yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
metanoia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετάνοια (metánoia, “repentance”, literally “afterthought”), a compound of μετά (metá, “after, with”) and νοέω (noéō, “to perceive, to think”).
Inflected forms:
form: metanoias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metanœa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A fundamental change of mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.
Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.
gloss: A spiritual or religious conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is therefore enthusiasm no less than resignation in an enlightened metanoia. You give up everything in the form of claims; you receive everything back in the form of a divine presence.
Ecstatic seizures are rare—they only occur in something like 1 or 2 percent of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. But the last half century has seen an enormous increase in the prevalence of other states sometimes permeated by religious joy and awe, "heavenly" visions and voices, and, not infrequently, religious conversion or metanoia.
gloss: A fundamental change in the human personality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: Two months after Obama’s autocue mishap, his vice-presidential running mate Joe Biden raised a laugh when he used metanoia in his speech to the Democratic convention:
“You know, folks, that’s the America that George Bush has left us. And that’s the America we’ll continue to get if George – excuse me, if John McCain is elected president of the United States of America. Freudian slip. Freudian slip.”
Related words: paranoia
road to Damascus
Translations:
include
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English includen, borrowed from Latin inclūdere (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudere (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). Doublet of enclose. Displaced native Old English belūcan (“to include,” also “to shut in”).
Inflected forms:
form: includes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: including
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: included
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: included
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enclude
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: includes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enclude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
pos: verb
examples: I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.
gloss: To consider as part of something; to comprehend.
pos: verb
examples: The vacation package includes car rental.
Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?
I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.
up to and including page twenty-five
The whole included race, his purposed prey.
The loss of such a lord includes all harm.
gloss: To enclose, confine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.
gloss: To conclude; to terminate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.
gloss: To use a directive that allows the use of source code from another file.
pos: verb
examples: You have to include the strings library to use this function.
gloss: A piece of source code or other content that is dynamically retrieved for inclusion in another item.
pos: noun
examples: In the previous lesson, you learned how to use server-side includes, which enable you to easily include snippets of web pages within other web pages.
Synonyms: add
admit
allow
bear
circumscribe
come with
compose
comprise
consist
contain
count
cover
embody
embrace
encircle
enclose
encompass
entail
grant
incorporate
involve
possess
Antonyms: exclude
drop
lack
omit
refrain
Related words: inclusion
inclusive
Derived words: batteries-included
includability
includable
include me out
includer
includible
misinclude
preinclude
reinclude
un-include
uninclude
Translations:
included
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Provided as an accompaniment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Read the included leaflet for instructions.
gloss: Enclosed, not protruding, e.g. stamens within the corolla.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: batteries-included
includedness
lesser included offence
lesser included offense
nonincluded
unincluded
Translations:
ex
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ex.
Inflected forms:
form: exes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
pos: noun
examples: Thus first C checks to see if ex and wye are equal. The resulting value of 1 or 0 (true or false) then is compared to the value of zee.
gloss: To delete; to cross out.
pos: verb
gloss: To extinguish the life of.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: You upset cuz your friend got exed
I got pissed cuz my bro got knifed
gloss: Ex-, former, previously but no longer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Ex-, former, previously but no longer.
My algebra II teacher's dad is an ex PE teacher at the same school.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
deciduous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱádeti
Proto-Italic *kadō
Latin cadō
Latin dēcidō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Italic *-wos
Latin -uus
Latin dēciduuslbor.
English deciduous
Learned borrowing from Latin dēciduus (“falling down or off”), from dēcidō (“to fall down or off”) + -uus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a particular time or stage of development.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the Hippoidea there is generally the full series of 44 teeth, but the first premolar is often deciduous or wanting in the lower or in both jaws.
gloss: Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in winter or the dry season.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: . Compare caducous.
a deciduous tree
gloss: Transitory, ephemeral, not lasting.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
Related words: decay
decadence
decidence
Derived words: brevideciduous
deciduosity
deciduous camellia
deciduous holly
deciduously
deciduousness
deciduous tooth
deciduous winterberry
indeciduous
nondeciduous
semideciduous
subdeciduous
undeciduous
Translations:
canyon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cañón. Doublet of cannon.
Inflected forms:
form: canyons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cañon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cañón
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: canyons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: canyoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: canyoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: canyoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cañon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cañón
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
pos: noun
examples: After we have crossed the Glenderamackin stream, which drains the northern slopes of Saddleback, and the latter has united with the St. John's Beck to form the Greta, however, we see ahead the miniature canyon the Greta has hollowed out for itself, and into the depth of which the train now descends.
Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
gloss: Of water, liquid, or another substance, to flow in or into a canyon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
doppelganger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: Borrowed from German Doppelgänger (“ghostly spirit”, literally “double-walker”).
Inflected forms:
form: doppelgangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doppelgänger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
pos: noun
examples: "An orderly let out the news that you are here," she said. "But don't worry. We've sent out a doppelganger to fool the Sons, and the orderly has been sentenced to slavery under the pyramid builder for twenty lifetimes. I hate my brother! How dare he fight us with the sky falling?"
The uncanniness provoked by doppelgangers is particularly acute because the thing that becomes unfamiliar is you.
gloss: An evil twin.
pos: noun
gloss: A remarkably similar double.
pos: noun
examples: Stars in Their Eyes ran for 16 years from 1990, and had the "wow" factor moment of transforming a pub singer into their idol, as the contestant said the famous words: "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be…" and then stepped out from a puff of dry ice as their musical doppelganger.
He had come tantalisingly close to his doppelganger on Thursday night when a beautiful burgundy boat cruised past him. “He saw me and I waved and he gave me a thumbs-up,” said Halicilar. “I was so happy. I cried.”
gloss: A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
pos: noun
Related words: doubleganger
Translations:
poltergeist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Poltergeist, from poltern (“to rumble”) + Geist (“ghost”), cognates with English boulder and ghost, respectively.
Compound parts: poltern
Geist
Inflected forms:
form: poltergeists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poltergeister
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unseen ghost which makes noises and causes disruption, especially by causing physical objects to move or fly about.
pos: noun
examples: A poltergeist haunts the house by moving objects around, making chain-rattling noises and throwing things.
The chapel is haunted by a demonic poltergeist.
"Perhaps even a small poltergeist might come your way. Any trifle would be welcome." His bull's bellow of laughter followed them into the lift.
I risk becoming nothing more than a common poltergeist wallowing in regrets and introspection and other terrible things.
Translations:
Christendom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cristendom, cristendome, from Old English cristendōm, equivalent to Christen + -dom.
Base: Christen
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: Christendoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Christiandom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Christdom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom.
The result is contained in the fact of a wide and still widening Christendom.
Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
gloss: The state of being a (devout) Christian; Christian belief or faith.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: By my Chriſtendome, So I were out of priſon, and kept Sheepe, I ſhould be as merry as the day is long.
[…]and yet cannot be denied that ſo it ought to be, by any man that would not have his Chriſtendome ſuſpected.
Especially about law and its obligatory force was Cromwell's head clear, making clearer distinctions than Wolsey with his conscience or More with his Christendom.
gloss: The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]but for an Author to renounce his Chriſtendome to write in his owne commendation, to refuſe the name which his Godfathers and Godmothers gaue him in his baptiſme , and call himſelfe a wellwiller to both the writers[…]
His faith, his ſweet diſaſter: with a world
 Of pretty fond adoptious chriſtendomes
 That blinking Cupid goſſips.
Related words: Christ
Christian
Christianity
Hindudom
Dar al-Islam
Islamosphere
Edom
Jewry
Klal Yisrael
Translations:
puritan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Puritan.
Inflected forms:
form: puritans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more puritan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puritan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A puritanical person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: These new puritans have turned out to be surprisingly unskilled and inexperienced - very different from my generation who invented wife-swapping, orgies and free love in the late Sixties and early Seventies.
gloss: Acting or behaving according to the Puritan morals (e.g. propagating modesty), especially with regard to pleasure, nudity and sex; ascetic.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: A pietistic protestantism, rigid, self-righteous, unintellectual, obsessed with puritan morality to the point where hypocrisy was its automatic companion, dominated this desolate epoch.
Translations:
pretext
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin praetextum (“an ornament, etc., wrought in front, a pretense”), neuter of praetextus, past participle of praetexere (“to weave before, fringe or border, allege”).
Inflected forms:
form: pretexts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pretexts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pretexting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pretexted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pretexted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.
pos: noun
examples: The reporter called the company on the pretext of trying to resolve a consumer complaint.
[T]hey would ſay [...] that I had quarrell'd / My brother purpoſely, thereby to finde / An apt pretext, to baniſh them my houſe.
"After all," said the Chevalier, "these portraits—Madame de I'Hôpital's fortune-telling—the pleasure we take in a lover or a physician—may all be referred to the same cause,—we do so enjoy talking about ourselves; and yet we feel some sort of excuse necessary. It must be admitted, that we are ready in pretexts."
On every kind of pretext she would run away from work [...]
The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection.
When that metaphor proves untenable, he switches to insisting that women are like beer but that’s mainly as a pretext to drink until he passes out in a father-son bonding haze.
gloss: To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.
pos: verb
examples: The spy obtained his phone records using possibly-illegal pretexting methods.
[…] the something in the air of these establishments; the vibration of the vast, strange life of the town; the influence of the types, the performers, concocting their messages; the little prompt Paris women arranging, pretexting goodness knew what, driving the dreadful needle-pointed public pen at the dreadful sand-strewn public table[…]
Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
Translations:
subtext
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English text
English subtext
From sub- + text.
Inflected forms:
form: subtexts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subtexts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subtexting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subtexted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subtexted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An implicit meaning of a text, often a literary one, or a speech or dialogue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Everyone heard the announcement, but not everyone agrees on what the subtext was.
The word dick has meant penis since the 1890s, but Chester Gould’s private detective “Dick Tracy” has no puerile subtext related to this word.
While his major plays appear on the surface to have little plot, their subtext is full of overheated romance and melodrama.
gloss: To create or use a subtext.
pos: verb
examples: All the participants used subtexting as an important viewing strategy of mainstream films. We are always looking for innuendoes and cues either with certain individual characters or between female characters.
Subtexting is the technique that every author needs to know in order to create dialogue that is rich in meaning while sounding natural, for in real life, this is the way people often converse.
Related words: subtweet
Translations:
wicked
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wicked, wikked, an alteration of Middle English wicke, wikke (“morally perverse, evil, wicked”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from an adjectival use of Old English wiċċa (“wizard, sorcerer”), from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”), though the phonology makes this theory difficult to explain. Alternatively, perhaps related to English wicker, Old Norse víkja (“to bend to, yield, turn, move”), Swedish vika (“to bend, fold, give way to”), English weak.
The "excellent, awesome" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "evil, mischievous". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and sick.
Inflected forms:
form: wickeder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more wicked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wickedest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most wicked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: the wicked
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
Senses:
gloss: Evil or mischievous by nature; morally reprehensible.
pos: adj
examples: Genuine cowards follow wicked people and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
“Yes,” replied she; “and the saddest part of it all is that she is not marrying the man she loves. Oh, it is terrible. Marrying from a sense of duty! I think it is perfectly wicked, and I told her so.”
‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.
What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way / What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you / What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way
gloss: Harsh; severe.
pos: adj
examples: wicked wind
gloss: Excellent; awesome; masterful; exceptional.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!
The Artemis II astronauts sent back descriptions of the total solar eclipse they viewed from space to NASA's Mission Control. "It’s truly hard to describe. It is amazing," pilot Victor Glover said. Glover said that the Orion spacecraft was made as dark as possible due to every bit of light in the cabin affecting the view. "It’s a wicked view," he said of the darkened moon with deep space behind it.
gloss: Wicked (evil) people collectively.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: And goodness knows the wicked's lives are lonely / Goodness knows the wicked die alone
Derived words: have one's wicked way with
no rest for the wicked
no sleep for the wicked
wickedly
wickedness
wicked pissah
wicked problem
wicked tongue
Translations:
horrid
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti
Proto-Italic *horzēō
Latin horreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin horridusbor.
English horrid
Borrowed from Latin horridus (“rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude”), from horrere (“to bristle”). See horrent, horror, ordure.
Inflected forms:
form: horrider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more horrid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: horridest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most horrid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bristling, rough, rugged.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: His haughtie Helmet, horrid all with gold, // Both glorious brightnesse and great terror bredd.
Yea there, where very Desolation dwells, / By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, / She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, / Be it not done in pride, or in presumption.
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, / Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beasts, were worn.
gloss: Causing horror or dread.
pos: adj
examples: Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damned / In evils, to top Macbeth.
Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood, / that we the horrider may seem to those / Which chance to find us;
Set out the altar! I myself will be / The priest, and boldly do those horrid rites / You shake to think on.
As ſoon as vve had fired, they ſet up the horrideſt Yell, or Hovvling, partly raiſed by thoſe that vvere vvounded, and partly by thoſe that pitied and condoled the Bodies they ſavv lye dead, that I never heard any thing like it before or ſince.
What say ye then to fair Sir Percivale, / And of the horrid foulness that he wrought,
gloss: Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
pos: adj
examples: horrid weather
The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
[T]hoſe Laſciuious, Immodeſt, VVhoriſh, or vngodly Faſhions, and Attires, vvhich Metamorphiſe, and Transforme, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into ſundry Antique, Horred, and Out-landiſh ſhapes, from day, to day: […]
My Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
About the middle of November we began to work on our Ship's bottom, which we found very much eaten with the Worm: For this is a horrid place for Worms.
Methinks already I your tears survey, / Already hear the horrid things they say,
gloss: Terribly; horridly; to an extreme extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: “Beg y’ pardon, sir,” said a voice at the tent door; “but Dormer’s ’orrid bad, sir, an’ they’ve taken him orf, sir.”
Synonyms: abominable
alarming
appalling
awful
dire
dreadful
frightful
harrowing
hideous
horrible
revolting
shocking
terrific
Derived words: horridly
horridness
horridsome
Translations:
torrid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ters-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *torséyeti
Proto-Italic *torzeō
Latin torreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin torridus
English torrid
From Latin torridus, from torreō (“parch, scorch”).
Inflected forms:
form: torrider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: torridest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very hot and dry.
pos: adj
gloss: Full of intense emotions arising from sexual love; ardent and passionate.
pos: adj
examples: a torrid love scene in a film or novel
It was left to the famed Greek philosopher, Plato, writing some two hundred years later, to bring out the torrid details of these kinky islanders.
gloss: Full of difficulty.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Tomás O'Leary had a torrid time behind the forwards, fumbling on the floor, hesitant with his kicks.
gloss: [of a streak, form, etc.] Good; impressive; hot.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: But thanks to a torrid stretch that started in mid-June, the Yankees have regained first place in the A.L. East and built the largest division lead — nine games ahead of the second-place Tampa Bay Rays — in the league.
Related words: torrent
toast
Derived words: subtorrid
torridity
torridly
torridness
untorrid
Translations:
contribute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin contribūtus, perfect passive participle of contribuō (“to bring together; to unite”), from con- (“together”) + tribuō (“to bestow”), from tribus (“tribe”), derived from trēs (“three”), from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Base: tribuō
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: contributes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contributing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contributed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contributed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give something that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to contribute money to a church fund
to contribute articles to a journal
That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]
Rivera retired the next three batters in order, with third baseman Alex Rodriguez contributing a nifty barehand pickup and throw on Julio Lugo’s roller.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
Lifetime ARPU, or the average revenue contributed per user over the lifetime of a product, can provide some insight into the habits of a large group of users within the product.
Translations:
saxophone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.
Base: Sax
Affixes: -o-
-phone
Inflected forms:
form: saxophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saxophones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saxophoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saxophoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saxophoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
pos: noun
examples: I played the saxophone in high school.
gloss: Someone who plays the saxophone; a saxophonist.
pos: noun
examples: The saxophones typically sit behind the flutes in a concert band.
gloss: To play the saxophone.
pos: verb
Derived words: alto saxophone
baritone saxophone
bass saxophone
contrabass saxophone
jazzophone
sax
saxophonelike
saxophonic
saxophonist
saxophony
sopranino saxophone
sopranissimo saxophone
soprano saxophone
soprillo saxophone
subcontrabass saxophone
tenor saxophone
trumpophone
Translations:
cornflakes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cornflake
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A breakfast cereal made from toasted flakes of maize.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
bes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin besbor.
English bes
Borrowed from Latin bes.
Inflected forms:
form: besses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
poker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English poke
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English poker
From poke + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pokers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pokering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pokered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pokered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One who pokes.
pos: noun
examples: The guy next to him poked him in the ribs and said, “Check out the bazongas on this one!” Lee pivoted toward the rib poker and found himself looking straight into the face of Romeo Bouchard.
gloss: A kind of duck, the pochard.
pos: noun
gloss: A knife.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: Key sense with the super-soaker
Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga
There is that guy that does with the pokings
I step with my poker
Play, cuz right, you might get folded
gloss: A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: 1841, George John Daire, The Rime of the New-made Baccalere
On seats with velvet lined, / Sat Heads of Houses in a row, / And Deans and College Dons below, / With a Poker or two behind.
gloss: To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield.
The lids have very pleasant designs pokered on with a hot needle.
When she was gone Bell was afflicted by a mood that had her moving round the room, holding on to the yellow curtain, standing over her girls, stroking the sails of the model yacht, opening the drawer and looking at the broken brooch, pokering the fire, and shifting the kettle's position on the hearth.
Synonyms: poker
Related words: act (poker)
Derived words: blow poke
by the holy poker
draw poker
fireplace poker
gas poker
pai gow poker
pokerish
poker plant
pokerwork
poverty poker
red-hot poker
stiff as a poker
straight poker
pokerlike
poker machine
Translations:
decompose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French décomposer. Equivalent to de- + compose.
Base: compose
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decomposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decomposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decomposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decomposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To separate or break down (something) into its components.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Various fungi can decompose wood.
Our team decomposed this task into several subtasks that could be successfully distributed.
gloss: To rot, decay or putrefy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Plastics can take centuries to decompose.
Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.
Derived words: decomposability
decomposable
decomposer
decomposition
eigendecompose
nondecomposed
photodecompose
semidecomposed
undecomposed
Translations:
compose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English composen, from Old French composer (“to compose, compound, adjust, settle”), from com- + poser, as an adaptation of Latin componere (“to put together, compose”), from com- (“together”) + ponere (“to put, place”).
Inflected forms:
form: composes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: composing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: composed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: composed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something by merging parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.
December 22 1678, Thomas Sprat, A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall
Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.
gloss: To make up the whole; to constitute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A church is composed of its members.
A few useful things […] compose their intellectual possessions.
gloss: To comprise.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
transitive
gloss: To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The orator composed his speech over the week prior.
Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.
It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.
Let me […] compose / Something in Verse as true as Prose.
the genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"
gloss: To calm; to free from agitation.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
sometimes
examples: Try to compose your thoughts.
The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.
Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.
gloss: To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
pos: verb
gloss: To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
pos: verb
examples: By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision […]
gloss: To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
pos: verb
examples: In a peaceful grave my corpse compose.
How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.
gloss: To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
pos: verb
tags: dated
Synonyms: form
indite
compose
compound
comprise
make up
represent
upmake
Related words: composition
Derived words: cocompose
composability
composable
composer
composing frame
composing rule
composing stick
composite
composition
compositor
composograph
composure
decompose
discompose
miscompose
photocompose
postcompose
precompose
recompose
through-composed
Translations:
informatics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Coined 1967 from information + -ics; possibly influenced by automation and automatic.
German Informatik dates from 1957, French informatique from 1962.
Base: information
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of computer science.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: informatic
Derived words: archaeoinformatics
astroinformatics
biblioinformatics
cheminformatics
chemoinformatics
geoinformatics
glycoinformatics
immunoinformatics
informaticist
pharmacoinformatics
phyloinformatics
teleinformatics
terminotics
Translations:
compress
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English compressen, from Old French compresser, from Late Latin compressare (“to press hard/together”), from Latin compressus, the past participle of comprimō (“to compress”), itself from com- (“together”) + premō (“press”).
Inflected forms:
form: compresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compressed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: compresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The force required to compress a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
events of centuries […] compressed within the compass of a single life
The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his historical harangues.
gloss: To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our new model compresses easily, ideal for storage and travel
gloss: To condense into a more economic, easier format.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This chart compresses the entire audit report into a few lines on a single diagram.
gloss: To abridge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you try to compress the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
gloss: To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The command-line tool gzip allows you to compress files in a few different ways. First, gzip can compress results from standard input.
gloss: To make a pulse or particle bunch shorter by applying dispersion to it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Diffraction gratings are by far the most common elements used to stretch and compress pulses because of their substantial angular dispersion, […]
gloss: To embrace sexually.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: This nymph compreſs'd by him vvho rules the day, / VVhom Delphi and the Delian iſle obey, / Andræmon lov'd; and, bleſs'd in all thoſe charms / That pleas'd a God, ſucceeded to her arms.
gloss: A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
pos: noun
examples: He held a cold compress over the sprain.
gloss: A machine for compressing.
pos: noun
Synonyms: astringe
compact
telescope
compactify
condense
densitize
pack
press
mash
scrunch
smush
squoosh
squash
squish
squeeze
thring
thrutch
Antonyms: decompact
decompactify
decompress
expand
uncompress
densen
Related words: compression
thicken
Derived words: compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressibility
compressible
compressingly
compression
compressive
compressive strength
compressor
compressure
decompress
overcompress
precompress
recompress
supercompress
Translations:
sans
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English saunz, sans, borrowed from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine (“without”) conflated with absēns (“absent, remote”). Compare French sans, Italian senza, Portuguese sem, and Spanish sin.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without; lacking, especially with regard to something expected or with precedent
pos: prep
tags: defective
humorous
literary
examples: Bero[wne]. […] And to begin Wench, ſo God helpe me law,
My loue to thee is ſound, ſance cracke or flaw.
Roſa[line]. Sans, ſans, I pray you.
Those with brooms started to sweep literally, at the feet of the crowd, driving it back into the side streets from which it had emerged to form this assembly – now riders sans steeds.
But regardless of when Wally had parked himself out in that backyard—sans coat or jacket—somehow, the old lady must have known where Wally would be before he drove out to the Isaacs trailer—or else she followed him out there from his house.
Skin needs ultraviolet radiation to begin the synthesis of vitamin D, but dermatologists say you can probably get the necessary electromagnetic input from a mere 20 minutes of sun exposure a week, as you go about your daily affairs, sunblocked and sans beach.
The fella in question was still sitting at his table, sans everything above the neckerchief. There was blood everywhere, and brain matter, and bits of skull, and what looked like very expensive bone china.
Translations:
racetrack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From race + track.
Compound parts: race
track
Inflected forms:
form: racetracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: race track
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A course over which any type of races are run.
pos: noun
examples: During the 2018-2019 season, a staggering 56 horses died at one of the most glamorous racetracks in the country, Santa Anita Park, once home to the famous 1940s thoroughbred Seabiscuit. […] Most of the horse deaths Battuello has identified are based on state records, although a handful are based on news reports or verbal confirmation he received from racetrack officials.
gloss: A characteristic circular erosion pattern in deposition processes.
pos: noun
Derived words: off-track
racetracker
racetracking
racetrack table
racino
trackside
Translations:
speedway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From speed + way.
Compound parts: speed
way
Inflected forms:
form: speedways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: superspeedway
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мотописта
roman: motopista
lang: Finnish
word: speedwayrata
lang: Russian
word: трек
roman: trɛk
spaceport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From space + port; compare airport.
Compound parts: space
port
Inflected forms:
form: spaceports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A site for launching spacecraft.
pos: noun
examples: Ashley: You're Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon?
Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp.
Translations:
skater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skate
English -er
English skater
From skate + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: skaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sk8r
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who skates.
pos: noun
gloss: A skateboarder.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who is not a goaltender.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of water strider.
pos: noun
Synonyms: water strider
Derived words: figure skater
ice skater
in-line skater
nonskater
pond-skater
sea skater
skater dress
skaterly
speed skater
speedskater
wakeskater
water skater
Translations:
puce
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Inflected forms:
form: puces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pucer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pucest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.
gloss: Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
pos: adj
Translations:
clitoris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From post-classical Latin clītoris (16th century), or its source, Koine Greek κλειτορίς (kleitorís), probably from Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō, “to sheathe, shut”), in reference to it being covered by the labia minora.
The related noun form κλείς (kleís) has a second meaning of "a key, a latch or hook (to close a door)." Wooden pegs were the original keys; a connection also revealed in Latin clavis (“nail”) and claudere (“to shut”) (see close). Some medical sources give a supposed Greek verb κλειτοριάζω (kleitoriázō, “touch or titillate lasciviously, tickle”) literally "to be inclined (toward pleasure)" (compare German Kitzler (“clitoris”, literally “tickler”), related to Greek κλειτύς (kleitús, “shut, closed”), a variant of κλιτύς (klitús, “hillside”), related to κλίνω (klínō, “to slope”), from the same root as κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder”). But many sources take κλειτορίς (kleitorís) literally as Ancient Greek "little hill".
Inflected forms:
form: clitorises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clitorides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals.
pos: noun
examples: stimulate the clitoris
She complains that her boyfriend can't find her clitoris.
Juſt before them, towards the upper Part of the C—t, is a Thing they call Clitoris, which, is a little like a Man's P—k, for it will ſwell, and ſtand like his […].
The average infant clitoris, when measured from the base of the shaft to the top of the glans, is about 4 or 5 millimeters, the height of a pencil eraser.
gloss: A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of female amniotes.
pos: noun
Synonyms: bean
butter bean
boy in the boat
button
clit
clitoris
devil's doorbell
happy button
jewel
kernel
knob
little man in the boat
lovebud
love button
nub
nubbin
panic button
pearl
skittle
sugar plum
sweet spot
Related words: glans clitoridis
glans clitoris
os clitoridis
praeputium clitoridis
glans
vulva
penis
Derived words: clit
cliterati
clitoral
clitoral foreskin
clitoral glans
clitoral hood
clitorectomy
clitorial
clitoric
clitoridectomy
clitoridotomy
clitorised
clitorislike
clitorism
clitorist
clitoritis
clitorize
clitoromegaly
hemiclitoris
macroclitoris
shitoris
Translations:
Pepsi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.
Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.)
(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.
Inflected forms:
form: Pepsis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pepsi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A serving of Pepsi.
pos: noun
examples: I'll have a Pepsi with that.
gloss: A person from Quebec, Canada.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
slang
slur
examples: […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]
Translations:
tenet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tenet (“he, she, or it holds”), from teneō (“hold; have”). Compare obsolete tenent. See tenable.
Inflected forms:
form: tenets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tenant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
pos: noun
examples: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
Opposition to climate science has become not just the badge of honour for far-right politicians like Ukip’s Paul Nuttall. It has become the central tenet of their appeal to unreason.
Translations: