) and The Bionic Woman (1976–1978).
Compound parts: bio-
electronic
Inflected forms:
form: more bionic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bionic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Related to bionics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having been enhanced by electronic, mechanical, or mechatronical parts; cyborg.
pos: adj
gloss: Superhuman.
pos: adj
examples: Now baby, don't you know that our rhymes are so bionic / Don't listen too hard, don't be supersonic
Entering womanhood is awesome, but the learning, growing, and obstacle facing are not going to stop. As you grow into womanhood, it's going to seem as if the world wants you to be bionic—be stronger, faster, and smarter.
But to hear the presidential physician tell it, Trump is bionic. In a news conference, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson hailed Trump's health as "excellent" eight times.
Before leaving the factory, May met Delma Käthner, a local woman, who told her she was “bionic”. / “She’s coped with so much,” Käthner said. “She has a terrible job. Just look at the way her shoulders are hunched. She has the whole weight of Brexit on her.”
Related words: bion
Derived words: bionically
bionic ear
lesbionic
optobionic
photobionic
Translations:
balrog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From Sindarin, a fictional language created by J.R.R. Tolkien, meaning something akin to "mighty demon".
Inflected forms:
form: balrogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fiery demonic creature.
pos: noun
examples: The Balrog made no answer. The fire in it seemed to die, but the darkness grew. It stepped forward slowly on to the bridge, and suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall […]
What was released was a demon, a balrog of pure sexual energy which had been denied for too long.
[…] is just a big goofy Balrog as far as I'm concerned, he might make a "Green Dot" poster scared; the big dweeb.
[And now, a warp-drive round of Confirm or Deny.][...]
Gandalf the Grey was cooler than Gandalf the White.
Hmm, that’s a tough one. I think in some ways he was cooler, but he kind of needed to defeat the Balrog in order to become a better wizard, I guess, and play a bigger role in defeating Sauron. But he was definitely more chill as Gandalf the Grey and had a better sense of humor.
Translations:
often
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English often, alteration (with final -n added due to analogy with Middle English selden (“seldom”)) of Middle English ofte, oft, from Old English oft (“often”), from Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō (“often”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots affen, aften, af'en, oaffen, oaften, oftin (“often”), North Frisian aaft, oftem, oofting (“often”), Saterland Frisian oafte (“often”), German, Luxembourgish and Pennsylvania German oft (“often”), Yiddish אָפֿט (oft, “often”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk ofte (“often”), Faroese, Swedish ofta (“often”), Icelandic oft (“often”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐍄𐌰 (ufta, “often”).
Inflected forms:
form: more often
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: oftener
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most often
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: oftenest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Frequently; many times on different occasions.
pos: adv
examples: I often walk to work when the weather is nice.
I’ve been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me.
It can't be said too often / often enough.
☞ This word [wrap] is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar.
How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!
Although frogs are able to swim well and often are found in water, they are really land animals.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Antonyms: rarely
forever
occasionally
never
once
Translations:
peccary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Kari'na pakira (“collared peccary”), from Proto-Cariban *pakira.
Inflected forms:
form: peccaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the family Tayassuidae of mammals from the Americas, related to pigs.
pos: noun
examples: He says he drank rainwater collected in his shoes and ate worms and insects while hiding from jaguars and peccaries, a type of pig-like mammal.
Translations:
presentation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: LGBT
fencing
government
hobbies
immunology
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sexuality
sports
war
Etymology: From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”). Morphologically present + -ation.
Base: present
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: presentations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præsentation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act of presenting, or something presented.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Prayers are sometimes a presentation of mere desires.
gloss: The outward appearance or representation of a person or thing to the human mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Listen, James...with the ways that you speak, dress, and comport yourself, is it any wonder to you that your presentation to young ladies as a possible mate is , to say the least, lacking?
gloss: A dramatic performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An award given to someone on a special occasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Money given as a wedding gift.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A slideshow created on a computer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The symptoms, signs, and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The presentation of the thirty-four-year-old male in the emergency room was slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation.
gloss: The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Gender presentation; gender expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
mainly
uncountable
gloss: Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The specification of a group by generators and relators.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the bishop admits the patron's presentation, the clerk so admitted is next to be instituted by him.
gloss: The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: presentational
presentationally
Derived words: case presentation
interpresentation
malpresentation
nonpresentation
postpresentation
presentation box
presentation copy
presentationism
presentationist
presentation logic
presentation software
representation
re-presentation
self-presentation
Translations:
lecture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lecture, lectour, letture, letteur, lettur, lectury, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin lectura (“reading”), from Latin lectus, past participle of legō (“to read, recite”). Doublet of lector.
Inflected forms:
form: lectures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lectures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lecturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lectured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lectured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
pos: noun
examples: During class today the professor delivered an interesting lecture.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
gloss: A class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1), usually at college or university.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: We will not have lecture tomorrow.
Lecture notes are online.
gloss: A berating or scolding, especially if lengthy, formal or given in a stern or angry manner.
pos: noun
examples: I really don't want you to give me a lecture about my bad eating habits.
gloss: The act of reading.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the lecture of Holy Scripture
gloss: To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The professor lectured to two classes this morning.
gloss: To preach, to berate, to scold.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Emily's father lectured her about the importance of being home before midnight.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Related words: acroamatic
analects
lectern
lection
lesson
Derived words: belecture
curtain lecture
lecture bottle
lecturee
lecture hall
lecturelike
lectureship
lecturesome
lecturess
lecture theatre
lecturette
lecturize
lecturous
microlecture
minilecture
nonlecture
postlecture
prelecture
telelecture
lect.
lecturer
unlectured
Translations:
wordsmith
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The noun is derived from word + smith (“craftsperson who works metal into desired forms; (by extension) one who makes anything”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Compound parts: word
smith
Inflected forms:
form: wordsmiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wordsmiths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wordsmithing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wordsmithed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wordsmithed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who uses words skilfully.
pos: noun
examples: She has always been known as a capable wordsmith, but in this latest novel she also shows surprising emotional depth.
I bottle up and then spill it in verses / One day, I'm wordless, next day, I'm a wordsmith / Close to success, but to happiness, I'm the furthest
gloss: To skilfully compose or craft (something written).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then he reads the prompt, which has been carefully wordsmithed by Mr. [Ted] Wetzel and his collaborators.
Translations: