yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
aroma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek *ἄρ- (*ár-)
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)
Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma)bor.
Late Latin arōmatader.
English aroma
From Late Latin arōmata (“spices”) (or arōma (“spice”)), from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).
Inflected forms:
form: aromas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aromata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smell; especially a pleasant, spicy or fragrant one.
pos: noun
examples: I love the aroma of cinnamon.
David Mason, Beverage and Bar Manager at St. Regis, describes the complex aromas and layered palate of the cognac thus: “It’s kind of autumn flavors. Really nutty, almondy – kind of fig, plum, dried fruits. But it finishes off really smoothly but with a little bit of tobacco leaf.”
They were asked to assess them on their appearance (an even golden-brown); aroma (biscuity); mouthfeel (either pleasantly chewy or with a satisfying crunch); and flavour (balanced, perfumed with golden syrup and earthy with oats). […] Several tasters noted the “overly sweet” coconut aroma, carrying through to a “too sweet” flavour and “too chewy” mouthfeel.
The smell of fresh asphalt hangs heavy in the air at Dore & Totley station. It's even powerful enough to overcome the usual delightful aromas emanating from the well-known curry house which occupies the original platform building.
Antonyms: odor
odour
pungency
reek
stench
Translations:
aromatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek *ἄρ- (*ár-)
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)
Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek ἀρωματικός (arōmatikós)der.
Late Latin arōmaticusder.
Old French aromatique
Middle Frenchbor.
Middle English
English aromatic
Late Middle English, from Middle French and Old French aromatique, from Late Latin aromaticus, from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).
Inflected forms:
form: more aromatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aromatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aromatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: aromatique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: aromatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aromatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aromatique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fragrant or spicy.
pos: adj
examples: aromatic herbs
aromatic taste
Beautifully adorned in tuxedo black with brilliant white stripes or spots, skunks are known mainly for their aromatic properties, but they are also efficient predators of insects and other small game.
gloss: Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons.
pos: adj
gloss: Derived from benzene.
pos: adj
gloss: A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it.
pos: noun
gloss: Any aromatic compound.
pos: noun
Antonyms: aliphatic
Derived words: aminoaromatic
antiaromatic
aramid
arene
aromatical
aromatically
aromatic compound
aromatic duck
aromatic ginger
aromaticity
aromaticness
aromatic rice
aromatic vegetable
aryl
chloroaromatic
diaromatic
fluoroaromatic
haloaromatic
heteroaromatic
homoaromatic
hydroaromatic
monoaromatic
nitroaromatic
nonaromatic
non-aromatic
perchloroheteroaromatic
perfluoroheteroaromatic
persilaaromatic
polyaromatic
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
pseudoaromatic
semiaromatic
triaromatic
unaromatic
Translations:
indigent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English indigent, from Old French indigent, from Latin indigēns, present participle of indigeō (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egeō (“to be in need, want”).
Inflected forms:
form: more indigent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indigent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indigents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Poor; destitute; in need.
pos: adj
examples: Many of the indigent children are so badly provided for by their parents, with both food and raiment, that they cannot attend school regularly; […]
And were I not a thing for you and me
To execrate in anguish, you would be
As indigent a stranger to surprise,
I fear, as I was once, and as unwise.
I had since my introduction to the prince been sensitive to the fact that he must think an obviously indigent soldier of fortune will sooner or later open the subject of a subscription to the Greek Cause.
Because of this, when my second major health fiasco happened, I had no insurance, so I went to a teaching hospital where they took indigent patients.
In numerous Supreme Court decisions since Gideon v. Wainwright, the states have been required to provide counsel for indigent defendants at virtually all other stages of the criminal process, beginning with arrest and concluding with the defendant's release from the system.
gloss: Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Again some Bodies dissolve both in Fire and Water, as Gums; &c. And these are such, as have both Plenty of Spirit; and their tangible Parts indigent of Moisture: the former promotes the Dilatation of the Spirits by the Fire and the latter stimulates the Parts to receive the Liquor.
Will Providence guard us? How do I ſee that our Sex is naturally Indigent of Protection?—I hope it is in Fate to crown our Loves; for 'tis only in the Protection of Men of Honour, that we are naturally truly Safe […]
gloss: A person in need, or in poverty.
pos: noun
examples: I liked the streets best, so I walked and stared, and slept in a Salvation Army hostel for indigents. But I was no indigent; I was rich in feeling, and that was a luxury I had rarely known.
The influx of indigents overwhelmed the city's meagre social services and affordable accommodation.
Then in 2005 a Republican-led Congress passed a bill requiring millions of low-income people to pay higher co-payments and premiums under Medicaid. The result was that many more indigents had to forgo care.
Related words: indigence
indigency
Derived words: indigently
nonindigent
unindigent
Translations:
spiffy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Attested in print from 1852 (see quotations below). Compare the noun spiff, attested from 1859, as well as spiffing (1872) and spiffed (1881), suggesting participle forms of a related verb. Compare also spiv (“a smartly-dressed criminal”), attested from the 20th century.
Inflected forms:
form: spiffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spiffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spiffies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dapper; fine or neat, especially in style of clothing or other appearance.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He was “great” (as he expressed it) with the Bloomer who kept the bar where their club was held, and whom he styled “a spiffy girl,” and who had been graciously pleased to accept of a pair of very Brummagem-looking earrings, set with paste diamonds, with which he had presented her.
The charming twins came last week, and you should see their clothes. ‘Spiffy’ is the word.
Plead the fifth, sip wine stiffly / Patiently come up and be spiffy in a jiffy
gloss: A dapper person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
hydrocarbon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
English hydrocarbon
From hydro- + carbon.
Inflected forms:
form: hydrocarbons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound consisting only of carbon and hydrogen atoms.
pos: noun
examples: Chofen is an unusually small hydrogen-helium gas giant, with traces of sulphur and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. The Alliance surveyor ship Ibn Battuta provided inconclusive evidence of hydrocarbon life in the atmosphere (over 1000 meters below the cloud tops), where pressure compresses Chofen's hydrogen into a liquid state.
Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
Translations:
voiceless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōcem
Anglo-Norman voizbor.
Middle English voys
English voice
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English voiceless
From voice + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a voice, without vocal sound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
A voiceless song in an ageless light / Sings at the coming dawn / Birds in flight are calling there / Where the heart moves the stones / It's there that my heart is calling / All for the love of you.
gloss: Without a vote; having no input into a decision.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: I've come to see she is a voiceless person in her world, and so I try to remember to stop and give her my full-faced attention when I see her.
I feel like hip-hop / Used to be a voice for the voiceless, you know? / And now it's become, at least in the mainstream, a symbol of / misogyny, gay panic, fiscal irresponsibility, you know? / So I figure / if you can't beat 'em / join 'em
gloss: Spoken without vibration of the vocal cords; unvoiced, surd, breathed. Examples: [t], [s], [f], [m̥], [u̥].
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: speechless
Derived words: prevoiceless
pre-voiceless
voicelessly
voicelessness
Translations:
concave
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
gambling
games
geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
sciences
skateboarding
sports
surfing
Etymology: From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.
Inflected forms:
form: more concave
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concave
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: concaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: concaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
pos: adj
gloss: Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hollow; empty.
pos: adj
examples: as concave […] as a worm-eaten nut
gloss: A concave surface or curve.
pos: noun
gloss: The vault of the sky.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
pos: noun
examples: Aristotle makes [Fire] to move to the concave of the Moon. - Thomas Salusbury (1661).
gloss: An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
pos: noun
gloss: An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
pos: noun
gloss: An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
pos: noun
gloss: A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
pos: noun
gloss: To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
pos: verb
Synonyms: concavous
Antonyms: convex
Derived words: biconcave
concavation
concave envelope
concave function
concavely
concaveness
concavification
concavify
concavity
concavoconcave
convexoconcave
double concave
nonconcave
planoconcave
proconcave
pseudoconcave
quasiconcave
subconcave
upper concave envelope
Translations:
efflorescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin efflōrēscēns. Compare French efflorescent. By surface analysis, effloresce + -ent.
Inflected forms:
form: more efflorescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most efflorescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bursting into flower.
pos: adj
gloss: Growing at a rapid rate; flourishing.
pos: adj
gloss: Forming a white dust or efflorescence on the surface.
pos: adj
Translations:
concentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English concentrik, from Middle French concentrique, from Medieval Latin concentricus, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + centrum (“circle, center”). Equivalent to con- + -centric. By surface analysis, con- + centre + -ic.
Affixes: con-
-centric
Inflected forms:
form: more concentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a common center.
pos: adj
examples: Seven huge concentric semi-circular rings of stone surround the northern end, and quite rightly are Grade 2-listed by conservation body Historic England.
The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest of the world outside our own country.
gloss: Of a motion, in the direction of contraction of a muscle. (e.g. the extension of the lower arm by means of the elbow joint while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles; closing of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
pos: adj
Related words: concentricity
semiconcentric
in
Dictionary.com
Oxford University Press
2019–2022
Derived words: concentrically
concentric contraction
concentricity
concentricness
nonconcentric
radioconcentric
Translations:
dormitory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dormitory, dormytory, dormytorye, borrowed from Latin dormītōrium (“a sleeping-room”), from dormiō (“to sleep”). Doublet of dormitorium and dorter.
Inflected forms:
form: dormitories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
pos: noun
examples: She will be much more likely to meet his wishes after a residence at the castle, than an imprisonment on short commons in her dormitory in Welbeck Street; for in one case she only learnt how much she could endure, in the other she will find how much she can enjoy.
The foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was responding to a report last week about an item in the 2024 US air force budget for building a dormitory at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk for personnel on a “potential surety mission” – military jargon for nuclear safety and security.
gloss: A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
pos: noun
gloss: A dormitory town.
pos: noun
Related words: dormant
dormition
dormitive
dorter
dortoir
dortour
Derived words: dormantory
dormcest
dormitorywide
dormobile
interdormitory
nondormitory
Translations:
cosmogony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοσμογονία (kosmogonía), from κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + γόνος (gónos, “creation”). By surface analysis, cosmo- + -gony.
Inflected forms:
form: cosmogonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the origin, and sometimes the development, of the universe or the solar system, in astrophysics, religion, and other fields.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: cosmology
Mr. Lampredi divides his ſubject into ſeveral heads, viz. Natural Theology, Coſmogony, Ceraunoscopy, i.e. the judgments to be formed from thunder and lightning, Phyſic, Botany, Mechanics, and Politics.
gloss: Any specific theory, model, myth, or other account of the origin of the universe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: cosmology
gloss: The creation of the universe: the origin and early development of the cosmos.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: anthropogeny
cosmography
eschatology
glottogony
theogony
Derived words: cosmogonal
cosmogonic
cosmogonical
cosmogonically
cosmogonist
cosmogonize
Translations:
pesto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Appears 1850 in Cottage economy, attributed to William Cobbett (but not found in any editions published during his life). From Italian pesto, from Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”). Cognate to pestle.
Inflected forms:
form: pestos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Inside the house, Paul is in the kitchen bent over a bowl of pesto: thick shiny basil leaves, machete-crushed garlic cloves, pine nuts, onions roasted till their gold edges blacken, and the bright scent of lemon zest.
Translations:
embedded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em-
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
English embed
Old English -ed
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English embedded
From embed + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more embedded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most embedded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Part of; firmly, or securely surrounded; lodged solidly into; deep-rooted.
pos: adj
examples: Near Maldonado I saw estuary shells of recent species embedded in clay, and raised above the level of a neighbouring fresh-water lake.
That is, a program which will execute in an embedded target computer is developed on a host computer which offers extensive support facilities.
gloss: Partially buried in concrete or planted in earth.
pos: adj
gloss: Not minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes), i.e. having a proper sub-ideal which is an associated prime.
pos: adj
Translations:
contentious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Latin contendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin contentiō
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Latin contentiōsus
Middle French contentieux
English contentious
From Middle French contentieux, from Latin contentiōsus (“quarrelsome, perverse”), from contentiō (“contention”), from contendere, past participle contentus (“to contend”). Equivalent to English contention + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more contentious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contentious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
pos: adj
examples: Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.
His essay[…] is likely to draw a furious response from across the party, where [Tony] Blair’s legacy remains highly contentious.
gloss: Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.
pos: adj
examples: She was not a contentious person as the Other had been; she did not argue and contradict everything I said.
Related words: contend
contender
contention
Derived words: contentiously
contentiousness
noncontentious
uncontentious
Translations:
coalition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coalition, from Medieval Latin coalitiō, coalitiōnem, from Latin coalitus. Compare coalescence.
Inflected forms:
form: coalitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coälition
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.
In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names. The previous coalition government, headed by the SPD (red), included the Green Party (green) and Liberal Party (yellow) - together they were known as the “traffic light” coalition.
gloss: The collective noun for a group of cheetahs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Sometimes the ante is upped, the gaggle of bowlers all working on their batsman in turn, like a coalition of cheetahs singling out a vulnerable gazelle, sending their distinctive balls down until the pressure forces a mistake or the batsman gets his own back by smashing a bad ball over everyone’s heads.
Majed Sultan Ali was on his second visit to the game reserve in a bid to photograph a coalition of cheetahs.
This is the incredible moment a juvenile ostrich attempts to outrun a coalition of cheetahs that forms a central part of the latest BBC programme to be presented by Sir David Attenborough.
Derived words: anticoalition
Coalie
coalitional
coalitionary
coalition builder
coalitioner
coalition government
coalitionism
coalitionist
coalition logic
coalition of the willing
coalitionology
countercoalition
Epstein coalition
First Coalition
Fourth Coalition
grand coalition
intercoalition
intracoalition
Jamaica coalition
noncoalition
precoalition
rainbow coalition
Second Coalition
subcoalition
supercoalition
Third Coalition
traffic light coalition
Translations:
systemic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From system + -ic. Doublet of systematic.
Base: system
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Embedded within and spread throughout and affecting a whole system, group, body, economy, market, or society.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We can learn from the incidents found it the project database - looking at them and understanding what happened and what might have been done differently. We can see past errors, including systemic issues that required attention at managerial levels.
gloss: Pertaining to an entire organism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Antonyms: topical
endemic
Related words: system
systematic
systematization
systematize
embedded
Derived words: systemical
systemically
systemicity
Translations:
selfless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English selfless
From self + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more selfless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most selfless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.
pos: adj
examples: In a selfless act of gratitude for saving his mother's life, Peter committed to giving money to his local breast cancer charity each year for the rest of his life.
Because a certain degree of selfless behavior is essential to the smooth performance of any human group, selflessness run amok can crop up in political contexts.
Translations:
tided
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
Old English tīd
Middle English tyde
English tide
English -ed
English tided
From tide + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Affected by the tide; having a tide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
the tided Thames
Translations:
wrinkle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wrinkle, wrynkel (“crease, fold, wrinkle”), from the verb (see below). Cognate with Dutch wrinkel (“wrinkle, crease”). Compare also Middle English runkel (“wrinkle”), from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkwǭ (“wrinkle, crease”), whence also French fronce (“crooked smile, scowl, frown”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Danish rynke (“wrinkle”), Swedish rynka and rynkla (“wrinkle”).
Inflected forms:
form: wrinkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wrincle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wrinkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wrinkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wrinkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wrinkled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A line or crease in the skin, especially when caused by age or fatigue.
pos: noun
examples: Spending time out in the sun may cause you to develop wrinkles sooner.
gloss: A fault, imperfection or bug especially in a new system or product; typically, they will need to be ironed out.
pos: noun
examples: We need to iron out the wrinkles in the plan before implementing it.
gloss: A twist on something existing; a novel difference.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We've added a couple of new wrinkles to the policy.
There were now a grab bag of southern country-rock units with a new wrinkle—Black Oak Arkansas, for one, combined psychedelia, fifties rock, Hindu spiritualism, and gospel into “psycho-boogie,” or “raunch 'n' roll.”
gloss: To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful not to wrinkle your dress before we arrive.
her wrinkled form in black and white array'd
It was a pity nobody saw the display in the empty street, where the auroral breeze wrinkled a large luminous puddle, making of the telephone wires reflected in it illegible lines of black zigzags.
gloss: To pucker or become uneven or irregular.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An hour in the tub will cause your fingers to wrinkle.
gloss: To develop irreversibly wrinkles; to age.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The skin is the substance that wrinkles, shows age, stretches, scars and cuts.
gloss: To sneer (at).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Ther's some weakenes in your brother you wrinkle at
Related words: unwrinkled
wrinkle-free
wrinkly
Translations:
rucksack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Rucksackbor.
English rucksack
Borrowed from German Rucksack.
Inflected forms:
form: rucksacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bag carried on the back or shoulder, supported by straps.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
UK
US
Translations:
schoolchild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English school
English child
English schoolchild
From school + child.
Inflected forms:
form: schoolchildren
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: school-child
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: school child
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.
pos: noun
examples: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
[…] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.
Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.
Translations:
stench
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stench, from Old English stenċ (“stench, odor, fragrance”), from Proto-Germanic *stankwiz (“smell, fragrance, odor”), from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”). Cognate with Dutch stank (“stench, odor”), German Stank, Gestank (“stench, odor, smell”), Danish stank (“stench”), Swedish stank (“stench”), Icelandic stækja (“stench”).
Inflected forms:
form: stenches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stenches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stenching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stenched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stenched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: a strong foul smell; a stink.
pos: noun
gloss: A foul quality.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the stench of political corruption
gloss: A smell or odour, not necessarily bad.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Black bulls, and bearded goats on altars lie; / And clouds of ſav'ry ſtench involve the ſky.
gloss: To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Dead bards stench every coast
gloss: To stanch.
pos: verb
Synonyms: fetor
funk
malodor
niff
nosesore
reek
stench
Antonyms: aroma
fragrance
perfume
Related words: asafoetida
garlic
polecat
skunk
stoat
malodorous
Derived words: stench bomb
stenchcore
stenchful
stenchsome
stench trap
stench trench
stenchy
Translations:
scrawl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English scraulen (“to spread out one's limbs; sprawl”), itself an alteration of spraulen (“to sprawl”) or craulen, crawlen (“to crawl”).
Alternatively, from scrall, a contraction of scrabble.
Inflected forms:
form: scrawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrawled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Irregular, poor handwriting; especially, such writing that is illegible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hastily or carelessly written note etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Writing that lacks literary merit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A broken branch of a tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
gloss: The young of the dog-crab.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
gloss: To write something hastily or illegibly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She scrawled the main points onto her notepad.
gloss: To write in an irregular or illegible manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To write unskilfully and inelegantly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: c. 1710-1730, Jonathan Swift (probably), Sandys's Ghost
Though with a golden pen you scrawl.
Derived words: scrawl down
scrawl off
scrawl out
scrawl up
Translations:
handwriting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hand + writing, equal to handwrite + -ing.
Base: handwrite
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: handwritings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hand-writing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Text that was written by hand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The characteristic writing of a particular person.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He took up the letter: well did he know the delicate and graceful handwriting; but he saw that the characters were tremulous, and it had obviously been written at different times.
It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students.
In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult.
Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings; to decipher monograms; to collect facts.
gloss: A characteristic trait or hallmark by which somebody may be recognised.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: And, my friend believes, Armedov is getting paid by...? Yes, our friends at Langley! CIA handwriting all over it, he reckons!
The show needs to portray the designer's handwriting but it should also be innovative too.
Synonyms: longhand
Related words: handwritten
handwrite
handwrit
cursive
Derived words: handwriting on the wall
the handwriting is on the wall
Translations:
guideline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From guide + line.
Compound parts: guide
line
Inflected forms:
form: guidelines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guidelines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guidelining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guidelined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guidelined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
pos: noun
examples: He considered the Ten Commandments more as a guideline than a requirement.
In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain.
gloss: A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
pos: noun
gloss: A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
pos: noun
gloss: To provide guidelines for.
pos: verb
examples: Now we are not just guidelining the work, but implementing it as well. That extra step allows us to fully flesh out every element of the visual language and drive the strategy home.
Derived words: guidelineless
nonguideline
Translations:
tidewater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From tide + water.
Compound parts: tide
water
Inflected forms:
form: tidewaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tide water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tide-water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Water affected by the flow of the tide, especially tidal streams.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their mission in life was to tote bituminous coal out of the mountain fastness of West Virginia and move it west to the gateways of Deepwater, Columbus and Toledo and east to tidewater at Hampton Roads.
gloss: The seaboard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was born Mary Blair Rice, the daughter of a prominent tidewater Virginia family whose roots stretched back to the colonial era.
gloss: A structure or house with large wraparound porches and hip roofs designed for wet and hot climates.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncommon
uncountable
Translations:
guidance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From guide + -ance. Displaced native Old English lādtēowdōm.
Base: guide
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: guidances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guidaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of guiding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Advice or counselling on some topic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: divine guidance
The fourth model is called the enlightment model: Actors are seen to be responsible for problems but unable or unwilling to provide solutions. They are believed to need discipline provided by authoritative guidance. The Alcoholic Anonymous^([sic]) groups are considered prototypical for this model.
gloss: Any process or system to control the path of a vehicle, missile etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autoguidance
chemoguidance
e-guidance
guidance counselor
inertial guidance
marriage guidance
misguidance
multiguidance
postguidance
preguidance
space guidance
teleguidance
Translations:
customs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Plural of custom. Perhaps influenced by or taken as a corruption of customhouse, from Middle English custome hous.
Inflected forms:
form: customs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Customs of £200 were due on all the wine we took back from France.
gloss: The government department or agency that is authorised to collect the taxes imposed on imported goods.
pos: noun
tags: singular
uncountable
examples: Customs stopped us in the airport for an inspection.
gloss: The process of going through customs checks at a border checkpoint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They usually don't care about customs, but she was clearly planning on selling most of it.
gloss: The location at a border checkpoint where customs checks are carried out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "You said someone from Cubetown was gonna meet us here at the airport?" "Yeah. We go through customs, then they'll meet us outside baggage claim."
Derived words: Custom House
custom house
customhouse
customs and excise
customs clearance
customs declaration
customs duty
customs house
customshouse
customs officer
customs post
customs union
customs value
noncustoms
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: dogano
lang: Finnish
word: tullitarkastus
lang: Malay
word: kastam
lang: Polish
word: odprawa celna
inspector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
law-enforcement
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect + -or.
Base: inspect
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: inspectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inspectour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to inspect something.
pos: noun
examples: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]. There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms.[…].
Martin had served as inspector general since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place.
gloss: A police officer ranking below superintendent.
pos: noun
gloss: A software tool used to examine something.
pos: noun
examples: Google Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity;[…].
After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.
Related words: inspect
inspection
Derived words: chief inspector
detective inspector
fire inspector
home inspector
inspectorate
inspector general
inspectorship
inspectress
school inspector
subinspector
tax inspector
ticket-inspector
ticket inspector
wallet inspector
weapons inspector
Translations:
seaport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + port.
Compound parts: sea
port
Inflected forms:
form: seaports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
pos: noun
examples: For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.
Translations:
seagoing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + going.
Compound parts: sea
going
Inflected forms:
form: sea-going
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Travelling out to sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a seagoing seal
After being kidnapped by a seagoing ne'er-do-well, its Lady protagonist finds herself drifting through a passage at the North Pole into a wholly different world, with its own sun, moon and stars, and a population of bear-men, bird-men and fox-men who promptly make her Empress. Win!
gloss: Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Lord! They don't call that a sea-going craft, I hope!'
Translations:
cargo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.
Inflected forms:
form: cargos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cargoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cargos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cargoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cargoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cargoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
"[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"
"[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."
How will heaven be filled if the earth ceases to send its cargoes?
A battery of several microcannons can be used to fire the drug cargoes at different times and different depths.
“We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.
gloss: Western material goods.
pos: noun
tags: Papua-New-Guinea
countable
uncountable
examples: The principal change was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo.
In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·
He was the only one to tell me that he thought it was possible that cargo was made by the ancestors. One or two others were noncommittal, but most clearly denied it.
People turned to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain "cargo."
And beyond anthropologists and Islanders, others have been enchanted by cargo as well.
gloss: To load with freight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: air cargo
all-cargo
bulk cargo
cargo-200
cargo aircraft
cargo bicycle
cargo bike
cargo bin
cargo container
cargo cult
cargo culting
cargo cult science
Cargo Fleet
cargo hold
cargoism
cargo jack
cargoless
cargo liner
cargo net
cargo pallet
cargo pants
cargoplane
cargo plane
cargo ship
cargo shorts
cargo trousers
cargo vessel
general cargo
hot cargo
wanted cargo
Translations:
thinking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.
Base: think
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: thinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A thought.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: What is your thinking on this subject?
But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
The current thinking among Donald Trump’s campaign advisers and those close to the former president is that he is not planning on participating in next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, three sources familiar with his plans tell CNN, and has been proposing counterprogramming to the event.
Derived words: convergent thinking
divergent thinking
freethinking
group-thinking
metathinking
parallel thinking
smart thinking
thinking cap
thinking man's
thinking person's
thinking woman's
way of thinking
Translations:
cuff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cuffe, coffe (“glove, mitten”), of obscure origin. Perhaps from Old English cuffie (“hood, cap”), from Medieval Latin cofia, cofea, cuffa, cuphia (“helmet, headdress, hood, cap”), from Frankish *kuf(f)ja (“headdress”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuffju, from Proto-Germanic *kupjō (“cap”). Cognate with Middle High German kupfe (“cap”).
Inflected forms:
form: cuffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cuffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cuffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cuffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Glove; mitten
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
pos: noun
gloss: The end of a pants leg when folded up.
pos: noun
gloss: A surgical procedure in which parts of the body that were not previously connected are stitched together.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish with cuffs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cuffband
cuffless
cufflike
cufflink
double cuff
flex-cuff
French cuff
handcuffs
intracuff
legcuff
leg cuff
mousquetaire cuff
off the cuff
on the cuff
pantcuff
pressure cuff
rotator cuff
shoot one's cuffs
tailcuff
trumpet cuff
cuffable
Translations: