yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
beam-ends
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ends of the transverse beams of a ship.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The ship is lying over half upon her beam-ends; lee scuppers under water, and forecastle all in a smother of foam.
It began to be chill; the tide was rapidly fleeting seaward, the schooner settling more and more on her beam-ends.
Translations:
zorro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish zorrobor.
English zorro
Borrowed from Spanish zorro.
Inflected forms:
form: zorros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A South American canid of the species Lycalopex culpaeus, visually similar to (and sometimes referred to as) a fox but more closely related to a wolf.
pos: noun
Translations:
lectionary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin lēctiōnāriumlbor.
English lectionary
Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin lēctiōnārium.
Inflected forms:
form: lectionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
hydric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
chemistry
forestry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From hydro- + -ic.
Base: hydro
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by, or requiring, moisture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Sufficiently wet to inhibit the survival of many species.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hydric environments, a form of extreme environment for trees, are often inhabited by relatively few species.
gloss: Relating to hydrogen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to alcohols.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: cryohydric
dihydric
ectohydric
endohydric
halohydric
heptahydric
hexahydric
hydric acid
isohydric
mesohydric
monohydric
nonhydric
pentahydric
polyhydric
sulfhydric
tellurhydric
tetrahydric
trihydric
Translations:
becket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
nautical
sewing
textiles
transport
Etymology: Compare Dutch bek (“beak”) beak, and English beak.
Inflected forms:
form: beckets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
pos: noun
gloss: A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
pos: noun
gloss: A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.
pos: noun
gloss: The clevis of a pulley block.
pos: noun
gloss: An eye in the end of a rope.
pos: noun
gloss: A pocket in clothing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.
gloss: A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
pos: noun
gloss: A spade for digging turf in the Fens.
pos: noun
tags: England
dialectal
historical
examples: The tool with which the cesses are dug is called a becket […] It is a wooden spade of a rectangular shape, quite flat, and shod with iron. An iron notch projecting at right angles to the plane of the blade cuts into the peat, and forms the side of the cess. The workman stands above and drives the becket almost vertically into the soft peat.
In the earlier time sods or hassocks were dug with a moorland spade, heart-shaped, but about 1856 a tool eighteen inches long and four inches wide, with an iron flange, called a becket was used […] The becket was first used in Isleham Fen and was of smaller dimensions than that used in Burwell Fen, being fourteen inches long and two and a half inches wide.
He marked four widths of the becket to the left, then thrusting and penetrating for fully 18 inches into the soggy peat, withdrawing and twisting the becket, completing the final thrusting on the back run.
gloss: chough (the bird)
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Cornish choughs, or “beckets”, as they are sometimes known, are seen on Thomas Wolsey’s coat of arms; they are a reference to his namesake, Thomas Becket.
Derived words: becket bend
becket hitch
chest becket
double becket hitch
steering wheel becket
Translations:
funereal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more funereal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most funereal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: funeral
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a funeral.
pos: adj
examples: From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
gloss: Similar to or befitting the mood or elements of a funeral: slow; black colors; formal; dignified or solemn.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole ſcene.
"Sounds curst funereal, Zeb! O my poor nunky! Go fetch 'em, Sergeant, and let me see 'em—'twill distress and pain me I know but—go fetch 'em!"
There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.
Derived words: funereally
Translations:
cruelty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cruelte, from Old French crualté (French cruauté), from Latin crudelitas. By surface analysis, cruel + -ty.
Inflected forms:
form: cruelties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cruellty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cruelltie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.
gloss: A cruel act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
Gay songwriter behind bars! Needs sincere letter to help ease the tension from cruelties inside the joint.
Derived words: anticruelty
cruelty-free
mental cruelty
Translations:
sledgehammer
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of sledge + hammer.
Inflected forms:
form: sledgehammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sledge-hammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sledgehammers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sledgehammering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sledgehammered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sledgehammered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more sledgehammer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sledgehammer
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A hammer that consists of a large, heavy, broad and flat block of metal (the head) attached to a handle typically 0.5 meter to 1 meter long. The sledgehammer's design is meant to allow it to be swung powerfully, and to distribute force over a wide area upon impact.
pos: noun
examples: These were succeeded by anchor and chain-cable forges, where sledgehammers were dinging upon iron all day long.
They take sledgehammers to statues with an uncommon gusto – destroying in seconds what may have survived centuries.
gloss: To strike (something) with a sledgehammer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some lawmakers were so incensed that they even invited the news media to watch the sledgehammering of the Japanese company's products on the Capitol's steps.
She’s trying to piece together shards of precious pottery gleefully sledgehammered by a delegation led by the Taliban’s minister of culture, who deemed the world’s greatest collection of Central Asian artifacts un-Islamic.
gloss: Completely lacking grace and dexterity.
pos: adj
examples: Promising new treatments avoid the sledgehammer approach of traditional chemotherapy in two key ways."
Translations:
fuzz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”
Inflected forms:
form: fuzzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fuzzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fuzzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fuzzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fuzzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.
Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.
gloss: Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.
gloss: The random data used in fuzz testing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.
gloss: A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.
gloss: A state of befuddlement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like.
So I'm in a fuzz of not knowing what to do
gloss: Fuzziness, vagueness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make fuzzy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become fuzzy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make drunk.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink.
gloss: To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
pos: verb
examples: Sulley works by fuzzing the first fuzzable field to be fuzzed. While it is iterating through all the values it wants to try for that field, all the other fields are untouched and remain at their default value.
gloss: To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
Derived words: fuzzball
fuzzbox
fuzz box
fuzzer
fuzzification
fuzzify
fuzzless
fuzzlike
fuzznut
fuzznuts
fuzztail
fuzz test
fuzztone
fuzzword
fuzzy
peachfuzz
peach fuzz
fuzz out
fuzz up
fuzzable
Translations:
fury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).
Inflected forms:
form: furies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extreme anger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.
gloss: Strength or violence in action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!
gloss: An angry or malignant person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: apoplexy
ire
rage
Derived words: furious
furisome
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
like fury
sound and fury
Spanish fury
Translations:
fumigate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1530; borrowed from Latin fūmigātus, perfect passive participle of fūmigō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūmus (“smoke”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: fumigates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fumigating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fumigated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fumigated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They fumigated the Church with burnt wool and feathers instead of incense, put foul water into the holy-water basins, and celebrated a parody on the Church-service, the mock Abbot officiating at the altar; […]
‘Pest control are coming too. They’ll be fumigating the place.’
Translations:
frizz
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).
Inflected forms:
form: frizzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frizzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frizzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frizzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: friz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: frizzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: friz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To curl; to make frizzy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: with her hair frized short up to her ears
In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]
gloss: To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
pos: verb
gloss: To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
pos: verb
gloss: To fry, cook, or sear with a sizzling noise; to sizzle.
pos: verb
gloss: A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: friseur
frizzle
Derived words: antifrizz
defrizz
frizz up
frizzy
unfrizz
Translations:
frizzy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frizz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English frizzy
From frizz + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: frizzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frizziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frizzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions.
pos: adj
examples: The wet weather made her hair frizzy and untidy.
gloss: A small amount of unkempt, curly hair
pos: noun
Translations:
tarmac
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Clipping of tarmacadam, which is from tar + macadam (“crushed stones”). Originally a trademark owned by its inventor, Edgar Hooley.
Compound parts: tar
macadam
Inflected forms:
form: tarmacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tarmacs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tarmacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarmacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarmaccing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarmacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarmacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tarmaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarmaced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tarmacced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarmacced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Tarmacadam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any bituminous road surfacing material.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
UK
broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: How meek and shrunken did that haughty Tarmac become as it slunk by the wide circle of asphalt of the yellow sort, that was loosely strewn before the great iron gates of Lady Hall as a forerunner of the consideration that awaited the guests of Rupert, Earl of Kare, […].
gloss: The driveable surface of a road.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: As he walked across the tarmac in the bitter January wind he saw his own name going over the network: BOND, JAMES. BRITISH DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT 0094567, the short wait and the replies coming back on the different machines: NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE, NEGATIVE. And then, from the FBI: POSITIVE AWAIT CHECK.
gloss: To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
UK
examples: To your left is a green lane, partly tarmacked with chippings, which leads up to a little car-parking area.
Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes.
gloss: To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.
pos: verb
examples: "It is not unusual these days for the time spent tarmacking to exceed the time spent in the air, " said Senator John Danforth, R-Mo.
Related words: asphalt
Derived words: retarmac
untarmacked
Translations:
tarmacadam
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tar + macadam.
Compound parts: tar
macadam
Inflected forms:
form: tarmacadams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tarmacadaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarmacadamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarmacadamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover or surface with tarmacadam.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
perplex
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin perplexus (“entangled, confused”), from per (“through”) + plexus, perfect passive participle of plectō (“plait, weave, braid”).
Inflected forms:
form: perplexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perplexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perplexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perplexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
gloss: To plague; to vex; to torment.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Chloe's the wonder of her sex, 'Tis well her heart is tender, How might such killing eyes perplex, With virtue to defend her.
All night no ruder air perplex
⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
Related words: perplexable
perplexation
perplexed
perplexedness
perplexing
perplexity
perplexment
Derived words: perplexion
perplexly
unperplex
Translations:
perplexity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: perplexities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being perplexed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that perplexes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
gloss: A measure of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
redrum
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English drum
English redrum
From re- + drum.
Inflected forms:
form: redrums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redrumming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redrummed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redrummed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place into new drums (barrels).
pos: verb
examples: The most common procedure used to overcome these problems is to redrum the contents. [...] Although the labor cost increases because of implied redrumming requirements, the primary increase in cost is that of the drums.
Translations:
perplexed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more perplexed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perplexed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confused or puzzled.
pos: adj
examples: The scientists were perplexed by the new discovery.
She was perplexed. 'Plege'illegience is plege'illegience!'"
Perplexed, Wheeler continues to play for a moment or two, keeping to his own internal time. But after another moment it becomes clear that something is wrong, something which everybody can see but him. He steals a glance up from his instrument, and finds that Luján is staring at him. In fact, every musician in the orchestra is staring at him, all of them wearing the same expression of stony, barely-contained ang—
They've been replaced.
gloss: Bewildered.
pos: adj
gloss: Entangled; labyrinthine.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: "[…] But come, Lady, we are too near the mouth of the cavern; let us seek its inmost recesses. […]" "Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?"
Derived words: perplexedly
perplexedness
unperplexed
Translations:
perplexing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more perplexing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perplexing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That causes perplexity.
pos: adj
examples: utterly perplexing
perplexing question
perplexing problem
The detective faced a perplexing mystery.
She found the instructions perplexing.
Translations:
understanding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.
Base: understand
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: understandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more understanding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most understanding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
with-of
examples: There are certain things that defy human understanding.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
gloss: Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
with-of
examples: She has a solid understanding of particle physics.
gloss: Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
pos: noun
tags: countable
with-of
examples: It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
There is a multitude of theisms, many understandings of God, even within the same religious tradition.
The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
gloss: An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
with-of
examples: I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
gloss: An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
with-of
examples: The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
gloss: Sympathy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
with-of
examples: He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
gloss: Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
pos: adj
gloss: Knowing; skilful.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Related words: intellection
innerstanding
overstand
Derived words: according to one's understanding
innerstanding
memorandum of understanding
mutual understanding
natural language understanding
peace that passeth understanding
Translations:
embalm
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English enbawmen, from Middle French embaumer, from Old French embasmer. See balm.
Inflected forms:
form: embalms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: embalming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: embalmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: embalmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: imbalm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.
`Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'
gloss: To preserve.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: There are districts of Canada mainly settled from Paisley and neighbourhood, the hivings off at such seasons as we have referred to, with whose settlement he had not a little to do, and where his memory is embalmed.
It is very curious to observe how the idea of revenge, inspired by an Egyptian who lived before the time of Christ, is thus, as it were, embalmed in an English family name.
gloss: To perfume or add fragrance to something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: disembalm
embalmable
embalmer
embalming
embalmment
unembalmed
Translations:
misleading
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mislead
English -ing
English misleading
From mislead + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more misleading
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misleading
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: misleadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
pos: adj
examples: The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.
gloss: A deception that misleads.
pos: noun
examples: According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.
Translations:
shtetl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Yiddish שטעטל (shtetl, “small town, village”), from שטאָט (shtot, “city”) + ־ל (-l, “diminutive suffix”) (compare German Städtl, Swabian Städtele), from Old High German stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis. Doublet of stead.
Base: שטאָט
Inflected forms:
form: shtetls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shtetlach
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shtetlech
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shtetlekh
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe.
pos: noun
examples: However, you are right to suspect that there is some connection between my carefully considered opinion of the Hebrew people and this marvellous recital which your waxy ears, full of the cheesy gunk of the shtetl, have been so fortunate to hear.
Most of the second-generation immigrant kids of his neighborhood had been […] as desperate to go to college and become lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and leave the teeming city for the suburbs, as their parents had been to leave behind the shtetls of Russia.
Said the dybbuk, “What do you know? In the shtetl where I grew up, the muddy village, we thought all Christians had tails and horns. And the Nazi soldiers carried pitchforks.”
Albert Speer had a big vision for it during the Third Reich, with boulevards and gigantic monuments, and we definitely don't want that again. It's a collection of villages, of shtetls as we say in Yiddish.
Translations:
petal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pétalos
Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor.
English petal
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom).
Inflected forms:
form: petals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: petals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: petaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: petalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: petaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: petaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: petalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: petalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
pos: noun
gloss: The labia (majora).
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
familiar
examples: Dawn held her breath, fearing he'd notice the slight protrusion where her babe rested beneath her heart, but he barely paused as his mouth found the tiny jewel hidden within the dewy petals of her sex.
gloss: Term of endearment.
pos: noun
examples: She is freezing cold. Sputtering. Big eyes wide and wet and red. Too shocked even to cry. 'It's okay, petal, it's okay.'
gloss: A lobe of a rose (geometric shape).
pos: noun
gloss: To spread out from, like the petals of a flower
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: anger against the men who had burdened her body with a lead shield of detestation for its blood, let loose without her will and its need against which she clenched her knees to her growing breasts, trying to clasp deep away from her hand that new soft wedge of hair, those lips that petaled out to her dreams.
With his forefinger, he curled one of the ringlets that petaled against Malou's forehead.
In the park adjacent to the library, following a winding path, she saw ahead a fountain surrounded by a reflecting pool, and she walked to it and sat on one of the benches facing the water that flowered up in numerous thin streams, petaling the air with silver droplets.
Related words: sepal
tepal
Derived words: andropetal
anisopetalous
antepetalous
apetalous
apetaly
basipetal
bipetal
bipetalous
bracteopetal
catapetalous
choripetalous
depetal
dipetalous
dispetal
empetalled
fanpetal
flower petal
gamopetalous
hexapetalous
macropetalous
monopetalous
multipetalled
octopetalous
oligopetalous
oppositipetalous
parapetalous
pentapetalous
peripetalous
petaliferous
petaliform
petaline
petalled
petalless
petallike
petaloid
petalomania
petalous
petalsome
petaltail
petalwise
planipetalous
polypetal
polypetalous
quadripetal
rose petal
stenopetalous
tetrapetalous
tripetaloid
tripetalous
unpetal
unpetalled
Translations:
Whitsun
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apocopic form of Whitsunday.
Inflected forms:
form: Whitsuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Whitsunday.
pos: noun
examples: 1909, Sidney Heath, Romance of Symbolism: Fonts and the symbols of baptism - The times [for baptism] of which Whitsun Eve is one, are specified by ... the constitutions for Orthobon for England, Gerona, 517, c. iv.
gloss: The holiday beginning on Whitsunday.
pos: noun
examples: 1978, Peter Bailey, Leisure and class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, quoting "a British observation from early 20th century", read in Orvar Löfgren, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (2002) - The excursion train used to vomit forth, at Easter and in Whitsun week, throngs of millhands of the period, cads and their flames, tawdry, blowsy, noisy, drunken.
gloss: Of, or relating to Whitsunday or Whitsuntide
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Whitsun Monday
Whitsun term
Whitsun Tuesday
Translations:
Whitsunday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Whitsonday, from whit (“white”) + Sonday (“Sunday”), from Old English hwīt sunnandæg, probably from the white clothes worn by newly baptized Christians as Pentecost was a traditional date of baptism in early medieval England. Doublet of White Sunday.
Compound parts: whit
Sonday
Inflected forms:
form: Whitsundays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls, seven weeks after Easter.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: Pentecost (season), Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit
Jesus, ascended into Heav'n again/Bestow'd this won'drous Gift upon good Men/That various Nations, by his Spirit led,/All understood what Galileans said.
An older name for this day [Pentecost] is Whitsunday, or “white Sunday,” named for the white garments worn by the newly baptised.
gloss: A quarter day falling on 15th May.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Related words: White Sunday
Derived words: Whitsunday Islands
Translations:
Whitsuntide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Whitsun
English -tide
English Whitsuntide
From Whitsun (“Whitsunday”) + -tide.
Inflected forms:
form: Whitsuntides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Whitsun Tide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The week that begins with Whitsunday.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The third year he had a tailor staying with him before Whitsuntide, making new clothes for the holidays.
There are eight 4-wheel coaches of the open toastrack type, but provided with roofs, and during the holiday season, usually beginning at Whitsuntide, trains are run as required on the one-engine-in-steam principle.
The museum purchased the photo album for £420 (about $515). […] The photo album is titled "Reminiscences of a visit to Shaftesbury. Whitsuntide 1892. A present to Auntie from Ernest."
gloss: The weekend which includes Whitsunday.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
quarrelsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quarrel + -some.
Base: quarrel
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more quarrelsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quarrelsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Argumentative; fond of or prone to quarreling.
pos: adj
examples: She's too quarrelsome to participate in a civil conversation.
And let a Man bevvare, hovv he keepeth Company, vvith Cholerick and Quarelſome Perſons; for they vvill engage him into their ovvne Quarels.
Rampion grown in the cottage garden made the children of the house quarrelsome; breathing deeply into a handful of mint refreshed your senses, but aconite could cause your death.
Antonyms: calm
mediational
nonargumentative
peaceable
unargumentative
unquarrelsome
Translations:
quarterfinal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From quarter + final.
Compound parts: quarter
final
Inflected forms:
form: quarterfinals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarter final
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quarter-final
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
pos: noun
gloss: A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.
pos: noun
tags: general
Synonyms: last eight
quarter
Related words: final
semifinal
round of 16
round of 32
Derived words: quarterfinalist
Translations:
questionable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English question
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English questionable
From question + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more questionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most questionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: quæstionable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.
pos: adj
examples: It is questionable if the universe is open or closed.
A crude, cold rain was falling heavily; the spring-time presented itself as a questionable improvement.
MAHA went viral across social media and led to an explosion of questionable claims regarding health and wellness.
gloss: Of dubious respectability or morality.
pos: adj
examples: […] he had a love of money—a sort of acquisitiveness, that led him into questionable dealings.
Obviously modeled after Ren & Stimpy, it's about a wallaby and his flatulent dog. While some of the humor is pretty funny, some of it is questionable.
gloss: Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Thou com'ſt in ſuch a queſtionable ſhape / That I will ſpeake to thee.
Derived words: questionability
questionableness
questionably
unquestionability
unquestionable
unquestionableness
unquestionably
Translations:
questioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English questioner; equivalent to question + -er.
Base: question
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: questioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
pos: noun
Translations:
questionnaire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French questionnaire, from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (English question) + -arius, from quaerō (“to question”) (English query).
Inflected forms:
form: questionnaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: questionnaires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: questionnairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: questionnaired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: questionnaired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.
pos: noun
examples: carry out a questionnaire
fill out a questionnaire
In considering their post-war designs some of the British and American railways have adopted the course of taking a cross section of the requirements of the travelling public by distributing questionnaires dealing with details of seating, lighting, catering, and other features making for comfortable journeys.
gloss: To survey using questionnaires.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
quicklime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick + lime.
Compound parts: quick
lime
Inflected forms:
form: quicklimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quicklimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quickliming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quicklimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quicklimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots.
Considerable difficulty is experienced in several of the West Indian islands in obtaining quicklime for the preparation of Bordeaux mixture, and in keeping it in good condition when it has been procured. This has resulted in the use of slaked, or partially slaked, lime for the purpose, with the result that an inferior mixture has been produced. Instead of resorting in this difficulty to expensive and unsatisfactory commercial preparations, it may be suggested that the use of Burgundy mixture, in which the lime is replaced by sodium carbonate (washing soda) offers an alternative that is likely to give excellent results.
gloss: To treat (something) with quicklime.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hydroxide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygène
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acide
blend
French oxidebor.
English oxide
English hydroxide
From hydro- + oxide.
Inflected forms:
form: hydroxides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A univalent anion (OH⁻) based on the hydroxyl functional group.
pos: noun
examples: A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.
gloss: Any substance containing such an anion.
pos: noun
Related words: hydroxy
hydroxyl
hydronium
hydrogen ion
pOH
pH
Derived words: aluminium hydroxide
aluminum hydroxide
ammonium hydroxide
barium hydroxide
beryllium hydroxide
cadmium hydroxide
caesium hydroxide
cesium hydroxide
calcium hydroxide
dihydroxide
dodecahydroxide
ethyl hydroxide
gallium hydroxide
hydrogen hydroxide
indium hydroxide
iron hydroxide
lithium hydroxide
magnesium hydroxide
methyl hydroxide
methylmercury hydroxide
monohydroxide
nickel hydroxide
oxohydroxide
oxyhydroxide
pentahydroxide
plumbic hydroxide
potassium hydroxide
quaternary ammonium hydroxide
radium hydroxide
rubidium hydroxide
sodium hydroxide
stannic hydroxide
stannous hydroxide
strontium hydroxide
tetramethylammonium hydroxide
thallium hydroxide
zinc chromate hydroxide
zinc hydroxide
zirconium hydroxide
Translations:
quickness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quiknes, qwiknes, quyknesse, cwicnesse, equivalent to quick + -ness.
Base: quick
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: quicknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The quickness of the hand deceives the eye.
Translations:
quick-tempered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more quick-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quick-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easily or quickly angered or frustrated.
pos: adj
examples: He was a quick-tempered fellow who was generally avoided by his co-workers.
Antonyms: cool
cool-headed
even-tempered
Translations:
aroused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more aroused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aroused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sexually excited; randy, lustful.
pos: adj
examples: The feminist writer and academic Marina Warner believes the unexpectedly wide appeal of this explicit fiction could be a sign of how difficult people now find it to feel aroused in an era when sex and nudity have become so commonplace.
You can concentrate on one that you already know well and one that you know will cause you to become very aroused.
gloss: Stirred up, agitated.
pos: adj
examples: The general public is becoming more and more aroused about this whole matter of safety, and any manufacturer who would be enterprising enough to offer thorough driving instruction with each car purchased would probably find it a valuable selling point.
Indeed, payers of local property taxes have become the most aroused group in the nation. In the last two years, property owners have voted down bond issues of all stripes even those for schools.
Derived words: hyperaroused
nonaroused
overaroused
scaroused
unaroused
Translations:
quieten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quiet
English -en
English quieten
From quiet + -en (verbal suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: quietens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quietening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quietened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quietened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make quiet.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
transitive
examples: quieten the class
Take deep, deep breaths and quieten your mind while you contemplate what has been revealed within my latest journallings to you.
gloss: To become quiet.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
intransitive
examples: quieten down please, the speaker is going to start.
Derived words: quieten down
quietener
Translations: