yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
family-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more family-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most family-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for families consisting of parents and minor children.
pos: adj
examples: This family friendly paradise - with its giant snow slides, outdoor amphitheatre, and traditional winter activities - is the ideal destination for the young and old alike.
gloss: Promoting the welfare of the family structure.
pos: adj
examples: [...] reviewing the parental leave and maternity schemes and, finally, raising awareness of employers about the importance of creating a family-friendly working environment.
It's phenomenal to have the family-friendly policies which give people much better work-life balance compared with where we were 37 years ago."
gloss: Devoid of material deemed inappropriate for children such as sexually-explicit text or images, use of profanity, or references to the use of illegal drugs.
pos: adj
tags: US
Related words: all ages
Derived words: family-friendliness
Translations:
fashionista
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fashion + -ista. Compare earlier Sandinista, Peronista, Guardianista. Piecewise doublet of earlier fashionist.
Compound parts: fashion
-ista
Inflected forms:
form: fashionistas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who creates or promotes high fashion, i.e. a fashion designer or fashion editor.
pos: noun
examples: Toronto fashionista Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of the soon-to-be-launched Zoomer magazine, recently moved back to Canada after living in Manhattan for the past four years.
gloss: A person who dresses according to the trends of fashion, or one who closely follows those trends.
pos: noun
Related words: frugalista
Derived words: fatshionista
hijabista
recessionista
Translations:
procedure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Inflected forms:
form: procedures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particular method for performing a task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
gloss: A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
gloss: The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gracious procedures.
gloss: That which results; issue; product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.
gloss: A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is not permitted a return value when distinguished from a function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A surgical operation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: function
routine
sub
subroutine
method
operation
Related words: proceed
process
procession
Derived words: Arndt-Eistert procedure
Bobbitt procedure
civil procedure
collection procedure
criminal procedure
cryoprocedure
Davydov procedure
Evans procedure
Fontan procedure
Frey's procedure
Harada-Ito procedure
Hartmann's procedure
Ing-Manske procedure
Krukenberg procedure
Lowry process
microprocedure
midprocedure
Mitrofanoff procedure
Montreal procedure
Nuss procedure
parliamentary procedure
periprocedure
postprocedure
preprocedure
procedural
procedure call
procedure division
procedure mask
procedure word
process-server
process-serving
Puestow-Gillesby procedure
Puestow procedure
Rastelli procedure
remote procedure call
Scopinaro procedure
security procedure
Sigwart procedure
single justice procedure
standard operating procedure
subprocedure
surgical procedure
voice procedure alphabet
Whipple procedure
Edeleanu process
Translations:
pontiff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pontife m, from Latin pontifex m. Doublet of pontifex.
Inflected forms:
form: pontiffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the most illustrious of the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs; a pontifex.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
gloss: A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope.
pos: noun
examples: In several respects John turned out to be an unexpected figure as supreme pontiff.
gloss: Any chief figure or leader of a religion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: pontificate
Derived words: pontify
Translations:
dingle
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dingle (“a deep hollow; dell”), from Old English *dyngel, a diminutive of Old English dung (“dungeon; pit”), equivalent to dung + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian Dongel (“hollow tooth, cavity”), English dimble (“a dingle, glen, retired place”).
Related to dungeon.
Base: dung
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: dingles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dingle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dingle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
pos: noun
examples: Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.
gloss: Having good weather.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.
Indeed, on a dingle day in the Antarctic your optimism soars about what you can do. After three days of blustery weather we woke up to […]
On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice.
Translations:
BMW
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German BMWbor.
English BMW
Borrowed from German BMW.
Inflected forms:
form: BMWs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motor car manufactured by this company
pos: noun
gloss: A motorcycle manufactured by this company
pos: noun
Translations:
GM
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: GMs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: GMing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: GMed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: GMed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a game master or game moderator; to run a tabletop role-playing game.
pos: verb
Translations:
bedraggled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English drag
English -le
English draggle
English bedraggle
English -ed
English bedraggled
From bedraggle + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more bedraggled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bedraggled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
pos: adj
examples: A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
She came at night, and in a storm, with only two attendants, and stood before a peasant’s hut, tired, bedraggled, soaked with rain, “the red print of her lost crown still girdling her brow,” and implored admittance—and was refused!
No three tramps that one could have met in a Surrey lane could have looked more hopeless and bedraggled.
As a rule he was neat in his person, but now his clothes were in disorder. He looked suddenly bedraggled. I was convinced he had been drinking, and I smiled.
Finally delivering “Room on Fire,” the follow-up to their much ballyhooed debut album, the well-heeled but stylishly bedraggled locals try to dispel accusations of one-trick-ponyism.
gloss: Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
pos: adj
examples: She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
It was a tall, shabby building, that cannot have been painted for years, and it had so bedraggled an air that the houses on each side of it looked neat and clean.
Related words: bedraggle
draggled
draggle-tail
draggle-tailed
Derived words: bedraggledly
bedraggledness
unbedraggled
Translations:
acrimony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós
Proto-Italic *akris
Latin ācer
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *-monyomder.
Latin -mōnium
Latin -mōnia
Latin ācrimōniader.
Middle French acrimoniebor.
English acrimony
From Middle French acrimonie, from Latin ācrimōnia (“sharpness, pungency”).
Inflected forms:
form: acrimonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sharp and bitter hatred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her acrimony for her neighbors manifests itself with shouting and stomping.
In her resentful mood, these expressions had been remembered with acrimony and disdain; [...].
In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was prepared to play a game of patience to land Virgil van Dijk after his initial move to sign the Netherlands captain from Southampton in the summer of 2017 ended in acrimony.
Antonyms: friendship
peace
Translations:
deadpan
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dead + pan (“face”).
Compound parts: dead
pan
Inflected forms:
form: more deadpan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deadpan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dead-pan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dead pan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more deadpan
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deadpan
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dead-pan
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: dead pan
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: dead-pan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dead pan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: deadpans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deadpanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deadpanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deadpanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dead-pan
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dead pan
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Deliberately impassive or expressionless.
pos: adj
examples: a deadpan face or look
deadpan behaviour or speech
gloss: Having such a face or look.
pos: adj
examples: The comedian remained deadpan.
gloss: In a deadpan manner.
pos: adv
examples: A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.
gloss: A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
gloss: To express (something) in an impassive or expressionless manner.
pos: verb
examples: Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.
Synonyms: poker-faced
Translations:
breathalyzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of breath + analyzer. Originally a trademark of Smith & Wesson.
Compound parts: breath
analyzer
Inflected forms:
form: breathalyzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breathalyser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A device that measures alcohol in expired air so as to estimate the concentration of alcohol in a person's blood; used by traffic police in cases of suspected driving while under the influence of alcohol.
pos: noun
examples: During the three day class we took one day of classroom study followed by one day of operating the breathalyzer and one day of drinking. Yes, I said drinking. […] I hated it but I got it down long enough to take the breathalyzer test. I blew a .11 on the model 900A Breathalyzer.
Translations:
dying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English die
English -ing
English dying
From die + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: dyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!
a dying fire
The battlefield was littered with the dead and dying.
The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
gloss: Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the dying moments of daylight I glimpsed a sail on the horizon.
The dieselisation of this line has not been, as is sometimes the case, a means of reviving a dying branch, but an improving hand to a healthy service.
Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
gloss: Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His dying words were of his mother.
until my dying day
his dying bed
gloss: The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying,” he said. “You've got to approach your dying the way you live your life—with curiosity, with hope, with fascination, with courage and with the help of your friends.”
Antonyms: nascent
Derived words: dying breed
dying declaration
dying gasp
dyingly
dyingness
dying pig
dying quail
dying seconds
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
never-dying
nondying
to one's dying day
undying
until one's dying day
with one's dying breath
Translations:
opener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
ball-games
baseball
card-games
crafts
cricket
engineering
entertainment
fishing
games
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
theater
Etymology: From Middle English oppinnare, opynnare, from Old English openere, equivalent to open + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Base: open
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: openers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who opens something.
pos: noun
examples: Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that "the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war"?
gloss: A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
pos: noun
gloss: An establishment that opens.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.
gloss: The player who starts the betting.
pos: noun
gloss: Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
pos: noun
gloss: The first act in a variety show or concert.
pos: noun
gloss: A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
pos: noun
gloss: The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: The first game played in a competition.
pos: noun
examples: The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.
England were on the scoreboard after only one minute, Wilkinson, who missed five penalties in his side's opener against the Pumas, knocking over a three-pointer from bang in front, despite boos from the crowd.
His debut was highly anticipated, but Rodgers only saw 94 seconds of game time as he suffered the significant injury in the Jets’ season opener against the Buffalo Bills when he was sacked by edge rusher Leonard Floyd, only four plays in.
gloss: A opening goal.
pos: noun
gloss: A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
pos: noun
examples: The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.
Derived words: bottle-opener
door opener
eye-opener
for openers
jar opener
letter opener
pew-opener
pipe-opener
Translations:
open-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From open + handed.
Compound parts: open
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more open-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: openhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more open-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most open-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: openhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Done with the hand open rather than clenched
pos: adj
examples: Hitters use the open-handed tip to try to softly place the ball over the blockers or into other open areas of the opponent's court.
Visual gaze toward the mother was present with the children's earliest gestures, but only in those cases where the gesture was itself directed toward the mother, such as extending objects toward the mother or open-handed reaching or pointing toward objects held by the mother.
And there were other words that stung his ears like hail: 'Slut! Bitch! Whore!' each accompanied by a noise: the open-handed slap that sounded like the tearing ofcalico, the dull thud followed by a gasp as a bunched fist slammed into yielding flesh, the reedy shriek and the gurgling sob -- and eventually the whistling breaths as Jessie climbed the stairs and shouted until she made herself heard that if they didn't stop their racket right this minute then she'd be calling the bobbies.
gloss: Liberal and generous.
pos: adj
examples: 'No, no,' said the undertaker; 'not an open-handed gentleman in general, by any means. There you mistake him; but an afflicted gentleman, an affectionate gentleman, who knows what it is in the power of money to do, in giving him relief, and in testifying his love and veneration for the departed.'
"I'll do the old gorilla the justice to say that he is open-handed with money."
gloss: Frank, honest, and tolerant.
pos: adj
examples: Despite Gustavus' open-handed dealing, many princes of Europe did not trust him.
gloss: Characterized by looseness and fullness.
pos: adj
examples: She sat there for more than three hours, as sheet after sheet became covered with her open-handed writing.
gloss: With an open hand or hands.
pos: adv
examples: Winding their way to the land of snow and ice they saw approaching a band of warriors covered with emblems of peace,and, leaving their stony weapons in care of the younger braves, they walked open-handed to meet the strangers.
Open-handed, he walked steadily down the slope, stepping over the crumpled bodies on the blood-damp grass.
She had brought her hand across to lie open-handed on his chest.
gloss: Generously.
pos: adv
examples: The money here was given open-handed, and Parliament was not to be informed what was to be done with it.
Derived words: open-handedly
open-handedness
Translations:
open-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From open + hearted.
Compound parts: open
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more open-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: openhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Frank and candidly straightforward
pos: adj
examples: I myself consider the interviews to be of good quality, most of them even very extensive and openhearted. Openhearted, yes, but not on everything. It is a positivist naivete to take what people say as simple truth.
gloss: Generous and kind
pos: adj
examples: Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience.
gloss: Emotionally receptive
pos: adj
examples: Whether or not you feel that open-hearted love toward your newborn from the very beginning, one of the best ways to cultivate it and further deepen it is simply by paying attention.
Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to be in an open-hearted relationship with the present moment, recognizing that the world with which we are entangled is always uncertain and changing.
Derived words: open-heartedly
open-heartedness
Translations:
open-mouthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more open-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With the mouth open.
pos: adj
tags: literally
gloss: Gaping in surprise, wonder or astonishment.
pos: adj
gloss: Talkative; eager to speak.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Againe, what is it that makes men to be open mouthed, in decla∣ring and censuring our faults[…]?
A politician who has been open-mouthed against extravagant expenditure is in no way called upon to object to expenditure which, even if increased, has ceased to be extravagant.
Men must be found who will not manifest anything but a Christ-like spirit when opposed by talkative, open-mouthed men who put light for darkness and darkness for light.
Translations:
operatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From opera + -ic, probably influenced by dramatic.
Base: opera
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more operatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most operatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or typical of opera.
pos: adj
examples: The politician's address was so flamboyant as to be operatic.
She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the desk to write Charles some operatic note of farewell.
Translations:
operetta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian operettabor.
English operetta
Borrowed from Italian operetta.
Inflected forms:
form: operettas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue.
pos: noun
Translations:
lie-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lie indeverb.
English lie-in
Deverbal from lie in.
Inflected forms:
form: lie-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period spent lying in bed for longer than usual after one has woken up.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Since I didn't have to go to work, I decided to have a lie-in.
‘But the only thing I need now is a taxi and a bed to lie in.’ ‘Yeah, go on home, Frankie. Sleep it off, have a lie-in, forget the bloody woman. […]’
Translations:
opinionated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
form: more opinionated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opinionated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having very strong opinions.
pos: adj
examples: Her dad is so opinionated that when he's around it is hard to simply relax and have a light conversation.
gloss: Holding to one's own opinion obstinately and unreasonably.
pos: adj
examples: Her dad is so opinionated that the others' preferences were overridden and no one had any fun on the outing.
gloss: Infused with opinions rather than wholly objective.
pos: adj
examples: His essay was opinionated, which was a problem because the assignment had been to write a factual analysis.
gloss: Enforcing one particular approach instead of offering options and flexibility.
pos: adj
examples: an opinionated framework
Derived words: nonopinionated
opinionatedly
opinionatedness
overopinionated
self-opinionated
Translations:
opportune
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French opportun, from Latin opportunus.
Inflected forms:
form: more opportune
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opportune
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for some particular purpose.
pos: adj
examples: This would be an opportune spot for a picnic.
I staggered to an opportune wall and continued to wail from the deepest, hurtingest, sweetest little abandoned place I could imagine. Finally, I dragged my weary body to my seat and finished my conversation with God.
gloss: At a convenient or advantageous time.
pos: adj
examples: The opportune arrival of the bus cut short the boring conversation.
Sam Tyler: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
Synonyms: proper
timesome
Antonyms: inappropriate
inopportune
improper
inopportune
unseasonable
untime
Related words: opportunity
opportuneness
Derived words: opportuneless
opportunism
opportunist
unopportune
Translations:
opportunist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French opportuniste, equivalent to opportune + -ist.
Base: opportune
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: opportunists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
pos: noun
examples: James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
Translations:
oppress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English oppressen, from Old French oppresser, from Medieval Latin oppressare (“to press against, oppress”), frequentative of Latin opprimere, past participle oppressus (“to press against, press together, oppress”), from ob (“against”) + premere, past participle pressus (“to press”); see press.
Inflected forms:
form: oppresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oppressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: oppressest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: oppressedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: oppresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oppresseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: oppress
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: oppressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oppressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To keep down by unjust force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
gloss: To make sad or gloomy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
gloss: Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse, / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
gloss: To sexually violate; to rape.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: oppression
oppressive
Derived words: oppressee
oppressor
reoppress
Translations:
oppression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressiō (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprimō; see oppress.
Inflected forms:
form: oppressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
"Tibet challenges the conscience of the world," I told the audience at a gathering outside the town's main temple. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China's oppression in China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world."
gloss: The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.
We're choosing to use "anti-Jewishness" [rather than "anti-Semitism"] in recognition of the separate experiences and different oppressions of other peoples who also claim the name of "Semite."
gloss: A feeling of being oppressed. Special usage may include a sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
Related words: oppress
Derived words: antioppression
downpression
nonoppression
oppressional
oppressionist
Oppression Olympics
silence is oppression
triple oppression
Translations:
oppressor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oppressour, from Old French opressor and Latin oppressor; equivalent to oppress + -or.
Base: oppress
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: oppressors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oppressour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who oppresses another or others.
pos: noun
examples: And in respect of the great necessity there is, my darling, for more employments being within the reach of Woman than our civilisation has as yet assigned to her, don’t fly at the unfortunate men, even those men who are at first sight in your way, as if they were the natural oppressors of your sex […]
All members of society are hurt by the dynamic of oppressor versus oppressed (McIntosh, 1988).
Translations:
lysin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λύσις (lúsis) + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: lysins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any substance or antibody that can cause the destruction (by lysis) of blood cells, bacteria etc
pos: noun
Translations:
ricin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ricinusbor.
English ricin
Borrowed from Latin ricinus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye.
Translations:
oppressive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oppress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English oppressive
From oppress + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more oppressive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oppressive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Burdensome or difficult to bear.
pos: adj
examples: The oppressive tax laws made it difficult to start a small company.
gloss: Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
pos: adj
examples: oppressive smell
The oppressive land-owners kept a grip on the labourers.
gloss: Weighing heavily on the spirit; being quite intense, excessive or overwhelming.
pos: adj
examples: Will the oppressive heat of summer never end?
Without being slaves in fact, their condition is little better than vassalage in its most oppressive form.
The class of noblemen, who, at this particular epoch, had lost nothing of their primitive vigour, saw with pleasure the influence of the French depressed; but they suffered scarcely less from the absolute and oppressive influence which the Spaniards had acquired over them.
Their mantle was for a while worn unconsciously by him who showed to us Macbeth: and here again, in the deepening gloom of this tragic tale, we feel the oppressive influence of this invisible power, from the time we hear the prophetic rhymes, the spell has begun its work, and the clouds of misfortune blacken round us; and the fated course moves solemnly onward, irresistible and unerring as the progress of the sun, and soon to end in a night of horror.
With startling and oppressive force of illustration, he brings before us the fact, that in that grandest city of the earth, “if all the churches, chapels and buildings devoted to public worship, were filled to their last seat, there would be still left outside the buildings as many people as the whole population—men, women and children—in the cities of Leeds, Bristol, Sheffield and Birmingham.”
It had been one of those unnaturally still and oppressive days when scarcely a leaf quivers, and every breath of air seems charged with electricity. Suddenly the thunder began to growl. Before many minutes eveiy pine-needle was shaking with a fierce chill wind, and a torrent of rain swept down the valley and drenched us through to the skin.
He defines it as belief in exalted spiritual powers by whose help human weakness is supplemented in its struggle with the oppressive forces of the natural world.
Mr. Wardlaw had left the castle: so also had Charlotte, by her own wish, her residence there having been found too oppressive to herself to be continued for the present.
The possibility that women are not very sensitive to odours is often suggested to men by the perfumes of oppressive strength which women frequently use.
gloss: Hot and humid.
pos: adj
Synonyms: harsh
Derived words: antioppressive
inoppressive
nonoppressive
oppressively
oppressiveness
unoppressive
Translations:
optic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French optique or Medieval Latin opticus, from Ancient Greek ὀπτῐκός (optĭkós, “of or for sight”), from ὀπτός (optós, “visible”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Base: ὀπτός
Affixes: -ῐκός
Inflected forms:
form: optick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: optique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: optics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: optick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: optique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
examples: The moon, whose orb / Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views.
gloss: Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: An eye.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
humorous
examples: The difference is as great between / The optics seeing, as the object seen.
how they, / Who saw those figures on the margin kiss all, / Could turn their optics to the text and pray, / Is more than I know[…]
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
gloss: A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
pos: noun
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
gloss: A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.
pos: noun
examples: They were neatly lined up on three shelves between the optics of martini, vodka, whisky and gin.
They pulled up two bar stools and looked around the room as the barman relieved the whisky optic of its contents.
Derived words: acoustooptic
acousto-optic effect
biooptic
electrooptic
entoptic
fiberoptic
fibre optic
fluoroptic
holoptic
hyperoptic
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
magnetooptic
monoptic
optical
optic axis
optic chiasm
optic chiasma
optic cup
optic disc
optic disk
optic foramen
opticist
optic nerve
optic neuritis
optico-
optic yellow
panoptic
paroptic
perioptic
piezooptic
plenoptic
postoptic
preoptic
stereoptic
suboptic
supraoptic
optic stand
Translations:
optician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin opticusbor.
French optique
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānus
Old French -ien
Middle French -ien
French -ien
French opticienbor.
English optician
Borrowed from French opticien.
Inflected forms:
form: opticians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes, dispenses or sells lenses, spectacles.
pos: noun
gloss: A person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment; an optometrist.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Related words: ophthalmologist
optometrist
Derived words: opticianry
Translations:
optimal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos
?
Latin optimus
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 optimal
From Latin optimus + English -al.
Inflected forms:
form: optimals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Finding the optimal balance between features and price is a common problem.
Herewith, a brief primer in speaking basic North Carolinaese, meant to be read aloud for optimal effect.
gloss: The best of its kind
pos: noun
Antonyms: pessimal
worst
Translations:
reprehend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin reprehendō (“I hold back, check, blame”), from re- (“back”) + prehendō (“I hold, seize”). Compare French reprendre (“to reprove”).
Inflected forms:
form: reprehends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reprehending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reprehended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reprehended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To criticize, to reprove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The teacher did not hesitate to reprehend students for cheating.
Critics reprehended the company for its unethical practices.
publicly reprehend
severely reprehend
reprehend misconduct
Translations:
deathbed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English dethbed, from Old English dēaþbedd (“deathbed; grave”), equivalent to death + bed. Cognate with Swedish dödsbädd (“deathbed”). Compare also Dutch sterfbed (“deathbed”), German Sterbebett and Totenbett (both “deathbed”), Danish dødsleje (“deathbed”).
Compound parts: death
bed
Inflected forms:
form: deathbeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: death-bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: death bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The bed on which someone dies.
pos: noun
examples: He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life.
gloss: The last hours before death.
pos: noun
gloss: A grave; the site of a burial or entombment.
pos: noun
examples: “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top. Let my deathbed rise high above Hronesnesse.”
Derived words: deathbed conversion
on one's deathbed
Translations:
serenity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English serenyte, from Old French serenité, from Latin serēnitās, equivalent to serene + -ity.
Base: serene
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: serenities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being serene; calmness; peacefulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
gloss: A lack of agitation or disturbance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: sereneness
tranquility
tranquillity
harmony
peace
Related words: serene
calmness
Derived words: unserenity
Translations:
flatline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: cardiology
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From flat + line. Refers to a continuous straight line (asystole) on an ECG (EKG) or EEG, indicating death.
Compound parts: flat
line
Inflected forms:
form: flatlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flat line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flatlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flatlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flatlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flatlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An asystole; the absence of heart contractions or brain waves.
pos: noun
gloss: An asystole; the absence of heart contractions or brain waves.
pos: noun
examples: When brain function ceases, the electroencephalogram shows flatline recordings.
gloss: An unchanging state, as indicated in a graph of a variable over time.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: Thus, you hear words like "flatline recession," "improvement at a greatly reduced rate," "economic hiccup," "recessionette," "rolling readjustment" and "the economy is double clutching."
gloss: A line that is run low to the water from the rod tip, generally off a release clip of some type.
pos: noun
gloss: To stop beating.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To die.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
gloss: To kill.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: If looks could kill, Mona's sharp gaze would have flatlined him in one second.
After all she'd been through, she needed sleep and food to heal, not endure a lovemaking session that was so passionate that it had pretty much flatlined him as well.
gloss: To remain at the same level, without development; or, to fall.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The economy in Northern Ireland is flatlining and jobs are scarce.
But passenger numbers have since recovered to only 85% of pre-March 2020 levels, and growth has flatlined.
gloss: To experience significantly decreased rates of change compared to previous rates of change.
pos: verb
examples: Upon upload, the video got 1,000 views/day for the first week, then flatlined and started getting fewer than ten views/day.
gloss: To fish using a flatline.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: flatlined
flatliner
Translations:
asystole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
English systole
English asystole
From a- + systole.
Inflected forms:
form: asystoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An absence of a systole; a failure of the heart to contract.
pos: noun
Translations:
rhythmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-?
Proto-Indo-European *srew-
Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s
Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós
Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós)
English rhythmic
From Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós), from ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives), equivalent to rhythm + -ic.
Base: ῥυθμός
Affixes: -ικός
Inflected forms:
form: more rhythmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rhythmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rythmic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rhythmick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to rhythm.
pos: adj
examples: The Beshtian School, faithful to this concept of song, was characterized primarily by happy-sounding and rhythmic melodies.
gloss: Characterized by rhythm.
pos: adj
gloss: Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
pos: adj
gloss: With regular, repetitive motion or sound.
pos: adj
Derived words: arhythmic
arrhythmic
autorhythmic
biorhythmic
birhythmic
counterrhythmic
dysrhythmic
eurhythmic
extrarhythmic
heterorhythmic
homorhythmic
idiorrhythmic
irrhythmic
isorhythmic
monorhythmic
nonrhythmic
panrhythmic
polyrhythmic
rhythmical
rhythmic contemporary
rhythmic gesture
rhythmic gymnast
rhythmic gymnastics
rhythmicity
rhythmicize
rhythmic pattern
rhythmic unit
unrhythmic
Translations:
indiscriminate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1598; from in- + discriminate.
Base: discriminate#Adjective
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more indiscriminate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indiscriminate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indiscriminant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Not marked by discrimination or discernment; (by extension) confused, promiscuous.
pos: adj
examples: Otanes […] commanded an indiscriminate slaughter, without regard to age or to place.
The UK's fishing industry has complained that Ocean is “indiscriminate” (arguably an ironic adjective for anyone involved in trawling).
gloss: Without care in making distinctions, thoughtless.
pos: adj
examples: How can anyone be so indiscriminate in making friends as he is?
An animal so indiscriminate in its eating habits that it eats coal, boat cushions, and tomtoms, would be only too eager to taste a swimmer or a diver—which must look more edible than an unopened can of salmon.
Synonyms: promiscuous
Derived words: indiscriminately
indiscriminateness
indiscriminative
Translations: