yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dripping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dripping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dripping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.
gloss: The sound or action of something that drips.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.
gloss: The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When dripping, it can be eaiser to flood your atomizer. I suggest to only add the amount of E-liquid that you plan on vaping at that particular moment.
gloss: very wet.
pos: adj
examples: I am sure that the whole scene, with its dripping bamboo forest, every tree festooned with fern, orchid and creeper, filled him with disgust—all so different from the deserts and oases of his lost Bokhara.
Derived words: dripping cake
dripping pan
dripping point
Translations:
all-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From all + out.
Compound parts: all
out
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Using every available means.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They were planning to launch an all-out attack against the enemy.
Chapter Six is an all-out defense of pornography
This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
With the enhanced insurgent firepower and with Russia steadily raising the number of airstrikes against the government’s opponents, the Syrian conflict is edging closer to an all-out proxy war between the United States and Russia.
Will there be any further restrictions on travel?
[...] The Foreign Office has already issued an Exceptional Travel Advisory Notice for British nationals not to undertake any but essential international travel, but an all-out ban from either the British or French governments would leave Eurostar unable to run any of its international services through the Channel Tunnel.
Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
Pentagon strategists worry about such invasion scenarios, for that’s their job. But Taiwan officials are (rightly, I think) more focused on “gray zone” moves on Taiwan that fall short of war. An all-out invasion of Taiwan by China might well fail — that’s why I’m skeptical that it will happen in the next few years — but gray zone pressures today pose a daily challenge and are likely to grow. And they, too, risk escalation into all-out war that pulls in the United States.
gloss: Covering all aspects without exception.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This book is an all-out examination of a very important issue in our community.
Related words: all in
full-scale
Derived words: all-outer
Translations:
disproportionate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English proportionate
English disproportionate
From dis- + proportionate.
Inflected forms:
form: more disproportionate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disproportionate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disproportionates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disproportionating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disproportionated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disproportionated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not proportionate.
pos: adj
examples: grossly disproportionate
disproportionate impact
disproportionate response
They faced a disproportionate share of the costs.
The punishment seemed disproportionate to the crime.
gloss: Out of proportion.
pos: adj
gloss: To undergo disproportionation.
pos: verb
Derived words: disproportionately
disproportionateness
Translations:
dipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dip
English -ed
English dipped
From dip + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more dipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
pos: adj
gloss: Of headlights: lowered.
pos: adj
gloss: Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
colloquial
examples: The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
Estcombe is dipped: and of the money I raised, there is no more at the agent's than I have lost in a night at Quinze!
Derived words: dipped candle
dipped headlight
hand-dipped
Translations:
paced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a (particular) pace
pos: adj
Translations:
candidacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English candidate
English -cy
English candidacy
From candidate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: candidacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a candidate; candidateship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let it be borne in mind, moreover, that since the period of his last candidacy he has rendered the most memorable services to the country
Anyhow, if the opportunity presented itself, Requesens thought that Philip should support the candidacies of Giovanni Ricci, Clemente Dolerá, and Ghislieri, . . .
However, this almost certainly happened because of the third party candidacy of former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt
Artiles, a Republican operative with a reputation for a foul mouth and sharp elbows, is accused of financing a sham candidate whose candidacy was intended to siphon votes from a legitimate Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in South Florida’s 37th District. The candidate has the same last name as then-Democratic incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez but did not actively campaign for the seat and has since admitted being recruited as a spoiler.
Translations:
concluding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: concludings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Finishing; closing; final.
pos: adj
examples: The concluding chapters of the book summarise the main points.
gloss: Conclusive; convincing; decisive.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: But if such Persons chafe and are angry, and so go from you, 'tis to me a very concluding Argument that they are not as yet very fit to be Members of the Community of Christ's Church.
gloss: A conclusion.
pos: noun
examples: He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.
Derived words: concludingly
inconcluding
nonconcluding
unconcluding
Translations:
enveloped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Entwined, as with snakes, laurels, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
regulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more regulated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regulated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to regulations.
pos: adj
Translations:
replication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō, replicātiōnem. By surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.
Inflected forms:
form: replications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: DNA replication is the process of producing two identical replicas from one original DNA molecule.
gloss: Copy; reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That painting is an almost exact replication of a famous Rembrandt painting.
gloss: A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: repetition
duplication
imitation
copying
reproduction
copy
repeat
carbon copy
duplicate
replica
Related words: replicability
replicable
replicatability
replicatable
Derived words: bioreplication
dereplication
endoreplication
georeplication
microreplication
misreplication
nonreplication
overreplication
postreplication
prereplication
pseudoreplication
replicational
replication crisis
replication fork
replisome
rereplication
subreplication
superreplication
transreplication
underreplication
Translations:
walk-off
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: walkoff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: walk off
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: walk-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walkoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: walk off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That drives in a run that ends a game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Scott Podsednik hit the twelfth walk-off home run in World Series history on October 23rd, 2005.
gloss: By extension, any scoring event in sports that ends the game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A prisoner who escapes custody without violence by taking advantage of the opportunity provided by negligent or distracted guards.
pos: noun
gloss: A walkout.
pos: noun
gloss: Any event or action in the bottom of the last inning of a game that scores a run and thereby ends the game with a victory to the team at bat.
pos: noun
examples: It was the Brewers' first walk-off walk since May 4, 2005, when Damien Miller drew a walk to win the game, 4-3, at home over the Cubs.
Translations:
saddled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a saddle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So he made the best of it, and prepared for me his own splendid riding-camel, saddled with his own saddle, and hung with luxurious housings and cushions of Nejd leather-work pierced and inlaid in various colours, with plaited fringes and nets embroidered with metal tissues.
Translations:
clime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Inflected forms:
form: climes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat
That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light?
My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
"And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.
She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
As heat and wildfires plague many parts of Europe, the desire for cooler climes is driving tourists to Nordic countries, prompting as much concern as celebration. […] The word is “coolcation,” and in an industry that has never met a trend it couldn’t slap a portmanteau onto, the term refers to the growing number of travelers who are avoiding the heat of traditional summer spots in favor of chillier climes.
gloss: Climate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
gloss: The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: It is a poor state of affairs this great nation is in at present. The current political clime is pregnant with attempts and desired to make lawful such discriminatory acts based on factors within an individual's constitution which are beyond her/his control.
Derived words: bioclime
homoclime
Translations:
reliever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relieve
English -er
English reliever
From relieve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: relievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which relieves (pain, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: Pepto-Bismol is an upset-stomach reliever.
gloss: A relief pitcher.
pos: noun
examples: The first reliever got the last two outs of the sixth.
gloss: Someone who fills in for another.
pos: noun
examples: I'll be the reliever today so that you can each take a break.
gloss: A garment kept for being lent out.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Now that fellow wants five or ten dollars on his suit. He goes to this pawn shop and asks for a reliever. That is a second-hand suit, pretty well used up.
Related words: starter
pitcher
first baseman
infielder
outfielder
Translations:
pond-skater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pond-skaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of water strider.
pos: noun
Translations:
backspace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From back + space.
Compound parts: back
space
Inflected forms:
form: backspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backspaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backspacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backspaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backspaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
pos: noun
gloss: A keyboard key used for removing a character behind the cursor, and moving the cursor one position backwards.
pos: noun
gloss: A non-printable text character representing a backspace.
pos: noun
gloss: To remove a character behind a cursor.
pos: verb
examples: So once you hit 'E', just backspace.
gloss: To move a magnetic tape to a previous block.
pos: verb
Related words: ←
Derived words: backspaceable
backspacer
destructive backspace
Translations:
fabled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fabled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fabled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Known only in fables; fictitious.
pos: adj
gloss: Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
pos: adj
examples: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.
Derived words: unfabled
Translations:
famed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fame
English -ed
English famed
From fame + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more famed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most famed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having fame; famous or noted.
pos: adj
examples: Mystic’s maritime history dates to its days as a shipbuilding center, a time well preserved at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the world’s leading and largest of its kind, home to the famed 1800s whaleship, Charles W. Morgan.
Translations:
Shawnee
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.
Inflected forms:
form: Shawnees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shawnee
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, belonging to, or pertaining to this tribe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
verdigris
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English vertegrece, verdegres, from Old French verte grez (literally “acidic green”), an alteration of older verte de Grece (literally “green of Greece”). The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris (literally “green of gray”).
Inflected forms:
form: verdigrises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: verdigrises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: verdigrising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: verdigrised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: verdigrised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.
[…]there were three small brass coins there, the gift of Ymar. Their legends, like their faces, had worn away; and they were dark with verdigris — in appearance precisely the ancient things they were.
The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.
gloss: Copper acetate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: The color of this patina or material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.
[…]let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.
Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.
gloss: To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle[…]
Related words: verdigrisy
Derived words: distilled verdigris
Translations:
vaunting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vauntings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: boasting
pos: noun
Translations:
antlion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ant + lion. Compare translingual Myrmeleon.
Compound parts: ant
lion
Inflected forms:
form: antlions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ant lion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various species of insects, many of them nocturnal, in the family Myrmeleontidae. The adults superficially resemble the unrelated damselflies. The larvae bury themselves in sand below a cone-shaped pit in which they trap insects such as ants.
pos: noun
Translations:
veritas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros
Proto-Italic *wēros
Latin vērus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin vēritāsbor.
English veritas
Borrowed from Latin vēritās.
Inflected forms:
form: veritates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Truth, particularly of a transcendent character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Over at Harvard, students are pursuing a different kind of sexual veritas.
Translations:
epigrammatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin epigrammaticus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having the characteristics of an epigram
pos: adj
gloss: containing or using epigrams
pos: adj
Related words: epigram
epigrammatically
Derived words: unepigrammatic
Translations:
recrystallization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
engineering
geography
geology
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English crystal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English crystallization
English recrystallization
From re- + crystallization.
Inflected forms:
form: recrystallizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A technique for the purification of chemical compounds in which the compound is dissolved in a solvent and slowly cooled to form crystals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of existing grains in metamorphic rocks changing size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The growth of grain fragments in an alloy, especially when it is worked by cold rolling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: recrystallize
recrystallized
Derived words: microrecrystallization
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: uudelleenkiteytyminen
lang: Finnish
word: rekristallisaatio
scavenger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: scavengers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skavenger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
pos: noun
examples: garbage scavenger
A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.
gloss: An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
pos: noun
examples: Vultures are natural scavengers.
gloss: A street sweeper.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
obsolete
gloss: A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
historical
gloss: A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
pos: noun
Derived words: bioscavenger
scaffy
scavenger beetle
scavenger crab
scavenger hunt
scavengerism
scavengerous
scavenger sale
scavenger's daughter
scavengership
water scavenger beetle
white scavenger vulture
Translations:
seaboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier sea-bord, perhaps continuing (with change in meaning) Middle English see bord (“porthole cover, seaward side”), equivalent to sea + board.
Base: sea
Inflected forms:
form: seaboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seabord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The area bordering the sea; a coastline; a sealine.
pos: noun
examples: While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Recently the Great Northern Railway, U,S.A., which has a considerable mileage of line bordering the Pacific seaboard, has put in service mobile equipment for applying anti-corrosion treatment to rails.
Translations:
delocalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English localization
English delocalization
From de- + localization.
Inflected forms:
form: delocalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the process of delocalizing or the fact of being delocalized
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the phenomenon in which bonding electrons of some molecules serve to bind several atoms instead of just two; it is observed in metals and in aromatic and conjugated organic compounds
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
Related words: resonance
Translations:
dendrochronology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δένδρον (déndron)
English dendr-
English dendro-
Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos)bor.
English chrono-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English chronology
English dendrochronology
From dendro- + chronology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science that uses the spacing between the annual growth rings of trees to date their exact year of formation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
endianness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endian
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English endianness
From endian + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: endiannesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being either big-endian or little-endian.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When reading and writing data a byte at a time, it is necessary to know the endianness of the computer you are working on.
The Unicode standard does not specifically does not require a particular endianness of text written in Unicode; both big- and little-endian encodings are allowed.
Endianness comes in two varieties: big and little.
An endianness difference can cause problems if a computer unknowingly tries to read binary data written in the opposite format from a shared memory location or file.
Translations:
payor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
healthcare
law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pay
English -or
English payor
From pay + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: payors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: payer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who makes a payment.
pos: noun
Translations:
figuratively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English figurative
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English figuratively
From figurative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more figuratively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most figuratively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a figurative manner.
pos: adv
examples: TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct. “The district of Taiwan,” says the Chinese Government Chart, of which a copy was supplied to me by the Formosan authorities, “is bounded in the rear by mountains, and in front by the sea. The ancestral hills of Formosa derive their origin from the Woo-hoo-mun (Five Tiger Gate), the entrance to Foochow, whence they glided across the sea. In the ocean towards the east are two places called Tungkwan (Damp Limit) and Pih-mow (White Acre), which mark the spots where the dragons of the Formosan hills emerged. These sacred reptiles had pierced unseen the depths of ocean, and announcing their ascent to the surface by throwing up the bluff at Kelung-head, by a number of violent contortions heaved up the regular series of hills, valleys, and plains that extend north and south in varied undulations for the space of 1000 leagues (applied figuratively). The mountain-peaks are too multitudinous to enumerate, and the geography of the island too comprehensive to take into present consideration ; we will therefore confine ourselves to a few general remarks. In rear of the hills, eastward, flows the ocean ; facing them, to the westward, is the sea ; and between lies the prefecture of Taiwan.”
1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary available on Wikisource
Shepherd A word naturally of frequent occurrence in Scripture. […] This word is used figuratively to represent the relation of rulers to their subjects and of God to his people.
gloss: Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.
pos: adv
examples: Figuratively, the cat was out of the bag.
Time can be consumed figuratively like food.
Antonyms: literally
Translations:
ungenerous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English generous
English ungenerous
From un- + generous.
Inflected forms:
form: more ungenerous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ungenerous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not generous; stingy.
pos: adj
examples: "I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there. You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind."
Moreover, it were ungenerous, having bred thee up freakish and fiery, to dismiss thee to want or wandering, for shewing that very peevishness and impatience of discipline which arose from thy too delicate nurture.
Translations:
riboflavin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ribo(se)-
English flavin
English riboflavin
From ribo(se)- + flavin.
Inflected forms:
form: riboflavins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yellow or orange-yellow water-soluble compound, a member of the vitamin B complex, that acts as a growth-promoting factor in humans and other animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tonality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French tonalité.
Inflected forms:
form: tonalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The interrelation of the tones in a painting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: atonality
monotonality
pantonality
polytonality
Translations:
malignancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From malignant + -cy or malign + -ancy or Latin malignantia.
Base: malignant
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: malignancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being malignant or diseased.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A malignant cancer; specifically, any neoplasm that is invasive or otherwise not benign.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is malign; evil, depravity, malevolence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]he malignancie of my fate, might perhaps diſtemper yours; […]
A cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
Because of the dearth of recent feminist writing about conditions in mental institutions, it's possible for us to image that they must have improved since the mid-'70s. Millett reminds us forcefully of the hellishness and malignancy of these places, where mind-altering drugs are prescribed punitively or at random, attendants are abusive, food is unhealthy, and numbing boredom, ugliness, pain and filth prevail.
Synonyms: malignance
malignity
Antonyms: benignancy
benignity
Related words: malign
malignly
malignment
Derived words: hematomalignancy
lymphomalignancy
nonmalignancy
premalignancy
pseudomalignancy
Translations:
opalescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From opal + -escent, after opalescence or French opalescent. First attested in 1814.
Base: opal
Affixes: -escent
Inflected forms:
form: more opalescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opalescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
pos: adj
examples: Below me, through the opalescent surface, I saw the white ghost of the Cessna.
Translations:
sylloge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συλλογή (sullogḗ), from συλλέγω (sullégō, “collect”).
Inflected forms:
form: sylloges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection or compendium, especially of coins or antiquarian objects.
pos: noun
examples: Milred's Sylloge might have included some of the poems of the so-called Alcuiniana (A and B):⁶⁷ Milred himself might even have taken a copy of his sylloge to Germany, where Alcuin and other Carolingian poets later used it as a model.
Ciriaco's epigraphic collections on paper, known as sylloges, are his most famous contribution.
gloss: A summary or digest of such a collection.
pos: noun
examples: Another major development is the publication of sylloges. A sylloge presents images and descriptions of all the coins of a certain collection, subject to defined parameters of mint and time, and is usually organised by mint series.
Related words: syllogist
Translations:
conventicle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English conventicle, conventicule (“a gathering, meeting (especially a secret or unlawful one); (derogatory) a church”), from Latin conventiculum (“assembly; meeting (or the place involved); association”), from conventus (“assembled, convened”) + -culum (suffix forming noun diminutives), perfect passive participle of conveniō (“to assemble, convene, meet together”), from con- (“together, with”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + veniō (“to approach, come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”) + *-yéti (suffix forming intransitive, imperfective verbs)).
Inflected forms:
form: conventicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conventicles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conventicling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conventicled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conventicled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
pos: noun
examples: [I]f when Luther firſt began to teach new doctrine, the catholiks at that time had not vouchſafed to giue him the hering, but had auoided his prechings & preuy couenticles, ther had not bin now in the worlde, either Lutheran, Swinglian, Calueniſt, Puritan, Anabaptiſt, Trinetarie, Family of loue, Adamite, or the lyke: whereof now there are ſo many thouſands abroad, al ſpringing of that firſt ſecte, and troubling at this day the whole worlde, […]
If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.
In the meantime, Lord Avonleigh found a wonderful resource in being loyal; he attended county meetings, denounced the Puritans, discouraged conventicles, discountenanced long graces or long sermons, and was seized with a sudden veneration for the church as established by law, which led to fines and imprisonment on all absentees from worship as ordained by law.
gloss: The place where such a meeting is held.
pos: noun
gloss: A Quaker meetinghouse.
pos: noun
gloss: To hold a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
pos: verb
Derived words: conventicler
Translations:
lyse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from lysis.
Inflected forms:
form: lyses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lysing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lysed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lysed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis.
pos: verb
gloss: To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.
pos: verb
Related words: lysable
lysis
-lysis
Derived words: lysate
nonlysed
photolyse
pneumolysin
unlysed
zymolyase
Translations:
cockchafer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cock (“male bird”) + chafer (“beetle”). The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the name may relate to a resemblance of antennae to coxcomb, or to the beetle’s size. Compare French hanneton (“cockchafer”), ultimately from Frankish *hanō (“rooster”). First attested in the late 17th century.
Compound parts: cock
chafer
Inflected forms:
form: cockchafers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
pos: noun
examples: To the person who shall discover to the Society an effectual method, verified by repeated and satisfactory trials, of destroying the Grub of the Cockchafer, so destructive to the roots of all sorts of Corn, Pease, Beans, and Turneps, the gold medal.
His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.
With regard to the playing of the female part by the weaker rats it is interesting to observe that Féré found among insects that the passive part in homosexual relations is favored by fatigue; among cockchafers it was the male just separated from the female who would take the passive part (on the rare occasions when homosexual relations occurred) with a fresh male.
gloss: Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.
pos: noun
Synonyms: May bug
doodlebug
Translations:
sawfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From saw + fly.
Compound parts: saw
fly
Inflected forms:
form: sawflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various flying insects of the suborder Symphyta, within the order Hymenoptera, whose ovipositor is long and often serrated and is used to cut into plants to lay eggs.
pos: noun
Translations:
colchicine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English colchicum
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English colchicine
From colchicum + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: colchicines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A highly toxic alkaloid, chemical formula C₂₂H₂₅NO₆, originally extracted from plants of the genus Colchicum and formerly used to treat rheumatic complaints, now used mainly in the treatment of gout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gloriosa superba: spectacularly beautiful climbing lily. Roots, stalks, leaves contain an acrid narcotic, superbine, as well as colchicine and choline. Three grains of colchicine are fatal. Hawaii.
Translations:
corm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From scientific Latin cormus, from Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”).
Inflected forms:
form: corms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
pos: noun
examples: The saffron crocus has to be planted by hand from corms.
Translations:
phenomenologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)
Ancient Greek φαινόμενον (phainómenon)bor.
Late Latin phaenomenonder.
English phenomenon
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English phenomenology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English phenomenologist
From phenomenology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: phenomenologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A philosopher who practices, advocates, or specializes in the scholarly study of phenomenology.
pos: noun
Translations:
ferromagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Old Latin *fersom
Latin ferrum
English ferro-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English magnetic
English ferromagnetic
From ferro- + magnetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ferromagnetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ferromagnetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting ferromagnetism.
pos: adj
Translations:
ferromagnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Old Latin *fersom
Latin ferrum
English ferro-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
English ferromagnet
From ferro- + magnet.
Inflected forms:
form: ferromagnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a ferromagnetic material
pos: noun
gloss: a magnet made from such material
pos: noun
Derived words: antiferromagnet
ferromagnetic
ferromagnetism
quasiferromagnet
Translations:
ferromagnetism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Old Latin *fersom
Latin ferrum
English ferro-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English magnetism
English ferromagnetism
From ferro- + magnetism.
Inflected forms:
form: ferromagnetisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The phenomenon whereby certain substances can become permanent magnets when subjected to a magnetic field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
spiced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spiced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spiced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having spice added, spicy.
pos: adj
examples: Fred preferred spiced rum to plain.
Translations:
bacteraemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bacter- + -aemia.
Base: bacter
Inflected forms:
form: bacteraemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacteræmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bacteremia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The medical condition of having bacteria in the bloodstream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ferrimagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ferri-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English magnetic
English ferrimagnetic
From ferri- + magnetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting ferrimagnetism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kittiwake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally Scots, imitative of the bird's call.
Inflected forms:
form: kittiwakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kittiwake
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kittiewake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kittywake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae that nest in colonies on sea cliffs and spend the winter on the open ocean.
pos: noun
gloss: the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), no other kittiwake being found in Europe.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
Synonyms: kitty
Derived words: black-legged kittiwake
Rissa tridactyla
red-legged kittiwake
Rissa brevirostris
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: gavineta
lang: Danish
word: ride
lang: Faroese
word: ryta
lang: Faroese
word: rita
lang: Finnish
word: kajava
lang: German
word: Dreizehenmöwe
lang: Icelandic
word: rita
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: krykkje
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: krykkje
lang: Russian
word: мо́евка
roman: mójevka
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مارتی
roman: martı
antiferromagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From anti- + ferromagnetic or antiferro- + magnetic.
Base: ferromagnetic
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: AF
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: AFM
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting antiferromagnetism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: