yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
glaciology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin glaciēs (“ice”) + -ology (“study of a particular subject”).
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: glaciologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of ice and its effect on the landscape, especially the study of glaciers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From this high position in latitude, explorations (furthered for a time by the effective aid of their Esquimaux dogs) were perseveringly made, and rewarded by results of the most interesting nature in geography, hydrography, and glaciology.
Until now, aerial photography had been used in glaciology only for mapping the glacier surface and the surface velocity field; other, much more expensive, methods have been used to determine the bed and mass balance.
This general approach offers the possibility of reconstructing past glaciologies for a situation where (1) the outline of the glacier can be reconstructed, (2) the ELA [equilibrium line altitude] can be determined, (3) the area under the ELA can be measured, and (4) there is some information on the winter balance and ablation gradient of the former glacier.
In order to understand and predict the actions of water in the climate system it is useful to think of the water as being part of a distinct system, sometimes called the hydrological cycle[…]. A complete understanding of this system would […] require excursions into geomorphology, pedology, botany, glaciology, oceanography and, if human structures are included as part of the Earth's surface, civil engineering.
I was leafing through deep-core glaciology results from Greenland's mid-rift when the telephone rang. It droned on forever before it finally quit and I could concentrate again. The Greenland data confirmed all the other studies: the earth suffered ninety thousand years of ice-age weather, then ten thousand years of warm, in a loop that repeated over and over, as far back as there was ice to record it.
Translations:
superpower
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From super- + power.
Base: power
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superpowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: superpowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: superpowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: superpowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: superpowered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Our superpower competition will be reunified Germany (perhaps together with its European satellites) and expanding Japan (perhaps allied with China, if they can bring that off).
The year 1945 marked the end of Europe's global hegemony and confirmed the US and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.
Deals unveiled during US President Donald Trump's recent visit to the region showcased Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates' aspirations to become AI superpowers.
gloss: An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Administered in such a way, in that superpowers it assures.
This is his superpower, I think. The comic geek always has one, and Oliver's is a poker face that would leave even the Holy Trinity guessing what he's thinking.
If I could have a superpower id^([sic]) want to be able to teleport. I hate walking and driving gives me headaches.
Trump’s superpower at home has long been to command intense loyalty from fellow Republicans.
This is an incredible superpower on demand that would have been unimaginable at any previous time in history.
gloss: Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A tetration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excessive or superior power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To give extraordinary powers to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: nonsuperpower
superpowerdom
superpowerhood
superpowerless
Translations:
pwn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).
Inflected forms:
form: pwns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Triumph, victory. Often exclaimed after an opponent in a video game is defeated.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
gloss: An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
Translations:
reinsurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English insurance
English reinsurance
From re- + insurance.
Inflected forms:
form: reinsurances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized. Such insurance and catastrophe bonds are backstops to insurer insolvency from unexpectedly large losses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business.
As the Trump administration stalls federal funding for projects intended to make states more resilient to climate change and private insurers decline to cover properties in high-risk zones, North Carolina just proved there’s another way to fund disaster preparedness: a $600 million catastrophe bond that rewards homeowners and their insurer for installing “super roofs.” Along North Carolina’s beaches, wind damage from hurricanes is such a threat that many private insurers have stopped offering coverage. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners have been forced to buy coverage from the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association (NCIUA), the state-created insurer of last resort for coastal properties. Like other insurers, NCIUA has to buy its own risk mitigation so it can pay customers if a major event causes more damage than it has saved from collecting and investing premiums. One option is reinsurance and another is a catastrophe bond, which pays out a specific amount if damage reaches a particularly severe level. Cat bonds have become popular with institutional investors like hedge funds and endowments in recent years because they trigger rarely and otherwise deliver high returns. […] NCIUA says its financial analysis is that it will recoup $72 million over 10 years on the investment in roofs, some from avoided losses after storms but even more from having to purchase less reinsurance because their portfolio is less risky. With demand for roofs finally surging, Hardy wanted to make sure she had adequate capital for all the willing participants. She began looking beyond her own surplus to fund grants. Every year the association pays for a combination of reinsurance and cat bonds to cover portfolio risk. She had read about cat bonds with resilience features in academic literature and now wanted to make one a reality.
Translations:
minimize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin minimus + -ize.
Base: minimus
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: minimizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minimizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minimized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minimized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: minimise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have to minimize the budget.
Try to minimize your biases.
Terry, author of the indispensable Terry's Guide to Mexico, has a name for it – atrabiliousness. "The defect of many of the murals," he says, speaking of those in the orphan asylum, "is the facial atrabiliousness of some of the subjects. To the observer it minimizes the grandeur of the conception […]"
For accurate stopping, the drive must incorporate means for minimizing inertia overdrift.
One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.
gloss: To relegate or assign (something) to a less insignificant status; diminish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The insurance adjuster tried to minimize the extent of the damage to lessen the company's exposure to liability.
gloss: To remove (a window) from the main display area, collapsing it to an icon or caption.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I didn't close anything, but I minimized all the windows so I could see the desktop.
gloss: To treat (someone) in a slighting manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] father who had never openly minimized him or anything he did […]
gloss: To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to minimize someone's feelings
Derived words: minimand
minimizable
minimization
minimizer
unminimize
unminimized
Translations:
privileged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: more privileged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most privileged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having special privileges.
pos: adj
examples: "You are very dull this morning, Sheriff," said the youngest daughter of the house, who, being the baby and pretty, had grown pettishly privileged in speech.
gloss: Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.
pos: adj
Derived words: hyperprivileged
immunoprivileged
negatively privileged
nonprivileged
overprivileged
pretty privileged
privileged debt
privileged sanctuary
superprivileged
underprivileged
unprivileged
white privileged
Translations:
privileging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: privilegings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is made privileged.
pos: noun
examples: We must not forget such similar privilegings of harmonic elements as the medieval theologian's analogy between the interrelation of musical sounds and the silences punctuating them […]
Translations:
accompanying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more accompanying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accompanying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: accompanyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Present together.
pos: adj
examples: The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge
gloss: That which accompanies; accompaniment.
pos: noun
examples: He was seated / Among his equals; and a holiday / With its accompanyings — loud laughs, and jests, / And boisterous mirth — sped merrily […]
Translations:
harrier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harry
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 harrier
From harry + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: harriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who harries.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.
pos: noun
gloss: A runner, specifically, a cross country runner.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of dog used to hunt hares; a harehound.
pos: noun
Derived words: African harrier-hawk
African marsh harrier
Circus ranivorus
black harrier
Circus maurus
cinereous harrier
Circus cinereus
eastern marsh harrier
Circus spilonotus
harrier carrier
harrier-hawk
Harrier jump jet
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus
long-winged harrier
Circus buffoni
Malagasy marsh harrier
Circus maillardi
marsh harrier
Montagu's harrier
Circus pygargus
northern harrier
Circus hudsonius
pallid harrier
Circus macrourus
pied harrier
Circus melanoleucos
spotted harrier
Circus assimilis
swamp harrier
Circus approximans
Western marsh harrier
Circus aeruginosus
Translations:
decathlete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dec-
English athlete
English decathlete
From dec- + athlete.
Inflected forms:
form: decathletes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athlete who competes in the decathlon.
pos: noun
examples: Simply to see what would happen, Paul Terek, a United States decathlete, wore a baseball cap bearing his name in Japanese when he landed at the Osaka airport a few weeks ago. Some children there took the bait.
“Heptathlon is very geared and favorable to those who are quick,” said Gray’s coach, Andy Eggerth, who trains both heptathletes and decathletes. “A lot of world-class heptathletes are relatively bad at javelin and shot-put.”
Translations:
decurion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin decuriō.
Inflected forms:
form: decurions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An officer in charge of ten men in the ancient Roman army.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A member of local government in ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: tithingman
Translations:
deep-rooted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: deeper-rooted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: deepest-rooted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant, having deep roots.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: He observed the leaves of trees there abouts more deeply green then else∣where, the Oakes broad-spreading, but not deep-rooted;
1726, Jonathan Swift (translator), “Horace, Book I, Ode XIV” in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, London: T. Woodward and Charles Davis, 1736, Volume 5, p. 193,
Poor floating Isle, tost on ill Fortune’s Waves,
Ordain’d by Fate to be the Land of Slaves;
Shall moving Delos now deep-rooted stand,
Thou, fixt of old, be now the moving Land?
1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey, Book 13, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 302,
And now the flying bark full near approach’d,
When Neptune, meeting her, with out-spread palm
Depress’d her at a stroke, and she became
Deep-rooted stone.
Finally the wind eats its way far beneath the point of penetration of the deepest-rooted species (except possibly Yucca) and all these are then added to the accumulating débris on the lee slope or elsewhere.
[His love was] as impossible to restore to growth as a deep-rooted plant torn from its bed.
The roots of prairie species are grouped into about three more or less definite absorbing layers , many of the deeper-rooted species having few or no absorbing roots in the first few feet of soil.
gloss: Of a non-living object, deeply and firmly embedded (in the ground, etc.)
pos: adj
gloss: Firmly established in thought or behavior and difficult to change.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: They avoid conflict at all costs because of their deep-rooted fear of upsetting people.
[…] Temporarie faith keeping residence only in the out-face of the heart, is ouerswayed & ouerborn in temptation by euery strong desire, or deep-rooted passion.
Notwithstanding the deep-rooted notion, even amongst the majority of painters themselves, that time is a great improver of good pictures, I will undertake to shew, that nothing can be more absurd.
1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter to Elizabeth Gaskell dated 27 August, , in Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, p. 177,
Certainly there are evils which our own efforts will best reach; but as certainly there are other evils—deep-rooted in the foundations of the social system—which no efforts of ours can touch:
“He may be very well okay as a person. But other workers are not happy with him. Already they are coming to me with complaints. You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”
The installation of new pipes should resolve deep-rooted flooding problems.
Derived words: deep-rootedness
Translations:
de-escalation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English escalate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English escalation
English de-escalation
From de- + escalation.
Inflected forms:
form: de-escalations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deescalation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decrease in scope, extension or severity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The efforts at de-escalation have been many and varied. The most obvious have been high-level visits to Israel from US, UK and German leaders.
Translations:
defensible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Old French defensable, from Latin defensibilem. Equivalent to defense + -ible.
Compound parts: defense
-ible
Inflected forms:
form: more defensible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defensible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being defended against armed attack.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Not only were those cities fortified, but their architects based their whole system on the strategical possibilities of the site, and closely followed its defensible contours.
gloss: Capable of being justified.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Those who are most familiar with the working of the present society are also usually interested in the preservation of particular features of that society which may not be defensible on general principle.
Antonyms: indefensible
Derived words: defensibility
defensibleness
defensibly
undefensible
Translations:
chemisorption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the process in which a substance is adsorbed on the surface of another by means of chemical rather than physical bonding
pos: noun
tags: physical
uncountable
Translations:
chemokine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English -kine
English chemokine
From chemo- + -kine.
Inflected forms:
form: chemokines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.
pos: noun
Translations:
cytokine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From cyto- + -kine from Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”).
Affixes: cyto-
-kine
Inflected forms:
form: cytokines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have been defined as cytokines.
A fundamental feature expressed by the vast majority of cytokines is a profound immunomodulatory activity.
Many cytokines, presently available in pure recombinant form, modify bone cell metabolism.
The cytokines are generally considered to be a group of peptides secreted by cells of the immune system such as macrophages, lymphocytes and T cells, although the same peptides may also be secreted by non-immune cells such as neurological tissues and adipocytes.
The cytokines provide a classic example of products of the immune system which alter brain and endocrine activities. A variety of cytokines, including interleukin 1, interleukin 2, interleukin 6, and tumor necrosis factor α, have been traditionally associated with peripheral control of the immune system, inflammation, and acute phase response.
Surprisingly, mTOR inhibitors displayed little inhibitory efficacy regarding receptor modulation and cytokine production which may be clinically relevant in terms of the risk of underimmunosuppression with this class of drugs.
Translations:
chemoprevention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English prevention
English chemoprevention
From chemo- + prevention.
Inflected forms:
form: chemopreventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The prevention of disease by the use of food supplements, drugs, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
chemopreventive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English preventive
English chemopreventive
From chemo- + preventive.
Inflected forms:
form: more chemopreventive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chemopreventive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chemopreventives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to chemoprevention.
pos: adj
gloss: A food supplement, etc. used for chemoprevention.
pos: noun
Translations:
chemoprophylaxis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English prophylaxis
English chemoprophylaxis
From chemo- + prophylaxis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Chemoprevention; the prevention of disease using food supplements or drugs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chemoreception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English reception
English chemoreception
From chemo- + reception.
Inflected forms:
form: chemoreceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the physiological sensory response of a sense organ to a chemical stimulus
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
chemoreceptor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English receptor
English chemoreceptor
From chemo- + receptor.
Inflected forms:
form: chemoreceptors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a sense organ, or one of its cells (such as those for the sense of taste or smell), that can respond to a chemical stimulus; a chemosensor
pos: noun
Translations:
chemosensory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English sensory
English chemosensory
From chemo- + sensory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to a chemosensor, or to the perception of chemical signals by the senses; especially of the perception of taste and smell
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
resounding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English resound
English -ing
English resounding
From resound + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more resounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
pos: adj
gloss: That causes reverberation.
pos: adj
examples: He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.
gloss: Emphatic, noteworthy.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: We had a resounding win against the rival team.
On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.
Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.
Derived words: resoundingly
resoundingness
unresounding
Translations:
unequivocally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unequivocal + -ly or un- + equivocally.
Base: unequivocal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unequivocally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unequivocally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that leaves no doubt; in an unequivocal or unambiguous manner, unquestionably.
pos: adv
examples: They strove to make their product unequivocally the best in the industry.
'Surely, in hindsight, you realise she was an unsuitable wife for you,' he stated unequivocally.
'Don't go there, Dad,' Luc warned, hard ruthless steel in his own eyes. 'You've lost one son. You're very close to losing another.'
The millettioid group involves the unequivocally sustained millettioid and phaseoloid clades including numerous vital crop species, for example, the cultivated soybean […]
Translations:
microburst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English burst
English microburst
From micro- + burst.
Inflected forms:
form: microbursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong downdraft, of less than 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds and powerful wind shear.
pos: noun
examples: This resulted in the aircraft’s encounter at low altitude with a microburst-induced, severe wind shear from a rapidly developing thunderstorm located on the final approach course.
Translations:
hummingbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From humming (noun) + bird, in reference to the humming sound made by the rapidly moving wings.
Compound parts: humming
bird
Inflected forms:
form: hummingbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: humming bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: humming-bird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.
pos: noun
examples: Soon I hear the low all-pervading hum of an approaching hummingbird circling above the rock, …
Beyond the veranda was a small cleared garden, bounded with cactus hedges and adorned with clumps of flowering shrubs, round which the great blue butterflies and the tiny humming-birds fluttered and darted in crescents of sparkling light.
Translations:
bullfinch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
hunting
lifestyle
pets
sports
Etymology: From bull + finch.
Compound parts: bull
finch
Inflected forms:
form: bullfinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bull-finch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various other Old World finches in the genus Pyrrhula.
pos: noun
gloss: A large, thick quickset hedge.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: Young Hurrell turned them on the right; the officer on the polo pony and Mr. Westall, between them, dissected a "bullfinch" on the left, but the ditch and the briars took toll of the former.
gloss: An obstacle for a horse, consisting of a solid fence with brush above it, through which the horse should jump.
pos: noun
Translations:
greenfinch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkiz
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ping-
Proto-Germanic *finkô
Old English finċ
Middle English fynch
English finch
English greenfinch
Compound of green + finch.
Inflected forms:
form: greenfinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Eurasia.
pos: noun
examples: The Vietnamese Greenfinch is the only greenfinch found in the Da Lat area, and as such is unmistakeable.
gloss: Any bird within the genus Chloris (formerly a subset of the genus Carduelis), small passerine songbirds with yellow-green plumage, found throughout Eurasia.
pos: noun
gloss: A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
historical
informal
gloss: A female member of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
UK
broadly
historical
informal
slang
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: vardua
lang: Asturian
word: verderón
lang: Asturian
word: pardu blancu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yaşılca
lang: Breton
word: meleneg
lang: Bulgarian
word: зеленика
roman: zelenika
lang: Catalan
word: verdum
lang: Czech
word: zvonek
lang: Danish
word: grønirisk
lang: Dutch
word: groenling
lang: Finnish
word: viherpeippo
lang: French
word: verdier
lang: Galician
word: verderolo
lang: Galician
word: ferreirolo
lang: German
word: Grünfink
lang: German
word: Grünling
lang: Greek
word: φλώρος
roman: flóros
lang: Ancient Greek
word: χλωρίς
roman: khlōrís
lang: Hungarian
word: zöldike
lang: Icelandic
word: grænfinka
lang: Irish
word: glasán darach
lang: Italian
word: verdone comune
lang: Italian
word: verdone
lang: Italian
word: verdello
lang: Latvian
word: zaļžubīte
lang: Lithuanian
word: žaliukė
lang: Macedonian
word: зеленушка
roman: zelenuška
lang: Norman
word: verdgé
lang: Norman
word: vèrmingnon
lang: Norwegian
word: grønnfink
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فلوریه
roman: florya
lang: Polish
word: dzwoniec
lang: Portuguese
word: verdilhão
lang: Romanian
word: florinte
lang: Romansh
word: verdaun
lang: Russian
word: зелену́шка
roman: zelenúška
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: corcan glas
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: glaisean-daraich
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zelentarka
lang: Spanish
word: verderón
lang: Swedish
word: grönfink
lang: Turkish
word: florya
lang: Turkish
word: yelve
lang: Welsh
word: llinos werdd
lang: Welsh
word: gwyrddbinc
hawfinch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: haw (“berry of the common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna”) + finch. Named by English ornithologist Francis Willughby in 1676.
Inflected forms:
form: hawfinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large Eurasian finch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), with a thick bill.
pos: noun
Translations:
ogling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to ogle.
pos: noun
examples: The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings[…]
Translations:
oik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, early 20th century. Possibly onomatopoeic, in imitation of uncultivated speech.
Inflected forms:
form: oiks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a member of the lower classes.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: The other three were gifted metal oiks, but Cliff was a musician, schooled in theory, transmitting from a private universe of inspiration and expertise.
gloss: a person perceived as obnoxious or unintelligent.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
Derived words: oikball
oikish
Translations:
indistinct
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French indistinct, from Latin indistinctus. English equivalent in- + distinct.
Base: distinct
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more indistinct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indistinct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not clearly defined or not having a sharp outline; faint or dim
pos: adj
examples: indistinct sign
gloss: hazy or vague
pos: adj
gloss: difficult to understand through being muffled or slurred
pos: adj
examples: indistinct consonant sound
indistinct sound
indistinct murmur
indistinct rustling
indistinct whisper
Synonyms: dim
fuzzy
hazy
ill-defined
ill-marked
indefinite
indistinct
indistinguishable
muzzy
obscure
undefined
vague
Antonyms: distinct
clear
defined
sharp
transparent
well-defined
well-marked
Related words: hidden
Derived words: indistinctly
indistinctness
Translations:
continuing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: continuings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A continuation.
pos: noun
gloss: Being the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: […]in the Bootle by-election of 1990 they were beaten by the Monster Raving Loony Party, and the continuing SDP gave up the ghost shortly afterwards.
The 'continuing' Liberal Party was launched in 1989 by those party members unhappy with the merger with the Social Democrats.
Translations:
convincing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more convincing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most convincing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: convincings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Effective as proof or evidence.
pos: adj
examples: Our convincing evidence was sufficient in the end to win the trial.
While they have still only suffered one home defeat by Spurs in 19 years, this was not as convincing a victory as the scoreline suggests.
gloss: The process by which somebody is convinced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Convincings depend on someone trying to do the convincing and someone who is supposed to be convinced.
Translations:
combining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: combinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which things are combined or brought together.
pos: noun
examples: these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies
Translations:
culturing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: culturings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
pos: noun
examples: Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results.
Translations:
chichi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French chichibor.
English chichi
Borrowed from French chichi.
Inflected forms:
form: more chichi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chichi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chi-chi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chi chi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shi-shi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shi shi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chichis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affectedly trendy; chic and stylish in a pretentious way.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
mildly
examples: Going in gangs to those chichi clubs at Maidenhead.
We drove up the mountain and found the narrow streets chock full of chichi tourists.
The sort of real delicious Italian country cooking that is a revelation after so much chichi Italian food dished up in London.
Not since a journalist morphed into Al Pacino in The Devil’s Advocate has a metamorphosis been so jarring. Of course, there were clues: Michael kicked a puppy in the very second episode, and no self-respecting Elysium so closely resembles a chichi outdoor mall in Pasadena.
If this was in Cornwall, which it so closely resembles, it would have become the most chichi of gentrified enclaves, colonised by big-name chefs and celebrity regulars.
But if the mix is no longer about life's essentials, and instead a new wave of chichi cafés, artisan bakers and fancy nail bars—are we right to ask, not how useful is your high street, but how bougie?
gloss: A woman's breast.
pos: noun
tags: Latin-America
in-plural
slang
examples: [H]e rubbed [his hands] with Bag Balm to help the cuts heal and keep the skin soft, a trick he'd learned from his grandmother, who told him when he was eighteen and getting ready for a date that no woman wanted to feel rough hands scratching up her chichis.
And later, in Latin Grill Express, Jesus makes sure to compliment her accent, her vocabulary, to express admiration for the way her chichis looked in the last dress all over again, then Sarah asks about his plans for work, what he will do when they all leave.
Translations:
spotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
climbing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
media
motor-racing
racing
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spot
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 spotter
From spot + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: spotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who observes something.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a sniper team who in addition to this function is responsible for providing additional information about targets from a different point of view.
pos: noun
gloss: One who supervises a person performing an activity, in order to help them should they be unable to complete it.
pos: noun
examples: Due to a spotter's lack of action in holding the weight when a lifter lost her balance, the lifter badly pulled some muscles.
gloss: A person who gives directions for a crane or vehicle (that is challenging to navigate) from a different point of view to the moved load.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Dolphins of the genus Stenella, and specifically Stenella attenuata distinguished from the streaker (Stenella coeruleoalba) and the spinner (Stenella longirostris).
pos: noun
gloss: A team member responsible for communication with the driver to keep them up-to-date about on-track events, such as other nearby cars.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to assist a sports presenter by identifying the players or events during a game.
pos: noun
Related words: G-spotter
Derived words: birdspotter
cloudspotter
locospotter
microspotter
pinspotter
planespotter
plane spotter
spotter plane
talent spotter
talent-spotter
train spotter
trainspotter
trendspotter
weather spotter
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: observador
lang: Finnish
word: tähystäjä
lang: German
word: Beobachter
lang: German
word: Waffensystemoffizier
lang: German
word: Kampfbeobachtungsoffizier
lang: Polish
word: snajper pomocniczy
lang: Swedish
word: spanare
lang: Swedish
word: utkik
lang: Catalan
word: observador
lang: Finnish
word: varmistaja
lang: German
word: Übungshelfer
lang: Hungarian
word: segítő
lang: Hungarian
word: felügyelő
lang: Hungarian
word: sportfelügyelő
lang: Hungarian
word: spotter
lang: Polish
word: asekurant
lang: Polish
word: asekurantka
lang: Polish
word: asekurator
lang: Polish
word: asekuratorka
lang: Swedish
word: spotter
preconception
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
▲
Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin conceptiōlbor.
Old French conceptionbor.
Middle English concepcioun
English conception
English preconception
From pre- + conception.
Inflected forms:
form: preconceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.
pos: noun
examples: With many of the more general preconceptions of socialist thought the connection of their more practical proposals is by no means at once obvious, and in consequence many men who believe themselves to be determined opponents of that system of thought become in fact effective spreaders of its ideas.
He told RAIL: "We had no preconceptions, but you would assume a newer train to have better air quality than an older one. We found that was not necessarily the case.
gloss: A prejudice that prevents rational consideration of an issue.
pos: noun
gloss: Preconceptional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
manwhore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From man + whore.
Compound parts: man
whore
Inflected forms:
form: manwhores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: man-whore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: man whore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who has sex with clients for money; a male prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A schmo who finds love by prostituting himself is...rather sweet in a sophomoric, manwhore-with-a-heart-of-gold kind of way.
He's a man-whore, Paige. He seduces women for money. He seduced you and countless married women without any care for the consequences.
gloss: A promiscuous man who has no regard for his sexual partners or the emotional value of his relationships.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The whole room fell silent, the girls all paused with glee. Turning left, turning right, are they looking at me? Well, I was looking at them, there, there, on the dance floor. Now, they got me in the middle, feeling like a manwhore.
We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.
Related words: whoreman
Translations:
microscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin mīcroscopiumlbor.
Italian microscopiobor.
English microscope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English microscopic
From microscope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more microscopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most microscopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
pos: adj
examples: We supply all microscopic stains and other materials.
gloss: So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
pos: adj
examples: The water was full of microscopic organisms.
gloss: Very small; minute
pos: adj
examples: Compared to the galaxy, we are microscopic in scale.
By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
... the notion of the microscopic was often used in the foundations of quantum theory right from the start, to indicate the realm in which quantum theory is required in order to explain phenomena when classical theory cannot do so; quantum theory was generally considered in those years to apply only to situations involving atoms and smaller “microscopic” entities...
gloss: Carried out with great attention to detail.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The police carried out a microscopic search of the crime scene.
gloss: Able to see extremely minute objects.
pos: adj
examples: Why has not man a microscopic eye?
Antonyms: macroscopic
gross
Related words: microscope
macroscopic
telescopic
naked-eye
Derived words: amicroscopic
biomicroscopic
copromicroscopic
cryomicroscopic
electromicroscopic
endomicroscopic
fluoromicroscopic
immunomicroscopic
intravital microscopic
micromorph
micromorphic
microscopical
microscopically
nonmicroscopic
otomicroscopic
photomicroscopic
quasimicroscopic
spectromicroscopic
stereomicroscopic
submicroscopic
supermicroscopic
ultramicroscopic
unmicroscopic
videomicroscopic
Translations: