yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bumptious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from bump, on the pattern of words like fractious or presumptious.
Inflected forms:
form: more bumptious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bumptious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: […
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.
No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.
Translations:
coeval
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin coaevus, from Latin con- (“equal”) + aevum (“age”).
Inflected forms:
form: coæval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: coëval
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: coevals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coæval
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: coëval
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the same age or era; contemporary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.
If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.
The differences between the Sao Khua dinosaur assemblage and the roughly coeval assemblages in China, notably those from the Jehol Group of NE China, have already been noted, and several hypotheses have been put forward, including differences in taphonomic conditions, and the existence of geographical or environmental barriers (Buffetaut et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2009).
gloss: Something of the same era.
pos: noun
examples: The telephone and television are coevals in that film.
gloss: Somebody of the same age.
pos: noun
examples: […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
“That's your coeval, Keluga. He's trying to write the entire Roget's as a series of nested, rule-based schematics. Containment, relation, exclusion . . .”
“Coeval? I'm thirty-five, Lentz. That guy's a kid.”
Translations:
cogitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin cōgitātus, perfect passive participle of cōgitō (“to think”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: cogitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cogitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cogitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cogitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
Think, ladies! Cogitate! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.
gloss: To consider, to devise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: cogibundity
cogitation
metacogitate
Derived words: cogitatingly
cogitator
uncogitated
uncogitating
Translations:
bleh
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: more bleh
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bleh
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Used to reflect general indifference to a situation or topic.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: ―What did you think of my mother? ― She was just Bleh. You?
gloss: An expression of mild disgust, possible imitative of vomiting
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: Mildly uncomfortable; not good.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I'm feeling a bit bleh.
Translations:
audio
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of audio-. Cognates include Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “perceive, notice”) whence English aesthetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more audio
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most audio
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: audios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Focused on audible sound, as opposed to sight.
pos: adj
examples: If you're more audio than visual, tune in on the "A-V Soap Opera" (page 375).
I'm very audio, so I hear words.
For example, if the person uses visual predicates such as “I see” or “I can't picture that,” the most powerful influencers will respond by saying “Let me show you,” as opposed to “let me explain,” the latter predicate being more audio than visual.
gloss: Sound, or a sound signal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A piece of sound that is recorded electronically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: I DMed him an audio of myself singing the South Park intro.
Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.
Related words: video
Derived words: audiation
audioboard
audio book
audio-book
audio card
audio cassette
audio CD
audiocentric
audiocentrism
audio clip
audio coil
audioconference
audio-description
audio DVD
audio engineer
audio engineering
audio frequency
audio guide
audio mastering
audio mining
audio play
audiotape
audio tape
audio tour
audiotrack
audio typing
audio-typist
audio typist
audio vérité
audiovisual
audism
described audio
digital audio
digital audio workstation
dual audio
edit audio
nonaudio
sub-audio frequency
Translations:
catching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more catching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most catching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: catchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Infectious, contagious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Ah, who is this? You did not hear me, my young friend, did you? Why, you, too, look sad. My melancholy is not catching!
gloss: Captivating; alluring; catchy.
pos: adj
examples: Bomb guy looked her up and down, not because he was an attractive man and she was possibly a catching woman.
gloss: The action of the verb catch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though catchings of the breath and occasional syncope appear in the more early stages, yet they only become considerable and dangerous in the later[…]
Synonyms: taking
Translations:
large-scale
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cartography
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English large
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English large-scale
From large + scale.
Inflected forms:
form: larger-scale
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: largest-scale
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: large scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Large in amount, scope or extent.
pos: adj
examples: Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
The production of railway timetables is a large-scale and expensive operation.
The last remaining mammoth populations lived on Wrangel Island, a small island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, where large-scale movement would not have been possible.
gloss: Of a map or image, drawn large so as to show detail.
pos: adj
Antonyms: small-scale
Derived words: ultra-large-scale
very-large-scale
Translations:
winegrower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wine + grower.
Compound parts: wine
grower
Inflected forms:
form: winegrowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company that owns a vineyard and produces wine, a vinedresser.
pos: noun
Translations:
wineskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wine + skin.
Compound parts: wine
skin
Inflected forms:
form: wineskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bag, traditionally made from the skin of a goat (a goatskin), used for holding and dispensing wine.
pos: noun
Translations:
winkle-picker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: winkle-pickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: winklepicker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: winkle picker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: [The girl] informed me that […] I had no right to wander at will upon the winkle-beds! Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!
The most inveterate beachcomber and by far the speediest winkle picker in the village was ‘Euan, the son of Euan, the son of Euan’, the Gaelic pronunciation of whose name approximated to a long drawn-out yawn.
the first piece of writing he had ever done [was] a starkly rhymed description of his boyhood as a winkle-picker on the Welsh coast
Annie-John, the winkle picker, in men’s boots and a man’s overcoat went by with an empty bucket.
gloss: An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.
pos: noun
examples: “Anyway, she can’t have got much pleasure out of him. If it’s owt like the rest of him she’d need a winkle-picker to find it.”
A few years ago she made the mistake of ordering fruit de mer at a restaurant there. The plate was covered five deep in shellfish. The dastardly waiter had maliciously omitted to supply a winkle-picker.
Get yourself a pin or a winkle picker, hoik them out [of their shells], dunk them in the shallot vinegar.
’[…] Clever bugger. He’s got us nice and tight in here. It’ll take a winkle-picker to get us out.’
gloss: A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: winkle-picker toes; winkle-picker stilettos
Four children on the roundabout […] and two youths with heavy side-burns and stiff crew cuts, in black sweaters, drain-pipe jeans and winkle-pickers, made up the entire custom of the afternoon.
The “Mods” or “Moderns” wear sharply cut Italian‐style suits and long, pointed “winklepicker” shoes. They ride motor scooters fitted with scores of gleaming accessories.
Summer of 1955, Archie went to Fleet Street with his best winkle-pickers on, looking for work as a war correspondent.
Logan had dressed a little differently to the rest. It would be the flourish of a neck scarf maybe. Or a different cut to the boot. If everyone else was wearing a square toecap, nothing would do Logan Hartnett only to arrive into the [Café] Aliados in a winklepicker, and the sly puss on.
Translations:
wingspan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wing + span.
Compound parts: wing
span
Inflected forms:
form: wingspans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip (of a bird, airplane etc.).
pos: noun
examples: The wandering albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird.
The Airbus A380 has one of the largest wingspans among aircraft; only a few surpass it.
gloss: Synonym of arm span.
pos: noun
Translations:
wingtip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wing + tip.
Compound parts: wing
tip
Inflected forms:
form: wingtips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The extreme tip of the wing of an aircraft, bird, flying insect, etc.
pos: noun
examples: They're wonderful hoverers, though, and they'll remain stationary in the air, wing-tips vibrating, till they've marked their prey[.]
The poor but lovely bird sat there, posing among the celandines and wood anemones, wondering why its wing-tips were frozen together.
gloss: A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe.
pos: noun
gloss: A part of a shoe, often with brogueing that extends backwards on both sides from the toe.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Then, immaculately dressed in three-piece suit, starched collar, and wingtips, Wilbur was obliged to drive a spike of Nevada silver into a railroad tie, a tricky and potentially embarrassing ceremonoial duty, especially with a phalanx of eager photographers poised to record every misswing.
Translations:
lang: French
word: saumon
lang: German
word: Flügelspitze
lang: German
word: Flügelkappe
lang: Polish
word: kapka
cantina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cantina, from Italian cantina. Doublet of canteen.
Inflected forms:
form: cantinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drinking establishment, often specifically of the type found in Latin America.
pos: noun
examples: Meanwhile, around the corner, Larry Meyers and Gerard Novello[…] ducked into a Mexican cantina for a drink.
gloss: A cantina truck, cantina wagon or cantina trailer.
pos: noun
Translations:
wishful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wish + -ful.
Base: wish
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more wishful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wishful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wished-for; desired, wanted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The cry whereof entring the hollow cave / Eftsoones brought forth the villaine, as they ment, / With hope of her some wishfull boot to have.
gloss: Expressing a wish or longing for something.
pos: adj
examples: When she weighed anchor I went to the waterside and looked at her with a very wishful and aching heart, and followed her with my eyes and tears until she was totally out of sight.
gloss: Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
pos: adj
Derived words: wishful hoping
wishfully
wishfulness
wishful recycling
wishful thinker
wishful thinking
wishful thought
Translations:
unbeaten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English on bete, unbeten, unibeten; equivalent to un- + beaten; compare Old English ungebeitne (“unhewn”).
Base: beaten
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: not having been thrashed or beaten
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: not defeated
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Arsenal went 25 games unbeaten.
That startling admission capped a miserable night for City as they arrived in Germany following an unbeaten start to the season.
gloss: untrodden
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We walked across unbeaten grassland.
gloss: Not beaten or whisked
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Fold in the unbeaten eggs.
gloss: not out
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He scored an unbeaten century.
Translations:
wistful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Presumably from *whistful, from whist (“silent”) + -ful, based on older wistly. It is implausible that it derives from wishful, the required sound change being wishful → *wisful → wistful, which could not occur in Modern English, particularly not with wishful continuing in use. However, the sense of “longing” appears to be influenced by wishful, making wistful an ambiguous poetic word.
Inflected forms:
form: more wistful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wistful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of longing or yearning.
pos: adj
examples: His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.
Her grey eyes, looking out on the violet of the night sky, the trees, and the crowd of hilarious onlookers who had not been invited to Buckingham Palace, had a patient and wistful expression.
There are few sights that leave a railway lover more wistful than a desolate railway viaduct no longer carrying tracks. As with tunnels, so much effort was made to conquer the landscape, yet so many now stand forlorn.
gloss: Sad and thoughtful.
pos: adj
Derived words: wistfully
wistfulness
Translations:
witchcraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wicchecraft, wicchecreft, from Old English wiċċecræft, equivalent to witch + -craft.
Base: witch
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: witchcrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of witches; magic, sorcery, or the use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft.
Such witchcraft has no power now to show itself, because the people don't believe in it any more.
The way Green practices witchcraft defies stereotypes of broomstick-wielding, cauldron-toting, pointy-hatted witches. He doesn’t belong to a coven. He’s not Wiccan or pagan, religions that are rooted in witchcraft. He has a few cats, though they’re better suited for snuggling than serving as helpful familiars.
gloss: Black magic; the use of witchcraft for evil means.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Bible warns against the use of witchcraft and sorcery.
gloss: Something, such as an advanced technology, that seems almost magical.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There can be no denying that the more than 100 exhibiting companies and divisions also gave full play to examples of their latest technological witchcraft, as befits the foremost US aerospace event.
gloss: An irresistible or seemingly magical influence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: druidcraft
gypsycraft
hexcraft
sorcery
spellcasting
spellcraft
warlockry
witchery
wizardcraft
wizardry
Derived words: antiwitchcraft
witchcrafty
Translations:
withered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more withered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most withered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
pos: adj
examples: Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Translations:
withering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wither
English -ing
English withering
From wither + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more withering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most withering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: witherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm, or cause complete destruction.
pos: adj
examples: The D-Day troops came under withering fire.
Before the clearing had been half crossed the Arabs opened up a withering fire from behind the palisade.
Shockingly, under such a withering combined barrage, the Japanese destroyer promptly exploded and sank in short order, before even having had a chance to unleash her Long Lances. First blood to the USN!
gloss: Diminishing rapidly.
pos: adj
examples: The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.
Go—ask of nature in thy walk.
The rose-bud, dying on its stalk,
The fading grass—the withering tree,
Are emblems of thy fate and thee.
gloss: Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
pos: adj
examples: Jane's mother in law gave her a withering look.
He made withering remarks about his adversary.
It is a very serious thing that there be Worlds and Suns, and yet most withering is the laughter of Māna-Yood-Sushāī. And when he arises from resting at the Last, and laughs at us for playing with Worlds and Suns, We will hastily put them behind us, and there shall be Worlds no more.
The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, four tech giants worth nearly $5 trillion combined, faced withering questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike on Wednesday for the tactics and market dominance that had made their enterprises successful.
gloss: The process by which something withers.
pos: noun
examples: Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.
Derived words: withering abalone syndrome
Translations:
withstand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English withstanden, from Old English wiþstandan, from Proto-West Germanic *wiþistandan (“to withstand, resist”), equivalent to with- (“against”) + stand. Cognate with Old Frisian withstanda (“to resist”). Compare also Dutch weerstaan (“to withstand, repel”), German widerstehen (“to withstand, resist, defy”), Russian противостоять (protivostojatʹ, “to withstand”).
Base: stand
Affixes: with-
Inflected forms:
form: withstands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: withstanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: withstood
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: withstood
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To resist or endure (something) successfully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tests showed that a tin ceiling could withstand a temperature of 1,369° for an hour and 10 minutes, whereas plaster collapsed in 12 minutes.
Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
gloss: To oppose (something) forcefully.
pos: verb
Related words: notwithstanding
withstanding
Derived words: dielectric withstand test
withstander
Translations:
inform
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English informen, enformen, borrowed from Old French enformer, informer (“to train, instruct, inform”), from Latin īnfōrmō (“to shape, form, train, instruct, educate”), from in- (“into”) + fōrma (“form, shape”), equivalent to in- + form.
Base: form
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: informs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: informing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: informed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: informed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enform
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To communicate knowledge to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
gloss: To impart information or knowledge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act as an informer; denounce.
pos: verb
gloss: To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His sense of religion informs everything he writes.
But others declare that no Creature can be made or tranſmuted into a better or vvorſe, or transformed into another ſpecies or ſimilitude, by man, or devill. […] Martinus [i.e., Martin] Delrio the Jeſuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beaſt to be an illuſion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature; for, the ſoule of man cannot informe a beaſts body, […]
Let others better mould the running mass / Of metals, and inform the breathing brass
O! long as breath informs this fleeting frame / Ne'er let me pass in silence Dorset's name
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
gloss: To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To direct, guide.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: Don’t forget the code of ethics that informs this profession.
gloss: To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.
gloss: Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bleak Crags, and naked Hills,
And the whole Prospect so inform and rude
Synonyms: apprise
notify
name names
peach
snitch
take shape
advise
discuss
enlighten
impart
inform
keep informed
let know
tell
Antonyms: encrypt
disinform
misguide
misinform
mislead
withhold
Derived words: informance
informant
information
informative
informatory
informed
informee
informer
inform on
misinform
overinform
preinform
reinform
uninform
uninformed
Translations:
irritate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin irrītātus, perfect passive participle of irrītō (“excite, irritate, incite, stimulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: irritates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: irritating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: irritated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: irritated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If thou irritatest my lord, there will come to war against thee all the Getulians, Numidians, and Garamantes, Afric contains.
Thou scandalizest me and irritatest my nature as much as it possibly can be irritated.
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.
gloss: To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: irritant
irritation
irritative
irritatory
disturb
exasperate
peeve
Derived words: abirritate
counterirritate
irritatable
irritator
Translations:
likeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like + -ness.
Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
Base: like
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: likenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being like or alike.
pos: noun
examples: I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.
Erich thought he observed a likeness between the stranger and a relative of Walther; this led them into the chapter of likenesses, and the strange way in which certain forms repeat themselves in families, often most distinctly in the most remote ramifications.
gloss: Appearance or form; guise.
pos: noun
examples: A foe in the likeness of a friend
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
gloss: That which closely resembles; a portrait.
pos: noun
examples: How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
At this moment Mr. Glentworth's eye fell on a little pencilled sketch of himself. In her joy at seeing the original, Isabella had forgotten the copy. Again a bright scarlet passed over her face; and her companion, from that necessity of saying something which originates more subjects of conversation than any thing else, observed, "I did not know you had a talent for taking likenesses."
In a major step, the NCAA Division I Council voted Monday to support an interim policy that would allow college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL) without violating NCAA rules until federal legislation or new NCAA rules are adopted.
Donald Trump has decided instead that the NEH’s funds would be better spent on his own dream project: a sprawling sculpture garden with 250 likenesses of people he deems “American heroes.”
In response to the backlash, OpenAI announced last week that it would begin allowing representatives of “recently deceased” public figures to request that their likeness be blocked from Sora videos.
Synonyms: similarity
Related words: like
Derived words: mislikeness
Translations:
yobbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yob
English -o
English yobbo
From yob + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: yobbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yobboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yabbo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A yob.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: Yeah, but you heard what Blake said. We wouldn't stand a chance against Pike's mob. They're a right bunch of yobbos.
He stared at them with eyes dull with fatigue, and let out a long sigh. “Trouble, trouble” he replied wearily. “Skinheads and yobboes fighting the coloureds".
Humphrey Appleby: We can't have foreign policy made by yobbos like Fleet Street editors or backbench MPs! / Richard Wharton: Or cabinet ministers. / Humphrey Appleby: Or cabinet ministers. (laugh track)
We're not catering to the yobbos. We'd rather have a smaller crowd of nice people that are really into the game than a whole mass of uncouth people
A wanker fights inequality / And for people’s rights / A wanker fights class prejudice / A yobbo just fights
Translations:
collude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * From Latin collūdere, from con- and lūdere (“to play”).
Inflected forms:
form: colludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: colluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to act in concert with; to conspire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: William understood Diana more but idealized her less. He was privy to her volatile love life. He knew the tabloids made her life hell, but he also knew she colluded with them.
Translations:
witticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From witty + -icism; coined in the 1670s by John Dryden, by analogy to criticism.
Base: witty
Affixes: -icism
Inflected forms:
form: witticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a witty remark; a bon mot; an epigram; a zinger.
pos: noun
examples: "Take any shape but that!" is what I always feel tempted to exclaim when dulness attempts a joke; striving to pervert some poor innocent and ill-used word from its lawful meaning till it ceases to have any at all—worrying some unfortunate idea till, like the hunted hare, it is worried to death—dealing in witticisms whose edge has long since been worn off by constant use; and truly to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
Shock of the witticism is a powerful one; while mere fun will have no power over them if it jar on their moral taste.
While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate.
Translations:
comport
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: comports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comported
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tolerate, bear, put up (with).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
obsolete
examples: to comport with an injury
The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.
gloss: To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.
How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.
gloss: To behave (in a given manner).
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: She comported herself with grace.
Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.
Though genial enough when she got her way, on the rare occasions when people attempted to thwart her she was apt to comport herself in a manner reminiscent of Cleopatra on one of the latter’s bad mornings.
Derived words: comportable
Translations:
wobbly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wobble
English -y
English wobbly
From wobble + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wobblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wobbliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unsteady and tending to wobble.
pos: adj
examples: wobbly bridge
wobbly chair
wobbly movement
wobbly table
Translations:
Wolffian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Wolff + -ian.
Base: Wolff
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Wolffian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Wolffian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wolffian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733–1794), German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to Christian Wolff (1679–1754), German philosopher.
pos: adj
Translations:
BSOD
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: BSODs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: BSODing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: BSODed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: BSODed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: BSOD'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: BSOD'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fail critically and display a blue screen of death.
pos: verb
gloss: To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
concupiscence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Latin concupīscentia, from concupīscō (“to desire strongly, to desire eagerly; to covet”).
Inflected forms:
form: concupiscences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Y]it haue vvee one thing in our ſelues and of our ſelues, (euen originall ſinne, concupiſcence or luſt) vvhich neuer ceaſeth too egge vs and allure vs from God, and too ſtaine vs vvith all kinde of vnclennes: […]
for as St. Jerome observes, it is to shew that the true Christian not setting his heart upon the goods of the Earth, ought to trample under foot, all Avarice and immoderate concupiscence of corruptible riches: […]
Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me.
He was torn by two intense and conflicting desires: his ardent wish to advance through his association with Mr. Browning, and his concupiscence.
Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere concupiscence; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass.
Quite certainly you command me to refrain from concupiscence of the flesh and concupiscence of the eyes and worldy pride.
America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy. But New York in this time of plenty had become the object and goal of the world’s concupiscence and lust, and the “insult” only made the rest of the planet more desirous than ever.
gloss: the desire of a person's lower appetite, contrary to reason, which subjugates and inclines them to experience temptation and to give in to sin, due to the Fall and original sin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [“]Since concupiscence is the most common form of temptation, it is better for him to know something about it. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.”
Related words: concupiscent
Translations:
confabulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: confabulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A casual conversation; a chat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Mrs Grantly was preparing herself for a grand attack which she was to make on her father, as agreed upon between herself and her husband during their curtain confabulation of that morning.
The schoolroom piano broke into all gruesome fancies; and when that failed there were confabulations in corners, with a sequel of one of them going out in the highest spirits in order to “come in” as something new.
The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.
gloss: A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For Örulv and Hydén, confabulation is ‘world-making’ (669). What the person with AD chooses to enunciate, ‘may capture something important in the way the person makes sense of his or her life and also make meaning-based connections’ (Hydén and Örulv 2009: 206).
Segal said another characteristic of Trump’s questionable mental acuity is confabulation. “It’s where he takes an idea or something that’s happened and he adds to it things that have not happened.”
gloss: An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Related words: confabular
confabulate
confabulative
confabulator
confabulatory
confabulist
fable
fabular
fabulism
fabulist
fabulistic
fabulousness
Derived words: confab
Translations:
conurbation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin con- (“together”) + urbs (“city”) + -ation. Coined by Scottish biologist, sociologist, and geographer Patrick Geddes in 1915.
Inflected forms:
form: conurbations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
pos: noun
Translations:
vim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Latin vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power, strength; (New Latin) energy, force”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”); compare English vis); but perhaps a modern expressive formation.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ready vitality and vigour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But he was, doubtless, totally unconscious that he was to be the chief personage in this most important story, or he would have acted out his real nature with all the vim and pathos which heroes always manifest in like circumstances.
The Yankees fought with pluck to the last, but the vigor and vim of the attack was too much for them. They were Michigan men, and were quite indignant at being called "Yankees."
Larry is not good at a slow tune, or chune as he calls it, but he comes out strong in "jigs, strathspeys, and reels," and he "whacked off" "Tullochgorum," "Killiecrankie," and the "Braes o' Tullymet and Mar," not to mention "Garryowen" and the "Pradhestan Bhoys," and "Saint Pathrick's Day" and "Boyne Water," with inconceivable vim and vigour.
Ignoring then, as I do, the idea that has found a lodgment in the minds and taken possession of the judgment of large numbers of the Profession that man has physically degenerated; that his physical powers of resistance and endurance, his energy, vigor, and vim have declined; [...]
Even this remote corner of China shows the influence of the new movement, and Western ideas are making their way. Something had been done to improve the city schools, and I can testify to the desire of the military force stationed at Ning-yüan to form itself on European models, for the morning's sleep was broken by the vigorous bugle practice of the band, and at every turn one met soldiers, marching along with a good deal of vim.
But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young …
Translations:
cosset
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English cotsete, from Old English cotsǣta (“cottager”), from cot (“cottage”) (Modern English cot (“cottage”) (archaic)) + -sǣta (“-sitter”); compare coscet. Compare German Hauslamm (literally “house lamb”), Italian casiccio.
Inflected forms:
form: cossets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cosseting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cossetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cosseted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cosseted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cossetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cossetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cossets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To treat like a pet; to overly indulge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The car cossets its occupants in comfort.
gloss: To fondle; to touch or stroke lovingly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The foam cossets your skin.
gloss: To benefit; to make life easy for.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: An independent oversight body is just setting up, but at full strength it will have a core team of just five. This is a state of affairs that cossets and enriches bailiffs at the expense of families who’ve fallen into debt.
gloss: A pet, usually a pet lamb.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone indulged or cosseted.
pos: noun
Synonyms: posset
pet
Related words: cub
kid
fawn
kitten
Derived words: cosseted
cosseter
cosseting
Translations:
copier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English copy
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 copier
From copy + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: copiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who copies documents.
pos: noun
gloss: A program or process that copies.
pos: noun
examples: a file copier; a disk copier
Synonyms: copyist
xeroxer
Derived words: microcopier
telecopier
Translations:
womanhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: womanhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: womanhead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: womonhood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: womynhood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wommonhood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being a woman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood.
"I swear, even in this most holy hour of completed Womanhood, that I will abandon Evil and cherish Good."
gloss: All of the women of a given place, area, or subgroup regarded collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was only one thing to be done: call out, start the alarm, set the heather on fire! Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!
[…]the white women, several of whom had been watching the massacre of the Negro men, pounced on the Negress. I do not wish to be understood as saying that these women were representatives of the womanhood of East St. Louis. Their faces showed, all too plainly, exactly who and what they were.
What hast thou done, / O womanhood of France, / Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife, / What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife. // To prove the pride of thine inheritance / In this fair land of freedom and romance?
What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood – exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings – quickly became a parody so gauche it’s hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously.
gloss: The idealized nature of a woman: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness regarded collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before.
From the kitchen comes the even murmur of their voices. Mother and daughter: the protocols of womanhood being passed on, generation to generation.
gloss: The self-concept of a woman with respect to her possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to womanliness; a woman's sense or view of herself as being more or less womanly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.
Related words: girlhood
boyhood
childhood
trans womanhood
Translations:
womanliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English womanly
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English womanliness
From womanly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: womanlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a woman; femininity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.
Antonyms: manliness
Translations:
woodcut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + cut.
Compound parts: wood
cut
Inflected forms:
form: woodcuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A method of printmaking from such a block.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A print produced with this method.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: pyrography
wood engraving
woodblock printing
xylography
Translations: