yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
beating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, beat + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: beatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action by which someone or something is beaten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the beating of a drum
secret beatings of prisoners
[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
“It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs.
The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.
gloss: A heavy defeat or setback.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To increase United's pain, this was their first home defeat in any competition since April 2010, when they lost to Chelsea - but even that defeat, which effectively cost them the title, may not turn out to have the same long-term significance as this heavy beating.
gloss: The pulsation of the heart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: ass beating
ass kicking
battering
beatdown
beating
boom-boom
clobbering
dressing-down
drubbing
dusting
flogging
hiding
going over
kicking
lacing
lamming
larruping
leathering
loundering
licking
pasting
pummeling
shellac
shoeing
smackdown
thrashing
thumping
thwacking
warming
whaling
whipping
whopping
whupping
wiping
Related words: chastisement
corporal punishment
flagellation
toco
whackage
Derived words: ass beating
bare beating
beating heart
breast-beating
chest-beating
drumbeating
goldbeating
take some beating
unbeating
wifebeating
wife-beating
Translations:
snowy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English snowy, snawy, from Old English snāwiġ. By surface analysis, snow + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snowier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snowiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: snowies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Marked by snow; characterized by snow.
pos: adj
examples: snowy day
snowy picture on the television
gloss: Covered with snow; snow-covered; besnowed.
pos: adj
examples: snowy hillside
So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
gloss: Snow-white in color, white as snow.
pos: adj
examples: A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.
Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
gloss: Synonym of snowy owl.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […] the snowy was successful in forty-two percent of its strikes.
Adult male snowies are nearly white. They become whiter as they get older. Female birds are usually white with narrow black or brown bars and spots. Young snowies are darker than the adults, and they have heavier markings.
2008, Jan Dunlap, The Boreal Owl Murder
Since then, I've seen a Snowy almost every winter. […] But I still liked to see them, big and white, gliding noiselessly, gracefully, over open fields looking for rodents.
gloss: Synonym of snowy egret.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: snowily
snowiness
snowy albatross
snowy angle
snowy auk
snowy barbet
snowy bolete
snowy bumble bee
snowy campion
snowy cinquefoil
snowy cotinga
snowy curculio
snowy daisy-bush
snowy dart
snowy egret
snowy falcon
snowy footman
snowy gabara
snowy geometer moth
snowy gooseberry
snowy grouper
snowy hare
snowy heron
snowy hydrangea
snowy inky cap
snowy ink cap
snowyish
snowy lemming
snowy limpet
snowy map lichen
snowy masked bee
snowy mason
snowy mespil
snowy mespilus
snowy mining bee
snowy mintbush
snowy missile Meza indusiata)
Snowy Monaro
Snowy Mountains
snowy orchid
snowy owl
snowy oysterling
snowy pear
snowy petrel
Snowy Plain
snowy plover
Snowy River
snowy sheathbill
snowy thistle
snowy tree cricket
snowy twig pruner
Snowy Valleys
snowy waxcap
snowy woodrush
snowy woodwax)
unsnowy
Translations:
deep-water
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deepwater
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a great depth of water.
pos: adj
examples: a deep-water harbour
It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.
The route was opened in stages between 1846-57, to link mineral industries in the area to a deep-water port at Barrow [-in-Furness] and to the rest of the national network.
gloss: Carried out at great depth.
pos: adj
examples: deep-water drilling
gloss: Located in or near deep ocean waters.
pos: adj
examples: a deep-water port
gloss: Living at a great depth underwater.
pos: adj
Related words: blue-water navy
deep water
Derived words: deepwater big-eyed worm eel
deepwater cardinalfish
deepwater prawn
Translations:
muscleman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From muscle + man.
Compound parts: muscle
man
Inflected forms:
form: musclemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muscle man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bodyguard.
pos: noun
examples: And here comes the princess now, stepping from her limousine, flanked by musclemen, caught in a fusillade of clicking cameras.
gloss: A man with developed muscles.
pos: noun
Derived words: musclemanship
Translations:
rendezvous
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Inflected forms:
form: rendezvous
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rendezvouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: randezvous
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: rendez-vous
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rendezvouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rendezvous
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rendezvousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rendezvoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rendezvoused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: randezvous
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: rendez-vous
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A meeting or date.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)
I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.
The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
You might think it's foolish / This chancy rendezvous / (You might think) You might think I'm crazy / (All I want) All I want is you
“It is my understanding from other parties who are trying to arrange a rendezvous with myself and the President, it is being arranged for me to give him the firsthand information from (Assange),” Rohrabacher said.
gloss: An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
pos: noun
examples: Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
gloss: A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
pos: noun
examples: an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers
gloss: The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
pos: noun
examples: The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.
gloss: A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
pos: noun
gloss: A retreat or refuge.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A rendeuous, a home to fly unto
gloss: To meet at an agreed time and place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
[H]e ſupplied Charles vvith a numerous army, vvhich rendezvouſed at Angers, under the command of his eldeſt ſon John duke of Normandy, attended by ſeveral princes of the blood and the flovver of the French nobility.
In the entrance-hall, a surprising number of opera-goers have already rendezvoused.
They saw each other four times after that, rendezvousing at New York locations reflecting their own tastes. For him, the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill; for her, the Standard and Ludlow hotels.
Synonyms: RV
Translations:
incidentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incidental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incidentally
From incidental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incidentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incidentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incidental manner.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: coincidentally, happenstantially, circumstantially, by chance, accidentally, semirandomly, randomly
gloss: In an incidental manner.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonym: in passing
The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally.
Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
gloss: In an incidental manner.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
examples: Incidentally, did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: kalimthi
lang: Arabic
word: صُدْفَةً
roman: ṣudfatan
lang: Armenian
word: իմիջիայլոց
roman: imiǰiaylocʻ
lang: Belarusian
word: выпадко́ва
roman: vypadkóva
lang: Bulgarian
word: случа́йно
roman: slučájno
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 偶然
roman: ǒurán
lang: Finnish
word: sivuten
lang: Finnish
word: ohimennen
lang: French
word: incidemment
lang: German
word: nebenbei
lang: Hungarian
word: érintőleg
lang: Hungarian
word: érintőlegesen
lang: Hungarian
word: futólag
lang: Hungarian
word: mellékesen
lang: Italian
word: incidentalmente
lang: Japanese
word: たまたま
roman: tamatama
lang: Japanese
word: 偶然
roman: gūzen
lang: Korean
word: 우연히
roman: uyeonhi
lang: Polish
word: przy okazji
lang: Portuguese
word: incidentalmente
lang: Romanian
word: apropo
lang: Russian
word: случа́йно
roman: slučájno
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eadar dà sgeul
lang: Spanish
word: incidentalmente
lang: Swedish
word: apropå
lang: Swedish
word: i förbigående
lang: Turkish
word: sırası gelmişken
lang: Turkish
word: bu arada
lang: Turkish
word: bir ara
lang: Turkish
word: lâf arasında
lang: Ukrainian
word: випадко́во
roman: vypadkóvo
lang: Albanian
word: kalimthi
lang: Dutch
word: toevalligerwijze
lang: Finnish
word: sattumoisin
lang: Finnish
word: sattumalta
lang: German
word: zufällig
lang: German
word: zufälligerweise
lang: Hungarian
word: véletlenül
lang: Italian
word: casualmente
lang: Portuguese
word: acidentalmente
lang: Portuguese
word: por acaso
lang: Spanish
word: casualmente
aorist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).
Inflected forms:
form: aorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A verb paradigm found in certain languages, usually an unmarked form or one that expresses the perfective or aorist aspect.
pos: noun
gloss: A particular verb in the aorist.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the aorist stem of a verb
Derived words: aorist tense
s-aorist
Translations:
lacrosse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Canadian French la crossebor.
English lacrosse
Borrowed from Canadian French la crosse (“the stick”).
Inflected forms:
form: lax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
informal
Senses:
gloss: A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by scoring more goals within the allotted time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The great invasion games of basketball, field and ice hockey, lacrosse and the varied football codes seem to provide an immense attraction for all ages, and billions of people around the world play and watch these sports.
After the accuser proved unable to identify her assailants during two photo lineups, Nifong told the police to give her a third chance, showing her pictures only of the 46 white lacrosse players without any pictures of “fillers,” or nonsuspects.
Translations:
stage-phoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stage-phoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who fakes a cell-phone conversation.
pos: noun
Translations:
popliteal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin popliteus (from Latin poples (“ham, knee”)) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the popliteus (the area behind the knee).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On removing a quantity of fat which separates the popliteal nerve from the vein and artery, these will be exposed lying in direct contact, the vein being posterior or superficial to the artery and a little to its outer side at the upper part of the space.
The popliteal entrapment syndrome is a developmental disorder resulting in an anomalous relationship between the popliteal artery and muscle structures in the popliteal fossa.
The popliteal artery is exposed through an incision that parallels the anterior border of the sartorius muscle and passes just posterior to the medial condyle.
Translations:
popinjay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English popinjay, popyngeay, popingay, popejay, from Anglo-Norman papegai, papejoie et al., (northern) Old French papejai (“parrot”), probably from Old Occitan papagay (compare Occitan papagai, Catalan papagai), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.
Inflected forms:
form: popinjays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A parrot.
pos: noun
examples: [I]nnumerable popingayes of ſundry kindes are found chattering in the groues of thoſe fenny places.
gloss: A decorative image of a parrot on a tapestry, cloth etc.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?" "Nicely." "How are you?" "Nicely."
gloss: A target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage.
pos: noun
gloss: The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: papukaija
unimpressive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin imprimō
Latin impressusder.
Middle English impressen
English impress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English impressive
English unimpressive
From un- + impressive.
Inflected forms:
form: more unimpressive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unimpressive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression.
pos: adj
examples: In a culture dominated by the young, fun and hard-bodied, the middle-aged big man struggles for visibility; he is dismissed as unimpressive, a cultural dead weight.
Translations:
salaam
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَام (salām, “peace”). Doublet of shalom, a borrowing from Hebrew.
Inflected forms:
form: salam
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: salaams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: salaams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salaaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: salaamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: salaamed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: salam
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A respectful ceremonial greeting used mostly by Muslims.
pos: intj
gloss: A low bow as a ceremonial act of deference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the finest dressed one entered first; put her two hands to her forehead, then to her breasts, and with her two hands touched the Colonel’s foot; this is called a grand salam […]
1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns” in John Wilson and Robert Chambers, The Land of Burns, Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Volume 2, p. lxxv,
Finally, Josiah might have made his salaam to the Exciseman just as he was folding up that letter […]
1895, Rabindranath Tagore, letter dated 14 August, 1895 in Glimpses of Bengal, London: Macmillan, 1921, pp. 160-161,
My servant was late one morning, and I was greatly annoyed at his delay. He came up and stood before me with his usual salaam, and with a slight catch in his voice explained that his eight-year-old daughter had died last night.
A turbaned Arab placed cigarettes and cups of coffee spiced with saffron before the customers, gave salaam and withdrew.
The old gentleman made several deep salaams.
Mr. Tsoutsou and his wife appeared for just a moment to see how I was faring, commented bravely on the delicious, appetizing appearance of the skinned fish and disappeared with bows and salaams which sent an electric thrill through the assembled patrons of Herakleion’s most distinguished restaurant.
gloss: To perform a salaam to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: [H]e went away salaaming, and protesting his friendship and his master’s goodwill.
He salaamed low to Flory, covering his face with his hand […]
Outside the town, three ragged children salaamed the Governor from the back of a camel.
Beside himself, his possibilities; / salaaming hours of a half-blind morning / while the rainy lepers salaamed back,
The tea-planters’ houses of Ceylon […] were often surrounded by admirable lawns of coarse mountain grass, upon which the planters’ ladies enviably sat, buzzed about by harmless insects and salaamed by passing serfs.
Nantwich made a kind of diving or salaaming motion with his hands, and the man nodded and smiled.
Translations:
cutie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cute
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English cutie
From cute + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: cuties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cute person or animal.
pos: noun
examples: Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]
Four students from Yarra Valley grammar in Ringwood, in Melbourne’s east, were suspended last week after it came to light they had made the list. It included photos of female students ranking them as “wifeys”, “cuties”, “mid”, “object”, “get out” and “unrapable”.
Translations:
isoamyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the organic radical derived from isoamyl alcohol; 3-methyl butyl
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dimensionless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Italic *mētis
Latin mētior
Latin dīmētior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dīmēnsiōder.
English dimension
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 dimensionless
From dimension + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking dimensions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To Heav'n thir prayers / Flew up, nor miſsd the way, by envious windes / Blow'n vagabond or fruſtrate: in they paſsd / Dimentionleſs through Heav'nly dores; […]
Extended objects may be separated by dimensionless points; but dimensionless points cannot be separated, but by some real distance, or something really extended.
1930, E. E. Smith, Skylark Three, Fantasy Press, 1948, Chapter 3,
They saw the utter, absolute darkness of the complete absence of all light; and upon that indescribable blackness they beheld superimposed the almost unbearable brilliance of enormous suns concentrated into mathematical points, dimensionless.
He did not look once again toward the dark house. […] He simply went quietly as if that were his natural manner of moving and passed around the now dimensionless bulk of the house, toward the rear, where the kitchen would be.
gloss: Of a physical constant: lacking units.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Iron has a density of 7.8 grams per cubic centimeter: its dimensionless relative density is 7.8.
A strain is a dimensionless quantity and is usually expressed in percentages. Typical measures for strain are less than 2 mm/m for steel and are often expressed in micro-strain units. One microstrain is the strain producing deformation of one part per million.
Derived words: dimensionlessly
dimensionlessness
dimensionless quantity
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: безразмерен
roman: bezrazmeren
lang: Danish
word: uden dimensioner
lang: Greek
word: αδιάστατος
roman: adiástatos
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dimensjonsløs
lang: Polish
word: bezwymiarowy
serdar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سردار (serdâr), from Persian سردار (sardâr). Doublet of Sardar.
Inflected forms:
form: serdars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The holder of a particular military rank in the Ottoman Empire.
pos: noun
Translations:
sirdar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu سردار, Hindi सरदार (sardār), from Persian سردار (sardâr). Doublet of serdar and Sardar.
Inflected forms:
form: sirdars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A high-ranking person in India and other areas of west-central Asia; a chief, a headman.
pos: noun
examples: Only last week a paper on the question of early marriage in India was read by a young Sikh Sirdar of Kapurthala, in which this supremely important and delicate subject was treated with a tact and frankness which did him the utmost credit. […¶…¶…¶] During the discussion on Sirdar Arjun Sing’s paper, occasion was taken to protest against the erroneous view, too often taken in Europe, as to the abased position of Mahomedan women generally.
Pottinger’s guide, who turned out to be married to the daughter of the Sirdar, or headman, insisted on entering the village first, explaining that it was customary with strangers in this dangerous region.
gloss: A rank assigned to the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Army during the British occupation of Egypt.
pos: noun
examples: Sir Reginald, as Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, had been put in command of the British military side of the Arab adventure in place of Sir Henry McMahon
gloss: The leader of a group of Sherpa mountain guides.
pos: noun
Derived words: sirdarship
Translations:
condescending
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more condescending
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most condescending
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.
pos: adj
examples: Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child!
The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
Translations:
muscularity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English muscular
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English muscularity
From muscular + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: muscularities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of musculature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The muscularity in his forearm was visible as he flexed his fingers.
gloss: The degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Focussed exercise brought out the muscularity in her calves.
She has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.
gloss: The use of strength.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I won’t promote the silencing of dissent through verbal muscularity.
Synonyms: muscledom
Derived words: hypermuscularity
Translations:
vascularity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vascular
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English vascularity
From vascular + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: vascularities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vascular condition; vasculature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The massive vascularity of the big blood vessels was invoked by her strong fingers in their apt progress.
gloss: The degree to which the veins in a body part are visible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Reduced bodyfat brought out the vascularity in his arms.
Translations:
bookshelf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: furniture
lifestyle
Etymology: From book + shelf.
Compound parts: book
shelf
Inflected forms:
form: bookshelves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.
pos: noun
examples: Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.
Translations:
tendinitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin from tendin-, stem of Medieval Latin tendo, from Late Latin tenon, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “tendon, sinew”). By surface analysis, tendon + -itis and tendo- + -itis but not actually formed in this way; similarly with tendinopathy § Etymology.
Base: tendo
Inflected forms:
form: tendinitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tendinitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tendinites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tendonitis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tenonitis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of a tendon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
plasmid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From plasma + -id, coined by American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg in 1952.
Base: plasma
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: plasmids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loop of double-stranded DNA that is separate from — and replicates independently of — the chromosomes; such loops are most commonly found in bacteria, but they are also sometimes found in archaeans and eukaryotic cells, and they are used in genetic engineering as a vector for gene transfer.
pos: noun
examples: These discussions have left a plethora of terms adrift: pangenes, bioblasts, plasmagenes, plastogenes, chondriogenes, cytogenes and proviruses, which have lost their original utility owing to the accretion of vague or contradictory connotations. At the risk of adding to this list, I propose plasmid as a generic term for any extrachromosomal hereditary determinant.
This is how the F (for "fertility") plasmid, which forms the basis of a lot of classical E. coli genetics, is transferred from one cell to another.
Bacteria are happy to absorb little rings of DNA called plasmids and adopt them as their own.
Plasmids have an essential impact on productivity. Related factors are plasmid copy number, structural plasmid stability and segregational plasmid stability.
Translations:
pseudogene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der.
Middle English pseudo-
English pseudo-
English gene
English pseudogene
From pseudo- + gene.
Inflected forms:
form: pseudogenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A segment of DNA that is part of the genome of an organism, and which is similar to a gene but does not code for a gene product.
pos: noun
Translations:
kendo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 剣道 (kendō, “the way of the sword”), from Middle Chinese 劍 (kjæ̀m, “sword”) + 道 (dáu, “way”). Doublet of kumdo.
Inflected forms:
form: kendō
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tree-line
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tree-lines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing; the timberline.
pos: noun
Translations:
existing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.
Translations:
designed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Created according to a design.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Planned; designated.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all.
Derived words: designedly
designedness
nondesigned
overdesigned
predesigned
underdesigned
undesigned
Translations:
converted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: changed in form or function etc.
pos: adj
examples: He was a converted Jew, living in a converted chapel.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
Translations:
situated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Located in a specific place.
pos: adj
examples: The Pan-la-mên coal-field is situated about 16 km. south of Ssŭ-pʻing-chieh station on the railway between Chʻang-tʻu and Chʻang-chʻun.
gloss: Supplied with money or means.
pos: adj
gloss: Embedded or rooted within a culture.
pos: adj
Derived words: multisituated
situatedly
situatedness
unsituated
Translations:
recorded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been fixed into a physical medium (for example, a book, compact disc or videotape).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Recorded music comes in many forms.
Translations:
organized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more organized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most organized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: organised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
British
English
form: organizized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
deliberate
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Of things or settings, having been organized; in good order.
pos: adj
examples: Your desk is so organized!
gloss: Of a person, characterized by efficient organization.
pos: adj
examples: Your desk is so neat and tidy — I've never met someone so organized before!
gloss: Unionized.
pos: adj
examples: If young persons of both sexes were brought together in the honest practical relations of organized labor, we should see no more of these fond nympholepsies
Derived words: disorganized
hyperorganized
inorganized
malorganized
nonorganized
organized baseball
organizedly
organized religion
preorganized
semiorganized
superorganized
underorganized
unorganized
well-organized
Translations:
operating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In operation; that operates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Don't touch the operating machinery.
gloss: Involved in an operation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The team arbitrarily chose that one operating frame of reference which we all use today.
gloss: Synonym of operation (in the uncountable sense).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sure, academic medicine is fascinating — but operating is the reason I became a surgeon.
Operating on conscious patients involves some additional considerations.
Derived words: non-operating
nonoperating
operating concept
preoperating
unoperating
Translations:
reduced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
grammar
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more reduced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reduced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
pos: adj
examples: the reduced prices in a summer sale
gloss: Discounted in price.
pos: adj
examples: the reduced goods at the sale
gloss: Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
pos: adj
examples: The chicken was served in a reduced red wine sauce.
gloss: Of a relative clause: not marked by an explicit relative pronoun or relativizer such as who, which, or that.
pos: adj
Derived words: electroreduced
leucoreduced
leukoreduced
monoreduced
nonreduced
overreduced
prereduced
pseudoreduced
reduced algebra
reduced cat
reduced circumstances
reduced-fat milk
reduced isolation
reduced mass
reduced ring
reduced row echelon form
reduced time
reduced vowel
reduced word
row-reduced
unreduced
Translations:
chinks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of chaps.
pos: noun
Translations:
offering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From offer + -ing.
Base: offer
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: offerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: gerund of offer
pos: noun
gloss: gerund of offer
pos: noun
examples: votive offerings
These are the bookstores' latest offerings.
gloss: gerund of offer
pos: noun
examples: In many ways an ancient well-established situation is in Place: a dead military hero has reappeared as a ghost bringing trouble and even death to the officials who come to administer the Hsiang-chou prefecture at An-yang; they build a temple in his honour and make him regular offerings of bloody food; he then protects and supports the administrators who are responsible.
gloss: gerund of offer
pos: noun
gloss: gerund of offer
pos: noun
examples: In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.
Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.
Related words: offer
offertory
oblate
oblation
Derived words: burnt offering
guilt offering
heave offering
initial coin offering
initial public offering
love offering
meat offering
offering formula
offering plate
peace offering
public offering
sin offering
trespass offering
wave offering
Translations:
lang: Breton
word: kinnig
lang: Bulgarian
word: предлагане
roman: predlagane
lang: Catalan
word: oferiment
lang: Finnish
word: tarjoaminen
lang: Finnish
word: uhraaminen
lang: French
word: offre
lang: Galician
word: ofrecemento
lang: German
word: Angebot
lang: German
word: Anerbieten
lang: Latin
word: oblātiō
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: chāithíu
lang: Portuguese
word: oferecimento
lang: Portuguese
word: oferta
lang: Russian
word: предложе́ние
roman: predložénije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìobairt
lang: Spanish
word: ofrecimiento
lang: Swahili
word: toleo
lang: Turkish
word: sunuş
lang: Turkish
word: sunma
lang: Turkish
word: takdim
corresponding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, correspond + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: correspondings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more corresponding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corresponding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A correspondence; the situation where things correspond or match.
pos: noun
gloss: that have a similar relationship
pos: adj
examples: The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
It cannot be accidental that within the timar system the proportion of holdings controlled by the ümera and the ordinary sipahis shifted to the benefit of the former. Whereas around 1527–8, 19% of the total income from timars had been in the hands of beylerbeyis and sancakbeyis, in the 1580s the corresponding figure was 29%.
Translations:
owt
Part of speech: pron
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English āuht; see aught.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Aught, anything.
pos: pron
tags: Northern-England
examples: I've seen nowt like it since the day I was born / But you know me, I'll shag owt that's warm
“I’ve never seen owt like it,” said Hancox. “There were flags everywhere, people on people’s shoulders, crowdsurfing. It was like human Jenga.”
You can fill your life with love / You can fill your life with owt / You can fill your lifе with food and drink / Or whatever floats your boat
gloss: Anything.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
uncountable
gloss: Anything.
pos: adv
tags: Northern-England
not-comparable
Translations:
pitiable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French [Term?], from Old French piteable. By surface analysis, pity + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more pitiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pitiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
pos: adj
examples: Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
Fatigued by riding on horseback, bedevilled and begrimed by the ride on manback, he presented a pitiable spectacle, and went on his way to Naples in sad plight.
Translations:
postponement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English postpone
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English postponement
From postpone + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: postponements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.
The postponement of homosexual behavior in men who know that they are homosexual can cause psychological anxiety and retard mature ego development.
Translations:
technocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From techno- (“technical”, “technicians”) + -cracy (“rule by”), attributed to W.H. Smyth.
Affixes: techno-
-cracy
Inflected forms:
form: technocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When scientific imagination and knowledge of Nature's Laws are substituted in our economics for chance, mystery, and magic;[…] when this economic childish irrationality is sanely substituted by organized Science, Technology, and specialized Skill co-ordinated in National Industrial Management, then will begin real civilization, the Age of Social Sanity, — Technocracy.
Macron may be the best of the existing system, but his politics is located within the liberal-democratic coordinates of the enlightened technocracy.
Translations:
steamed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more steamed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most steamed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cooked by steaming.
pos: adj
gloss: Otherwise heated and processed with steam, as for example with parts of wooden furniture.
pos: adj
examples: Superintendent Chalmers: Why is there smoke coming out of your oven, Seymour?
Seymour Skinner: Uh- Oh. That isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the steamed clams we're having. Mmm. Steamed clams.
gloss: Angry; hot under the collar.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He was steamed that the car cut him off. It took almost half an hour for him to calm down.
Derived words: nonsteamed
steamed egg
steamed eggs
steamed pudding
steamed up
unsteamed
Translations:
completed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more completed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most completed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Finished.
pos: adj
Translations:
combined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resulting from the addition of several sources, parts, elements, aspects, etc. united together.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The combined efforts of the emergency workers kept the river from going over its banks, barely.
Antonyms: uncombined
divided
separated
Translations:
brushfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From brush + fire.
Compound parts: brush
fire
Inflected forms:
form: brushfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brush fire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brush-fire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large fire in a scrubland or prairie, as opposed to a forest fire, which occurs in forests.
pos: noun
gloss: A war that arises suddenly and is limited in scope or area.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
examples: It may be a brushfire operation or an operation on the scale of the Korean war; it will certainly not involve the home territories of the United States and Soviet Russia as theaters of hostilities.
I grant you it may not be in the actual application of mechanical devices, but if you have the volume to have supremacy in a major war it is obvious you would have the volume to take care of a brushfire war.
If a brushfire conflict does threaten superpower interests, or the general peace, a superpower may intervene in an unusual way.
Translations:
challenging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chalengynge; equivalent to challenge + -ing.
Base: challenge
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more challenging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most challenging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: challengings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Difficult, hard to do.
pos: adj
gloss: The act of making a challenge.
pos: noun
examples: There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.
Antonyms: unchallenging
Translations:
ruffian
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French rufian, from Italian ruffiano (“pimp”).
Inflected forms:
form: ruffians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ruffians
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruffianing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruffianed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruffianed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more ruffian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ruffian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.
pos: noun
examples: What wilt thou on thy death-bed play the Ruffian?
It was at Count Siloszech's. He'd heard her sing in the streets, with a tall, black-bearded ruffian, who accompanied her on a guitar, and a little fiddling gypsy fellow. She was a handsome woman, with hair down to her knees, but stupid as an owl.
Mrs Bycourt has two boys of her own, a few years older than Cyril and perfect young ruffians. Fortunately, they are generally away at boarding-school.
gloss: A pimp; a pander.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A lover; a paramour.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: He [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, revelling with her ruffians.
gloss: To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Methinks the wind does speak aloud at land; A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements. If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea.
gloss: Brutal, cruel, ruffianlike.
pos: adj
examples: ruffian rage
Derived words: ruffianage
ruffiandom
ruffianhood
ruffianish
ruffianism
ruffianize
ruffianlike
ruffianly
ruffianous
Translations: