yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
radioactivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radioactive + -ity or radio- + activity.
Base: radioactive
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: radioactivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radio-activity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spontaneous emission of ionizing radiation as a consequence of a nuclear reaction, or directly from the breakdown of an unstable nucleus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Today, no one would intentionally smear radioactive materials on their face, but in 1933, the dangers of radioactivity were not yet fully understood.
gloss: The radiation so emitted; including gamma rays, alpha particles, neutrons, electrons, positrons, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: activity
nuclear radiation
radiation
radiation poisoning
radio-
radioactive decay
becquerel
curie
half-life
Derived words: nonradioactivity
Translations:
William
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English William, from Anglo-Norman Willame, from Old High German Willahelm, from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz (> Latin Gulielmus), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“will”) + *helmaz (“helmet”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European roots *welh₁- (“to choose, wish, want”) and *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”) respectively. Cognate with Dutch Willem, German Wilhelm, etc.; cognate borrowings outside of Germanic include Guillaume and Guillermo.
Inflected forms:
form: Wm.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
historical
Senses:
gloss: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter W.
pos: noun
Translations:
indulgence
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Middle English indulgence, indulgens, from Middle French indulgence and its source, Latin indulgentia.
Inflected forms:
form: indulgences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: indulgency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: indulgement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: indulgences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: indulgencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: indulgenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: indulgenced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: indulgency
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: indulgement
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act of indulging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: will all they that either through indulgence to others or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance any thing that is less than a sincere, uniform resolution of new obedience
As indulgence in several wives depended mainly on the length of a man's purse, the poor naturally contented themselves with monogamy.
gloss: Tolerance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of catering to someone's every desire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wish or whim satisfied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "In other words, the ONLY indulgences we'll be getting for a while is fixing your wardrobe. This means no new manga. No new games. Nothing. Get used to it."
gloss: Something in which someone indulges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I made but one error—giving way to petulance in the earlier instance; that lost me the Prince of Conti. Temper is bourgeois indulgence, though I own to a predilection for it.
gloss: An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly.
gloss: A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To understand how indulgences were intended to work depends on linking together a number of assumptions about sin and the afterlife, each of which individually makes considerable sense.
gloss: To provide with an indulgence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: indulge
indulgent
Derived words: homedulgence
indulgencer
nonindulgence
overindulgence
partial indulgence
plenary indulgence
self-indulgence
underindulgence
Translations:
brody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brodie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Intentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I spun a brody in some chat up at the old zinc mine.
Translations:
spontaneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin sponte
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Late Latin -nus
Late Latin -ānus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Late Latin -eus
Late Latin -āneus
Late Latin spontāneuslbor.
English spontaneous
Learned borrowing from Late Latin spontāneus.
Inflected forms:
form: more spontaneous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spontaneous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Self-directed; happening or acting without external cause or instigation; proceeding from natural feeling, temperament, or momentary impulse.
pos: adj
examples: He made a spontaneous offer of help.
Lady Bertram agreed to it all with a calm “Yes”; and at the end of a quarter of an hour’s silent consideration spontaneously observed, “Sir Thomas, I have been thinking—and I am very glad we took Fanny as we did, for now the others are away we feel the good of it.”
gloss: Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
pos: adj
examples: 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: Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
pos: adj
gloss: Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
pos: adj
examples: He persisted in his design; and, because he would not make his wants known, actually subsisted for several days on hips, haws and sloes, and other spontaneous fruits which he gathered in the woods and fields.
gloss: Sudden, without warning.
pos: adj
gloss: Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
pos: adj
examples: He made a spontaneous remarks in the court.
Derived words: nonspontaneous
semispontaneous
spontaneity
spontaneous abortion
spontaneous combustion
spontaneous fission
spontaneous generation
spontaneous human combustion
spontaneously
spontaneousness
spontaneous order
spontaneous pneumothorax
subspontaneous
unspontaneous
Translations:
kowtow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From either Cantonese 叩頭 /叩头 (kau³ tau⁴) or Mandarin 叩頭 /叩头 (kòutóu). Literally, “knock head”.
Inflected forms:
form: kowtows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kowtowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kowtowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kowtowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: kotoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kotow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kow-tow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kowtows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kotoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kotow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kow-tow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: historical
intransitive
examples: When the weather turned cold, the tears that he shed would become frozen like veins; the blood on his forehead from kowtowing would also freeze and would not drip.
gloss: To grovel, act in a very submissive manner; to show obeisance to (someone or something) in such a manner; to bow.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I suppose you're going to be nice to Odie and kowtow to Jon and lick the mailman's boots! I don't like you already.
The letter to Razin contained another thought that preoccupied Stalin in the first months after the war: the need to avoid “kowtowing to the West,” including showing “unwarranted respect” for the “military authorities of Germany.”
gloss: To bow very deeply.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The act of kowtowing.
pos: noun
tags: intransitive
examples: Three elders dressed in their long silk ceremonial gowns perform the kowtow before the altar in their clan ancestral hall.
Derived words: kowtower
kowtowing
Translations:
unstable
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English unstable; equivalent to un- (not) + stable.
Base: stable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unstable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unstable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unstables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unstabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unstabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unstabled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not stable.
pos: adj
examples: unstable foundation
The structure is too unstable to stand safely.
The hillside at this point is composed of shaly rock overlaid with a peaty loam which carries a growth of heather, and its unstable condition has resulted in two landslides in the course of the railway's history.
gloss: Having a strong tendency to change.
pos: adj
examples: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
gloss: Fluctuating; not constant.
pos: adj
examples: politically unstable
The political situation remains unstable.
gloss: Fickle.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Unpredictable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: All of the characters in Rocko's Modern Life are anthropomorphic animals of varying species, the vast majority of whom are mentally unstable. Murray said that he matched personalities of his characters to the various animals in the series to form a social caricature.
gloss: Readily decomposable.
pos: adj
examples: chemically unstable
gloss: Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
pos: adj
gloss: To release (an animal) from a stable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.
Synonyms: unsteady
wobbly
Antonyms: stable
Related words: instability
unstability
Derived words: emotionally unstable personality disorder
unstable equilibrium
Translations:
notify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
Inflected forms:
form: notifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: notifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: notified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: notified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give (someone) notice (of some event).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dispatcher immediately notified the volunteer fire department of the emergency call.
Once a decision has been reached and notified to the parties it becomes binding.
gloss: To make (something) known.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To make note of (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: apprise
inform
Related words: notifier
notification
notifyee
Derived words: denotify
misnotify
notifiability
notifiable
prenotify
renotify
unnotified
unnotify
Translations:
exponent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin expōnēns, present participle of expōnō (“to expose; to exhibit, display, set out; to explain”), from ex- (“out, away”) + pōnō (“to lay, place, put”).
Base: pōnō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: exponents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who expounds, represents or advocates.
pos: noun
examples: Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey, who was quite as capable an exponent as her husband.
To think of Kant as an exponent of virtue may seem to some readers itself novel and not easily associated with the Kant familiar to discussions of justice and rights.
gloss: The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2³=8.
pos: noun
gloss: The degree to which the root of a radicand is found, for example, the 2 in ^(2])√=b.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A Power that hath neither the Signs #43; or - before it, is look'd upon as Affirmative, and if it be preceded by a Number that contains the Root ſought and its Exponent may be commenſured by the Exponent of the Root; namely for the Square Root by 2, for the Cube by 3, &c. it will contain the Root ſought.
And univerſally the Exponent of the m Power, is m times the Exponent of the Root, and the Exponent of the m-Root (or #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;m#125; Power) is #92;frac#123;1#125;#123;m#125; times the Exponent of the Root.
The notation by which the root is expressed, is the mark #92;sqrt#123;#125; called a radical, placed over the letter, with an exponent to the left indicating the order of the root.
gloss: A phonological manifestation of a morphosyntactic property; in layman's terms, the expression of one or more grammatical properties by sound.
pos: noun
examples: However, there have been no examples presented of gender systems where the plain n triggers one exponent for gender agreement, and the male and female ns together trigger a different exponent.
gloss: The part of a floating-point number that represents its exponent value.
pos: noun
Related words: expone
expose
expound
successor
log(base) =
Derived words: critical exponent
exponentiable
exponential
exponentiation
exponent of inseparability
lifting the exponent
Lyapunov exponent
preexponent
pre-exponent
Translations:
exponentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exponent
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English exponential
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 exponentially
From exponential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exponentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exponentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exponential manner.
pos: adv
examples: But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases.
Therefore, if absorption causes an attenuation of the oscillation amplitude, the temperature must decrease exponentially with increasing thickness.
It can be readily derived from Eqs. 6.26 and 6.32 that the field generated by these incident evanescent waves inside the slab do ^([sic]) not decay away exponentially from the upper interface, but increases exponentially as y decreases.
gloss: rapidly, greatly
pos: adv
tags: proscribed
examples: The more serious a Christian is about God's kingdom, the more exponentially complicating that venture is […]
He'd felt like Kathryn's soul was in her eyes as she'd regarded him for those precious few seconds... and her spirit was even more exponentially beautiful than […]
Derived words: hypoexponentially
subexponentially
Translations:
fuller
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fullere, from Old English fullere, from Latin fullō (“fuller”) + -ere; equivalent to full (“to densen cloth”) + -er.
Base: fullō
Affixes: -ere
Inflected forms:
form: fullers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fullers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fullering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fullered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fullered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who fulls cloth.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: feltmaker, felter
gloss: To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to fuller a bayonet
Translations:
synapse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington.
Inflected forms:
form: synapses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: synapses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: synapsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: synapsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: synapsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a synapse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undergo synapsis.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
schwag
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly related to shag (“shredded tobacco”). The "marijuana" noun sense is attested since the 1980s in the United States, the adjective since the 1990s. The "trinkets or items given away" sense is a variant of swag from 19th century thieves' cant.
Inflected forms:
form: shwag
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: swag
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: inferior; low-grade
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
slang
Translations:
chipotle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish chipotle, from Classical Nahuatl chīlpōctli, compound of chīlli (“pepper”) + pōctli (“smoke”).
Inflected forms:
form: chipotles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ripe jalapeño pepper, dried and smoked for use in cooking.
pos: noun
examples: Sweet corn on the cob comes to vibrant life with a caramelized glaze of smoky chipotle peppers, tangy lime juice, sea salt, and agave nectar.
Translations:
constipated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more constipated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most constipated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to defecate; costive.
pos: adj
gloss: Failing to make a point or reach a conclusion; stifled.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: But there is no place for grand gestures but there's a basic contempt for women in this puny, constipated drama.
Currently, the way we help people die (and sometimes help them get through the weeks leading up to death) is to stultify or intoxicate them with opiates so that they can't think or feel. They may be pain-free but their body is constipated, their brain is numbed and they often don't have the ability to speak cogently before they die.
Related words: constipation
Derived words: constipatedly
exhaustipated
unconstipated
Translations:
irrefutable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin irrefūtābilis, from ir- (“not”) + refūtābilis (“refutable”), from refūtō (“to refute”) + -bilis (“-able”), equivalent to ir- + refutable.
Base: refūtābilis
Affixes: ir-
Inflected forms:
form: more irrefutable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irrefutable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: undeniable; unable to be disproved or refuted
pos: adj
examples: […]clear and irrefutable evidence of the Cause I have undertaken
True, there had been nothing, in his lifetime, viler than this man. She knew it, there was no other fact within her consciousness that she felt to be so certain; and yet, because her persecutor found himself safe and irrefutable in death, he frowned upon his victim, and threw back the blame on her!
He had formed his mind by Helvetius, whose system he deemed irrefutable, and in whom alone he had faith.
I have listened also to the remarks of counsel, with high interest—and especially will I commend the masterly and irrefutable logic of the distinguished gentleman who represents the plaintiff. But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this.
Antonyms: arguable
challengeable
contradictable
deniable
disputable
refutable
Translations:
ignoramus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).
Inflected forms:
form: ignoramuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ignorami
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
form: ignoramous
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: ignoramuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ignoramusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ignoramused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ignoramused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
pos: noun
examples: The problem is that visual ignoramuses, such as this writer, can't think of that many pictures and end up drawing question marks where a frog should be.
“The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
“I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”
gloss: To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: dunce
ignoramus
jay
know-nothing
lack-latin
mumpsimus
nescient
numskull
rube
wild-ass
Antonyms: genius
scholar
Related words: charlatan
dabbler
dilettante
smatterer
wiseacre
ignorant
beginner
bumpkin
idiot
fool
Translations:
longitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longitūdō (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).
Inflected forms:
form: longitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
gloss: Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Length.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.
The floor consists of a corrugated steel section attached by welding to the body longitudes and cross members.
Related words: easting
equator
prime meridian
Derived words: celestial longitude
ecliptic longitude
geolongitude
heliolongitude
lat/lon
longitude clock
longitudinal
palaeolongitude
paleolongitude
Translations:
stellar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin stēllārisbor.
English stellar
Borrowed from Latin stēllāris.
Inflected forms:
form: more stellar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stellar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Heavenly.
pos: adj
gloss: Exceptional, exceptionally good.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The actress gave a stellar performance.
Some years ago there were hundreds of musicians of ability, but of less stellar renown, who toured the country, giving performances at less than stellar fees.
Yet the economic seers are at it again, seemingly unabashed by their somewhat less than stellar performances in 1969.
Where a bank may automatically reject any borrower based on a bad credit score, this is not true for all social lending networks. You can still have a less than stellar score and obtain funding as long as you can convince a peer tha your project is worthy or your business model is strong.
Related words: constellation
Derived words: bistellar
circumstellar
epistellar
interstellar
interstellar comet
interstellar medium
interstellar planet
interstellar space
less than stellar
panstellar
prestellar
protostellar
quasar
quasi-stellar
quasistellar
quasi-stellar object
quasi-stellar radio-source
quasi-stellar radiosource
quasi-stellar radio source
stellarator
stellar black hole
stellarcentric
stellar day
stellar disk
stellar engine
stellarite
stellarity
stellarly
stellar mass black hole
stellar month
stellar nova
stellar nursery
stellar population
stellar system
Stellarton
stellar wind
substellar
superstellar
transstellar
ultrastellar
Translations:
enema
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin enema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔνεμα (énema, “injection”), from ἐνίημι (eníēmi, “to send in, inject”).
Inflected forms:
form: enemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enemata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enemas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enemaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enemaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enemaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
pos: noun
examples: To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged.
[…] It is further neglected by a mental dependence upon cathartics or enemata to produce the stimulation. Defecalgesiophobia is a common cause for neglecting the act.
Iatrogenic poisoning can result from the use of magnesium in the treatment of hypertension or of toxemia of pregnancy; deaths have been reported from the use of magnesium sulfate enemas in megacolon and from oral administration for purging.
But alcohol enemas are no laughing matter, experts say. […] Using an alcohol enema involves placing a small tube into someone’s rectum and pouring alcohol into the colon.
gloss: The fluid so injected.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for administering such an injection.
pos: noun
gloss: To administer an enema.
pos: verb
examples: It's common to enema before anal sex.
It would take simpler souls with little or no training to do the yeoman work of enemaing and puking the sick people of the community.
"So, there I was, shaved and enemaed, in the labor room with my husband.
I got out of the hospital after my last suicide attempt — the one where I tried to enema myself to death with hot buttered rum
Shower and she enemas herself and I put towels on the bed, which in retrospect weren't enough because her enema spilt over onto the sheets
Derived words: alcohol enema
enematic
Translations:
intercontinental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English continent
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English continental
English intercontinental
From inter- + continental.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place between two or more continents.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.
gloss: Having the ability to travel between continents.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: intercontinental ballistic missile
ICBM
intercontinentally
Translations:
peruse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From either Medieval Latin perūtor, perūsitō (“wear out”) or Anglo-Norman peruser (“use up”), originally leading to two concurrent meanings, but only those derived from "to examine" survive today. By surface analysis, per- + use.
Inflected forms:
form: peruses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: peruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To examine or consider with care.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.
gloss: To read completely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This survey may be made by perusing al Books and taking notice of all Mechanicall Inventions.
We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia […]
Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it. […]But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there still was time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe.
gloss: To look over casually; to skim.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Haynes quickly perused the message, then took it to the captain on the bridge.
She asked Denise for the court file, which she fussed from her handbag. The woman perused it briefly and then beamed up at me.
gloss: To go from place to place; to wander.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
regional
examples: I loved to straggle off in the mornings […], just perusing around for firewood.
gloss: An examination or perusal; an instance of perusing.
pos: noun
examples: A peruse of the website looked promising […]
Derived words: perusable
perusal
perusement
peruser
reperuse
unperused
Translations:
dialectic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French dialectique, from Late Latin dialectica, from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “relating to dialogue”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “through, across”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: dialectics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dialectick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more dialectic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dialectic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dialectick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This situation created the inner dialectic of American history.
gloss: development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
pos: noun
tags: Marxism
countable
uncountable
gloss: Dialectical (of or relating to dialectic)
pos: adj
Related words: dialect
dialectical
dialogue
trialectic
trialectics
Translations:
diary
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin diārium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *diārius, from diēs (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).
Inflected forms:
form: diaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diaries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diarying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diaried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diaried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
pos: noun
examples: They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
No, I’m just going over the stuff Tara wrote in my diary.
She’s writing your diary? Could you be any lazier?
Both halves feature lyrics that are so teen-girly they sound like they were written in pink ink in a padlocked diary with hearts and frowny faces for punctuation.
gloss: A personal organizer or appointment diary.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
examples: It is recommended that teachers and pupils are issued with homework diaries to help implement and monitor the homework timetable.
gloss: To keep a diary or journal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. "It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience."
Related words: diurnal
journal
Derived words: cyberdiary
dear diary
diarial
diarism
diarist
diarization
diarize
diarylike
e-diary
homework diary
nondiary
video diary
visual diary
Translations:
verdict
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman verdit (> Medieval Latin veredictum), from veir (“true”) + dit (“saying”); possibly a calque of a Germanic term such as Old English sōþword, sōþsprǣċ, sōþspell, sōþsagu, or sōþcwide, all meaning "true story, statement of truth, account, history". Doublet of veredictum.
Inflected forms:
form: verdicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
pos: noun
examples: The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
I hope the court overturns his verdict.
guilty verdict, not guilty verdict, final verdict
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
When his body was retrieved, it was apparent that he had not raised his hands to cover his face. Had he suffered some sort of fit or seizure? The coroner’s verdict was accidental death.
The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] “We took this case to decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial – as incorporated against the States by way of the Fourteenth Amendment – requires a unanimous verdict to convict a defendant of a serious offense,” Gorsuch wrote.
gloss: An opinion or judgement.
pos: noun
examples: a “not out” verdict from the umpire
We've reached a verdict on your proposal.
Derived words: bastard verdict
directed verdict
narrative verdict
open verdict
party verdict
Scotch verdict
Scottish verdict
special verdict
sympathy verdict
verdictive
verdict’s in
verdict’s out
Translations:
vegetation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French végétation, from Medieval Latin vegetātiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: vegetations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Plants, taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest.
Thus the growth of vegetation, though effected in a greater or less degree by the strong wind, the violent rain, and the heat and glare of the noonday sun, is yet still more effectually promoted by the mild action of the gentler breezes, the softly descending dew, and the less intense heat.
As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]
Similarity of vegetation on meadows was the result of heavy grazing and trampling by large numbers of driveway sheep before the study was begun.
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast.
gloss: An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: devegetation
vegetation of salts
Translations:
vegetate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vegetātus, perfect passive participle of vegetō (“to enliven, to arouse”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: vegetates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vegetating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vegetated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vegetated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grow or sprout.
pos: verb
gloss: To spread abnormally.
pos: verb
gloss: To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Nor indeed is it likely I shall now ever be able to do more than vegetate, for my few remaining years or months in this or some other solitude. It is literally vegetating, for I have very little locomotive powers beyond those that appertain to a cauliflower.
I am amazed to see a young man of your appearance and talents—though, after I have been thus depreciating the latter, it is almost an affront to say any thing about those you possess—I am amazed to see you vegetating among your own oaks, as if, like them, growth were your only value."
We are isolated, locked in hospital rooms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, subjected to discrimination stemming from hatred, with no constructive programs or activities to occupy our minds. We vegitate ^([sic]) and deteriorate physically and emotionally.
Related words: vegetable
Translations:
veneer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
Etymology: From German Furnier, from furnieren (“to inlay, cover with a veneer”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, from Old French fornir, furnir (“to furnish”), from Old Frankish frumjan (“to provide”), from Proto-Germanic *frumjaną (“to further, promote”). Cognate with Old High German frumjan, frummen (“to accomplish, execute, provide”), Old English fremian (“to promote, perform”). More at furnish.
Inflected forms:
form: veneers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: veneers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: veneering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: veneered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: veneered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thin decorative covering of fine material (usually wood) applied to coarser wood or other material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Compartment and corridor partitions are of blockboard, with appropriate decorative veneers to suit the varied interior decoration.
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
gloss: An attractive appearance that covers or disguises one's true nature or feelings, the veneer of culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Yalda,” Dabashi says, “has managed to survive the centuries because it has been gently recodified with a Muslim veneer.”
gloss: To apply veneer to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany
The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut.
gloss: To disguise with apparent goodness.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric.
Derived words: brick veneer
masonry veneer
reed veneer
stone veneer
veneer moth
veneer saw
veneer theory
wainscot veneer
Translations:
pantomime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First appears c. 1606, from Latin pantomīmus, from Ancient Greek παντόμιμος (pantómimos), from πᾶς (pâs, “each, all”) + μιμέομαι (miméomai, “to mimic”). The verbal form first appears c. 1768.
Inflected forms:
form: pantomimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pantomimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pantomiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pantomimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pantomimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
gloss: The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
countable
uncountable
gloss: A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
Wilson is no stranger to pantoland: “I have fun memories of seeing pantomimes in Australia when I was a kid. They were on at our local Returned and Services League club – my relatives fought in the wars. My mum also said that when I was two, she took me to my first pantomime in Sydney.
gloss: The act of gesturing without speaking; a dumb-show, a mime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
gloss: To make (a gesture) without speaking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.
gloss: To entertain others by silent gestures or actions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: dame
dumb show
mime
pantomimical
sign language
Derived words: panto
pantomime horse
pantomimer
pantomimery
pantomimesque
pantomime villain
pantomimic
pantomimish
pantomimist
Translations:
pallid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin palleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin pallidus
English pallid
From Latin pallidus. Doublet of pale.
Inflected forms:
form: pallider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pallidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appearing weak, pale, or wan.
pos: adj
examples: The patient left the hospital but was very pallid.
Antonyms: gaudy
rosy
ruddy
Translations:
palsy
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek παράλυσις (parálusis, “palsy”), from παραλύω (paralúō, “to disable on one side”), from παρα- (para-, “beside”) + λύω (lúō, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
Inflected forms:
form: palsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palsie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: palsies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: palsying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: palsied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: palsied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more palsy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most palsy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
"Young lady, there is no hope; one side of the Duchesse is struck with palsy; she retains her senses, and will, most probably, to the last; but she cannot live through the night."
"Ah! now we come to business! Barber, who's dead?"
 "Alderman Croten, sir."
"Tut-tut. Croten gone?"
"Yes, sir; palsy took him at a ripe age. And Abel's gone, the Town Crier;"
Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.
gloss: To paralyse, either completely or partially.
pos: verb
examples: 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html
In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.
Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.
gloss: Chummy, friendly.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
neophyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin neophytus, from Ancient Greek νεόφυτος (neóphutos, “newly planted”), from νέος (néos, “new”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant, child”). By surface analysis, neo- + -phyte.
Inflected forms:
form: neophytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
pos: noun
examples: A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it. Vegetarianism was then a new cult in England, and likewise for me, because, as we have seen, I had gone there a convinced meat-eater, and was intellectually converted to vegetarianism later. Full of the neophyte's zeal for vegetarianism, I decided to start a vegetarian club in my locality, Bayswater.
In this scene Lupita, the neophyte, is counselled by more weathered professionals about the rules and regulations of whoring.
[…]everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath[…] or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.
The big story on Tuesday night was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – the 28-year-old political neophyte who pulled off the upset of the 2018 election in New York’s 14th district.
The purpose of sharing these accounts – particularly during Women’s History Month – is to show that women, like men, can grow from bumbling neophytes to competent leaders.
gloss: A novice (recent convert); a new convert or proselyte; a new monk.
pos: noun
examples: The neophyte was given a new name in place of the baptismal one, usually of an evil and revolting character, and this was written in blood in the Devil's book, the covers of which were bound in the skin of unbaptised infants.
gloss: Among the early Christians, and still among the Roman Catholics, one who has recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, especially those converts from heathenism or Judaism.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established introduced species).
pos: noun
Derived words: neophytal
neophytic
neophytish
neophytism
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: новопокръстен
roman: novopokrǎsten
lang: Catalan
word: neòfit
lang: Danish
word: Nybegynder
lang: Danish
word: neofyt
lang: Finnish
word: noviisi
lang: Finnish
word: neofyytti
lang: Finnish
word: vastakastettu
lang: Finnish
word: uusi käännynnäinen
lang: Georgian
word: ნეოფიტი
roman: neopiṭi
lang: Georgian
word: ახლადმოქცეული
roman: axladmokceuli
lang: Georgian
word: ახალმოქცეული
roman: axalmokceuli
lang: Georgian
word: სარწმუნოებაზე ახალმოქცეული
roman: sarc̣munoebaze axalmokceuli
lang: Georgian
word: რჯულზე ახალმოქცეული
roman: rǯulze axalmokceuli
lang: German
word: Neophyt
lang: Hungarian
word: neofita
lang: Italian
word: neofita
lang: Portuguese
word: neófito
lang: Russian
word: неофи́т
roman: neofít
lang: Spanish
word: neófito
lang: Swedish
word: neofyt