yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
point-blank
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From French point blanc (“white point”), originally referring to the white spot to be aimed at on a target (see blank's "bull's eye") or alternatively into empty space being fired horizontally.
Inflected forms:
form: point blank
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pointblank
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: point blank
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: pointblank
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.
Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.
Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.
gloss: Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a point-blank assertion
At this point-blank denial, Stephen turned his face away decisively, and preserved an ominous silence; […]
Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question.
In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
gloss: In a direct manner, without hesitation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]
About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, "Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?"
My father addressed himself to the gentleman point-blank, and there was quite a disturbance.
He was getting on well, so I understood, and had secured a fairly substantial position, and I had therefore ventured to ask him point-blank for the loan of fifty pounds.
Montgomery fired and missed, bowed his head, threw up his arm, and turned to run. I fired, and the Thing still came on; fired again, point-blank, into its ugly face.
For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. Without a sound he sank to the earth, dead.
In fact in 2017, former Facebook president Sean Parker told news media company Axios point-blank that the central question driving Facebook in its early days was ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’
Translations:
politic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French politique, from Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Cognate with German politisch (“political”). Doublet of politico.
Inflected forms:
form: more politic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most politic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: politick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: politics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: politick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to polity, or civil government; political.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: the body politic
[H]e with his people made all but one politic body whereof himself was the head
gloss: Relating to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: a politic treaty
For then this land was famously enrich'd / With politic grave counsel
gloss: Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy
gloss: Shrewd, prudent and expedient; showing policy.
pos: adj
examples: But as he headed for the front of the line one of his minders whispered that it might be politic to go to the back.
But campaigners in Florida accused him of turning a blind eye to the real issues with his "politic" appearance before the commission.
What a politician likes to do for fun (or judges it politic to pretend he does) is seen as a clue to their personality, or even their politics.
gloss: Discreet and diplomatic.
pos: adj
examples: A unanimous exclamation called upon Evelyn himself to speak; and, after a minute's politic pause, he went on to state his plan.
Deferential, glad to be of use, / Politic, cautious, and meticulous; […]
gloss: Artful, crafty or cunning.
pos: adj
gloss: A politician.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: to speake truly of politikes & Statesmen
Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; / Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars.
And therefore our politic Asclepius may be supposed to have exhibited the power of his art only to persons who... had a definite ailment.
gloss: A politics; a set of political beliefs.
pos: noun
examples: While the stories and lives on the screen are alternately moving and funny, an unspoken question arises: does similar experience always lead to a coherent politic?
Antonyms: impolitic
Related words: body politic
police
policy
political
politician
politicize
politics
polity
Derived words: politicese
politicism
politicist
politicker
politicly
politicness
politicspeak
superpolitic
unpolitic
Translations:
polyp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)). Doublet of polypus.
Base: πολύς
Inflected forms:
form: polyps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
pos: noun
gloss: A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
pos: noun
gloss: An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.
pos: noun
Related words: polypian
polyposis
Derived words: fibroepithelial polyp
hydropolyp
nasal polyp
polypectomy
polyped
polyperythrin
polypifer
polypiferous
polypiform
polypigerous
polypine
polypite
polypoid
polypous
pseudopolyp
stauropolyp
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: полип
roman: polip
lang: Catalan
word: pòlip
lang: Czech
word: polyp
lang: Dutch
word: poliep
lang: Finnish
word: polyyppi
lang: French
word: polype
lang: German
word: Polyp
lang: Greek
word: πολύποδας
roman: polýpodas
lang: Hungarian
word: polip
lang: Icelandic
word: holsepi
lang: Italian
word: polipo
lang: Portuguese
word: pólipo
lang: Russian
word: поли́п
roman: políp
lang: Spanish
word: pólipo
lang: Swedish
word: polyp
textbook
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: education
Etymology: From text + book.
Compound parts: text
book
Inflected forms:
form: textbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: text-book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more textbook
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most textbook
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: These figures are just too textbook, or papyrus-like, as if this information came off of a shelf in the Library of Alexandria
gloss: Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: textbook case
Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook, its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
Involuntarily it is practiced all the time, for instance when Shylock at the beginning of the trial describes himself as a very textbook example of a very bad and very common illness.
It's absolutely textbook! / The amount of trust Mia had in her future self was infinitesimal. Thus, she couldn't help but feel like there was something off about this name. / It's too textbook!
It seemed too textbook, too talk-showish, but it was true.
gloss: Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.
[…]Hilts and the commandant spar verbally in a very textbook shot/reverse shot scene, back and forth, “over the shoulder” of one interlocutor and then the other […]
gloss: Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.
So a lot of women will be very textbook if something meets the definition of sexual harassment, whereas a lot of men are more laissez-faire.
Related words: casebook
Translations:
thematic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
grammar
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεματικός (thematikós), from θέμα (théma, “theme”). Equivalent to theme + -atic.
Base: theme
Affixes: -atic
Inflected forms:
form: more thematic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thematic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thematics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or having a theme (“subject”) or a topic.
pos: adj
examples: He had a thematic collection of postage stamps with flags on them (where (UK) thematic collection is equivalent to (US) topical collection)
gloss: Relating to a melodic subject.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.
pos: adj
tags: Indo-European-studies
examples: A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.
gloss: Of or relating to a theme (“subdivision of the Byzantine empire”).
pos: adj
gloss: A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection.
pos: noun
gloss: A case that indicates the (usually inanimate) party which is a participant to the verbal predicate where that participant does not undergo any tangible change of state.
pos: noun
examples: The nine transrelative cases are the thematic, instrumental, absolutive, affective, stimulative, effectuative, ergative, dative, and inducive. Following are explanations of the function and usage of each case. Examples of these cases in use are provided in Sec. 4.2.10 below.
Derived words: athematic
bithematic
nonthematic
thematically
thematicization
thematicize
thematic map
thematic relation
thematic role
thematic vowel
thematize
unthematic
Translations:
polygamous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -gamous.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or practicing polygamy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That Mormon community no longer practises polygamous relationships.
[…] declaring legitimate all children of LDS polygamous marriages […]
gloss: Exhibiting polygamy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: polygamously
Translations:
mediastinum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin mediastīnum, from Medieval Latin mediastīnus (“middling; middle”), from Latin mediastīnus (“a common servant”).
Inflected forms:
form: mediastina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The region in mammals between the pleural sacs, containing the heart and all of the thoracic viscera except the lungs.
pos: noun
Translations:
quadrivium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).
Inflected forms:
form: quadriviums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quadrivia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: As to the nature of his studies, there can be no doubt that he [Dante] went through the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) of the then ordinary university course.
The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is to-day laid before the freedmen’s sons by Atlanta University.
Translations:
monolithic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From French monolithique. By surface analysis, monolith + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more monolithic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monolithic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or resembling a monolith.
pos: adj
gloss: Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
pos: adj
examples: A monolithic chunk of titanium with facets for cutting, wrenching, and prying.
gloss: Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Mainstream culture is hardly the monolithic block that its caricaturization often implies.
Farming today is industrial, and dominated by monolithic corporations who control almost all the food we eat.
gloss: Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Monolithic space stations only have a single station module.
gloss: Consisting of a single program or codebase.
pos: adj
examples: Monolithic kernels perform all operating system duties in kernel space.
In the monolithic architecture software system is deployed as a single solution, in which functionally distinguishable aspects are all interwoven.
Related words: -ic
lith-
-lith
lithic
mono-
monolith
Derived words: monolithically
monolithicity
monolithicness
monorepo
nonmonolithic
Translations:
claro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: claros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cigar whose wrapper is very light tan or yellowish.
pos: noun
Translations:
handicapped
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more handicapped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most handicapped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: handicappeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a handicap.
pos: adj
examples: handicapped person
handicapped man
gloss: Limited by an impediment of some kind.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: We are so handicapped for means, you see—the old story with this sort of institution. Practically everything we have has been given us at one time or another—it has to be, for there is simply no fund to apply to purchasing.
gloss: A disabled person.
pos: noun
tags: India
Related words: disabled
impaired
Derived words: handicapable
handicapped-accessible
handicapped permit
handicapped sign
handicapped space
mentally handicapped
multihandicapped
nonhandicapped
polyhandicapped
unhandicapped
Translations:
garn
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From go on.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A response that expresses disbelief or mockery.
pos: intj
tags: Cockney
slang
examples: mrs pearce. […] But you dont know anything about her. What about her parents? She may be married. / liza. Garn! / higgins. There! As the girl very properly says, Garn! Married indeed! Dont you know that a woman of that class looks a worn out drudge of fifty a year after shes married?
"[…] This is going to mean a gold watch and a week's outing at Southend with full pay for both of us or I'm a Dutchman."
"Garn!"
Translations:
garnering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: garnerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: action of the verb to garner
pos: noun
Translations:
shoots
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Alright; ok; of course.
pos: adj
tags: Hawaii
not-comparable
slang
examples: Johannis and Marcella took a yellow cab downtown and asked the driver to stop in front of First National City Bank.
—“Shoots!”—he answered.
Marcella looked at Johannis with question marks in the eyes.
—Ok! It means ok Marcella.
gloss: Goodbye.
pos: intj
tags: Hawaii
slang
examples: The concierge began talking on the phone in the local pidgin. “Eh, anikala Moki, diz Rodney at work, howzit? I get one winnah for you today. Diz guys like go Miloliʻi … no kidding uncle, four poʻe ipukea kane, come now. Shoots.”
Translations:
preventive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive.
Base: prevent
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more preventive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preventive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: preventative
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preventives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preventative
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
pos: adj
examples: ...and I sometimes think whether, like the ancient king, it would not be prudent to make an offering to destiny, and throw my set of emeralds into the lake." Emily could not but deprecate the emeralds being destined to any such preventive service;...
gloss: Carried out to deter military aggression.
pos: adj
gloss: Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
pos: adj
examples: Physick is either curative or preventive.
gloss: Going before; preceding.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
gloss: A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]
gloss: A thing that slows the development of an illness.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: A good preventive against heart disease is a healthy lifestyle.
Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.
gloss: A contraceptive, especially a condom.
pos: noun
Synonyms: prophylactic
Derived words: angiopreventive
chemopreventive
immunopreventive
nonpreventive
pathopreventive
preventive healthcare
preventively
preventive medicine
preventiveness
preventive service
preventive war
preventivist
renopreventive
unpreventive
Translations:
prespecified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English specified
English prespecified
From pre- + specified.
Inflected forms:
form: more prespecified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prespecified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: specified in advance.
pos: adj
Translations:
poinciana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Modern Latin: after M. de Poinci, a 17th-century governor of the Antilles + -ana.
Inflected forms:
form: poincianas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical tree, of species Delonix regia, with bright red flowers, native to Madagascar and now widely cultivated as an ornamental; the royal poinciana or flamboyant.
pos: noun
examples: [I]n disturbed areas, like East Point, exotic trees like poinciana and "coffee bush" invade the edges.
gloss: A tropical shrub, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, with bright orange-red flowers, originally native to the Americas and now widely cultivated as an ornamental.
pos: noun
Derived words: royal poinciana
Translations:
pediculosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pēdiculus (“louse”) + -osis. By surface analysis, pedic(u)le + -osis.
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: pediculoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Infestation with head lice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
pocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pocked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pocked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: pockmarked
pos: adj
examples: Similar to an extended deposition he gave in 2015 to Kentucky state lawyers, Dr. Sackler offered testimony largely pocked with faint or absent recollections, terse statements and deflections to his legal team.
Translations:
preside
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Old French presider, from Latin praesidēre (“preside”), from pre- (“before”) + sedere (“to sit”). Displaced Old English foresittan, which might have been a calque of the Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: presides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: presiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: presided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: presided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præside
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To act as president or chairperson.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To exercise authority or control.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale.
When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient department presided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures.
gloss: To be a featured solo performer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I’ll preside at the organ.
Translations:
present-day
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In existence now; current or contemporary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Antlers and horns have been the insignia of devils and black magicians from time immemorial, and are worn by present-day witch doctors.
As for the present diesel main line units of 2,000 to 2,300 h.p. on the London Midland and Western Regions, they can offer little more than the maintenance of present-day schedules - well below modern European speed standards - [...].
The new bridge (6) gives headroom of 13ft at high tide, sufficient for present-day river traffic.
Ch'üan Ch'i was the scion of a great family of Feng-yang in Shang-lo [in present-day Shensi province].
The ancient Kingdom of Ruoqiang controlled the rest of present-day Ruoqiang County, while today’s Qiemo (Qarqan) County was the territory of the ancient State of Qiemo, and the ancient walled city of Washixia in present-day Ruoqiang County was possibly its capital.
The present-day city of Ji’an at the southern tip of Jilin province was the second capital (3-427 CE) of the Gaogouli kingdom during its middle period.
Translations:
goosander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of goose + gander. The oldest known use is by Drayton (1622).
Compound parts: goose
gander
Inflected forms:
form: goosanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere, that consume fish and are common on lakes and rivers.
pos: noun
examples: As they above the rest were Lords of Earth and Ayre.
The Gossander with them, my goodly Fennes doe show
His head as Ebon blacke, the rest as white as Snow,
Translations:
imago
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.
Compare typologically a Russian term for coordinate larva: личи́нка (ličínka) (akin to лик (lik)).
Inflected forms:
form: imagines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imagos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imagoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
pos: noun
examples: ‘But still,’ he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and imago on his pad, ‘what shall I say to him when we meet?’
gloss: An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.
pos: noun
Related words: imago Dei
Derived words: imago clipeata
imagology
pseudimago
subimago
Translations:
perseverance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.
Inflected forms:
form: perseverances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perseveraunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Translations:
federalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós
Proto-Italic *feiðos
Latin foedusder.
French fédéralder.
English federal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English federalization
From federal + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: federalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: federalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The unification of states to form a federal union.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The assumption of control or authority by a federal government.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: These were the days before Elon Musk’s tiff with a Delaware judge raised the prospect of the federalization of corporate law.
Related words: federal
federalize
Derived words: defederalization
refederalization
Translations:
ger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian гэр (ger)/ᠭᠡᠷ (ger).
Inflected forms:
form: gers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yurt.
pos: noun
examples: The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.
In weather conditions that hit -20 degrees or lower, people in the poorer areas of the city have no access to running water, no access to bathroom facilities, often living in little “yurts” or “gers” on dirt roads.
Translations:
kunoichi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese くノ一(いち) (kunoichi).
Inflected forms:
form: kunoichis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kunoichi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female ninja.
pos: noun
Translations:
shiro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Amharic or Tigrinya ሺሮ (širo, “chickpea flour”)
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad-bean meal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
livet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: livets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A good diet.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
Translations:
rejuvenation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rejuvenate + -ion, cf. Latin reiuvenatiō.
Base: rejuvenate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: rejuvenations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of rendering young again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.
gloss: The process of producing beneficial changes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the rejuvenation of the city center
The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
Related words: rejuvenate
rejuvenating
age-reversal
Derived words: photorejuvenation
prejuvenation
rejuvenational
Translations:
kokoro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A heart.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
slang
examples: Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.
Translations:
apraxia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂-k-yé-ti
Proto-Hellenic *prā́ťťō
Ancient Greek πρᾱ́σσω (prā́ssō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek πρᾶξῐς (prâxĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πρᾱξῐ́ᾱ (ăprāxĭ́ā)der.
English apraxia
From Ancient Greek ἀπραξία (apraxía, “inaction”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “activity”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, a- + -praxia.
Base: ἀ
Inflected forms:
form: apraxias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of total inaction caused by holding global skepticism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But how does the skeptic live without knowledge or at least belief? It seems that the skeptical challenges, though theoretically unimpeachable, have objectionable practical consequences. Call this the apraxia problem for skepticism.
Related words: dyspraxia
praxis
avolition
Derived words: apraxic
gait apraxia
neurapraxia
Translations:
laziness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lazy
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 laziness
From lazy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: lazinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being lazy
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep,” retorted the page, “and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou.”
Generalizing harshly and broadly but implying “you know which ones I mean” is an intellectual and rhetorical laziness that is not allowed to pass anywhere else in these communities.
Translations:
piebald
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”).
Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Inflected forms:
form: more piebald
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piebald
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: piebalds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
pos: adj
examples: […] she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.
This figure was clad in tweeds of a piebald check, with a pink tie, a sharp collar and protuberant yellow boots.
We saw many small animals, such as porcupines, a scaly ant-eater, and a wild pig, piebald in color and with long curved tusks.
Of course my sister didn’t know that, but she knew it very distinctly when she turned a sharp corner and found herself in a mixed company of camels, piebald horses, and canary-coloured vans.
"Well, isn't that just like a girl. All this round you, and you only see a bit of dust. It'll brush off." He patted ineffectually at his piebald shirt.
Usually, however, the hitcher was standing exactly where she'd first passed him, his arm perhaps just marginally less erect, his clothing (if rain was setting in) just that little bit more piebald.
The classic example of a piebald dog is the Dalmatian.
gloss: Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.
Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.
Out there on the stage is the largest — and most piebald — rock band in captivity.
gloss: An animal with piebald coloration.
pos: noun
examples: Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.
“She always performs really well,” she says, showing me TikToks of her lip-syncing next to Luna, an elderly, noble-looking piebald with mournful brown eyes.
Related words: pied
skewbald
Derived words: piebald dolphin
piebaldism
piebaldness
Translations:
heya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
Japanese 部屋bor.
English heya
Borrowed from Japanese 部屋.
Inflected forms:
form: heya
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the so-called "stable" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains
pos: noun
Translations:
dickweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dickweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dick weed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: You got anything else you want to say about my friend, Dickweed?
Translations:
gambol
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Inflected forms:
form: gambols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gamboling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gambolling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: gamboled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: gamboled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gambolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gambolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: gambols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move about playfully; to frolic.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
At our old pastimes in the hall
⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence
⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense
Of one mute Shadow watching all.
[…] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window.
In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
[The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine.
Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
They were in the white wood / Gamboling out to picnic
gloss: To do a forward roll.
pos: verb
tags: UK
West-Midlands
gloss: An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
pos: noun
examples: Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore?
When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
gloss: An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
pos: noun
examples: There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?
Derived words: gamboller
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: подскок
roman: podskok
lang: Finnish
word: kirmailu
lang: French
word: gambade
lang: Georgian
word: ხტუნაობა
roman: xṭunaoba
lang: Georgian
word: ცელქობა
roman: celkoba
lang: Georgian
word: ციგლიგი
roman: cigligi
lang: Georgian
word: ნავარდი
roman: navardi
lang: German
word: Tollerei
lang: Māori
word: tuapa
voicing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōcem
Anglo-Norman voizbor.
Middle English voys
English voice
English -ing
English voicing
From voice + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: voicings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Shrill voicings of seagulls
Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
Related words: devoice
de-voice
revoicer
revoice
re-voice
unvoice
unvoicing
voice
voiced → voicedness
voiceless → voicelessness
voicening
accordatura
Derived words: devoicing
de-voicing
revoicing
re-voicing
shell voicing
Translations:
spruik
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, likely Germanic. Compare Dutch spraak (“speech”), spreek (“speak”), spreuk (“saying”), sprook (“a story, fiction, tale, or false idea”). First recorded in the late 1890s and early 1900s, suggesting a possible derivation from Afrikaans (i.e. brought back by soldiers returning from the Boer War). With the exception of a few early uses of sprook, the word's spelling has been fixed since it first entered the language. The uncommon ⟨ui⟩ digraph provides further evidence for an Afrikaans or Dutch origin.
Inflected forms:
form: spruiks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spruiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spruiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spruiked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sprook
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: There was no spruiking or showmanship, no flash shirts or ten-gallon hats.
Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death [title]
It can be a hard job, constantly on your feet, trying to think of things to say to lure people into the store you are spruiking for.
Translations:
appalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appall
English -ed
English appalled
From appall + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more appalled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appalled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: appauled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
Dr. Frank Hoffman, a gynecologist and founder of the program, says he was appalled by the sheer numbers of cases of early-stage breast cancer that were being missed, not just in Germany but around the world.
Translations:
treecreeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drew-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *trewą
Proto-West Germanic *treu
Old English trēow
Middle English tre
English tree
English creeper
English treecreeper
From tree + creeper.
Inflected forms:
form: treecreepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tree-creeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Certhia which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
pos: noun
Translations:
haberdashery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From haberdasher + -y (nominalizer).
Base: haberdasher
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: haberdasheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shop selling such goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shop selling clothing and accessories for men, including hats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: hatmaking
millinery
Translations:
noticeable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English notice
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 noticeable
From notice + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more noticeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most noticeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being seen or noticed.
pos: adj
examples: The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
gloss: Worthy of note; significant.
pos: adj
examples: Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
Derived words: noticeableness
noticeably
unnoticeable
Translations:
bell-bottoms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bellbottoms
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, a characteristic style of the 1970s.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: After landing, Brody, wearing bell-bottoms and large green sunglasses, announced to assembled reporters that he would be giving away his $25 million fortune to ordinary people to spread love and “cure the problems of the world.”
Translations:
scatty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of Scatophagus, the genus name
Inflected forms:
form: scattier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scattiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scatties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Scatterbrained; flighty.
pos: adj
tags: Britain
Ireland
slang
gloss: Messy; filthy; disgusting.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
pos: noun
Derived words: scattily
scattiness
Translations:
nociceptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *noḱéyeti
Proto-Italic *nokeō
Latin noceō
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Latin recipiō
Latin receptus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Medieval Latin receptivusbor.
Middle English receptive
English receptive
English nociceptive
Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, from Latin noceō (“to do harm, to inflict injury”) + receptive.
Base: noceō
Inflected forms:
form: noci-ceptive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
streetwise
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From street + -wise.
Compound parts: street
-wise
Inflected forms:
form: more streetwise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most streetwise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: street-wise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the necessary knack, personality and instinct for survival in rough, urban environments.
pos: adj
examples: Where's the streetwise Hercules / to fight the rising odds?
gloss: Possessing a style that reflects urban life and microculture.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: You could tell from the way he spat old Tupac lyrics, loitering in the corner with his homies, flipping that Yankees cap on his head like he couldn't give a damn that he was streetwise enough to melt Will Smith.
Synonyms: street-smart
Related words: street smarts
Derived words: streetwiseness
unstreetwise
Translations: