yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
modulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin modulor (“to measure, regulate, modulate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from modulus (“measure”). Compare module, modulus. By surface analysis, modul(e) + -ate.
Base: modulor
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: modulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: modulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: modulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: modulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To regulate, adjust or adapt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Can you tell?" she asked, in a trembling but well modulated and sensual voice.
gloss: To regulate, adjust or adapt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To regulate, adjust or adapt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Related words: demodulate
modem
modulation
modulator
module
modulus
Derived words: amplitude modulation
AM
angiomodulating
chronomodulated
comodulate
downmodulate
down-modulate
frequency modulation
FM
immunomodulate
immunomodulating
intermodulate
modulatable
modulation
modulative
modulatory
neuromodulate
nonmodulated
nonmodulating
overmodulate
phase modulation
premodulate
radiomodulated
radiomodulating
remodulate
unmodulated
upmodulate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: променям
roman: promenjam
lang: Bulgarian
word: регулирам
roman: reguliram
lang: Catalan
word: modular
lang: Danish
word: modulere
lang: Danish
word: regulere
lang: Finnish
word: säännellä
lang: French
word: moduler
lang: German
word: modulieren
lang: Italian
word: modulare
lang: Māori
word: whakaauau
lang: Polish
word: modulować
lang: Polish
word: zmodulować
lang: Portuguese
word: modular
lang: Russian
word: модулировать
roman: modulirovatʹ
lang: Slovene
word: regulirati
lang: Slovene
word: uravnati
lang: Spanish
word: modular
transmutation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
Etymology: Late 14th century, from Old French transmutacion (“transformation, metamorphosis”), from Late Latin transmutationem, from Latin transmutare (“to change”).
Inflected forms:
form: transmutations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Change, alteration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Up I rose and forth I fared: / Took my plunge within the bath-pool, pacified the watch-dog scared, / Saw proceed the transmutation—Jura's black to one gold glow, […]
gloss: The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.
gloss: The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes this before our very eyes, and that it is what creates the solar heat and light that supports all life, was suspected by no one. The revelation came as a complete surprise.
Related words: nuclear fission
nuclear fusion
nucleosynthesis
Derived words: transmutational
transmutationism
transmutationist
Translations:
lang: Georgian
word: გარდაქმნა
roman: gardakmna
lang: Hindi
word: तत्वांतरण
roman: tatvāntraṇ
lang: Japanese
word: 変成
lang: Marathi
word: मूलद्रव्यांतरण
roman: mūladravyāntraṇ
lang: Persian
word: استحاله
roman: estehâle
lang: Portuguese
word: transmutação
confuzzled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of confused + puzzled. The earliest recorded usage is dated 1994, but the term was popularized in the early-to-mid-2000s.
Compound parts: confused
puzzled
Inflected forms:
form: more confuzzled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confuzzled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confused or puzzled.
pos: adj
tags: childish
Translations:
pronounceable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pronounce
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English pronounceable
From pronounce + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more pronounceable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pronounceable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being distinctly pronounced in speech; enunciable.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being expressed; sayable.
pos: adj
Derived words: pronounceability
pronounceableness
pronounceably
unpronounceable
Translations:
quean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English quene (“young, robust woman”), from Old English cwene (“woman, female serf”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwenā, from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”). Doublet of gyne and queen.
Cognate with Dutch kween (“a barren woman, a barren cow”), Low German quene (“barren cow, heifer”), German Kone (“wife”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Icelandic kona (“woman”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉 (qinō, “woman”), 𐌵𐌴𐌽𐍃 (qēns, “wife”).
Inflected forms:
form: queans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: quene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: queane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Rahab, that harlot, began to be a professed quean at ten years of age […]
However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.’s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say ‘coming home to-night, dearie’ and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
So ended Lauretta her song, to which all hearkened attentively, though not all interpreted it alike. Some were inclined to give it a moral after the Milanese fashion, to wit, that a good porker was better than a pretty quean.
gloss: A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Forbye the two queans there was the son, John Gordon, as coarse a devil as you’d meet, he’d already had two–three queans in trouble and him but barely eighteen years old.
Derived words: cot-quean
cuckquean
queanie
queanish
Translations:
syllabary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
Etymology: From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.
Inflected forms:
form: syllabaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
pos: noun
gloss: A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.
pos: noun
examples: It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.
Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.
Related words: syllable
Derived words: alphasyllabary
Cypriot syllabary
semisyllabary
semisyllabic
syllabaric
Translations:
starred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sterred, equivalent to star (noun) + -ed.
Base: star
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a star or stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a Michelin-starred restaurant
She became sad, and looked up to the many-starred sky; her soul uttered silently the bitter complaint of its own misery.
The Michelin system is not what it used to be. According to a report by University College London, starred restaurants are statistically more likely to close down than highly rated venues without the accolade.
Translations:
proscenium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskḗnion), from πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene building”).
Inflected forms:
form: prosceniums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proscenia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proscænium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
pos: noun
examples: It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.
gloss: The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
pos: noun
gloss: The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
pos: noun
examples: The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).
gloss: A proscenium arch.
pos: noun
examples: Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.
Derived words: proscenium curtain
Translations:
auditorium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītōrium, from audītōrius (“pertaining to hearing”). Equivalent to auditory + -ium.
Base: auditory
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
form: auditoriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auditoria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large room for public meetings or performances.
pos: noun
gloss: The space where the audience is located in a theater, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The Academy of Music is 204 feet in length and 114 feet in width at the auditorium part, and and 121 feet at the stage; hence covering an area of 24,020 square feet, of which 9,760 square feet are the area of the stage and its dependencies, and 14,260 square feet are appropriated to the auditorium, saloons, lobbies and so forth.
Derived words: cafetorium
gymnatorium
odditorium
Translations:
mawkish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mawk
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English mawkish
From mawk + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more mawkish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mawkish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maukish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
pos: adj
examples: Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.
I found [Christoph] Buchel’s appropriation of the boat in which so many migrants lost their lives a vile and mawkish spectacle in the context of the biennale.
The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.
After all, a vague, archaic, mostly harmless tradition fraught with pomp and ceremony and mawkish self-aggrandising with a bit of royalty thrown in is about the most British thing imaginable and would never happen in a boring sensible country like Germany.
gloss: Feeling sick, queasy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
dialectal
gloss: Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Synonyms: bathetic
cheesy
corny
drippy
gooey
hokey
icky
kitsch
kitschy
maudlin
mawkish
mushy
overemotional
oversentimental
overwrought
sappy
schmaltzy
sickly sweet
slushy
soppy
soupy
syrupy
treacly
Antonyms: apathetic
rational
stoic
Related words: campy
cloying
carried away
worked up
Derived words: mawkishly
mawkishness
unmawkish
Translations:
portend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin portendere (“to foretell”), from por- (“forward”) + tendere (“to stretch”).
Inflected forms:
form: portends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: portending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: portended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: portended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To serve as a warning or omen of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
gloss: To signify; to denote.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
How alive these poems are with the visual specifics of what he so closely observes, how full of elegance, terror and hope. They portend a poet of major craft, of deep feeling, and of fine intelligence.
When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
Margo vomits at her waitressing job without realizing what it portends.
Synonyms: foreshadow
presage
Related words: portent
portentive
portentous
harbinger
Derived words: portender
portention
portendment
Translations:
modicum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English modicum, from Latin modicum (“a little, a small amount”), a noun use of the neuter form of modicus (“moderate; restrained, temperate; reasonable”) + -cum (suffix forming neuter nouns). Modicus is derived from modus (“a measure; a bound, limit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The plural form modica is derived from Latin modica.
Inflected forms:
form: modicums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: modica
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A modest, small, or trifling amount.
pos: noun
examples: Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan, he conceded to follow the others.
Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he vtters, his euaſions haue ears thus long. I haue bobed his braine more then he has beate my bones.
He [Clement of Alexandria] ſhewes alſo that it is better (if a man do drinke) to take wine at ſupper than at dinner, yet a little modicum [...].
For as a Poor Man has as Juſt a Title to the ſmall Modicum he enjoys, as has the Rich Man to his large Poſſeſſions; ſo the Travailer has as good a Title to his Money, as has the Robber to his Life.
By the great, also, he [Robert Burns] was treated in the customary fashion, entertained at their tables, and dismissed. Certain modica of pudding and praise are from time to time gladly exchanged for the fascination of his presence, which exchange once effected, the bargain is finished, and each party goes off his several way.
And time would fail us to enumerate the hundreds of lesser spirits who have employed their small modica of light, which they mistook for genius, as lamps allowing them to see their way more clearly down to the chambers of death.
There he lay quiet and composed, sipping small modicums of brandy and water, and taking his outlook into such transtygian world as he had fashioned for himself in his dull imagination.
We propose, and it is in Senator [Joseph Hurst] Ball's bill, I believe, that this [National Labor Relations] Board has got to stop deciding its cases on scintillas of evidence and imponderables and modicums and inferences, and stick to the facts.
I have learned from experience that a modicum of snuff can be most efficacious.
He drinks iced lemonade through a long straw, without moving, without even shifting his head, and thereby gains a modicum of inner coolness.
Perhaps the majority of human endeavour can be reduced to the pursuit of additional modicums of comfort—like being slightly less tired, being slightly less bored, or just an evenly crispy piece of toast—small trifles, to which we quickly become accustomed.
Now, anyone with a modicum of knowledge of the rail network and of union feeling on this matter will have realised that this was another way of saying 'no deal'.
Antonyms: lot
Translations:
ringtone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ring + tone.
Compound parts: ring
tone
Inflected forms:
form: ringtones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ring tone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ring-tone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ringtones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ringtoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ringtoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ringtoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ring tone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ring-tone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by a telephone when ringing.
pos: noun
examples: voltage generator ringtone for installation in terminal stations of telephone communication systems for carrier wave
The transducers used to measure cavity dynamic pressure and reed dynamic displacement are calibrated before each test, the ringtone oscillator assembly produces a sinusoidal driving pressure, with at most, a few small harmonics.
Introduces LT1684, a ringtone-generator integrated circuit (IC) for telephone systems from Linear Technology in California. Elimination of need for optoisolators; Function of active multipole filter within the IC; Adjustment of cadence, frequency and amplitude information;
The source and destination nodes may be equipped with ringtone-generation engines to generate ringtones. Each of the ringtones includes at least one audible tone.
gloss: A customizable tone used to indicate an incoming call on a telephone, especially a mobile phone.
pos: noun
examples: I set my favorite song as my ringtone.
So even if the primary purpose of a ringtone is to notify the user of an incoming call, the effect of a ringtone played in public cannot be ignored if the reason users choose ringtones is, in part, in order to impress others .
This actually downloads the ringtone onto your handheld and displays a screen allowing you to save it, shown in Figure 8.12.
There's only music so that there's new ringtones
Using simple audio tools in the iTunes program, you could buy a song for $1, choose a 30-second chunk, pay $1 more for the ringtone, and sync the result to your iPhone.
My boy's got his own ringtone / It's the only one I know, it's the only one I know
gloss: Of a telephone: to play a ringtone.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: My handheld ringtoned “Happy Days are Here Again.” I withdrew into a quieter corner of Mahogany Bar and stuck a finger in my other ear.
The cell reception is less than zero here, but my phone was ringtoning away. I did not like the sound of that.
Derived words: mastertone
ringle
ringtone oscillator
ringtone rap
Translations:
transnational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English national
English transnational
From trans- + national.
Inflected forms:
form: more transnational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transnational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transnationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Between or beyond national boundaries.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving several nations or nationalities.
pos: adj
examples: And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
While MS-13 is not the only transnational gang this administration will target, we believe the following background information attributed as “information provided by the Justice Department” will be helpful: […]
The Biden administration will designate a dangerous Venezuelan gang infiltrating the United States as a significant transnational criminal organization on Thursday, according to a senior administration official, who described the gang as an “emerging threat.”
gloss: Someone operating in several countries.
pos: noun
Related words: transnation
Derived words: nontransnational
transnationalism
transnationally
transnational repression
Translations:
transoceanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trans-
English oceanic
English transoceanic
From trans- + oceanic.
Inflected forms:
form: more transoceanic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transoceanic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: beyond or on the other side of an ocean
pos: adj
examples: Guam is a transoceanic territory of the United States.
gloss: crossing an ocean
pos: adj
examples: We took a transoceanic flight.
Derived words: transoceanically
Translations:
monomania
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Either:
* Formed in English as mono- + mania;
* From the French monomanie; or,
* From the Modern Latin monomania.
Base: mania
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monomanias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monomaniæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
pos: noun
examples: It was apparent to all but himself that what was once idle curiosity had become a monomania.
gloss: A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: “There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania,” I answered. “There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ‘idée fixe,’ which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an ‘idée fixe’ and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”
Related words: monomaniac
idée fixe
obsession
Translations:
transom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English traunsom; probably an alteration of Latin trānstrum (“crossbeam”).
Inflected forms:
form: transoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
pos: noun
gloss: A horizontal glazing bar in a window.
pos: noun
gloss: A transom window.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
pos: noun
gloss: The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
pos: noun
gloss: The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
pos: noun
gloss: Items that have arrived over the transom.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
usually
examples: We are overwhelmed with transom resumes.
They only met the deadline by working most of the night and making a transom filing.
Related words: fortochka
Derived words: over the transom
transomed
transomless
transom window
a hinged glassed frame above such a crossbar
Translations:
hoping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”).
Base: hope
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: hopings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
airbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From air + bag.
Compound parts: air
bag
Inflected forms:
form: airbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: air bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
pos: noun
examples: In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life
However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
gloss: A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, or for lifting objects in firefighting, etc.
pos: noun
examples: As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.
gloss: A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: airbagged
airbagless
Translations:
whomsoever
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English whom so evere, whom soever, whom-so-ever, whom-so-evere, whomsoever, whom-so-evyr. By surface analysis, whom + so + ever.
Inflected forms:
form: of whosoever
pos: pron
tags: objective
form: whomsoëver
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever.
pos: pron
tags: formal
examples: We shall tell the good news to whomsoever we meet.
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now / And whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down
Translations:
installed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: readied for use
pos: verb
tags: literally
examples: They installed the alarm.
gloss: readied for use
pos: verb
examples: The system came with a word processor installed.
gloss: put into position
pos: verb
examples: A new chancellor was installed.
gloss: placed
pos: verb
examples: He was installed at the watch tower.
Synonyms: set up
put in
readied
Translations:
Cheyenne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: Cheyenne
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cheyennes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
pos: noun
examples: You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart.
Translations:
persiflage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French persiflage, from persifler (“to quiz, tease, mock”), from per- + siffler (“to whistle”), from Latin sībilō (“whistle”).
Inflected forms:
form: persiflages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Good-natured banter; raillery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the third strike he returned to the bench to face the inevitable persiflage from his teammates.
No one can deny Lady Charlotte Bury's assertion, that no well-regulated young female will ever indulge in a species of amusement so improper as flirtation; but it must be admitted, that having a pleasant partner is preferable to not dancing, and that a little persiflage, a little raillery, a little flattery, go far to make a partner pleasant.
gloss: Frivolous, lighthearted discussion of a topic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion.
Derived words: persiflageous
persiflate
Translations:
readied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more readied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most readied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
pertinacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pertinace + -ious, from Old French pertinace, from Latin pertinax, from per- (“very”) + tenax (“tenacious”).
Base: pertinace
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more pertinacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pertinacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
pos: adj
examples: When that divine took his leave, not a little discomfited and amazed at the pertinacious obstinacy of the women, Laura repeated her embraces and arguments with tenfold fervour to Helen, who felt that there was a great deal of cogency in most of the latter.
He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
For, whether they were attracted by the lantern, or by the unaccustomed smell of a white man for which they had been waiting for the last thousand years or so, I know not; but certainly we were presently attacked by tens of thousands of the most bloodthirsty, pertinacious, and huge mosquitoes that I ever saw or read of.
gloss: Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.
pos: adj
examples: [O]ne of the Dissenters, which I could, but forbear, to name appeared to Dr. Sanderson to be so bold, so troublesome, and so illogical in the dispute, as forced patient Dr. Sanderson, who was then Bishop of Lincoln, and a moderator with other Bishops, to say, with an unusual earnestness, "That he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and less abilities, in all his conversation."
Related words: pertinaciousness
pertinacity
Derived words: pertinaciously
Translations:
plangent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“to beat; to lament”).
Inflected forms:
form: more plangent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plangent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a loud, mournful sound.
pos: adj
examples: [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
[…] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.
In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
gloss: Beating, dashing, as waves.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
Plangent to what enormous plenilune
That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
Related words: plangency
plangently
Translations:
setup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: boxing
computing
engineering
geography
government
hobbies
hydrology
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English set updeverb.
English setup
Deverbal from set up.
Inflected forms:
form: setups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: set-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
pos: noun
examples: The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
gloss: The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
pos: noun
examples: The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup.
For some stretches, Berhalter’s usual 4-3-3 setup played more as a 4-4-2, with Tim Weah pushing up alongside Wright and McKennie moving to the right side.
gloss: A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
pos: noun
examples: Trust me, that was a setup!
gloss: An installer.
pos: noun
examples: You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […]
gloss: The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
pos: noun
examples: A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
gloss: The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
pos: noun
examples: There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.
gloss: A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
pos: noun
examples: The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.
Related words: set up
the adjective and verb
Derived words: setup block
setup fee
setup man
setup time
Translations:
smoke-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English smoke-free
From smoke + -free.
Inflected forms:
form: smokefree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In which smoking is not allowed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This entire restaurant is smoke-free.
Translations:
trouble-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trouble
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English trouble-free
From trouble + -free.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without trouble.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The construction of the bridge was trouble-free.
Since then we have had the unfortunate failure of a lubricating oil-pump on the diesel hauling the down "Fenman" on the Great Eastern Line, the subject of vast newspaper publicity because the Queen, who was on the train, was delayed an hour on her journey - and this, ironically, with a diesel of a type which has been as trouble-free as any other in the country.
Translations:
eugenicist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eugenic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English eugenicist
From eugenic + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: eugenicists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A believer in, advocate of, or specialist regarding the principles of eugenics.
pos: noun
examples: I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives.
“What makes a eugenicist is this overwhelming faith that everything in human nature is determined by your genes,” he says.
Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
This won't be easy. The pronatalists combine conservative social nudges (get married, start a family) with liberal policy objectives (give parents more money, upzone the suburbs), which makes for tricky politics. At a time of increased abortion restrictions, many liberals find them creepy—busybodies at best and eugenicists at worst.
Translations:
fancy-pants
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fancy-pants
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fancy-pants
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fancypants
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated
pos: adj
examples: What are you planning to do with that fancy-pants machine?
Fortified by years of greasy spoon eating, he's since borrowed nicer clothes to sneak into the more fancy-pants places.
The front room is a fun, inclusive (read: sing-along) place, with the back reserved for more fancy-pants cabaret events
Translations:
compere
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A borrowing of French compère (“partner, accomplice”), from Old French comper, from Late Latin compater (“godfather”), from Latin com- (“with”) + pater (“father”). Doublet of compeer, compadre, and goombah.
Inflected forms:
form: comperes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compère
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: comperes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: compère
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A master of ceremonies, especially for a television, variety, or quiz show.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Every year I am the compere for our Church Quiz Night.
The compere came onto the stage holding the gold envelope that contained the winner's name.
Not only for his fighting expertise but also reminiscent of a compere in a cabaret show working the crowd, as a build up to the main event.
They were barely settled when the final song came to an end; the audience began to applaud and after a few more seconds the voice of the compere came over the PA.
gloss: To emcee, to act as compere.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I will be compering for next week's Village Fete.
Translations:
dauphin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Dauphin, from Middle French dauphin, from Old French dalphin, from Latin delphinus; the modern pronunciation is sometimes remodelled on Modern French. Doublet of dolphin.
Inflected forms:
form: dauphins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois.
pos: noun
gloss: An eldest son.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
Related words: dauphine
Dauphiné
delphinal
Derived words: dauphinate
Dauphin County
dauphiness
Translations:
skint
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned.
Note also the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Inflected forms:
form: skinter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more skint
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skintest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most skint
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.
Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.
About 2-3 weeks prior to Emma Finch’s death you told two of your friends Abi that “he hoped his Nan died soon because he was skint[…]and[…]that he thought he was the only one getting money in the will when she died”.
gloss: skinned
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: skintly
skintness
Translations:
transonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tran-
Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os
Latin sonus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sonic
English transonic
From tran- + sonic.
Inflected forms:
form: transsonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Just below, or just above, the speed of sound (0.8 < Ma < 1.2 approximately).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Passing from subsonic to supersonic, or vice versa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Travelling through a fluid (commonly air) at a speed where regions of supersonic and subsonic flow coexist simultaneously over different portions of the surface of the moving object in question.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: transonically
transonics
sound barrier
Translations:
subsonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
scientific
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os
Latin sonus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sonic
English subsonic
From sub- + sonic.
Inflected forms:
form: subsonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: having a frequency too low to be audible
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: very quiet, almost inaudible
pos: adj
tags: literary
not-comparable
examples: The noise of the ship was all around her. The faint subsonic rumble of the reactor and drive. (Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey)
gloss: (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But British Airways Flight 112 made the trek in under five hours, setting a new record for the fastest subsonic commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
gloss: with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: an aircraft whose maximum speed is less than the speed of sound
pos: noun
Related words: hypersonic
plasmasonic
supersonic
transonic
Derived words: subsonically
Translations:
supersonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic.
Base: sonic
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supersonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: supersonic jet
supersonic movement
supersonic plane
supersonic speed
gloss: Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
gloss: An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonsupersonic
supermagnetosonic
supersonically
supersonic heterodyne receiver
Translations:
hypersonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂os
Latin sonus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sonic
English hypersonic
From hyper- + sonic. Doublet of supersonic.
Base: sonic
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: more hypersonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypersonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a speed, equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five times the speed of sound.
pos: adj
examples: He said there was worry among intelligence and military officials that China or Russia could be experimenting with hypersonic technology.
gloss: Of a speed, far enough above the speed of sound as to cause significant differences in behaviour due to chemical reactions or dissociation of the air.
pos: adj
Related words: plasmasonic
subsonic
supersonic
transonic
scramjet
Derived words: HGV
hypersonically
hypersonic bomb
hypersonic glide vehicle
hypersonic missile
hypersonics
hypersonic weapon
Translations:
transorbital
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
medicine
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trans-
English orbital
English transorbital
From trans- + orbital.
Inflected forms:
form: transorbitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Passing through the orbit, or eye socket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A lobotomy carried out through the eye socket.
pos: noun
gloss: A commercial spacecraft operating between the planets of the solar system.
pos: noun
Translations:
transpacific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English Pacific
English transpacific
From trans- + Pacific.
Inflected forms:
form: trans-Pacific
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On, from the other side of, spanning or crossing the Pacific Ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
transatlantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́τλᾱς (Ắtlās)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντικός (Atlantikós)bor.
Latin ā̆tlanticusbor.
Middle English Atlantyke
English Atlantic
English transatlantic
From trans- + Atlantic.
Inflected forms:
form: trans-Atlantic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.
Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Antonyms: cisatlantic
Translations:
toolbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From tool + box.
Compound parts: tool
box
Inflected forms:
form: toolboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A storage case for tools.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of skills or competences
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Developing this chameleon-like skill could prove to be a very useful addition to your toolbox for winning people over – and getting ahead.
gloss: Dumbass or idiot.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: From the get go, one can immediately tell that this kid is a fucking toolbox.
I've been in construction since I was dishonorably discharged by those toolboxes in the Royal Guard.
Related words: toolset
toolkit
tool chest
Derived words: a few spanners short of a tool box
Translations: