yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
benefice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French benefice, from Latin beneficium.
Inflected forms:
form: benefices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: benefices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beneficing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beneficed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beneficed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Land granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
pos: noun
examples: If after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last, our misery begins afresh […]
She saw how many, even of good men's children, profaned the ministry, […] that she was vehemently against addicting any to that office, that had not, besides good wits and parts, so great a love to God and souls, as to come to it with absolute self-denial, resolved to serve Christ at the dearest rates, and take his acceptance and the winning of souls for their benefice.
There were as many as one hundred thousand benefices offered during the period of his papacy, according to one chronicler and eyewitness.
gloss: A favour or benefit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An estate in lands; a fief.
pos: noun
gloss: To bestow a benefice upon
pos: verb
examples: There are two volumes, "The Open Door for Man's approach to God" (London, 1650) and "A Consideration of Infant Baptism" (London, 1653), by John Horne, who was beneficed at All Hallows, King's Lynn.
You clergymen of the Established Church have been richly endowed and beneficed expressly for this work--why don't you DO it?
Related words: beneficence
beneficent
beneficial
curatage
curateship
curacy
glebe-house
parsonage
parsonship
rectorate
rectory
vicarage
vicarate
vicarship
Derived words: beneficeless
Translations:
acculturation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1880; ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”); equivalent to acculturate + -ion
Base: ad
Inflected forms:
form: acculturations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […].
The cultural complex shows such power of survival mainly because its practitioners know how to adapt to modernization, including Western medicine, just as their ancestors knew how to adapt their careers and art to acculturation processes during the Conquest and subsequent eras.
gloss: A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inculturation
acclimation
assimilation
Derived words: acculturate
acculturational
acculturationist
acculturation model
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: aculturació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 涵化
roman: hánhuà
lang: Finnish
word: akkulturaatio
lang: Greek
word: επιπολιτισμός
roman: epipolitismós
lang: Indonesian
word: akulturasi
lang: Kazakh
word: аккультурация
roman: akkulturasiä
lang: Kazakh
word: мәдени жанасым
roman: mädeni janasym
lang: Kyrgyz
word: аккультурация
roman: akkulturatsiya
lang: Malay
word: akulturasi
lang: Polish
word: akulturacja
lang: Portuguese
word: aculturação
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: akulturacija
lang: Spanish
word: aculturación
lang: Vietnamese
word: tiếp biến văn hóa
autocephalous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐτοκέφαλος (autoképhalos), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). By surface analysis, auto- + -cephalous.
Inflected forms:
form: more autocephalous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autocephalous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fully independent of the authority of any other church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The defenders of Anglican independence maintain that there were anciently Churches autocephalous, dependent on no patriarch, and refer to the Churches of Cyprus as thus constituted, and allege that the British Churches enjoyed the same right of self-government and ordained their own prelates.
Poroshenko's speech was viscerally anti-Russian, and his loudest applause line came when he vowed to establish an autocephalous (independent from Moscow) Ukrainian Orthodox Church patriarchate.
gloss: Presiding over an autocephalous church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Independent; not governed by others.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: This is the Weberian continuum which stretches between the poles of “autocephalous” (self-organized and managing) and “heterocephalous” (organized and managed by others) occupations. […]In the more autocephalous occupations—the professions; the arts; independent accountants, draftsmen, and the like; independent small and medium businessmen in merchandising, manufacturing, artisanry, and the service trades—effective organization is less feasible.
Related words: acephalous
acephaly
autocephalic
autocephality
autocephaly
Translations:
disestablish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English establish
English disestablish
From dis- + establish.
Inflected forms:
form: disestablishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disestablishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disestablished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disestablished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deprive (an established church, military squadron, operations base, etc.) of its official status.
pos: verb
examples: Ah, but the virtue of public education, it is said, is that it is secular and non-denominational. Don't count on it. Massachusetts, the last state to disestablish religion (1832), didn't until July of 1978 decide that it was unconstitutional for the public school system to subsidize religious schools through so-called textbook loans.
Furthermore, disestablishing the Catholic church in February 1795 essentially instituted a free field in religious belief.
gloss: To abolish (an existing position of employment).
pos: verb
Synonyms: abolish
disempower
dissolve
unincorporate
Derived words: antidisestablishmentarianism
disestablisher
disestablishment
disestablishmentarian
disestablishmentarianism
undisestablished
Translations:
myeloma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From myelo- + -oma.
Affixes: myelo-
-oma
Inflected forms:
form: myelomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: myelomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A malignant tumour arising from cells of the bone marrow, specifically plasma cells.
pos: noun
examples: While Powell was fully vaccinated, he was also battling multiple myeloma, a cancer that suppresses the immune system, making him more susceptible to the virus and less likely to mount an immune response after being vaccinated.
Translations:
fibroma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From fibro- + -oma.
Base: fibro
Inflected forms:
form: fibromas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fibromata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign tumour of fibrous connective tissue.
pos: noun
Translations:
neoplasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From neo- + plasm, after German Neoplasma.
Base: plasm
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neoplasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue in animals or plants.
pos: noun
examples: Other and less common causes for an oromaxillary fistula are infections, cysts and neoplasms of the maxilla which may destroy the intervening bone, resulting in a fistula between the maxillary sinus and the oral cavity.
While we cannot firmly attribute the cause of the benign neoplasm to the irregularity in your genetic makeup, we can confirm that the progressive damage renders you unable to conceive a child.
Angiosarcoma is the most-common differentiated malignant neoplasm of the heart and accounts for 10–15% of primary cardiac malignancies.
Translations:
atheroma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin athērōma (“tumor/mass full of gruel-like matter”), from Ancient Greek ἀθήρωμα (athḗrōma). By surface analysis, ather- + -oma.
Inflected forms:
form: atheromas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: atheromata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal fatty deposit which develops within the walls of arteries.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of cyst on the scalp.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: plaque
atherosis
Related words: atherogenesis
atherosclerosis
Derived words: atheromasia
atheromatic
atheromatosis
atheromatous
atheromic
fibroatheroma
microatheroma
preatheroma
proatheroma
Translations:
ameloblastoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amelo-
English blastoma
English ameloblastoma
From amelo- + blastoma.
Inflected forms:
form: ameloblastomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ameloblastomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rare benign tumour of the upper or lower jaw.
pos: noun
Translations:
riflescope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rifle + scope.
Compound parts: rifle
scope
Inflected forms:
form: riflescopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telescopic sight for a rifle.
pos: noun
Translations:
spectroscope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spectro- + -scope.
Base: spectro
Inflected forms:
form: spectroscopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An optical instrument used for spectrographic analysis .
pos: noun
Translations:
stereoscope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stereo- + -scope.
Base: stereo
Inflected forms:
form: stereoscopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used for viewing pairs of stereoscopic photographs (stereographs).
pos: noun
examples: The idea has been repeated under different aspects; sometimes, possibly, it has been repeated too often; but different aspects in such a case do help, as in a stereoscope, to give solidity to the thing seen.
Translations:
sandspit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + spit.
Compound parts: sand
spit
Inflected forms:
form: sandspits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small sandy point of land or a narrow shoal projecting into a body of water from the shore
pos: noun
Translations:
aborigine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from aborigines.
Inflected forms:
form: aborigines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native inhabitant of a country; a member of the original people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The native flora and fauna of an area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
Derived words: Aboriginal
nonaborigine
Translations:
sark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English serk, sark, serke, from Old English serċ, sierċ m; and serċe, sierċe f (“sark, shirt, shift, smock, tunic, corselet, coat of mail”), from Proto-West Germanic *sarki, from Proto-Germanic *sarkiz (“shirt, armour, hauberk”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg-, *swerk- (“clothes worn outside”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to arrange, tack, tie, unite”).
Cognate with Scots sark, serk (“shirt, shift”), North Frisian serk (“shirt”), Danish særk (“gown, shirt”), Swedish särk (“shirt, chemise”), Icelandic serkur (“nightshirt”).
Inflected forms:
form: sarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shirt or smock.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.
Then lorek's rear claws dug into the links of Iofur's chain-mail sark and ripped downward. The whole front came away, and Iofur lurched sideways to look at the damage, leaving lorek to scramble upright again.
gloss: To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
herm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Herma, a Latinization of Hermēs, from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).
Inflected forms:
form: herms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rectangular pillar bearing a bust of Hermes, once used as a boundary marker and later as decoration.
pos: noun
Translations:
exhaustion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.
Proto-Italic *auzjō
Latin hauriō
Latin exhauriō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin exhaustiōbor.
English exhaustion
Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustiō, from exhauriō. Surface analysis: exhaust + -ion.
Base: exhaust
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: exhaustions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
gloss: Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
gloss: The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: An exhaustive procedure
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: exhaust
exhaustedness
Derived words: heat exhaustion
operational exhaustion
overexhaustion
proof by exhaustion
sexhaustion
Translations:
declassification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English classification
English declassification
From de- + classification.
Inflected forms:
form: declassifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of declassifying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
eka-actinium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eka-
English actinium
English eka-actinium
From eka- + actinium.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: unbiunium (element 121)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: untriennium (dvi-lanthanum) (element 139)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rhinoplasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῥῑ́ς (rhī́s)
Ancient Greek ῥῑνο- (rhīno-)
English rhino-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλᾰ́σσω (plắssō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστός (plăstós)der.
English -plasty
English rhinoplasty
From rhino- + -plasty.
Inflected forms:
form: rhinoplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of plastic surgery that is used to improve the function (reconstructive surgery) or appearance (cosmetic surgery) of a person's nose.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Dr. Sundine specializes in facelifts, necklifts and browlifting, eyelid surgery, as well as rhinoplasty, which involves both technically exacting skill and a keen eye for aesthetic balance.
Those can be signs of emotional immaturity, said Casas, a plastic surgeon in Chicago, Illinois. About 10 percent of her teenage rhinoplasty patients are boys.
gloss: An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Gone is the era of the cookie-cutter, ski jump nose. Today’s cosmetic doctors are approaching rhinoplasties with a more artistic, individualized approach, using new surgical and nonsurgical techniques to refine rather than revamp one of the most prominent features of the face.
Synonyms: nasoplasty
nose job
noselift
Related words: facelift
facioplasty
Derived words: rhinoplastic
Translations:
ding
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).
Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną.
Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).
Inflected forms:
form: dings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dang
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: dinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dang
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: dung
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head.
If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles.
gloss: A rejection.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I just got my first ding letter.
gloss: To hit or strike.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dash; to throw violently.
pos: verb
examples: to ding the book a coit's distance from him
The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat.
gloss: To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board.
gloss: To fire or reject.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: His top school dinged him last week.
gloss: To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
[…] [E]mployees don't feel like they're going to get dinged on performance reviews because they had the same goals as a guy who had been there all 12 months with no leave.
gloss: To mishit (a golf ball).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: The night turn'd dark an' dang on rain, […]
An awfu' show'r o' sna' and drift / As ever dang down frae the lift; / Right wild an' monstrous Boreas roar'd.
It's dingin' on, isn't?
Related words: dingbat
Derived words: ding up
Translations:
shaper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: From Middle English schapere, alteration (perhaps due to Old Norse skaperi, skapari) of Old English sċyppend, sċieppend (“shaper; maker; creator”), equivalent to shape + -er. Cognate with Dutch schepper, German Schöpfer, Danish skaber, Swedish skapare, Icelandic skapari.
Base: shape
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: agent
examples: one's birth is a shaper of one's fortunes
Considered merely as works of art, these products of the Greek imagination [i.e., Greek tragedies] satisfy our highest conception of form. […] The secret of those old shapers died with them; their wand is broken, their book sunk deeper than ever plummet sounded.
gloss: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: agent
gloss: Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
pos: noun
tags: agent
Related words: glasser
shaping
Derived words: body shaper
partial shaper
waveshaper
Translations:
glasser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glass
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English glasser
From glass + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: glassers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glassy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who applies fibreglass and resin to a surfboard during its manufacture.
pos: noun
examples: The glasser wraps the board in a thin, brittle layer of fiberglass and resin
gloss: A glass marble.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: One who uses field glasses or binoculars.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: One of the keys to glassing effectively is supporting your binoculars. Advanced glassers who scan lots of country for long periods of time, or who use binoculars of 10X power or more, often use a lightweight camera tripod […]
Translations:
roister
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French rustre, from Latin rusticus. Doublet of rustic.
Inflected forms:
form: roisters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roistering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roistered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roistered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: royster
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To engage in noisy, drunken, or riotous behaviour.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
He loved Rick and gave the best years of his life, now to roistering with him, now to hanging on to his coat-tails.
gloss: To walk with a swaying motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: roisterer
roisteringly
roisterly
roisterous
roisterously
Translations:
verity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin vēritās, from the adjective vērus (“true”).
Inflected forms:
form: verities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: [...] but in the verity of extolment
I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion
of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of
him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would
trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
I was moving into the biblical phase of the afternoon, the peak of my new simplicity. A verity less than eternal had little appeal.
If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.
As we shall see, all of these statements are of limited verity.
gloss: A true statement; an established doctrine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.
Now populists recycle communist verities: the fetishisation of working-class culture, the vision of a good “people” fighting a bad elite, the belief that the state should control business and the dismissal of parliamentary democracy as a bourgeois sham.
Derived words: Spirit of Verity
Translations:
longboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: From long + board.
Compound parts: long
board
Inflected forms:
form: longboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: longboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: longboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: longboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: longboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large surfboard, around 9 or 10 feet long with a wide nose.
pos: noun
examples: In the past three weeks on Victoria's Surfcoast I've ridden my longboard probably 90% of the time as well. — Coastalwatch.com.au http://www.coastalwatch.com.au/news/news.aspx?newsId=55&newsType=admin&adType=news
gloss: A large skateboard, measuring about 90 to 150 centimeters (3' to 5').
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of spine board.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel by longboard.
pos: verb
Derived words: longboarder
Translations:
longboarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English longboard
English -ing
English longboarding
From longboard + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The recreation or sport of surfing with a longboard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Huey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the original US Army designation of the Bell 204/205 helicopter, "HU-1", acronymized into "Huey", and extended to cover the Cobra gunship version of the same platform.
Inflected forms:
form: Hueys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American military helicopter, the UH-1 Iroquois.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
gloss: An American military helicopter, the AH-1 Cobra.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
Translations:
tectum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From Latin tēctum (“roof”), from tegō (“to cover”), cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof; any covered room of a house”). Doublet of tect.
Inflected forms:
form: tecta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus
pos: noun
gloss: The interconnected outer surface of a spore.
pos: noun
Related words: tegmentum
periaqueductal grey
Derived words: infratectum
pretectum
tectal
Translations:
tegmentum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From Latin tegmentum.
Inflected forms:
form: tegmentums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tegmenta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ventral portion of the midbrain, divided from the tectum by the cerebral aqueduct and the periaqueductal grey.
pos: noun
Translations:
mesencephalon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mes-
English encephalon
English mesencephalon
From mes- + encephalon.
Inflected forms:
form: mesencephalons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mesencephala
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).
pos: noun
Translations:
audition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin audītiō, from audiō (“to hear”).
Inflected forms:
form: auditions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auditions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: auditioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: auditioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: auditioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I've been to five auditions this week.
gloss: The sense of hearing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His audition was poor.
gloss: An act of hearing; being heard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Abraham talked on, rather for the pleasure of utterance than for audition, so that his sister's abstraction was of no account.
gloss: Something heard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We auditioned several actors for the part.
I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.
gloss: To take part in such a performance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Several actors auditioned for the part.
Synonyms: audition
hearing
Antonyms: deafness
surdity
Related words: audience
auditory
ear
Derived words: auditionist
reaudition
auditionee
auditioner
unauditioned
Translations:
anile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin anīlis, from anus (“old woman”).
Inflected forms:
form: more anile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a crone or a feeble old woman.
pos: adj
examples: Dr. Wittman, too, was passing over the same ground trodden by Bonaparte in his Syrian expedition, and had an ample opportunity of inquiring its probable object, and the probably success which (but for the heroic defence of Acre), might have attended it ; he was on the theatre of Bonaparte’s imputed crimes, as well as his notorious defeat ; and might have brought us back, not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events which must determine his character, who may determine our fate.
Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude ; mumbled its credos ; cursed its heretics — and died.
Steerpike derived as much pleasure in watching these anile and pitiful creatures, dressed in their purple finery, as they crawled beneath the carpet as he got from anything.
Translations:
descant
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman descaunt, from Medieval Latin discantus. Doublet of discant.
Inflected forms:
form: descants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: descants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: descanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: descanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: descanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: discant
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A lengthy discourse on a subject.
pos: noun
examples: Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!
gloss: A counterpoint melody sung or played above the theme.
pos: noun
gloss: To discuss at length.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] Samballat gaue his daughter Nicaſo to Manaſſes, the brother of Iaddus the High Prieſt, in the time of Darius the laſt Perſian Monarch. This Nehemia mentioneth, but deigneth not to name him, affirming that he chaſed him from him, of vvhich ſome deſcant vvhether it vvere by exile, or excommunication, or ſome other puniſhment.
[B]ut shun the establishment of a bachelor who has hung a pendulum between temptation and prudence till the age of———but of all subjects, age is the one on which it is most invidious to descant.
This is a surprise attack, and I'd no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, […]
Involving some interesting, intellectual trips, she was descanting lightly to right and left.
gloss: To sing or play a descant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: descantist
descant recorder
descanter
Translations:
abseil
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German abseilen, from ab- (“down”) + Seil (“rope”).
Inflected forms:
form: abseils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: abseiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: abseiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abseiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: abseils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To descend a steep or vertical drop using a rope with a mechanical friction device or (classic abseil) by wrapping the rope around the body.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Although only five miles north of Winchester, the tunnel is in a rural location with no road access. Contractors were only able to reach the site after cutting through thick vegetation and abseiling down the slope on ropes.
gloss: A descent in mountaineering using a rope looped at the top and a friction device.
pos: noun
Translations:
intercede
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in c. 1570. From Middle French intercéder, from Latin intercēdō, from inter- (“between”) + cēdō (“I go”) (English cede), literally “to (act as) go-between”.
Inflected forms:
form: intercedes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interceding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interceded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interceded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To plead on someone else's behalf.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our Lady intercedes
gloss: To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I to the Lords will intercede, not doubting / Thir favourable ear,
gloss: To pass between; to intervene.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.
Related words: intercedent
intercession
intercessionary
intercessor
intercessory
Translations:
domesticated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English domesticate
English -ed
English domesticated
From domesticate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more domesticated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most domesticated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)
pos: adj
examples: But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.
Antonyms: undomesticated
Translations:
hypocrite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.
Inflected forms:
form: hypocrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypocrit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.
pos: noun
examples: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
Neither Mr. Meacham, who mostly ignores Jefferson’s slave ownership, nor Mr. Wiencek, who sees him as a sort of fallen angel who comes to slavery only after discovering how profitable it could be, seem willing to confront the ugly truth: the third president was a creepy, brutal hypocrite.
Translations:
assessment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sed-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *sedéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *sedēō
Latin sedeō
Latin assideō
Latin assessus
Medieval Latin assessareder.
Old French assesserbor.
Middle English assessen
English assess
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English assessment
From assess + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: assessments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An appraisal or evaluation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme.
[…] without a stemmatic approach, when this method allows clear results (and there are definitely cases where it does), it is simply impossible to provide any sound assessment of the value of the individual witnesses.
Derived words: A&O assessment
alert and oriented assessment
authentic assessment
bioassessment
DISC assessment
e-assessment
environmental assessment
language assessment
misassessment
nonassessment
overassessment
postassessment
preassessment
reassessment
risk assessment
self-assessment
tax assessment
teleassessment
underassessment
Translations:
agenda-setting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A theory in mass communication that states that the media have the ability to determine which issues are important to the public.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
A-gay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for A-list gay.
Inflected forms:
form: A-gays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The A-Gays could talk about whoever was tooting coke in the bathroom.
The B-Gays, being largely decorative, were not expected to talk.
The latter is long past its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, while Marrakech continues to attract wealthy A-gays.
We who suffered the pain of playground exclusion now practice an enforced segregation with an effectiveness that designates certain members of our community as A-gays and marks the rest as inferior.
Translations:
asbestosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
Proto-Indo-European *(s)gʷes-der.?
Ancient Greek σβέννῡμῐ (sbénnūmĭ)
Ancient Greek σβεστός (sbestós)
Ancient Greek ἄσβεστος (ásbestos)bor.
Latin asbestosbor.
Old French abestosder.
English asbestos
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English asbestosis
From asbestos + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: asbestoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chronic, inflammatory lung disease caused by long-term, heavy exposure to asbestos.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fibroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From fibro- + -oid.
Base: fibro
Inflected forms:
form: fibroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign tumour of the uterus that is composed of either fibrous connective tissue or muscle.
pos: noun
gloss: A fibroma.
pos: noun
Related words: fibroidal
fibroma
myoma
Derived words: fibroidectomy
fibroidlike
Translations:
myoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From myo- + -oma.
Base: myo
Inflected forms:
form: myomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: myomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tumor composed of muscle tissue, usually benign and commonly occurring in the uterus and the esophagus.
pos: noun
Translations:
sclerosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκλήρωσις (sklḗrōsis, “hardening”), from σκληρόω (sklēróō, “to harden”), from σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”); by surface analysis, sclero- + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: scleroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The abnormal hardening of body tissues, such as an artery; the appearance of hardenings, indurations, lesions, nodules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
gloss: Inability to create change or excessive resistance to change.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suppressing dissent dooms the society to sclerosis, decline and collapse.
Related words: sclera
scleroderma
sclerosant
sclerose
sclerotherapy
sclerotic
Derived words: acrosclerosis
adenosclerosis
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
angiosclerosis
arteriosclerosis
arthrosclerosis
atherosclerosis
cardiosclerosis
cerebrosclerosis
craniosclerosis
dermatosclerosis
disseminated sclerosis
encephalosclerosis
Eurosclerosis
fibrosclerosis
glomerulosclerosis
lateral sclerosis
lipodermatosclerosis
multiple cerebral sclerosis
multiple sclerosis
myelosclerosis
myosclerosis
nephroangiosclerosis
nephrosclerosis
osteosclerosis
otosclerosis
pachyosteosclerosis
pansclerosis
phlebosclerosis
pseudosclerosis
sclerosed
sclerotic
spongiosclerosis
systemic sclerosis
tuberous sclerosis
Translations:
gastric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin gastricus, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ, γαστρός (gastḗr, gastrós, “stomach”). By surface analysis, gastr- + -ic; Doublet of gastrique.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the stomach.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.
Translations:
gastritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: gastr- + -itis, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr).
Affixes: gastr-
-itis
Inflected forms:
form: gastritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the lining of the stomach, characterised by nausea, loss of appetite, and upper abdominal discomfort or pain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
breadfruit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Calque of taxonomic name Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos)) + fruit (calque of κᾰρπός (kărpós)).
Inflected forms:
form: breadfruits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breadfruit
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
pos: noun
examples: On our return we stopped at Mr. Wijeysakera's home, quaffed the juice of King Cocoanut, looked through his extensive grounds, and saw several kinds of palm, the breadfruit-tree, the jackfruit-tree, the nux-vomica-tree, pimento or allspice shrub, nutmeg-tree, pineapples of different varieties.
There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.
gloss: The large round fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
Derived words: African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana
false breadfruit
highland breadfruit
Mexican breadfruit
seeded breadfruit
Translations:
damson
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English damascene, damasyn, damacene, from Latin prūnum damascēnum (“Damascene plum, plum of Damascus”). Doublet of damascene.
Inflected forms:
form: damsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: damascene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: more damson
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most damson
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: damascene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A subspecies of plum tree, Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, native to Eurasia.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
examples: And if you come hether, / When Damſines I gether, / I will part them all you among.
But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
gloss: The color of the fruit of this tree, a very deep purple.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: դամոն
roman: damon
lang: Catalan
word: prunyoner
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 烏荊子李 /乌荆子李
roman: wūjīngzilǐ
lang: Czech
word: trnoslíva
lang: Czech
word: trnoslívka
lang: Czech
word: slivoň slíva
lang: Danish
word: kræge
lang: Finnish
word: kriikunapuu
lang: French
word: prunier de Damas
lang: French
word: prunéolier
lang: French
word: créquier
lang: Galician
word: fatoeiro
lang: Galician
word: ameixeiro
lang: Galician
word: ameixeira
lang: Georgian
word: ღოღნოშო
roman: ɣoɣnošo
lang: Georgian
word: დამასხი
roman: damasxi
lang: German
word: Kriechenpflaumenbaum
lang: German
word: Krieche
lang: German
word: Kriechenpflaume
lang: Greek
word: αγριοδαμάσκηνο
roman: agriodamáskino
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σποδιάς
roman: spodiás
lang: Hungarian
word: kökényszilva
lang: Ido
word: quechiero
lang: Irish
word: crann daimsíní
lang: Middle English
word: damasyn
lang: Old Prussian
word: krichaytos
lang: Polish
word: lubaszka
lang: Portuguese
word: abrunheiro
lang: Romanian
word: goldan
lang: Romanian
word: renglot
lang: Russian
word: терносли́в
roman: ternoslív
lang: Russian
word: терносли́ва
roman: ternoslíva
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: трно̀шљива
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: trnòšljiva
lang: Slovak
word: trnoslivka
lang: Slovene
word: trnọ́səlj
lang: Slovene
word: drnọ́səlj
lang: Spanish
word: endrino mayor
lang: Spanish
word: ciruelo de Damasco
lang: Swedish
word: krikonträd
lang: Swedish
word: krikon
lang: Welsh
word: coeden eirin duon
cyclotomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyclotomy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cyclotomic
From cyclotomy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to cyclotomy
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of, or relating to the complex roots of unity
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: de Moivre number
Derived words: anticyclotomic
cyclotomically
cyclotomic equation
cyclotomic factorization
cyclotomic field
cyclotomic integer
cyclotomic invariant
cyclotomic polynomial
noncyclotomic
Translations:
chalet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè (“herdsman's hut in the mountains”).
Inflected forms:
form: chalets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: châlet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
pos: noun
examples: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
“I know that Perdita spends the offseason at her chalet in Gstaad, and that her mansion would be empty. And the perfect place to teach you all a valuable lesson about the importance of being nice to people who maybe aren't part of your core group but who have done a lot of nice things for you and yet you still treat them like shit.”
gloss: A recreational lodge or small house within the grounds of a resort or country club dedicated to the uniformed services, used for events, staycations and other social gatherings.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
Translations: