yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bugging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Electronic surveillance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The buggings executed by the FBI not only revealed a great deal about the Cosa Nostra's activities, they also revealed a great deal about how the Cosa Nostra felt about the Kennedys.
Translations:
bumped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bumped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bumped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing bumps.
pos: adj
Translations:
risking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: riskings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is risked.
pos: noun
examples: Those acts of others will, from the primary actor's perspective, be unjustified; thus, were they undertaken by the primary actor himself, they would be culpable riskings of harm.
Translations:
moustachioed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moustachio
English -ed
English moustachioed
From moustachio + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: mustachioed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: moustachio'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing a moustache or moustachio.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.
Translations:
jiggling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jigglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion that jiggles.
pos: noun
Translations:
watusi
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: watusis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: watusis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: watusiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: watusied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: watusied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A popular African-inspired dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song The Wah-Watusi by The Orlons in 1962.
pos: noun
examples: Baby, baby, that's the way it goes
 Nothing happens when you Mash Potatoes
 I just gotta fall in love with you
Watusi is the dance to do
 Wah-a, wah, wah-a Watusi
 C'mon and take a chance and get-a with this dance.
Twist it in the alley
 With long tall Sally
 Twistin' with Lucy
 Doin' the watusi.
gloss: A Christmas firework popular in the Philippines, made with yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene.
pos: noun
gloss: To dance the watusi.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] but in the middle of it all will be some preposterous, highly charged, not to mention boob-driven image of some chick watusiing away atop an oil rig.
Translations:
Molotov
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Мо́лотов (Mólotov). The verb is from the noun, an ellipsis of Molotov cocktail.
Inflected forms:
form: Molotovs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Molotoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Molotovs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Molotoving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Molotoved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Molotoved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Molotoff
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Molotov cocktail.
pos: noun
gloss: To throw a Molotov cocktail at someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Translations:
weekends
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At weekends.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
suing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare French suer (“to sweat”).
Inflected forms:
form: suings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sues for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]
gloss: The process of soaking through anything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: In this instance, there is, upon the by, to be noted, the percolation or suing of the verjuice through the wood; for verjuice of itself would never have passed through the wood: so as, it seemeth, it must be first in a kind of vapour, before it pass.
Translations:
raad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch raad (“counsel”), cognate with Middle English ræd (“counsel”).
Inflected forms:
form: raden
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assembly in one of the Boer republics of South Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
torturing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more torturing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most torturing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: torturings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: An act of torture
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ... sae little about the elect that are tried wi' hornings, chasings, catchings, imprisonments, torturings, banishments, headings, hangings, dismemberings, and quarterings quick...
Terrible shall the vengeance of the Tisroc be: even now. But kill me, and the burnings and torturings in these northern lands shall become a tale to frighten the world a thousand years hence.
No, I'm too busy seething over another irony: whenever I've complained about my country's torturings, renderings, detentions, etc, there's always been some smug bastard ready to respond that these measures are what guarantee smart-alecky writers like myself our freedom of speech.
Translations:
bluffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bluffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bluff; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate.
pos: noun
Translations:
dressing-down
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dressing-downs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dressings-down
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dressing down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: "I'll give him a dressing down, see if I don't." Mrs. Mudge's eyes snapped viciously, and she clutched the relics of the broom with a degree of energy which rendered it uncertain what sort of a dressing down she intended for her husband.
When the blacksmith saw what Babo had done to his mother, he caught him by the collar, and fell to giving him such a dressing down as never man had before.
"We must all bow to you, and try to get a favorable word, must we? This man shall have a leg up, and this man shall have a dressing down!"
Just ask Gen. Yevgeny I. Ignatov, a former mayor of Torzhok, who stepped down two years ago after a dressing-down from the regional governor.
Translations:
subwavelength
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English wavelength
English subwavelength
From sub- + wavelength.
Inflected forms:
form: sub-wavelength
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: subwavelengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-wavelength
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having dimensions less than the wavelength of the light employed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Planar metamaterials with subwavelength thickness, or metasurfaces, consisting of single-layer or few-layer stacks of planar structures, can be readily fabricated using lithography and nanoprinting methods, and the ultrathin thickness in the wave propagation direction can greatly suppress the undesirable losses.
gloss: A wavelength that is a fraction of another
pos: noun
Translations:
heterotrimeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English trimer
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English trimeric
English heterotrimeric
From hetero- + trimeric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a protein, containing three different subunits.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
holoenzyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: holoenzymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A haloenzyme.
pos: noun
Translations:
innocente
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: innocentes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of robe volante.
pos: noun
Translations:
meandering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more meandering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most meandering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: meanderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Winding or rambling.
pos: adj
examples: After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
“Billups, how much farther to the compound?” “At our meandering speed, 15 minutes?”
gloss: An instance or period of roaming.
pos: noun
Translations:
decoherence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: First attested 1902 (OED) in the electrical engineering sense "the resetting of a coherer." From decohere (also 1902) + -ence, representing the verbal noun (compare decohesion, decoherency). The quantum mechanics concept was introduced in 1970 by German physicist H. Dieter Zeh, writing in the journal Foundations of Physics.
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: decoherences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loss of quantum coherence (phase relation between the quantum states of particles) in a physical system as it interacts with its environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a sense in which simple interference effects are destroyed when a system's environment becomes correlated with its state. This phenomenon is called decoherence. I shall consider three approaches here. According to one, decoherence alone explains why we get determinate records. According to another, decoherence helps one to formulate a satisfactory interpretation of Everett by selecting a globally preferred basis that makes the right physical facts determinate in each Everett branch. According to a third, decoherence sects a locally preferred basis for each observer that makes the right physical facts determinate from the perspective of that particular observer.
We have already alluded to decoherence in connection with the emergence of classical space-time, the ‘collapse′ of the wave function (Case 3) and the notion of entanglement. Physicists have hailed the discovery of decoherence as ‘the most important advance in the foundation of quantum theory since Bell's inequalities.’¹³¹ This praise is based on good reasons: (a) decoherence offers new ways of understanding quantum mechanics for it embodies a critique of entrenched terminology (‘collapse’ of the wave function, complementarity); (b) it is testable since it appeals to physical processes; (c) it offers an insight into a much more fundamental level of quantum indeterminacy.
A detailed investigation of decoherence during gating due to a bosonic environment was performed in the original work of Loss and DiVincenzo. Since then, there have been many studies of leakage and decoherence in the context of the quantum-dot quantum computing proposal.
One way of preventing both decoherences is to set up the system in a "non-decoherent quantum state."
gloss: The normal condition of sensitiveness in a coherer; reversion to such condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Related words: coherence
decoherent
dephasing
einselection
quantum entanglement
quantum interference
Derived words: decoherence time
predecoherence
Translations:
dilator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dilate
English -or
English dilator
From dilate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: dilators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any nerve or muscle that causes part of the body to dilate.
pos: noun
gloss: Any drug that causes such dilation.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument used to dilate an orifice or cavity.
pos: noun
Derived words: bronchodilator
cardiodilator
iris dilator muscle
vasodilator
venodilator
Translations:
lang: Greek
word: διαστολέας
roman: diastoléas
lang: Spanish
word: dilatador
intertropical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English tropical
English intertropical
From inter- + tropical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between or within the tropics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the very superior inducements which most intertropical countries afford
Translations:
phagosome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phago-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Germanic *samaz
Proto-Germanic *-samaz
Proto-West Germanic *-sam
Old English -sum
Middle English -som
English -some
English phagosome
From phago- + -some.
Inflected forms:
form: phagosomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A membrane-bound vacuole within a cell containing foreign material captured by phagocytosis.
pos: noun
examples: Granules characterized by their ability to segregate foreign proteins (phagosomes) were identified in the cells of many rat organs after intravenous administration of horseradish peroxidase, by using the conventional test with benzidine for the histochemical detection of peroxidase.
Translations:
sectary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Either from the French sectaire or directly from its etymon, the Medieval Latin sectārius, from secta (“sect”). Cognates include the Italian settario and the Portuguese and Spanish sectario.
Inflected forms:
form: sectaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a particular sect, school of thought or practice, party, or profession; a sectarian.
pos: noun
examples: Be it as it may: within the Land of Penn / The sectary yielded to the citizen, / And peaceful dwelt the many-creeded men.
It is this spirit which inspires sectaries to deprecate the public schools and, if they cannot divert part of the tax support, then to foist upon this free system the shadow of their own beclouded vision.
gloss: A Protestant dissenter or nonconformist.
pos: noun
Translations:
seeder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English seeder, seder, from Old English sǣdere (“sower”), equivalent to seed + -er.
Base: seed
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: seeders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill
pos: noun
gloss: An implement used to remove the seeds from fruit etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
pos: noun
gloss: A person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A process that seeds a random number generator.
pos: noun
gloss: A stamp-type leatherworking tool predominantly used in floral designs to represent the seeds in the center of a flower.
pos: noun
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Derived words: hydroseeder
Translations:
seigneur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French seigneur, from Old French seignor. Doublet of seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Inflected forms:
form: seigneurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seignior
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A feudal lord or noble.
pos: noun
examples: "Then you're not - " "Darling," I said, "do you really see me in the position of a seigneur, driving my serfs and villeins before me with a whip - even if the triffids haven't overrun me first?"
There was less and less love lost between peasants and seigneurs. The services which the latter had provided for the peasant community in the past had diminished in value.
gloss: The hereditary feudal ruler of Sark.
pos: noun
examples: Beaumont lives on Sark, a small, autonomous island twenty-five miles off the coast of Normandy, with her husband, Michael, the island's seigneur.
gloss: A landowner in Canada; the holder of a seigneurie.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A hereditary title in the Bailiwick of Jersey.
pos: noun
Related words: droit de seigneur
grand seigneur
Derived words: seigneuress
seigneurial
seigneury
Translations:
well-balanced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-balanced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-balanced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-balanced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-balanced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: properly balanced; in equilibrium
pos: adj
gloss: mentally stable and free from psychological disorder
pos: adj
Translations:
well-behaved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From well + behaved.
Compound parts: well
behaved
Inflected forms:
form: better-behaved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-behaved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-behaved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-behaved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well behaved
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
pos: adj
examples: The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.
How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.
gloss: Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.
pos: adj
Related words: well-posed
Derived words: well-behavedly
well-behavedness
Translations:
well-connected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-connected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-connected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-connected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-connected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having close connections with people of wealth or social standing.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an area, having good transport connections.
pos: adj
examples: The redevelopment of York station's surroundings to homes alongside office, retail and hospitality space demonstrates how land near stations is being adapted for mixed-use purposes to create well-connected urban areas.
Translations:
well-defined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: better-defined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-defined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-defined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-defined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a clean and distinct outline.
pos: adj
gloss: Accurately and precisely described or specified.
pos: adj
examples: AMVAC Chemical Corp. spokesman Brian Maddox said the company does not sell naled into China and has “no idea how it may have been used or how much is applied. By contrast, the application of Naled in the US is well-defined by the USEPA label and is highly controlled to ensure compliance with rigorous US standards.”
gloss: Defined in an unambiguous and consistent way: specifically, such that any two objects implied to be identical are indeed identical.
pos: adj
Derived words: well-definedness
Translations:
well-disposed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-disposed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-disposed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-disposed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-disposed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: friendly and sympathetic
pos: adj
examples: A memorial inscription on Long Melford church reads, 'the work of well-disposed men'. It refers to the wool merchants who contributed to its building in the 1490s.
Translations:
well-earned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-earned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-earned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: deserved
pos: adj
examples: "The Pacers have kept millions of northerners on the move. But while they have served us well and provided some communities with rail services they may have otherwise lost, it is time to give them a well-earned rest," said Northern Regional Director Chris Jackson.
Translations:
well-fixed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Reasonably financially secure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
well-groomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-groomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-groomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-groomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-groomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well groomed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, neat and well-dressed.
pos: adj
examples: But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
gloss: Neat and tidy.
pos: adj
examples: Its churchyard has a well-groomed air, with tailored hedges and lawns.
Translations:
lang: Basque
word: jaso
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 衣冠楚楚
roman: yīguānchǔchǔ
lang: Danish
word: nydelig
lang: Finnish
word: siististi pukeutunut
lang: Finnish
word: siisti
lang: French
word: soigné
lang: German
word: gepflegt
lang: German
word: soigniert
lang: Hungarian
word: ápolt
lang: Italian
word: azzimato
lang: Italian
word: ripulito
lang: Italian
word: agghindato
lang: Norman
word: souongni
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: nydelig
lang: Polish
word: zadbany
lang: Portuguese
word: arrumado
lang: Russian
word: ухо́женный
roman: uxóžennyj
lang: Russian
word: холёный
roman: xoljónyj
lang: Spanish
word: acicalado
well-grounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-grounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-grounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-grounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-grounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person: having extensive knowledge of a subject.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an argument, etc.: based on good judgment and solid reasoning.
pos: adj
Related words: eyes on the ground
facts on the ground
grounding
ground truth
foundation
founding
Translations:
wellhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From well + head.
Compound parts: well
head
Inflected forms:
form: wellheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: well-head
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The place where a spring breaks out of the ground; the source of water for a stream or well.
pos: noun
examples: Leaue the troubled streames,
And liue as Thriuers doe at the Well head.
It is a singular circumstance, that within a quarter of a mile of the well-head of the Wye, arises the Severn.
We set forth accordingly by this itinerary; and for the best part of three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers; [...]
gloss: The source of something; a fountainhead.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: [H]e likened was to a welhed / Of euill words, and wicked ſclaunders by him ſhed.
[...] a bull was not merely a stud animal worth so much, due to go to the butcher in a little while. It was a vast wonder-beast, a well-head of the great, furnace-like passion that makes the worlds roll and the sun surge up [...]
gloss: The surface structure of an oil well etc.
pos: noun
Derived words: wellhead cost
Translations:
well-informed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-informed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-informed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-informed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-informed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Furnished with sufficient, correct knowledge.
pos: adj
examples: Second, a railway research department represents a qualified and specialised consultancy service, to provide the basis for well-informed high-level decisions regarding new designs or possible lines of development.
You’re well-informed, so you already microwave your germy kitchen sponge. Or should you?
This is especially important when things are not going to plan - well-informed passengers tend to react better to delays and disruption.
Translations:
well-intentioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-intentioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-intentioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-intentioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-intentioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
pos: adj
examples: A 21-Valyrian steel dagger salute to Paddy Considine, who makes his exit from House Of The Dragon this week with a thunderclap of a performance. “The Lord of the Tides” is the swan song for his King Viserys I Targaryen, a well-intentioned but indecisive man who waited until the very last day of his life to flex his royal might.
Antonyms: ill-intentioned
Translations:
well-knit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-knit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-knit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Firmly constructed and held together
pos: adj
Translations:
well-made
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-made
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-made
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-made
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-made
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Properly constructed or manufactured.
pos: adj
Translations:
well-meant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-meant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-meant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.
pos: adj
examples: When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.
Translations:
well-ordered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more well-ordered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-ordered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a precise arrangement.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a well-order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
well-preserved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-preserved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-preserved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-preserved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-preserved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well preserved
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Healthy and ageing gracefully.
pos: adj
gloss: In good condition considering its age.
pos: adj
examples: Its [listed building] designation is due to its 'group value' with Mostyn's station and goods shed, and to it being a well-preserved early 20th century example.
Experts say it is the best-preserved mammoth carcass in the world and is one of only seven whole remains ever found.
The setting for this big fight over a little bird is bucolic: A well-preserved 18th-century barn, white with green doors, standing on the edge of a sprawling saltmarsh in Rye.
Translations:
well-timed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-timed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-timed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-timed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-timed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Happening at an opportune or advantageous time.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: seasonable, in good season, opportune; see also Thesaurus:timely
Their most recent release to the market was well-timed.
gloss: Keeping accurate time; in keeping with accurate timing or rhythm.
pos: adj
examples: A well-timed snare drum enlivened the music.
A well-timed engine with an unaggressive cam profile will purr like a kitten and is unlikely to backfire even upon sudden throttle changes.
Related words: dwell time
in due time
in good time
time is ripe
timing belt
timing chain
when the time comes
in due course
stars align
stars are aligned
Translations:
well-turned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-turned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-turned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-turned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-turned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a pleasing shape
pos: adj
gloss: Pleasingly expressed
pos: adj
gloss: Expertly turned on a lathe
pos: adj
Translations:
endarterectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endarterium
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English endarterectomy
From endarterium + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: endarterectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endarteriectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove plaque from an artery.
pos: noun
Translations:
clashing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more clashing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clashing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A clash; the sound or action of clashing; violent collision.
pos: noun
gloss: conflicting, contrasting, or contrary; inconsonant, incompatible, or irreconcilable
pos: adj
gloss: mismatched, inharmonious, discordant or dissonant, not fitting well together (especially in regards to aesthetics, colors, clothing, or sounds)
pos: adj
gloss: adverse or antagonistic; disagreeing or opposing
pos: adj
gloss: Producing a clash or series of clashes.
pos: adj
examples: From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.
Derived words: clashingly
nonclashing
unclashing
Translations:
spoiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spoilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: plunder; pillage
pos: noun
examples: May 10, 1775, Benjamin Franklin, Proposed Preamble to a Congressional Resolution on Privateering
[…] all the spoilings, thefts, burnings of houses and towns, and murders of innocent people, perpetrated by their wicked and inhuman corsairs on our coasts […]
Translations:
hardening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hardenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something hardens.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which hardens.
pos: noun
Derived words: case hardening
case-hardening
hardening of the arteries
nonhardening
precipitation hardening
radiation hardening
self-hardening
strain hardening
thermohardening
work hardening
Translations:
dismissing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dismissing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dismissing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dismissive.
pos: adj
examples: When a dismissing patient comes in for therapy, however, positive arousal and laughter may play an important role in establishing the therapeutic attachment bond.
Aline was disillusioned and very dismissing of people not true to their word.
Her luminous tawny eyes were cool and emotionless, her perfectly tinted lips held only the most dismissing of smiles, except when it came to her friend.
Translations:
eloquently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English eloquently, eloquentely, equivalent to eloquent + -ly.
Base: eloquent
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more eloquently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most eloquently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an eloquent manner; stated well.
pos: adv
examples: There they were before us, mother and babe, the white memories of a forgotten human history speaking more eloquently to the heart than could any written record of their lives.
Does she speak eloquently? / And would she have your baby? / I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother
Translations:
grunion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from American Spanish gruñón (“grunter, grouch”), from gruñir (“to grunt”).
Inflected forms:
form: grunions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two small fish, of the genus Leuresthes, found along the coast of Mexico and southern California, that spawn in the wet sand at certain high tides.
pos: noun
Translations:
groundswell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
surfing
transport
Etymology: From ground + swell.
Compound parts: ground
swell
Inflected forms:
form: groundswells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ground swell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance.
pos: noun
gloss: A broadly-based shifting of public opinion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: An astonishing groundswell of support for the new Democratic frontrunner, Barack Obama, is threatening to sweep Hillary Clinton away in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary election of the 2008 presidential contest tomorrow.
The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
The public’s endorsement of the war lacks the patriotic groundswell that greeted the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
Investments in research, deployment and scaling existing technologies are the initial ripples that will have to build to a groundswell of further action.
Related words: wind swell
Translations:
impedimenta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impedimenta, circa 1600. Compare impediment.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipment intended for an activity that serves as more of a hindrance than a help, especially military baggage.
pos: noun
examples: On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
Dashing back to my compartment, I grabbed my impedimenta - what my companion thought of the maniac who alighted at a station only half-way to the first booked stop I don't know ! - got out, hurried under the subway, and was into my 10.45 comfortably before its departure.
Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks, boxing-gloves, a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise-books.
There was no sign of piano, organ, hymn-books, church programs—the familiar ecclesiastical impedimenta we saw every Sunday.
Synonyms: impediments
Translations:
singlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sports
Etymology: From single + -let.
Base: single
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: singlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of one, an item not part of a larger set
pos: noun
gloss: A set of one, an item not part of a larger set
pos: noun
examples: 2003, Timothy M. Cox, 90: Protoporphyria, Karl M. Kadish, Kevin M. Smith, Roger Guilard, (editors), The Porphyrin Handbook, Volume 14: Medical Aspects of Porphyrins, page 132,
When a ground state molecule absorbs a photon, the values of the electron spins are not altered and thus the primary excited state is the singlet state.
However, even if it were possible to supply benzophenone with radiation of the appropriate wavelength to produce the second excited singlet state of the molecule, this singlet would rapidly convert to the lowest singlet state (S1).
gloss: A set of one, an item not part of a larger set
pos: noun
examples: Singlet and monocultural identity is so normalized that many voice hearers and plurals don’t share their experiences with anyone, living in isolation (and sometimes in poverty) and spending considerable inner resources to manage postures and performances of ‘mental health’.
Her system started when she was 17 years old: “We were not created by trauma. It started from being a singlet (one body, one person), but then, we lost our sense of self. […]
More strongly, respect might require that singlets themselves accept, in the context of interacting with plurals, that people are truly distinct people.
gloss: A single piece of clothing
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
Nigeria
Singapore
UK
examples: Winston wrenched his body out of bed — naked, for a member of the Outer Party received only 3,000 clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pyjamas was 600 — and seized a dingy singlet and a pair of shorts that were lying across a chair.
2000, Nicole Matthews, Kitsch on the Fringe: Suburbia in Recent Australian Comedy Film, Roger Webster, Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives, page 176,
The semiotics of the singlet - immediately identifiable in Australia, especially in its usual shade of blue, with male manual labourers¹⁶ - underlines the contrast between the effete fakery of ballroom costumes and real masculinity to be found underneath or in the world of folk dancing.
However, even in the latter he wears a blue singlet to help remind the audience of his working-class roots.
2009, Deborah Penrith, Live & Work in: Australia, Crimson Publishing, UK, page 192,
Women wear dresses, cropped trousers and vests with lightweight linen jackets and you will find men in anything from a business suit to a pair of stubbies (very short shorts) and a singlet top (white vest) or knee-length cargo trousers.
gloss: A single piece of clothing
pos: noun
Derived words: isosinglet
nonsinglet
singlet bag
singleted
singlet oxygen
supersinglet
Translations:
mortally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mortally, equivalent to mortal + -ly.
Base: mortal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more mortally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mortally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fatally; in such a way as to cause death.
pos: adv
examples: Sir Philip Sidney, soldier, courtier, statesman and poet, was born at Penshurst in 1554. He won imperishable fame 32 years later at the Battle of Zutphen in Holland when, mortally wounded, he refused a drink of water and passed his flask to a wounded soldier, with the words: 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'
gloss: As a mortal.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: And all the depth of rightfull doome was taught / By faire Astræa with great industrie, / Whilest here on earth she lived mortallie […]
Derived words: perimortally
Translations:
predicable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: predicables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That may be used in the predicate of a sentence, especially following a form of the verb "to be".
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
pos: noun
Related words: predicate
Derived words: predicably
unpredicable
Translations:
conductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conduct
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English conductive
From conduct + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more conductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to conduct electrical current or heat.
pos: adj
examples: Distilled water is very slightly electrically conductive.
Solar storms drive currents of millions of amps through the electrically conductive upper layer of our atmosphere (known as the ionosphere). These currents, which can fluctuate rapidly, drive powerful magnetic disturbances at the Earth's surface that in turn induce electrical currents in the planet's crust.
gloss: Of, or relating to conductivity of a material.
pos: adj
Synonyms: conductant
Antonyms: nonconductive
Derived words: chondroconductive
conductive coupling
conductively
conductive pen
electroconductive
hyperconductive
microconductive
nonconductive
osteoconductive
photoconductive
piezoconductive
semiconductive
superconductive
thermoconductive
unconductive
Translations:
somesuch
Part of speech: adj
pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Univerbation of some + such.
Inflected forms:
form: some such
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: some such
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the same or similar kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: somesuch excuse.
1816, The Idler, Number 86, Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, The Works of Samuel Johnson, 1816 ed.
the elevation of my apartments furnished a subject for conversation, which, without somesuch help, we should have been in danger of wanting.
gloss: Other things of the same kind or type.
pos: pron
examples: I never did have a full name down in my daybook for him, just Sam or Joe or somesuch, I can't recollect that now.
Translations:
laminectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lamino-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English laminectomy
From lamino- + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: laminectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove the bony arch or lamina from one or more vertebrae.
pos: noun
Translations:
pancreatectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From pancreat- + -ectomy.
Base: pancreat
Inflected forms:
form: pancreatectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surgical operation in which part or all of the pancreas is removed, usually to treat pancreatic diseases such as cancer, tumors, or severe inflammation.
pos: noun
examples: Pancreatectomy was a palliative measure at this stage of the cancer.
Translations:
parathyroidectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā
Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā)
Ancient Greek -εος (-eos)
Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin thyreoīdēsbor.
English thyroid
English parathyroid
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English parathyroidectomy
From parathyroid + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: parathyroidectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The procedure to remove one or more of the parathyroid glands
pos: noun
Translations:
bedsit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of bed(room) + sit(ting room). First attested in 1900.
Inflected forms:
form: bedsits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bed-sitter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bed-sitting room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
formal
Senses:
gloss: A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
Translations:
briny
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brine
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English briny
From brine + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: brinier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more briny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: briniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most briny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: the briny
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty.
pos: adj
examples: on the briny deep
gloss: Acerbic; unsentimental.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: [Julian] Barnes wrote “Nothing to Be Frightened Of” when he was 62. He just turned 80. This briny English writer, author of “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984) and a winner of the Booker Prize, for “The Sense of an Ending” (2011), now has a rare form of blood cancer, treatable but exhausting and uncurable.
gloss: The sea.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That afternoon Mr Slater had been for what he termed "a blow of the briny," as his custom was on a fine day. He was returning in the dusk and had crossed the spacious promenade when, at a corner, he almost ran into the broad figure of a policeman who stood talking to a woman on the path.
I thought I would go to the sea and shrink down very tiny / And slide inside the telephone wire that runs under the briny
Derived words: brinily
brininess
unbriny
Translations:
techno-shamanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der.
English techno-
English shamanic
English techno-shamanic
From techno- + shamanic.
Inflected forms:
form: technoshamanic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to techno-shamanism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
techno-shamanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der.
English techno-
English shamanism
English techno-shamanism
From techno- + shamanism.
Inflected forms:
form: technoshamanism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cultural movement combining technology, electronic dance music and spiritual or religious elements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: