yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
domicile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
law
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English domicelle, domicylie, from Middle French domicile and directly from Latin domicilium.
Inflected forms:
form: domiciles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: domicil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: domiciles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: domiciling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: domiciled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: domiciled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: domicil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A home or residence.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile; too bad I was on vacation at the time.
gloss: A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
pos: noun
examples: the status of marriage has been indelibly fixed by the English celebration; and by this decision, her domicile, as a married woman, has been held to be that of her husband
gloss: The zodiac sign over which a planet (a term which in astrology includes the Sun and Moon) is considered to have especially strong influence; the planet is called the sign's ruling planet or sign ruler.
pos: noun
gloss: To have a domicile in a particular place.
pos: verb
examples: The answer depends on which state he was domiciled in at his death.
Derived words: domicide
domiciled
domiciliary
extradomicile
intradomicile
nondomicile
peridomicile
Translations:
fevered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fever
English -ed
English fevered
From fever + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more fevered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fevered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected by a fever; feverish.
pos: adj
gloss: Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
pos: adj
examples: Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.
Related words: cabin-fevered
Derived words: befevered
unfevered
Translations:
skeletal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skeleton
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English skeletal
From skeleton + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: skeletals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sceletal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more skeletal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skeletal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sceletal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Shorthand for skeletal diagram (a black-and-white drawing of a [usually extinct] animal’s skeleton to be used as a reference for paleoart)
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: of, or relating to the skeleton
pos: adj
gloss: haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
pos: adj
gloss: barebones, lacking elaboration
pos: adj
examples: On the whole, Sidney Morris has given us sketchy characters that need more fine tuning than this production […] could give it. Only Holmberg seemed to dig deeply within himself to create a complete character from Morris' skeletal outline.
Derived words: askeletal
carboskeletal
cardioskeletal
chondroskeletal
cranioskeletal
cytoskeletal
dentoskeletal
dermoskeletal
diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
Eiken skeletal dysplasia
endoskeletal
episkeletal
exoskeletal
extraskeletal
faciocutaneoskeletal
hydroskeletal
hyposkeletal
intraskeletal
musculoskeletal
myoskeletal
neuromusculoskeletal
neuroskeletal
nonskeletal
nucleoskeletal
oculofacioskeletal
oculoskeletal
odontoskeletal
osteoskeletal
periskeletal
preskeletal
skeletal age
skeletal animation
skeletal eroding band
skeletal fluorosis
skeletal formula
skeletalism
skeletality
skeletalization
skeletalize
skeletally
skeletal muscle
skeletal-muscle pump
skeletal soil
skeletal system
visceroskeletal
Translations:
sanctuary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English seyntuarie, from Old French saintuaire, from Late Latin sanctuarium (“a sacred place, a shrine, a private cabinet, in Medieval Latin also temple, church, churchyard, cemetery, right of asylum”), from Latin sanctus (“holy, sacred”); see saint.
Inflected forms:
form: sanctuaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.
She saw him, even as she had last gazed upon him, pale, cold, and awful; but still he was there. The coffin was to her like a shrine; all that she held most dear and most precious was within its dark and silent sanctuary.
‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’
In January, federal agents indicted 16 sanctuary leaders from Texas and Arizona on charges of helping to harbor illegal immigrants from Central America.
gloss: An area set aside for protection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
gloss: A state of being protected, asylum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.
gloss: The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: chancel (broadly synonymous)
Derived words: animal sanctuary
cybersanctuary
ecosanctuary
gun sanctuary
mantuary
protosanctuary
sanctuaried
sanctuarize
sanctuary city
sanctuarylike
Second Amendment sanctuary
unsanctuaried
wildlife sanctuary
Translations:
deprecated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).
Inflected forms:
form: more deprecated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deprecated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strongly disapproved of.
pos: adj
examples: But much more to be deprecated than all the particular departures from idiom already mentioned is the growing notion that every monosyllabic adjective, if an adverb is to be made of it, must have a -ly clapped on to it to proclaim the fact.
gloss: Belittled; insulted.
pos: adj
gloss: Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.
pos: adj
examples: Foo() has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2()
Note that deprecated functions are not removed yet.
A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.
Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.
Synonyms: legacy
obsolescent
obsolete
on its way out
condemned
disfavored
frown on
Antonyms: current
praised
Related words: deprecation
undeprecated
Derived words: nondeprecated
Translations:
cockpit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.
Inflected forms:
form: cockpits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures.
A cockpit, which was still used for cock-fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, used to occupy the site of the vicarage.
Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days[…]
gloss: A theater or other entertainment venue.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: But pardon, and gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that have dared / On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth / So great an object: can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?
The Cockpit or Phoenix Theatre in Drury Lane stood in the parish of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, on what is now Pitt-place—properly Cockpit-place or Alley.
gloss: A site of conflict; a battlefield.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Hungary is become the onely Cockpit of the World, where the Turkes doe strive to gain, and the Christians at the charge of the Emperor of Germany (who entituleth himselfe King of Hungary) doe labour to repulse them: and few summers do passe, but that something is either wonne or lost by either party.
India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: If then the stone, as doctors tell the story, / Be a disease that prove hereditory, / I trust her daughter will have so much wit, / Early to get a cock for her cock-pit; / And rather then be barren; play the whore, / As her great mother hath done heretofore.
[…] [S]o that her thighs duly diſclos'd, and elevated, laid open all the outward proſpect of the treaſury of love: the roſe-lipt ouverture preſenting the cock-pit ſo fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miſs it: […]
gloss: A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
examples: The grand object of a Maroon chief in war was to take a ſtation in ſome glen, or, as it is called in the Weſt Indies, Cockpit, encloſed by rocks and mountains nearly perpendicular, and to which the only practicable entrance is by a very narrow defile.
Translations:
reduct
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: reducts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reducing agent.
pos: noun
Translations:
alignment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
bioinformatics
biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From French alignement, by surface analysis, align + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: alignments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alinement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: allignment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: alignement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement of items in a line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An alliance of factions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the alignment problem
the alignment tax
It turns out that there’s little overlap between the communities concerned primarily with such short-term risks and those who worry more about longer-term alignment risks.
The issue of chatbot responses that veer into strange territory is widely known among researchers. In an interview last week, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said improving what's known as "alignment" — how the responses safely reflect a user's will — was "one of these must-solve problems."
But many in the field are concerned that Big Tech companies are sidelining alignment research efforts in the race to keep building and releasing the technology into the world.
gloss: One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an alignment chart
gloss: The conjunction of two celestial objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: ground plan of a canal or road
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: alignment chart
alignment diagram
alignment problem
alignment tax
antialignment
autoalignment
coalignment
dealignment
disalignment
entity alignment
frame-alignment recovery time
hyperalignment
malalignment
misalignment
multialignment
nonalignment
non-alignment
ontology alignment
overalignment
photoalignment
postalignment
prealignment
pseudoalignment
realignment
stone alignment
subalignment
superalignment
time alignment
unalignment
vertical alignment
waterfowl alignment
Translations:
akinetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
English kinetic
English akinetic
From a- + kinetic.
Inflected forms:
form: acinetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Without motion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: akinesic
acinesic
Derived words: akinetically
Translations:
allumette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French allumette. By surface analysis, al- + Latin lum- + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: allumettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A matchstick.
pos: noun
examples: The fabrication of chemical allumettes occupies in the environs of Paris more than a thousand workmen.
gloss: A matchstick-sized cut of potatoes; french fries.
pos: noun
Translations:
whooped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: LGBT
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Flawless.
pos: adj
tags: Southern
US
not-comparable
slang
examples: Her hair was whooped!
gloss: Intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was whooped out of her damn mind!
Translations:
chromatin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from German Chromatin, from (combining form of) Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + -ινος (-inos, “made of”). Analyzable as chromatic (“of colour”) + -in (“substance”).
Base: chromatic
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: chromatins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complex of DNA, RNA and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
metaphase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English phase
English metaphase
From meta- + phase.
Inflected forms:
form: metaphases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stage of mitosis and meiosis that follows prophase and comes before anaphase, during which condensed chromosomes become aligned before being separated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
anaphase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 19th century: from Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-, “back, backward”) + φάσις (phásis, “appearance”).
Inflected forms:
form: anaphases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stage of mitosis and meiosis during which the chromosomes separate, the chromatid moving to opposite poles of the cell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lovemaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From love + making.
Compound parts: love
making
Inflected forms:
form: lovemakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: I can give you more than simple love-making / I can give you ecstasy
Anyone who has lived in a dormitory, apartment building, or shared house knows that sounds of lovemaking are some of the most uncomfortable things to hear while trying to sleep.
gloss: Courtship; amorous advances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Translations:
comfy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of comfortable + -y (adjectival suffix). Origin: early 19th century.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: comfier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: comfiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Comfortable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair.
"We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'."
As an industry, the railways need to give passengers comfy seats. OK, in this case you might only be on the train for 20 or 30 minutes, but why should you not have comfort for even the shortest of journeys?
Translations:
inducible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English induce
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English inducible
From induce + -ible.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to be induced or caused.
pos: adj
gloss: Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable.
pos: adj
Derived words: autoinducible
chondroinducible
inducibility
inducibly
noninducible
photoinducible
reinducible
thermoinducible
uninducible
Translations:
scapular
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From Middle English scapelar, from Latin scapulāre, from Latin scapula (“shoulder”). Compare scapulary.
Inflected forms:
form: scapulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint.
pos: noun
examples: A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a coveted object to be worn as a preservative against pestilence or the ague […]
She granted the Whitefriars identical powers to the Blackfriars, to bless a part of their friar's habit which draped over their shoulders and was known as the scapular; now laity could wear it and derive spiritual privileges from it.
gloss: One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
pos: noun
gloss: A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.
pos: noun
gloss: A devotional object, typically consisting of two rectangular pieces of cloth (often with an embroidered image or text) joined with cloth bands and worn with one piece over the chest and one in the back.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the scapula.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
retaliate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin retāliātus, past participle of retāliō (“to requite, retaliate”).
Inflected forms:
form: retaliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retaliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retaliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retaliated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: John insulted Peter to retaliate for Peter's acid remark earlier.
Many companies have policies in place to prevent bosses from retaliating against allegations of harassment.
gloss: To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated.
1713-174, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus Preface
It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
Derived words: retaliatingly
retaliation
retaliative
retaliator
retaliatory
unretaliated
unretaliating
Translations:
ruled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having printed lines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a letter on ruled paper
gloss: Being a scroll; being such that through every point of S there is a straight line that lies on S.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: unruled
Derived words: college-ruled
Gregg-ruled
nonruled
ruled surface directrix
uniruled
Translations:
maintained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more maintained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maintained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: showing maintenance or attention
pos: adj
examples: The house had a neat, well-maintained garden in front.
Translations:
coliseum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin coliseum, from Latin Colosseum, from neuter of colosseus (“gigantic”), from Ancient Greek κολοσσιαῖος (kolossiaîos), from κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant statue”). See also: w:Colosseum § Name on Wikipedia.
Inflected forms:
form: coliseums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colisea
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: colossæum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: colosseum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large theatre, cinema, or stadium.
pos: noun
examples: the London Coliseum
Has he not found this wide region profusely sprinkled with public works—highways, bridges, acqueducts,^([sic]) arches, palaces, Colisea,—massive, Roman-built?
The nibbèd feather plumes its flights toward thee, / Thou mistress of mad poets and of night, / Cynthia, whom science weakly holds to be / The milky way’s coagulated light, / Or scooped from verdant Colisea of the Mite.
Old-fashioned republicans like Cato in Rome deplore intricate hairdos, fringes on the toga, Lucullan banquets, specialized artisanry, the scale of entertainment in the Colisea and Circuses, toplofty military triumphs, sexual excess, serial marriage, and overindulgence of every kind.
These complex structures, whose towers seemed to touch the heavens, with ornate windows, vaulted ceilings and flying buttresses, were the Wembley Stadia, the Melbourne Cricket Grounds and the LA Memorial Colisea of their day – soaring temples to the worship of God designed to accommodate thousands, as awesome to behold then as they are today.
gloss: A large, often circular building, for indoor sporting events, exhibitions, concerts, etc.; arena.
pos: noun
examples: The state deplores the consumer approach in sport—and builds the colisea which encourage it.
Derived words: coliseum ivy
Translations:
jim
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of jimmy.
Inflected forms:
form: jims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To jimmy (something); to mess up or mess with (something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: A one-pound banknote.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
examples: He was tearin' ratty t' raise another jim.
Translations:
DVR
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DVRs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DVRing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DVRed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DVRed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To record (a broadcast) using a digital video recorder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
nong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably shortened from ning-nong.
Inflected forms:
form: nongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An idiot.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: ‘In there, you nong,’ Max said, pointing out a pink-brick home with a 1950s skillion roof.
‘You guys are such nongs! Why would you want to face up to Shoaib Akhtar when you could win a World Cup against the young blond Aussie star at the home of cricket?’
[…]and spend every second Saturday defiant and one-eyed among the opposition nongs at the Barkly Street end.
Translations:
damaging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English damage
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English damaging
From damage + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more damaging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most damaging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing damage; harmful, injurious.
pos: adj
examples: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
Heatwaves are especially damaging to children, as they are less able to regulate their body temperature compared to adults, the statement said, adding that the more heatwaves children are exposed to, the greater the chance of health problems including chronic respiratory conditions, asthma, and cardiovascular diseases.
Translations:
libelous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English libel
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English libelous
From libel + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more libelous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most libelous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: libellous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Defamatory, libeling, referring to something that causes harm to someone's reputation especially with malice or disregard.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The accusation was libelous, full of falsehoods, spite and malice.
gloss: Meeting the legal standards for libel.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The court found the statement was not libelous because it was true.
Derived words: libelously
Translations:
fauxhawk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of faux + Mohawk.
Compound parts: faux
Mohawk
Inflected forms:
form: fauxhawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fohawk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: faux-hawk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: faux hawk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.
pos: noun
Translations:
dyspraxia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dews-?
Proto-Indo-European *dus-
Proto-Hellenic *dus-
Ancient Greek δῠσ- (dŭs-)der.
New Latin dys-der.
English dys-
English -praxia
English dyspraxia
From dys- + -praxia.
Inflected forms:
form: dyspraxias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genetic neurological disorder where a person has motor skills severely below average due to their brain's inability to consistently send messages accurately to the body during the planning and execution of motor movements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many people with dyspraxia have difficulty with tying shoelaces.
It is not clearly known what causes dyspraxia. It appears to be a developmental delay specifically in areas affecting motor function, which may involve gross motor, fine motor or articulatory skills. Some dyspraxic children also have other learning difficulties, while some are of average or above-average intelligence.
Translations:
menstrual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English menstruall, from Latin mēnstruālis, from mēnstrua (“menses”), from neuter plural of mēnstruus (“of a month, monthly, of menstruation”), from mēnsis (“month”) + -ālis (“-al”); see moon.
Inflected forms:
form: menstruall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: menstral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
possibly
proscribed
form: menstruals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menstruall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: menstral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
possibly
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the menses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Recent studies in physiology have noted that women who live in close proximity to one another - nurses in a hospital or coeds in a college dormitory - tend to have their menstrual periods at the same time.
gloss: Occurring once a month; monthly.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
gloss: Lasting for a month.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: a menstrual flower
gloss: A menstrual period.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: “All that drama for what” I thought. All she had to do was tell me that I was having my menstrual. So much for band aids.
Synonyms: catamenial
mensal
menstruous
Related words: menstruation
menstruous
menstruum
Derived words: intermenstrual
menstrual cramp
menstrual cup
menstrual cycle
menstrual fluid
menstruality
menstrually
menstrual pad
menstrual period
menstrual sponge
menstrual synchrony
menstrual underwear
nonmenstrual
paramenstrual
perimenstrual
postmenstrual
premenstrual
semimenstrual
Translations:
buying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English buy
English -ing
English buying
From buy + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: buyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a purchase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Reckonings of all and every his Dealings, Doings, Buyings and Sellings and Employments, touching and concerning the Premises […]
"He's hanging back to make an excuse of going to town for the spring buying, and it won't do."
Paying for these buyings, and arranging for their cartage to the shop, she got away, feeling physically tired but mentally elated, and very anxious to hear what Peter would say about the quality of her period pieces, and what prospects they offered for restoration.
Translations:
savior
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.
Inflected forms:
form: saviors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saviour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: Savior
Saviour
salvor
salvager
salvator
El Salvador
Salvador
Salvatore
Derived words: savior complex
savioress
saviorhood
saviorism
saviorship
saviouress
saviourhood
saviourship
saviour sibling
white savior
Translations:
backspin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From back + spin.
Compound parts: back
spin
Inflected forms:
form: backspins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backspins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backspinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backspun
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backspun
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Spin applied to a ball in order to slow it, change its flight, or stop it when it lands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of spinback.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To spin (a ball) with this motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To play a section of a record in reverse, as a disc jockey; to apply spinback.
pos: verb
Related words: check spin
sidespin
topspin
Translations:
backsliding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more backsliding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most backsliding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: backslidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: sliding back
pos: adj
gloss: An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
pos: noun
examples: democratic backsliding
We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
All their struggles, disappointments, failures, backslidings, which made them unhappy here, because they could not perfectly do the will of God, are past and over for ever.
That is why any backsliding – disappearing to the toilet at last orders; ordering crazily expensive drinks on other people’s rounds; abruptly leaving after two pints – is sacrilege.
Translations:
backslapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: backslappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: action of the verb to backslap
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
modulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English modulate
English -or
English modulator
From modulate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: modulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who modulates.
pos: noun
gloss: A device or thing that modulates.
pos: noun
examples: [Poetry] is a most musicall Modulator of all Intelligibles by her inventive Variations, undulling their Grossenesse, and subliming it into more refined Acceptablenesse to our own, or others understandings.
gloss: A chart in the tonic sol-fa notation on which the modulations or changes from one scale to another are shown by the relative position of the notes.
pos: noun
Related words: modulation
Derived words: biomodulator
comodulator
cryomodulator
immunomodulator
myomodulator
neuromodulator
oncomodulator
phase modulator
pulse modulator
radiomodulator
selective androgen receptor modulator
vasomodulator
Translations:
interchangeable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interchange
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English interchangeable
From interchange + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: interchangeables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Freely substitutable; that may be swapped at will.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Eli Whitney's development of interchangeable parts was a breakthrough for modern manufacturing. Prior to that, each part had to be made custom.
Constructional features of the railbus include the use of rubber suspension for axlebox/underframe and underframe/body mountings, the use of B.U.T. power transmission equipment, many components of which are interchangeable with those on British Railways standard railcars, power-operated sliding doors, and an absence of normal sidebuffers or drawgear.
Sometimes the same words mean opposite things. Sometimes the opposite is true. Shock absorbers are called shocks. Slow down and slow up are interchangeable.
The English, until relatively recently, seem to have imagined “English” and “British” to be interchangeable, as if Britain was just a bigger England.
gloss: Following each other in alternate succession; alternating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Anything that can be interchanged; a substitute.
pos: noun
Derived words: interchangeability
interchangeableness
interchangeably
noninterchangeable
uninterchangeable
Translations:
substitutable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English substitute
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English substitutable
From substitute + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more substitutable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most substitutable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: substitutables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being used as a substitute; valid as a replacement or alternate item.
pos: adj
examples: Stevia is not substitutable for sugar in baking: the recipes won't work; they taste terrible.
gloss: Capable of being substituted.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that can be substituted for something else; a viable replacement.
pos: noun
Antonyms: nonsubstitutable
unsubstitutable
Derived words: intersubstitutable
substitutably
Translations:
man-eater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: man-eaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maneater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: man eater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An animal that attacks and kills humans for food, such as certain tigers or sharks; any animal that consumes human flesh.
pos: noun
examples: And particularly, he knows where to find the primitive substance of the man eater: howsoever evaporate or reduced, as it were, into air or vapour, by sweat or perspiration.
Man-eaters are more newsworthy than three-foot-long harmless sharks with tiny teeth.
His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]
gloss: A carnivorous plant large enough to consume a human; a man-eating plant.
pos: noun
gloss: A cannibal; a human that eats other humans.
pos: noun
examples: For how a race of Man-eaters should spring up in these islands, when none of the nations on the continents from whence they must derive their original are charged with these savage customs, is not easy to conceive[.]
A stout ferocious-looking fellow, with muscular bandy legs, came in as I was conversing on the subject of cannibalism, and was pointed out to me as a celebrated marksman and man eater.
gloss: A seductive dangerous woman, often readily taking and discarding male romantic partners.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
examples: "That only proves she has affairs with them too. She's a man-eater."
Watch out, boy, she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes)
She's a maneater
Related words: man-eating
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: adamyeyən
lang: Belarusian
word: людае́д
roman: ljudajéd
lang: Belarusian
word: людажэ́рца
roman: ljudažérca
lang: Bulgarian
word: людое́д
roman: ljudoéd
lang: Chickasaw
word: hattak-apa'
lang: Czech
word: lidožrout
lang: Danish
word: menneskeæder
lang: German
word: Menschenfresser
lang: Hindi
word: नरभक्षी
roman: narbhakṣī
lang: Hindi
word: नरभक्षक
roman: narbhakṣak
lang: Hungarian
word: emberevő
lang: Icelandic
word: mannæta
lang: Latin
word: hominivora
lang: Māori
word: mangō-taniwha
lang: Persian
word: آدمخوار
roman: âdamxâr
lang: Polish
word: ludojad
lang: Russian
word: людое́д
roman: ljudojéd
lang: Slovak
word: ľudožrút
lang: Spanish
word: comehombres
lang: Swedish
word: människoätare
lang: Turkish
word: insan yiyici
lang: Ukrainian
word: людої́д
roman: ljudojíd
lang: Ukrainian
word: людоже́р
roman: ljudožér
diddly
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for diddly-squat.
Inflected forms:
form: diddlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiddley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tiddely
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: tiddly
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: tiddledy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: tiddley
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small amount of no worth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don't say diddly. They don't talk. Not a word, like they're deaf and dumb.
gloss: A written representation of a trill sound.
pos: intj
examples: On the handcar mornings or evenings he would amuse his companion by pumping away to a triple-tongued pattern, which he would hum emphatically as they rolled along: "dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee dee-dum dum diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly dee..."
...When combined with the following picked note, this gives a rhythmic 'diddly-dum' effect.
It's easy enough for him to go “diddly-diddly-diddly-dum” a thousand and one times, whereas with me it's “diddly-diddly-diddly- omigodIcan'tbreathe-dum!”)
Translations:
convinced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more convinced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most convinced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
pos: adj
examples: He was convinced he was a great singer, though others were not so sure.
Translations:
fusiform
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin fusus (“spindle”) + -iform.
Affixes: -iform
Inflected forms:
form: more fusiform
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fusiform
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.
pos: adj
examples: Fusobacteria are fusiform bacilli (spindled rods).
Acorns come in spherical and fusiform varieties.
Translations:
invented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more invented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most invented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fictional, made up, imaginary.
pos: adj
examples: The invented alibi didn't stand up long.
Translations:
manas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Sanskrit मनस् (manas, “mind”). Doublet of mind.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The mind; that which distinguishes man from the animals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
deliberative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French délibératif, from Latin deliberativus.
Inflected forms:
form: more deliberative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deliberative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deliberatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That deliberates, considers carefully.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown.
A good system would have been a consummate work of deliberative wisdom
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
gloss: A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
pos: noun
examples: A conclusion in a deliberative
gloss: A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
pos: noun
Translations:
activism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English activism
From active + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: activisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of using action to achieve a result, such as political demonstration or a strike in support of or in opposition to an issue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
Translations:
despotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσποτικός (despotikós) via French despotique, equivalent to despot + -ic.
Base: despot
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more despotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most despotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: despotick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant.
pos: adj
examples: This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt.
gloss: Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical.
pos: adj
examples: The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.
Related words: despot
despotate
despotical
despotically
despotism
despotist
despotize
Derived words: adespotic
nondespotic
ultradespotic
undespotic
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: деспоти́чен
roman: despotíčen
lang: Catalan
word: despòtic
lang: Czech
word: despotický
lang: Danish
word: despotisk
lang: Esperanto
word: despota
lang: Finnish
word: itsevaltainen
lang: Finnish
word: despoottinen
lang: French
word: despotique
lang: Georgian
word: დესპოტური
roman: desṗoṭuri
lang: German
word: despotisch
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δεσποτικός
roman: despotikós
lang: Hungarian
word: zsarnoki
lang: Hungarian
word: despotikus
lang: Neapolitan
word: dispoteco
lang: Polish
word: despotyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: despótico
lang: Romanian
word: despotic
lang: Russian
word: деспоти́ческий
roman: despotíčeskij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: aintighearnail
lang: Spanish
word: despótico
demagnetization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + magnetization or from demagnetize + -ation.
Base: magnetization
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: demagnetizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing the magnetic field from an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
suttee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit सती (satī́, “good and virtuous or faithful wife”), from सत् (sát, “true, good, right etc.”). In English usage since 1786. Doublet of sin.
Inflected forms:
form: suttees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The traditional custom of a Hindu woman giving herself up to be cremated on her husband’s funeral pyre as a sign of her devotion.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
countable
historical
uncountable
Translations:
Macon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An anglicized form of French Mâcon, from earlier Mascon and Medieval Latin Masconis, a syncopated form of Madasconis and Matisco, probably from Gaulish matus (“bear”) and a suffix equivalent to -iscus (“-ish: forming adjectives”).
Inflected forms:
form: Macons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mâcon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dry red or white burgundy wine produced around Mâcon or extremely similar to such wines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tookie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Possibly tuchus + -ie.
Base: tuchus
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: tookies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tooky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: [1958], 1996, Terry Southern, Candy
It had wetted the tip of the Buddha’s nose, which did seem, thus lubricated, to be undeniable as it moved slowly into Candy’s coyly arched tooky—the warm wet nose of Buddha, the beloved spot of her meditation!
Gosh, I hate to say this, but my tookie sure does pain me from sitting so much for nothing, waiting for something real to pop.
Before I left my seat on the bench and went back into the ward, I recognized that I would have to pass the bar exam in the same way: take an intensive bar-review course and work my tookie off!
Translations:
Christmastide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Christmas
English -tide
English Christmastide
From Christmas + -tide (“period around a festival”).
Inflected forms:
form: Christmastides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Christmas-tide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Twelve Days of Christmas; the period from Christmas Day to Epiphany.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The Christmas season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Advent
Translations: