yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
flowery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English floury, equivalent to flower + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of floury.
Base: flower
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: flowerier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more flowery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: floweriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most flowery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flow'ry
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or characteristic of flowers.
pos: adj
examples: “Sir you are mistaken—I am not——.” But before he could say ‘a girl,’ this ancient period-strumpet of a bedizened man (upon a pattern drawn from a time of swords and silk, when men were in their floweriest scent—savagely tattooed with braid—intoxicated with their own snuff—forever on tiptoe—disgusted with the mannish—wooing Woman after the fashion of women) burst in and silenced him, […]
gloss: Decorated with or abundant in flowers.
pos: adj
examples: At last she reached a flowery knoll, at whose feet ran a little burn, shaded with woodbine and wild roses; and there she sat down, burying her face in her hands.
gloss: Of a speech or piece of writing: overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance.
pos: adj
examples: My accusers, then, as I maintain, have said little or nothing that is true, but from me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language like theirs, decked out with fine words and phrases; […]
gloss: Melodramatic, overexaggerated.
pos: adj
examples: Although flowery actions are used in the plays of the 1890s, waving arms, wringing hands, and pleading with outstretched arms would be unsuitable in plays about modern life.
“Miss, it would be my great pleasure to escort you and your uncle to supper this evening.” Sasha stifled her desire to roll her eyes at his flowery actions, but the fact that he omitted inviting Jim irritated her.
He kissed her hand in a way she found just a little flowery.
Derived words: flowerily
floweriness
Flowery Field
unflowery
Translations:
lang: German
word: Blumen-
lang: German
word: blumig
lang: Macedonian
word: цве́тен
roman: cvéten
lang: Portuguese
word: floral
lang: Portuguese
word: flóreo
lang: Slovene
word: cvéten
lang: Spanish
word: floral
flooring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English floring.
Inflected forms:
form: floorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A floor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Every day we are exposed to low doses of phthalates in food containers, perfumes, hairsprays, floorings, paints, toys and medical devices.
gloss: A material used to make floors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now that it owns the best-known brand names in residential carpet, don't be surprised if Mohawk Industries sails into new waters - tile, resilient or even wood floorings - Chairman David Kolb hinted Wednesday.
gloss: The act of putting one's opponent on the floor; a knockdown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: flooring nailer
flooring spacer
laminate flooring
subflooring
underflooring
Translations:
fawning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fawnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile.
pos: adj
examples: Shylock: How like a fawning publican he looks ![…]
gloss: Servile flattery.
pos: noun
examples: Hamlet: No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him,
Lurking behind your honours and rewards;
Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings.
Translations:
relatedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English related
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 relatedness
From related + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: relatednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being related, especially by kinship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such mixture can be customized in the inference phase by simply adjusting an input vector that encodes the relatedness to different domains.
Translations:
excretion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.
Inflected forms:
form: excretions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.
Related words: excrete
secretion
Derived words: hyperexcretion
overexcretion
postexcretion
underexcretion
Translations:
emerging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, emerge + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more emerging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emerging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emergings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Becoming prominent; emergent; rising.
pos: adj
examples: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: Emergence.
pos: noun
examples: We must endeavour to realize a succession of gradual sinkings or depressions into deep water, alternating with gradual emergings into shallows, and eventually a gradual continued lifting of the whole district[…]
Translations:
electrically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From electric + -ally, electrical + -ly.
Base: electric
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more electrically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most electrically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: By means of electricity.
pos: adv
examples: Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans.
Solar storms drive currents of millions of amps through the electrically conductive upper layer of our atmosphere (known as the ionosphere). These currents, which can fluctuate rapidly, drive powerful magnetic disturbances at the Earth's surface that in turn induce electrical currents in the planet's crust.
gloss: In an electric manner.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
examples: The concert was electrically exciting.
gloss: In terms of electrons.
pos: adv
examples: an electrically symmetric atom
Derived words: optoelectrically
Translations:
effectual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English effectual, effectuel, from Old French effectuel, from Late Latin effectualis.
Inflected forms:
form: more effectual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effectual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: effectuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.
pos: adj
examples: Redoubling, then, the active energy of his thrusts, favoured by the fervid appetite of my motions, the soft oiled wards can no longer stand so effectual a picklock, but yield, and open him an entrance.
In the living state, the body is observed to […] adopt most effectual measures for the permanent continuance of its species.
Antonyms: ineffectual
Translations:
dreamy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dream + -y.
Base: dream
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dreamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dreamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As in a dream; resembling a dream.
pos: adj
examples: It's so dreamy / Oh, fantasy free me / So you can't see me
gloss: Sexy; handsome; attractive.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I love the doctor in that American TV show: he is so dreamy!
He is dreamy, sex-bomb cute.
gloss: Having a pleasant or romantic atmosphere.
pos: adj
examples: That place was so dreamy!
This is the chapter where things get creamy, dreamy, and cloudlike. The Polish love of cheesecakes, meringues, and cream puff–style desserts is evidenced in every café, every bakery.
gloss: Tending to dream or daydream.
pos: adj
examples: Cocktails and moonlit nights / That dreamy look in your eye / Give me a tropical contact high
Related words: dreamboat
Derived words: dreamily
dreaminess
dreamy Daniel
undreamy
Translations:
declining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: declinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: decline
pos: noun
examples: c. 1572', John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament
For they had no civil magistrate which might correct and reform those declinings when they happened.
Translations:
deaden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dead + -en. Compare Dutch doden (“to kill”), West Frisian deadzje (“to kill”).
Base: dead
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: deadens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deadening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deadened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deadened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: deaden the pain
deaden sound
deaden the senses
Painkillers helped to deaden the pain.
Thick curtains deaden the sound of traffic.
Routine can deaden one’s enthusiasm.
gloss: To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make soundproof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to deaden a wall or a floor
Derived words: deadener
deadeningly
undeadened
Translations:
deadening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deadenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is deadened.
pos: noun
examples: The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.
gloss: A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.
pos: noun
Translations:
darkened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made dark or lightproof by the exclusion of light.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.
Derived words: gravity-darkened
limb-darkened
predarkened
semidarkened
undarkened
Translations:
crumbling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crumblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That crumbles; that breaks into small pieces or particles.
pos: adj
gloss: In a state of decline.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Material that has crumbled away; crumbs.
pos: noun
examples: Blank I call it, but it was figured over with the patches that please a painter, repaired breaches, crumblings of plaster, extrusions of brick that had turned pink with time[…]
Translations:
crumble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier crymble, crimble, from Middle English *crymblen, kremelen, from Old English *crymlan (“to crumble”), from *crymel (“a small crumb; crumble”), diminutive of Old English cruma (“crumb”), equivalent to crumb + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch kruimelen (“to crumble”), German Low German krömmeln (“to crumble”), German Krümel, diminutive of German Krume, German krümeln, krümmeln (“to crumble”). Alteration of vowel due to analogy with crumb.
Base: crumb
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: crumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crimble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: crumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crimble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To fall apart; to disintegrate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
often
examples: The bread roll crumbled when I tried to slice it; it was too stale.
The empire crumbled when the ruler's indiscretions came to light.
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye? / Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die?
In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom.
gloss: To break into crumbs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We crumbled some bread into the water.
gloss: To mix (ingredients such as flour and butter) in such a way as to form crumbs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Using your fingers, crumble the ingredients with the fingertips, lifting in an upward motion, until the mixture is sandy and resembles large breadcrumbs.
gloss: A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: blackberry and apple crumble
Derived words: crumblable
crumblement
crumbler
crumblesome
crumble up
crumblingly
crumblingness
crumbling skull rule
that's the way the cookie crumbles
Translations:
lang: Italian
word: sabbiare
lang: Zazaki
word: têvden
critically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *krey-
Proto-Indo-European *krinyétider.
Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō
Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō)
Ancient Greek κρῐ- (krĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek κρῐτής (krĭtḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós)bor.
Latin criticus
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 critical
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 critically
From critical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more critically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most critically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a critical manner; with, or in terms of, criticism.
pos: adv
examples: I looked critically at the frayed carpet of the hotel room.
Girard critically examines Nietzsche's central contention that Christianity is a religion of sublimated vengeance or ressentiment and contents that although Nietzsche is half right about Christians he remains dangerously naive about violence itself.
gloss: In terms of critique, review, of or by critics
pos: adv
examples: a critically applauded film
gloss: With close discernment; accurately; exactly.
pos: adv
examples: Thus difficult it is to underſtand the purity of Engliſh, and critically to diſcern not only good Writers from bad, and a proper ſtile from a corrupt, but alſo to diſtinguiſh that which is pure in a good Author, from that which is vicious and corrupt in him.
gloss: At a crisis or critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence.
pos: adv
examples: a fortification critically situated
Coming critically the night before the session.
gloss: Requiring immediate attention; likely to cause a collapse.
pos: adv
examples: critically ill
critically injured
critically endangered
Antonyms: uncritically
Derived words: critically damped
critically endangered
noncritically
postcritically
subcritically
Translations:
conveyance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English conveiance, conveyaunce, equivalent to convey + -ance.
Base: convey
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: conveyances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conveyaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: conveyances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conveyancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conveyanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conveyanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: conveyaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of conveying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we were wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid conveyance of intelligence and communication betwixt one part of Scotland and another.
Three in a hansom cab is not, under all circumstances, the most comfortable method of conveyance […]
gloss: An act or instance of conveying.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: How Cownterfet Cowntenaunce of the new get / With Crafty Conueyauance dothe smater and flater, / And Cloked Collucyoun is brought in to clater / With Courtely Abusyoun; […]
She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me.
gloss: A means of transporting, especially a vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
gloss: An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To transfer (the title) of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: conveyancer
misconveyance
nonconveyance
reconveyance
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: предаване
roman: predavane
lang: Bulgarian
word: съобщаване
roman: sǎobštavane
lang: Dutch
word: overdracht
lang: Galician
word: condución
lang: Galician
word: transporte
lang: Georgian
word: გადაცემა
roman: gadacema
lang: Georgian
word: შეტყობინება
roman: šeṭq̇obineba
lang: Georgian
word: ცნობა
roman: cnoba
lang: German
word: Transport
lang: German
word: Übertragung
lang: Māori
word: amohanga
lang: Russian
word: переда́ча
roman: peredáča
lang: Russian
word: сообще́ние
roman: soobščénije
crawling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crawlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that crawls.
pos: noun
examples: Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.
Translations:
conqueror
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English conquerour, from Old French conquereor, from conquerre. By surface analysis, conquer + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: conquerors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conquerour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: conquerer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who conquers.
pos: noun
examples: They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
Croatia, England's World Cup semi-final conquerors in Moscow in July, looked set to inflict their curse once more and relegate Gareth Southgate's side from the elite group when Andrej Kramaric's twisting finish put them ahead via a deflection off Eric Dier after 57 minutes.
Translations:
vanquisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vanquish
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English vanquisher
From vanquish + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: vanquishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who vanquishes; a conqueror.
pos: noun
examples: HSTs continued to provide sterling service during these years, so much so that when Virgin and Midland Mainline brought their new wave of high-speed diesel electric multiple units [...] on stream, many preferred the ride and comfort of the vanquished to the ride and comfort of the vanquisher.
Translations:
commissioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Holding a commission; officially appointed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And be it further enacted, &c. That any commissioned auctioneer who shall violate any of the provisions contained in this act, shall for any such offence or violation, forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the manner prescribed for other forfeitures in the act aforesaid,
Nothing in this Act contained shall subject ot forfeiture any commissioned ship of any foreign state, or give to any British court over or in respect of any ship entitled to recognition as a commissioned ship of any foreign state any jurisdiction which it would not have had if this Act had not passed.
That the colonel of each regiment shall appoint his commissioned and non-commissioned staff officers as follows: One surgeon of the rank and grade of major, and one adjutant, one chaplain, one quartermaster, one commissary of subsistence, one inspector of rifle practice and two assitant surgeons, each of the grade and rank of capatin […]
gloss: Specially ordered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Completion marks the end of the process where the commissioned artwork is delivered to the client.
In Figure 47, a doodle of a cat has been added to a commissioned mural, and subsequently covered by a poster.
(see chapter title)
Derived words: commissioned officer
non-commissioned
uncommissioned
Translations:
contingency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From contingence + -y (16th century).
Base: contingence
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: contingencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There was also the imperative necessity of creating a reserve fund for unforeseen contingencies, and the question ever present was how was money to be found.
In light of the inherent survival threat posed by zombies and absent specified guidance for detailed planning to address such a contingency, USSTRATCOM has taken the initiative to develop a JOPES Level 3 plan (CONPLAN) consistent with guidance derived from other specified planning efforts to ensure U.S. and Allied freedom of action from zombie domination.
gloss: An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if they do not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: noncontingency
Related words: contingency cost
contingency plan
contingency table
Translations:
pairing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: pairings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The combination or union of two things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The seeds were adjusted to make sure that there were good pairings for the tennis tournament.
In the past, quite some studies have shown that educational hypogamous marriages are more likely to dissolve than marriages with other educational pairings (see Schwartz and Han 2014 for a review).
gloss: An agreement between two members of a legislative body holding opposite opinions to refrain from voting, so that both may absent themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: accepted pairing
assortative pairing
axiom of pairing
crack pairing
depairing
nonpairing
pairing energy
pairing function
pairing off
pairing time
Translations:
unpredictability
Part of speech: noun
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 predictability
English unpredictability
From un- + predictability.
Inflected forms:
form: unpredictabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being unpredictable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The unpredictability of Gemini was then contrasted with examples of human spontaneity, like the splatter technique of Jackson Pollock.
gloss: Something which is unpredictable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
congratulations
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing praise and approval, expressing approbation.
pos: intj
examples: Warm congratulations on your newborn boy!
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
Translations:
unpredictably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unpredictable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unpredictably
From unpredictable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unpredictably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unpredictably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unpredictable way.
pos: adv
Antonyms: predictably
Translations:
commercially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French commercialbor.
English commercial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English commercially
From commercial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more commercially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most commercially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a commercial manner: a manner pertaining to commerce.
pos: adv
examples: Bart, who incidentally has designed an excellent diaphragm‐type call for geese and turkeys, once spearfished commercially in the British West Indies.
Translations:
conceivable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English conceyvable, equivalent to conceive + -able.
Base: conceive
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being conceived or imagined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But asked by “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan whether parents can send their kids to summer camp without vaccines, Fauci said, “It is conceivable that that will be possible.”
Translations:
thinkable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *þankijan
Old English þenċan
Middle English thinken
English think
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English thinkable
From think + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more thinkable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thinkable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.
pos: adj
examples: “Nothing can separate us; not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not even sin, not the thinkable or unthinkable can get between us,” it reads.
gloss: Morally acceptable or legal.
pos: adj
tags: rare
Antonyms: unthinkable
Derived words: thinkability
thinkableness
thinkably
Translations:
concurrence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French concurrence.
Inflected forms:
form: concurrences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agreement; concurring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of simultaneous occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The time came when they ceased to cry and began to think; by the way, if Georgiana had not, from a concurrence of circumstances, been enabled to eat her breakfast, this operation of the mind could not have been engaged in without further injury, for she was, indeed, weak and exhausted;...
This book owes its existence to a concurrence of accidents.
Related words: concur
Derived words: nonconcurrence
Translations:
conclusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French conclusif, from Late Latin conclusivus, from Latin conclūsīvē (“conclusively”), from past participle of concludere.
Inflected forms:
form: more conclusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conclusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a conclusion.
pos: adj
gloss: Providing an end to something; decisive.
pos: adj
examples: The set of premises of a valid argument is conclusive in the sense that no further evidence could possibly be added to the set of premises which would make the argument invalid.
conclusive evidence
Derived words: conclusively
conclusiveness
conclusive presumption
final and conclusive
inconclusive
nonconclusive
unconclusive
Translations:
microstate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Italic *status
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
English microstate
From micro- + state.
Inflected forms:
form: microstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A country that has a very small population and land area.
pos: noun
gloss: The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.
pos: noun
examples: However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates.
Antonyms: macrostate
Derived words: microstate continuum
Translations:
geographically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geographic + -ally or geographical + -ly.
Base: geographic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In terms of geography.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I don’t like geostates (I don’t think many people truly do), but I think geographically localized governance is effective because it reduces interaction by people with contradictory conceptions about good behavior and so reduces conflict while supporting order.
South West London and Surrey may be geographically close to the airport, but there is no way of reaching Heathrow by rail, short of travelling via central London.
Translations:
sump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English sompe, either from Middle Dutch somp, sump or Middle Low German sump from Old Saxon *sump, from Proto-West Germanic *sump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Doublet of swamp.
Inflected forms:
form: sumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sumph
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sumph
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
pos: noun
gloss: The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
pos: noun
gloss: A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
pos: noun
gloss: The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
pos: noun
gloss: The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
pos: noun
gloss: An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
pos: noun
gloss: A sudden or heavy fall of rain; a deluge.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: then, seating himself thus, he replied to him of the east.—'Sounding sump o' rain Saunders Creeshmeloof—saw ye ever a drap o' rain for eight and forty hours after the bonnie sinking sun that sat sae red and sae lang on the summit of Blackwood hills this blessed afternoon? That starry plow o' thine is […]'
"Me and the lads did it this morn."
"It was pouring!" Brody said.
"If I was tae stop an activity because of a sump o' rain, I'd never get anythin' done," Finn remarked with a twinkle in his eye.
gloss: Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We discovered a new passage, but it sumped after 100 metres.
This low passage sumps quickly after moderate rainfall.
Derived words: dry sump
sumpless
sumplike
sumpman
sump oil
sump pit
sump pump
sump tank
sumpweed
sumpy
wet sump
Translations:
trashy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trash
English -y
English trashy
From trash + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: trashier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trashiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like trash; having low quality and a perceived lack of depth, especially of books and films.
pos: adj
examples: a trashy novel
It was nonsense this being in love; there wasn't such a thing as love outside of trashy novelettes.
Take to your bed with a trashy book or meet someone amusing for lunch. Even better, take to your bed with a trashy man or woman who's amusing; but if you knew someone trashy and amusing, you probably wouldn't be feeling depressed.
"Michigan's taste in beer is so good, even its "trashy" brew of choice is an icon and a staple..."
gloss: Indecent or lacking class.
pos: adj
gloss: Having or generating a lot of trash.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a sound like white noise.
pos: adj
examples: trashy cymbals
I needed to have a cymbal setup that allowed me the flexibility to play with a clean or trashy sound at any time.
Related words: white-trashy
Derived words: trashily
trashiness
untrashy
Translations:
strath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish srath and Scottish Gaelic srath (“wide, flat river valley, strath; floor of river valley; river meadow”), both from Old Irish srath (“grass, sward; river valley; floor of river valley; river meadow”), from Proto-Celtic *stratos (“valley”), from Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós (“spread; stretched”, adjective), from *sterh₃- (“to extend, spread, stretch out”). The meaning was likely influenced by a Cumbric/Pictish cognate; compare Welsh ystrad. Doublet of stratus.
Inflected forms:
form: straths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wide, flat river valley.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: [T]hoſe fair Straths that vvater’d are / VVith Tay and Tvveed’s ſmooth Streams, / VVhich gentily and daintily / Eat dovvn the flovvry Braes; / As greatly and quietly / They vvimple to the Seas.
[T]he other stream, which had its source among the mountains on the left hand of the strath, seemed to issue from a very narrow and dark opening betwixt two large rocks.
The place of exit from the hills of one or other of the Punjab rivers could generally be pointed out to me; the straths and gorges that opened upon the plains would often afford a peep into the interior of the mountains, and the snowy ranges would be seen at the end of them.
Agatha and Inga rode their horses with style across the strath.
gloss: A piece of flat land beside a body of water.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: [T]he place is pretty pleasant, close by Forth waterside, att the foot of Craigmor, betwixt which and the watar there is a strath very proper for walking: […]
Related words: Strathallan
Strathclyde
Strathcona
Strathearn
Strathisla
Strathmore
Strathspey
Strathtay
Translations:
traumatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From the Latin traumaticus, from the Ancient Greek τραυματικός (traumatikós), from τραῦμα (traûma). By surface analysis, trauma + -tic.
Inflected forms:
form: more traumatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traumatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
pos: adj
examples: It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
"I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department[…]. "It was traumatic."
gloss: Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: traumatick Decoctions
gloss: Produced by wounds, especially as opposed to disease or other process.
pos: adj
examples: traumatic tetanus; traumatic brain injury
Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Antonyms: non-traumatic
nontraumatic
untraumatic
Derived words: atraumatic
barotraumatic
biotraumatic
calciotraumatic
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
geotraumatic
monotraumatic
neurotraumatic
peritraumatic
phonotraumatic
polytraumatic
post-traumatic
posttraumatic
post-traumatic stress disorder
pretraumatic
psychotraumatic
traumatic acid
traumatically
traumatic alopecia
traumatic amenorrhea
traumatic amputation
traumatic anesthesia
traumatic arrest
traumatic asphyxia
traumatic brain injury
traumaticin
traumatic insemination
traumatic withdrawal syndrome
Translations:
analgesic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From analgesia (“absence of pain”) + -ic, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ἄλγησις (álgēsis, “sense of pain”), from ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). Compare -algia.
Base: analgesia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: analgesics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antalgesic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more analgesic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most analgesic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antalgesic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain, especially without inducing a loss of other sensation. (Contrast anesthetic.)
pos: noun
examples: I am taking an analgesic. Is it safe to drink alcoholic beverages?
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gloss: Of or relating to analgesia.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to analgesia.
pos: adj
examples: With the exception of the foot and a small area over the malar bone, the entire left side of the body is analgesic and anaesthetic. This extends to the exact median line of the body, including the left half of the tongue, nose and chin, […]
(I find that he is analgesic and anaesthetic; evidently he is in a state of passive somnambulism.)
E. A. Did you feel anybody touch you?
K. No. There's no one near me. (He continues laughing and talking. […])
Derived words: analgesically
analgesize
coanalgesic
equianalgesic
nonanalgesic
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: analgèsic
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鎮痛劑的 /镇痛剂的
roman: zhèntòngjì de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 止痛藥的 /止痛药的
roman: zhǐtòngyào de
lang: Czech
word: analgetický
lang: Esperanto
word: analgezika
lang: Finnish
word: kipua lievittävä
lang: Finnish
word: analgeettinen
lang: Galician
word: analxésico
lang: Georgian
word: ანალგეტიკური
roman: analgeṭiḳuri
lang: Georgian
word: ტკივილგამაყუჩებელი
roman: ṭḳivilgamaq̇učebeli
lang: Georgian
word: გამაუტკივარებელი
roman: gamauṭḳivarebeli
lang: German
word: analgetisch
lang: Greek
word: αναλγητικός
roman: analgitikós
lang: Irish
word: anailgéiseach
lang: Italian
word: analgesico
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: smertestillende
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: smertestillande
lang: Polish
word: przeciwbólowy
lang: Polish
word: analgetyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: analgésico
lang: Romanian
word: analgezic
lang: Russian
word: анальгети́ческий
roman: analʹgetíčeskij
lang: Russian
word: болеутоля́ющий
roman: boleutoljájuščij
lang: Russian
word: обезбо́ливающий
roman: obezbólivajuščij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: analgetski
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: analgètičkī
lang: Spanish
word: analgésico
lang: Ukrainian
word: аналгети́чний
roman: analhetýčnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: болезаспокі́йливий
roman: bolezaspokíjlyvyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: знебо́лювальний
roman: znebóljuvalʹnyj
Hesperian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Hesperius + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Hesperian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hesperian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the land where the sun sets; western
pos: adj
examples: the parting Sun/ Beyond the Earth’s green Cape and verdant Isles/ Hesperian sets
gloss: Of or relating to the Hesperides nymphs
pos: adj
examples: Always the same old taste, just new injury / Well, I'll wear the claws if you'd like that / Yeah, if you'd like that, we can ride on a black horse / A great new wave Hesperian death horse / I can call you when I get back / Yeah, when I get back I will call
gloss: Of or relating to the Martian geological period between Noachian and Amazonian
pos: adj
Translations:
Noachian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Noach
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Noachian
From Noach (“variant of Noah”) + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Noah or his time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At the next meeting he was back on a geological topic illustrated by maps, diagrams and specimens, and the following year he spoke on "The Noachian Deluge, universal with regard to man, but very restricted with regard to the earth"[.]
The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total.
At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed.
gloss: The Noachian geological period.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
head-the-ball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the supposed effect of repeatedly heading a football.
Inflected forms:
form: head-the-balls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a stupid person; a nutcase
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
idiomatic
slang
Translations:
coating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Inflected forms:
form: coatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin outer layer.
pos: noun
examples: They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
"Chocolate and cream," the standard colours of G.W.R. rolling stock for 21 years, are now being replaced by an all-over utility coating of reddish-brown. This is the third time that a uniform brown has been adopted as the standard livery of G.W.R. carriages.
You can, if you like, give the completed cork wall a protective coating of sealer, stain, varnish, wax or polish, so you will be able to use liquid cleaners on it.
gloss: Cloth for making coats.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A telling-off; a reprimand.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The bogey gave him a right coating.
Derived words: biocoating
covert-coating
curtain coating
electrocoating
mouthcoating
multicoating
nanocoating
powder coating
sputter coating
Translations:
appearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: appearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: appearance; act of coming into view
pos: noun
examples: Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us.
Translations:
kissy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kiss (noun and verb) + -y (adjectival suffix).
Base: kiss
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: kissier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kissiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sentimentally affectionate.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to kiss.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "Oh, and one of the kissy girls was Prom King and Queen! I know they said it was a mistake, but I'm still so confused!"
gloss: Tending to kiss frequently.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: We sat behind an obnoxiously kissy couple in the cinema.
gloss: Suited to kissing; resembling or relating to kissing.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: kissy lips
Kissy face, kissy face / Sent to your phone, but / I'm tryna kiss your lips for real (uh-huh, uh-huh)
Derived words: kissiness
kissy-kissy
Translations:
Rioja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Riojas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The wine (mostly red) of that region.
pos: noun
Translations:
prickly
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prickle
English -y
English prickly
From prickle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pricklier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: prickliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more prickly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prickly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: pricklies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Covered with sharp points.
pos: adj
examples: The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
gloss: Easily irritated.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
gloss: Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: It was a prickly situation.
People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more. They’ve had it. So we just have to be prickly to make sure nobody’s going to come in and grab us.
gloss: In a prickly manner.
pos: adv
examples: Striding across stage in his bright white jacket, his voice soaring and cracking – like Charlie Parker’s – he was nervous but prickly eloquent, caustic yet encouraging.
gloss: Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Below, way out on the flat, Blue had seen a light green that could be graze but up here was nothing 'cept all kinds of prickly bushes, and too many of them. Ground-spreading pricklies that reached out to jump at a horse's belly […]
Dad, I need to ride on your shoulders because the pricklies hurt my feet.
Related words: prick
Derived words: nonprickly
prickliness
prickly ash
prickly chaff flower
prickly comfrey
prickly glasswort
prickly hakea
prickly heat
prickly heath
prickly hornwort
prickly lettuce
prickly nightshade
prickly oak
prickly pear
prickly pear cactus
prickly pine
prickly poison
prickly poppy
prickly saltwort
prickly sculpin
prickly-seeded spinach
prickly shark
prickly shield fern
prickly tang
prickly thrift
unprickly
western prickly juniper
Translations:
sud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.
Inflected forms:
form: suds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: There is a beer sud parked on her upper lip.
Translations: