yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pent-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pent + up.
Compound parts: pent
up
Inflected forms:
form: more pent-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pent-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pent up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not expressed.
pos: adj
examples: I remember, particularly, how, in his speech here, he referred to what his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire.
gloss: Repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses.
pos: adj
examples: He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.
It was that kind of night, full of anxiety and drama and plenty of danger, until, finally, Steven Gerrard made sure all the pent-up emotion could be released.
Anecdotally, demand has held up - rather than cancelling, people are asking when they might be able to travel. There is a sense of some pent-up demand.
“I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday.
Translations:
heist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably pronunciation variation of hoist.
Inflected forms:
form: heists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
In 1990, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, two men dressed as police officers pulled off the largest art heist in history, with 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts, and a Vermeer, that have never been found.
gloss: A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.
The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists.
The crew resemble typical heist characters[.]
gloss: To steal, rob, or hold up (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cyberheist
Translations:
epistaxis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίσταξις (epístaxis, “nosebleed”): ἐπί (epí, “above, over, on, upon, besides”) + στάζω (stázō, “to drip (from the nostrils)”).
Inflected forms:
form: epistaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nosebleed.
pos: noun
Translations:
repentance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested circa 14th century, from Middle English repentance, repentaunce, from Old French repentance. More at repent. By surface analysis, repent + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: repentances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repentaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being repentant, penitent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1678, Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, second period
God hath denied me repentance. His words gives me no encouragement to believe.
gloss: A feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Synonyms: compunction
contrition
penitence
remorse
Related words: repent
repentant
repentantly
repented
repenting
Derived words: herb of repentance
irrepentance
nonrepentance
Repentance Creek
right of repentance
stool of repentance
unrepentance
Translations:
eaves
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: PIE word
 *upér
From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over).
Inflected forms:
form: eave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Him that you term'd Sir, the good old Lord Gonzallo, / His teares runs downe his beard like winters drops / From eaues of reeds: […]
Thus night oft ſee me in thy pale career, / Till civil-ſuited morn appeer, / […] / Or uſher'd with a ſhower ſtill, / When the guſt hath blown his fill, / Ending on the ruſsling Leaves, / With minute drops from off the Eaves.
By my window bowered round with leaves, / And down my cheeks the quick tears ran / Like twinkling rain-drops from the eaves, / When warm spring showers are passing o'er: […]
gloss: Something that extends over or projects beyond.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
plural-only
examples: But after many strains and heaves / He got up to the Saddle eaves.
The mystic glory swims away; / From off my bed the moonlight dies; / And closing eaves of wearied eyes / I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: […]
Related words: eaved
eavesdrip
eavesdrop
eavesdropper
eavesdropping
eavesdroppingly
eavesread
eavestrough
flying eaves
Woodhouse Eaves
Translations:
referendum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Latin referendum (“that which ought to be announced”), from refero (“to announce”).
Inflected forms:
form: referenda
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: referendums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A direct popular vote on a proposed law or constitutional amendment.
pos: noun
examples: a referendum on …
In some cases, a referendum on the proposed bond issue must be held.
Article 74: The Republic of Karakalpakstan shall have the right to secede from the Republic of Uzbekistan on the basis of a nation-wide referendum held by the people of Karakalpakstan.
Although the Cook Islands held a referendum in 1994, when voters rejected a name change, the yearning for a decolonised identity has not disappeared.
[Salvador] Illa ascribed the nationalist surge in Catalonia that fuelled support for the 2017 referendum – and Brexit in the UK – as populist responses to the financial crisis of 2008.
gloss: An action, choice, etc., which is perceived as passing judgment on another matter.
pos: noun
examples: My father is taking my decision on whether to go to university as a referendum on his performance as a parent, and it's very stressful.
Related words: ad referendum
Derived words: antireferendum
neverendum
preferendum
proreferendum
pseudoreferendum
Translations:
plebiscite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
politics
Etymology: Sense 1 (“referendum”) is borrowed from French plébiscite, from Latin plēbiscītum, plēbis scītum, plēbī scītum (“law of the common people or plebs”), from plēbis (the genitive singular of plēbs (“common people, plebeians”)) + scītum (“decree, ordinance, statute”).
Sense 3 (“law enacted by the common people”) is a learned borrowing from Latin plēbiscītum: see above. It is attested earlier than English plebiscitum.
Cognates
* Italian plebiscito
* Middle French plebiscite (modern French plébiscite)
* Middle Low German plebiscīt (“ordinance”)
* Spanish plebiscito, plebisçito (obsolete)
Inflected forms:
form: plebiscites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
pos: noun
examples: A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform.
Then something changed, and Mr. Mitterrand said he thought it would be a good idea if the Constitution allowed plebiscites, on the recommendation of the President, on issues involving personal freedoms.
gloss: An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Synonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”).
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
Derived words: plebiscitary
plebiscitic
Translations:
diplomat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), ultimately from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “double-folded document”).
Inflected forms:
form: diplomats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations
pos: noun
examples: The French diplomat negotiated the peace treaty.
A career as a diplomat requires cultural awareness and patience.
gloss: Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: diplomatist
Related words: diplomacy
diplomatic
chargé d'affaires
consul
envoy
high commissioner
Derived words: diplobrat
diplolingo
diplomat cream
diplomatese
diplomatism
diplomatize
diplomat pudding
diplomat-speak
guerrilla diplomat
nondiplomat
superdiplomat
Translations:
vermiculite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin vermiculus (“wormlet”), for its fibrous nature and tendency to expand into worm-like shapes when heated.
Inflected forms:
form: vermiculites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hydrated silicate mineral which expands on heating; it is used in insulation and as a medium for planting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vermicompost
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis
Proto-Italic *wormis
Latin vermisbor.
English vermi-
English compost
English vermicompost
From vermi- (“worm”) + compost.
Inflected forms:
form: vermicomposts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vermicomposting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vermicomposted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vermicomposted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vermicomposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To employ worms to break down organic waste into soil or humus
pos: verb
gloss: the product of worm composting; worm castings
pos: noun
Translations:
broken-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more broken-down
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most broken-down
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Which has broken down and, as a result, is no longer in working order.
pos: adj
examples: And a broken-down train and the severe weather temporarily shut the line between Dawlish and Exeter St Davids.
gloss: Not properly maintained; neglected.
pos: adj
gloss: Ruined in character or strength.
pos: adj
examples: We looked our last upon them and the indescribable rosy glow in which they lay, and then with hearts far too heavy for words we left them, and crept thence broken-down men - so broken down that we even renounced the chance of practically immortal life, because all that made life valuable had gone from us, and we knew even then that to prolong our days indefinitely would only be to prolong our sufferings.
Translations:
ruinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ruynous, from Old French ruinos, ruineus, from Latin ruīnōsus. By surface analysis, ruin + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more ruinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ruinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
pos: adj
gloss: Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
pos: adj
examples: They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.
We are rapidly reversing the economic calamity we inherited from the previous administration, including ruinous price increases and record-setting inflation, inflation like we've never had before.
gloss: Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
pos: adj
Derived words: ruinously
ruinousness
Translations:
rundown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
gambling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English run downdeverb.
English rundown
Deverbal from run down.
Inflected forms:
form: rundowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rough outline of a topic or situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?
gloss: A summary of the horses to be raced on a particular day, with their weights, jockeys, odds, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Comes post-time, and I am at the bookie joint listening the running descriptions and rundowns, […]
I would say this: If you are in a community where you do not have the rundown sheet on the horses in the race, do what they have done in Sacramento.
gloss: A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Smith is caught in a rundown, but Jones will come around to score.
gloss: A Caribbean stew of meat or fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A reduction, e.g. of an activity, or in the size of something, such as a fleet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rundown of LNER's Class 91/Mk 4 fleet continues, with two more locomotives sent for store at Doncaster and a rake of coaches moving to Worksop,
Translations:
barbering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English barber
English -ing
English barbering
From barber + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The trades of barbering and surgery have long been linked, as evidenced by the barber's red and white striped pole.
After several days in the bush, he had grown lax with his barbering and needed a good shave before he was presentable again.
gloss: The practice among pets of overgrooming each other, leaving bald patches.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
environmentalist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English environmental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English environmentalist
From environmental + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: environmentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more environmentalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most environmentalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who advocates for the protection of the environment and biosphere from misuse from human activity through such measures as ecosystem protection, waste reduction and pollution prevention.
pos: noun
examples: The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast.
This tension is familiar in the lives of most environmentalists. Some own cars; some still eat meat.
The term greenwashing was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, back when most consumers received their news from television, radio and print media – the same outlets that corporations regularly flooded with a wave of high-priced, slickly-produced commercials and print ads.
A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
He [King Charles] is a committed environmentalist at a point when the government is full of climate change deniers.
gloss: One who holds the view that environment, rather than heredity or culture, is the primary factor in the development of an individual or group.
pos: noun
examples: As we remarked once before, there are two extreme views with respect to life, one attributing everything to the environment, the other to inherent abilities. If, for example, an unusual number of distinguished men are born and reared in the same locality, the environmentalists assert that the causes for their appearance were entirely external and that had their parents changed habitats with those residing elsewhere the result would have been the same, except that the family names of these eminent men would have been different.
gloss: Of, or relating to environmentalism.
pos: adj
examples: The environmentalist explanation would be that tropical environment retards or depresses culture through its physiological effect on the human organism.
Related words: environmentalism
environmental
environment
enviro-
Derived words: anti-environmentalist
enviro
pseudoenvironmentalist
Translations:
raffish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late 18th century raff (“persons among the lowest class in society”) + -ish, still retained in contemporary English with riffraff. From Old French raffer (“to wear away”), of Germanic origin. Compare German raffen. Compare rip (“to tear”), rap (“to snatch”).
Base: raff
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more raffish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most raffish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish.
pos: adj
examples: Billie Eilish wants you to know she is in charge, brash and self-assured enough to scrap the raffish image that helped garner her a world of fans in favor of something a little more … adult.
The smokers' most raffish outsider, Comstock, appeared to do nothing but smoke; Chris had never seen him inside the building.
gloss: Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.
pos: adj
examples: I had met the man before this in the village, and detested him on sight; there was something indescribably raffish in his looks and ways that raised my gorge; […]
He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman.
He wore a neat dark overcoat, brown shoes, and a bowler hat rather on one side; his appearance was, in fact, genteel, though his air was a trifle raffish.
Altogether the city [Las Vegas] is one of the most amiably raffish communities in the nation—an assembly of glittering chrome and flaming colors by day, a flowering jungle of glowing neon and flashing lights by night.
Related words: riffraff
Derived words: raffishly
raffishness
unraffish
Translations:
raillery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French railleriebor.
English raillery
Borrowed from French raillerie.
Inflected forms:
form: railleries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Good-natured banter, jest, or ridicule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Flip [Lady Flippant]. I love, of my life men ſhould deal freely vvith me; there are ſo fevv men vvill deal freely with one— / Sir Sim[on Addlepot]. Are you not a Fireſhip? a Punk, Madam? / Flip. VVell, Sir, I love Raillery. / Sir Sim. Faith and troth I do not railly, I deal freely.
It is so indeed—Charles—they give into all the substantial Luxuries of the Table—and abstain from nothing but wine and wit—Oh, certainly society suffers by it intolerably—for now instead of the social spirit of Raillery that used to mantle over a glass of bright Burgundy their conversation is become just like the Spa water they drink which has all the Pertness and flatulence of champaine without its spirit or Flavour.
Excitement instantly seized the whole party: a running fire of raillery and jests was proceeding when Sam returned.
Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.
Translations:
discarnate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English carnate
English discarnate
From dis- + carnate.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no physical body or form.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Sho," she muttered, allowing soft, discarnate voices to articulate and move on.
But there are latent powers within man alone that are not yet fully understood and [...] we cannot definitely state what is, and what is not, due to the interference or influence of discarnate intelligences.
Antonyms: corporeal
incarnate
tangible
Translations:
rapacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Perhaps from rapacity + -ous, in any case ultimately from Latin rapāx (“grasping, greedy”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more rapacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rapacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Voracious; avaricious.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
examples: To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
Relations between the Waveney Valley Railway and the E.C.R. [Eastern Counties Railway] soon became strained, because of the rapacious attitude adopted by the latter, and to the mismanagement which it displayed in working the smaller company's line.
Big Tech companies, on the other hand, have proven themselves to be rapacious capitalists—they take as much as they can and ask for permission later.
The rapacious maw of our despair
gloss: Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
pos: adj
examples: A Prince […] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
gloss: Subsisting off live prey.
pos: adj
examples: Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for […] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place[…]
Related words: rapaciously
rapaciousness
rapacity
Derived words: unrapacious
Translations:
extinguish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct.
Inflected forms:
form: extinguishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extinguishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extinguished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extinguished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: She extinguished all my hopes.
They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To end (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
If the amnesty becomes law as expected this month or in June, it promises to extinguish the charges Puigdemont faces of disobedience and misuse of public funds.
gloss: To die out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
Related words: distinguish
extinct
extinction
extinguisher
fire extinguisher
Derived words: extinguishable
extinguishant
extinguishment
inextinguishability
self-extinguishing
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shthur
lang: Bulgarian
word: унищожавам
roman: uništožavam
lang: Danish
word: slukke
lang: Danish
word: udslukke
lang: Dutch
word: vernietigen
lang: Finnish
word: tuhota
lang: German
word: auslöschen
lang: Japanese
word: 打っ潰す
roman: buttsubusu
lang: Japanese
word: 絶やす
roman: tayasu
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ئیبادەت
roman: îbadet
lang: Latin
word: perimō
lang: Ligurian
word: amortâ
lang: Māori
word: whakanoa
lang: Polish
word: stłumić
lang: Russian
word: разрушить
roman: razrušitʹ
lang: Russian
word: уничтожить
roman: uničtožitʹ
lang: Swedish
word: släcka
lang: Swedish
word: utsläcka
lang: Uyghur
word: يوقاتماق
roman: yoqatmaq
lang: Uyghur
word: يوقالماق
roman: yoqalmaq
lang: Uzbek
word: yoʻq qilmoq
juror
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English jurour, jurrour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jurour and Old French jureor, from the verb jurer (“to swear”), or possibly from Latin iūrātor, iūrātōrem, whence the English doublet jurator.
Inflected forms:
form: jurors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jurour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of a jury.
pos: noun
examples: While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.
The jurors listened carefully while Eidem portrayed Fern Sankey as an archconspirator who drove her husband into crime and was intimately involved in all major details of Charlie Boettcher's abduction.
Translations:
inimical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more inimical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inimical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Harmful in effect.
pos: adj
examples: Slaves knew that some of the treatments worsened problems and, perhaps most important, they realized that a master's interest in their fitness for work was sometimes inimical to their health.
She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her.
From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.
gloss: Unfriendly, hostile.
pos: adj
examples: Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
Synonyms: inimic
inimicable
antagonistic
Antonyms: amicable
Related words: enemy
Derived words: inimicality
inimically
inimicalness
uninimical
Translations:
inscrutable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin īnscrūtābilis, from in- (“not”) + scrūtō (“to examine”), corresponding to in- + scrutable
Base: scrutable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inscrutable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inscrutable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inscrutables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
pos: adj
examples: His inscrutable theories would years later become the foundation of a whole new science.
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
It was unconscious, this smile was, though just after he had said something it got intensified for an instant. It came at the end of his speeches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely inscrutable.
She called my vanity license plate inscrutable! 'ICU81MI'? Hilarious!
The writer Juan Rulfo, whose 1955 novel, “Pedro Páramo,” still stands as the central monument of modern Mexican literature, grew up in Jalisco and vividly depicted its arid, sun-blasted landscapes in his writing, while the architect Luis Barragán, who moved from Guadalajara to Mexico City in the 1930s, carried with him an appreciation for his home state’s cloisters, haciendas and humble country buildings, which he translated in his own work as austere, inscrutable volumes of stucco.
gloss: One who or that which is inscrutable; a person, etc. that cannot be comprehended.
pos: noun
Translations:
palliate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The verb was inherited from Middle English palliaten (“To palliate (a disease), relieve the symptoms of (a patient); to extenuate (an offense); to conceal, hide”), the adjective and participle from its participle palliat(e); further borrowed either from Middle French pallier or directly from Latin palliātus, perfect passive participle of palliō (“to cover with a cloak”)), from pallium (“a cloak”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: palliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: palliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: palliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: palliated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
pos: verb
examples: And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
gloss: To hide or disguise.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard
We extenuate not our guilt : whatever we sin , we condemn it as mortal : they palliate wickedness , with the fair pretence of veniality
The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate.
gloss: To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: "Ah, dearest!" replied he, "your spirits are exhausted,—perhaps unconsciously oppressed with the idea of that future whose pain and whose peril I have rather heightened than palliated."
If, mindless of palliating circumstances, we are bound to regard the death of the Master-at-arms as the prisoner's deed, then does that deed constitute a capital crime whereof the penalty is a mortal one?
gloss: To placate or mollify.
pos: verb
examples: Bradly stopped dead, too confounded to be appalled. Young Podson! Impossible! He had last seen young Podson, a bank clerk, on the seat of a pub verandah in an inland town ninety miles away, Bradly's last painting town. A noosance, young Podson, only to be palliated on a pub verandah after dinner.
[Gordon] Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).
Related words: palla
palliation
palliative
pallium
Derived words: palliator
palliatory
Translations:
oneiric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From oneir- + -ic, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὀνείρειος (oneíreios).
Base: oneir
Inflected forms:
form: more oneiric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oneiric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oniric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to dreams.
pos: adj
examples: Dreams contain oneiric images and oneiric symbols. Both of them are, in fact, 'distorted' manifestations of a latent content which resides in the dreamer's unconscious.
gloss: Resembling a dream; dreamlike.
pos: adj
examples: Rather, novelist Louise de Vilmorin, whose popular novel Madame de had been recently filmed by Max Ophuls, joined Malle in reworking Denon's novella and updating it into a combination of a modern comedy of manners and a daring, even oneiric love story that played with and defied many conventions of the romance genre.
[…] The Memory Palace [is] Edward Hollis's idiosyncratic tour of a series of historical interiors that have all disappeared or been dismantled. […] Hollis might have done far more with literature's unique contribution to our sense of domestic space as both commemorative and creative. […] [A]mid all the palaces with their dreamlike interiors, there is puzzlingly no place for the many oneiric palaces of poetry.
Related words: oneirism
oneirocritic
oneirologist
oneirology
oneiromancer
oneiromancy
oneironaut
oneirophobia
Derived words: oneirically
Translations:
biosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from German Biosphäre, coined by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1875. By surface analysis, bio- + -sphere.
Inflected forms:
form: biospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
pos: noun
gloss: The totality of living organisms and their environment.
pos: noun
examples: Patavig is the second of the Macedon system's giant terrestrial planets, and by far the more interesting. Most of the surface is covered by a vast sea of liquid ammonia, in which a unique aquatic ammonia-based biosphere has developed. While the frozen continents are largely bereft of life, a rich bounty of complex organisms — many larger than a human — flourish in the chilly, toxic seas.
Related words: biospheric
biospherical
Derived words: abiosphere
biospherian
Translations:
ecosystem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From eco- + system. Coined by English botanist Arthur Tansley in 1935 in a paper titled The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts in the journal Ecology.
Base: system
Affixes: eco-
Inflected forms:
form: ecosystems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
pos: noun
examples: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
gloss: The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
pos: noun
gloss: A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.
It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.
There is a certain duality in how the Hindutva ecosystem is pushing the anti-hijab discourse into the mainstream.
Money mules play an important role in the scam ecosystem primarily to get money out of Singapore to the foreign syndicates and facilitate scams.
The result, as Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon put it in a striking essay in Noema magazine, is that our online spaces are no longer open ecosystems.
Derived words: agroecosystem
ecosystem engineer
ecosystemic
geoecosystem
macroecosystem
mesoecosystem
metaecosystem
microecosystem
palaeoecosystem
paleoecosystem
technoecosystem
Translations:
misuse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mis- + use (noun).
Base: use
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: misuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: misust
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: misust
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
Senses:
gloss: An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.
gloss: To use (something) incorrectly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “If that is true she would be the first case I have ever heard of, as most female captives are misused by the entire tribe.”
gloss: To abuse verbally, to insult.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Socrates was brought upon the stage by Aristophanes, and misused to his face: but he laughed, as if it concerned him not […].
Derived words: misuser
Translations:
dating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: datings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of romantic courtship typically between two individuals with the aim of assessing the other's suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Janet was surprised at how much casual dating had changed since she was last single.
We met on a popular dating app.
gloss: An estimation of the age of an artifact, biological vestige, linguistic usage, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1922 (July), A. E. Douglass, "Some aspects of the use of the annual rings of trees in climatic study". The Scientific Monthly 15(1): 5-21.
A comparison in seven sequoias between very careful counting and accurate dating in 2,000 years shows an average counting error of 35 years, which is only 1.7 per cent.
Finally, with the exception of the rug in the paintings of Willem Duyster, the datings of both groups approximately agree;
The results almost always used to illustrate this are the datings of human bones from the Sct. Drotten Church in Lund.
Different dendrochronological datings have different veracity. The veracity of a dendrochronological dating depends on the certainty of the collations on the dendrochronological scale.
gloss: The setting of a date on which an event or transaction is to take place or take effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But C.O.D. datings are relatively rare. They are so disliked by buyers that they are used by sellers only when the latter are quite uncertain of a buyer's ability and willingness to pay.
Pressure from unemployment for retrenchment is evident for the "early" as well as "best" datings of retrenchment. However, when retrenchment datings lean toward earlier years, unemployment is not the preeminent factor among the various accelerators and decelerators of retrenchment that it is for the more balanced "best" datings of Table 7.2 (or that it is, as we shall see, for the "late" datings).
Seasonal datings are special credit terms that are sometimes offered to retailers when sales are highly concentrated in one or more periods during the year.
Derived words: age-dating
antidating
cyberdating
dating coach
dating sim
dating simulator
hyperdating
interdating
nondating
radiodating
teledating
Translations:
mounted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mount
English -ed
English mounted
From mount + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On horseback.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The mounted cavalry rode into town.
gloss: Furnished; supplied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: flush mounted
mounted infantry
mounted police
Mountie
mountie
Mounties
nonmounted
pad-mounted
rack-mounted
surface mounted
surface mounted technology
track-mounted
Translations:
threatened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more threatened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most threatened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At risk of becoming endangered in the near future.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: It is particularly desirable to obtain photographs of rural stations, both with and without a train, in view of the threatened wholesale closure of unremunerative branches throughout the country.
gloss: Feeling insecure or vulnerable.
pos: adj
Derived words: bethreatened
nonthreatened
threatened abortion
threatened species
unthreatened
Translations:
cotangent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-
Proto-Italic *tangō
Latin tangō
Latin tangēns
Latin tangentembor.
English tangent
English cotangent
From co- + tangent.
Inflected forms:
form: cotangents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the tangent of an angle. Symbols: cot, ctg, or ctn
pos: noun
Translations:
cosecant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English secant
English cosecant
From co- + secant.
Inflected forms:
form: cosecants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the sine of an angle. Symbols: cosec, csc
pos: noun
Translations:
algebraic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
board-games
chess
games
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
Etymology: Partly from algebra + -ic and partly from French algébraïque.
Base: algebra
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more algebraic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most algebraic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, algebra.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing only numbers, letters, and arithmetic operators.
pos: adj
gloss: Which is a root of some polynomial whose coefficients are rational.
pos: adj
gloss: Whose every element is a root of some polynomial whose coefficients are rational.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing squares by file (referred to in intrinsic order rather than by the piece starting on that file) and rank, both with reference to a fixed point rather than a player-dependent perspective.
pos: adj
Antonyms: transcendental
transcendental
Derived words: algebraical
algebraically
algebraic analysis
algebraic closure
algebraic closure operator
algebraic combinatorics
algebraic curve
algebraic data type
algebraic equation
algebraic extension
algebraic function
algebraic fundamental group
algebraic geometer
algebraic graph theory
algebraic group
algebraicity
algebraicize
algebraic K-theory
algebraicness
algebraic normal form
algebraic notation
algebraic number field
algebraic poset
algebraic statistics
algebraic subvariety
algebraic topology
algebraic variety
bialgebraic
coalgebraic
linear algebraic
linear algebraic group
nonalgebraic
semialgebraic
subalgebraic
superalgebraic
unalgebraic
algebraic integer
algebraic number
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: algebrallinen
lang: German
word: algebraisch
lang: Polish
word: algebraiczny
lang: Russian
word: алгебраи́ческий
roman: algebraíčeskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: algebarski
transmittable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transmit
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 transmittable
From transmit + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of transmissible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Had it mutated? Was it contagious? Transmittable to humans?
Translations:
transmittal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transmit
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 transmittal
From transmit + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: transmittals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of transmitting a message; a transmission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An item of correspondence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: submittal
Derived words: transmittal letter
Translations:
transmittance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: transmittances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A transmission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fraction of incident light, or other radiation, that passes through a substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
transmitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transmit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English transmitter
From transmit + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: transmitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
pos: noun
examples: Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.
Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated recovery from depression, respectively.
gloss: An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.
pos: noun
Derived words: arc transmitter
carbon transmitter
chemotransmitter
cotransmitter
emergency location transmitter
emergency locator transmitter
gaseotransmitter
gasotransmitter
gliotransmitter
immunotransmitter
infinity transmitter
microtransmitter
multitransmitter
neurotransmitter
phosphotransmitter
radio transmitter
radiotransmitter
retransmitter
teletransmitter
transceiver
transponder
Translations: