yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
carer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.
Proto-Germanic *karō
Proto-West Germanic *karu
Old English caru
Middle English care
English care
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 carer
From care + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: carers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?
They retired early to be a full-time carer for their partner.
He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
Her business was a one-woman outfit that offered accredited first-aid training courses for teachers, carers, sports coaches, antenatal classes, workplace groups, and the police; the classes ranged from basic defibrillator training to what was now called psychological first aid.
Translations:
calorific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From French calorifique or Latin calorificus, from calor + -i- + -ficus.
Inflected forms:
form: more calorific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most calorific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to calories.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or producing heat or other energy.
pos: adj
gloss: High in calories and thus likely fattening.
pos: adj
tags: US
Synonyms: caloric
Derived words: calorific ray
calorific value
calorimetry
hypercalorific
isocalorific
noncalorific
Translations:
tetrarchy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
government
natural-sciences
politics
Etymology: From Latin tetrarchia, from Ancient Greek τετραρχία (tetrarkhía), from τετρα- (tetra-, “four”) + -αρχία (-arkhía, “-archy: rule”), equivalent to tetra- + -archy.
Affixes: tetra-
-archy
Inflected forms:
form: tetrarchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tetrarchy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tetradarchy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A government where power is shared by four people, especially (historical) the Herodian tetrarchy established in Judea after the death of Herod and the Tetrarchy of Diocletian which ruled the Roman Empire in the years 293-313.
pos: noun
examples: Constantius was not born to the purple and Maximianus was the only original member of the First Tetrarchy from whom Constantine could satisfactorily derive his rule.
The abdication of Diocletian and Maximian in 305, whether long-planned or just the product of the senior emperor's recent ill health, created a second Tetrarchy, in which the dominant figure should have been Galerius.
His imperial reorganization saw authority divided between four rulers, the Tetrarchy, to oversee the recovery.
gloss: The land ruled by such a government, either together or separately.
pos: noun
examples: According to Josephus, Herod Agrippa, who succeeded Antipas in his Tetrarchy, died in the seventh year of his reign;[…].
This district was included with Galilee in the tetrarchy of Herod Antipas.
After an adventurous career, Aristobulus' son Agrippa was appointed by Gaius, in 38 C.E., king of the former tetrarchies of Philip and Lysanias and was granted the praetorian ornamenta. Soon after, he was awarded the tetrarchy of his uncle and brother-in-law Herod Antipas[…].
Synonyms: government
Related words: tetrarch
Derived words: tetrarchic
Translations:
flagger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flag
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 flagger
From flag + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: flaggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who uses a flag or signal, as for example to direct traffic or to start a race.
pos: noun
examples: Between filling the sandwiches, Nicole Moy and Shazza McCormack collect donations for the flags and pass on quietly offered suggestions by local people, anxious about possible illegality, as to where the flaggers should visit next with their ladders and cherrypickers.
Translations:
manque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French manqué.
Inflected forms:
form: manqué
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: unable to fully realise one's ambitions; would-be
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: an artist manque
Translations:
inception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin inceptiō, from inceptus, perfect passive participle of incipiō (“to begin”).
The layering sense derives from the 2010 science fiction film Inception, in which a team of people infiltrate someone’s subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams with the goal of causing someone to incept an idea.
Inflected forms:
form: inceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
For a few moments they spoke of the opera, of the topics that were then occupying the attention of Paris, of the pleasure of renewing their brief acquaintance which had had its inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was uppermost in the minds of both.
My mother, at my inception, did not create that passionate lack of fear that is mine.
Utilizing a case register in Salford, England, Stein and Susser have studied inceptions of psychiatric illness […] Inceptions, defined as first episode of psychiatric care in a person's life, […]
Concurrent to this order, Good forged a link with Irish Railways, which resulted in the latter building five shunters with Brush equipment, marking the inception of dieselisation in the country.
gloss: A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception
I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception
With the recent uptake of mixed-reality (MR) technology, this frame can be redefined, allowing for virtual simulations to exist within the physical frame, effectively delivering an inception of physical and simulated interfaces.
Tonight we've just had a lengthy discussion about the likelihood of dreams being a portal to some external, alternate reality. All signs point to yes. They could be. Inceptions of inceptions and so forth.
He was sketching me as I doodled in my own book, almost like an inception.
She spoke in a consultant's sound byte^([sic]) fashion, which translates text into your head holistically, calmly, slowly, and full of quotations. It was a high fidelity conversation—a kind of local and consensual inception. I knew whom Piet had been fucking.
Related words: incept
inceptive
inceptual
incipient
the get-go
Derived words: -ception
inceptional
partial discharge inception voltage
Translations:
restless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *rastō
Proto-West Germanic *rastu
Old English ræst
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English ræstlēas
Middle English restles
English restless
From Middle English restles, restelees, from Old English ræstlēas, equivalent to rest + -less.
Base: rest
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more restless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most restless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not allowing or affording rest.
pos: adj
examples: The night before his wedding was a restless one.
gloss: Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
pos: adj
examples: He was a restless child.
She sat, restless and nervous, and tried to concentrate.
If that is the case, she recommends getting up, walking around the house and doing some stretches to ease the restless feeling before trying again to get to sleep.
gloss: Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose; eager for change; discontented.
pos: adj
examples: A restless ambition.
gloss: Deprived of rest or sleep.
pos: adj
examples: They remained restless, sitting by the window the entire night.
Derived words: restless cavy
restless flycatcher
restless genital syndrome
restless legs
restless legs syndrome
restless leg syndrome
restlessly
restlessness
the natives are getting restless
the natives are restless
Translations:
sprinkle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sprenkelen, sprynklen, from Middle Dutch sprenkelen, equivalent to sprink + -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch sprenkelen (“to sprinkle”), German Low German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle; dapple”), German sprenkeln (“to sprinkle”).
Base: sprink
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: sprinkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sprinkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprinkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprinkled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sprinkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The confectioner sprinkled icing sugar over the cakes.
And the priest shall[…]sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.
At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field[.]
gloss: To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The confectioner sprinkled the cakes with icing sugar.
Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the stars sprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.
gloss: To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It sprinkled outside all day long.
gloss: To rain very lightly outside.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It sprinkled very early in the morning.
gloss: To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience
gloss: A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
pos: noun
examples: He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.
My memory leaves me with a constant and deep burning, my eyes stinging and red from short sprinkles of tears which have been sneaking up on me for days now.
gloss: A light rain shower.
pos: noun
gloss: An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.
pos: noun
gloss: A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dust
sift
Derived words: besprinkle
besprinkled
intersprinkle
oversprinkle
presprinkle
sprinkler
sprinklingly
sprinkly
unsprinkled
holy-water sprinkle
Translations:
disappointment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disappoint
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English disappointment
From disappoint + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: disappointments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feeling or state of being disappointed: a feeling of sadness or frustration when something is not as good as one hoped or expected, or when something bad unexpectedly happens.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Even a trip to beautiful California can cause disappointment.
They remembered too keenly their pleasant credulity as to what to-morrow would bring forth, to dare indulge expectation of its pleasure; they had been disappointed once—so might they be again—for disappointment ever leaves fear behind.
Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."
gloss: An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The disappointment with our trip to California caused bickering.
For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — Wilson tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.
gloss: Something or someone that disappoints: that which causes disappointment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Even a trip to beautiful California can be a disappointment.
What a disappointment!
Synonyms: let-down
setback
Related words: disappoint
Derived words: anticippointment
Cape Disappointment
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: seniluziiĝo
lang: German
word: Reinfall
lang: German
word: Rückschlag
lang: Spanish
word: decepción
lang: Spanish
word: chasco
mesoscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Hellenic *métsos
Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.
English meso-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -scopic
English mesoscopic
From meso- + -scopic.
Inflected forms:
form: more mesoscopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mesoscopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On a scale between microscopic and macroscopic
pos: adj
Translations:
disenfranchised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disenfranchised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disenfranchised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not represented; especially, not having the right to vote.
pos: adj
Translations:
disconcerting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disconcert
English -ing
English disconcerting
From disconcert + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more disconcerting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disconcerting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm.
pos: adj
examples: Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting.
"You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting."
Translations:
recto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rēctō foliō (“on the right leaf, on the right page”), the ablative case of the Latin rēctus (“right”). Compare versus (“turned”).
Inflected forms:
form: rectos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
pos: noun
gloss: The front side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal.
pos: noun
gloss: A writ of right.
pos: noun
Related words: recto-
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: líc
lang: French
word: recto
lang: Spanish
word: anverso
verso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Latin in versō foliō (“on the turned leaf, on the turned page”), the ablative case of the Latin versus (“turned, changed”) from the perfect passive participle of vertō (“turn”). Compare rēctus (“right”).
Inflected forms:
form: versos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal;
pos: noun
gloss: The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet, leaf, coin or medal;
pos: noun
Synonyms: back
flipside
backside
reverse
Antonyms: recto
obverse
recto
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обратна страна
roman: obratna strana
lang: Finnish
word: kääntöpuoli
lang: French
word: verso
lang: Greek
word: πίσω όψη
roman: píso ópsi
lang: Ido
word: reverso
lang: Italian
word: verso
lang: Russian
word: оборотная сторона́
roman: oborotnaja storoná
lang: Russian
word: реверс
roman: revers
lang: Spanish
word: dorso
lang: Spanish
word: reverso
lang: Swedish
word: baksida
left-hand
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or located on the left.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Using or designed for use by the left hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a left-hand bowler in the game of cricket
gloss: Of opposite chirality to the standard.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a left-hand screw thread
Antonyms: right-hand
Translations:
sed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From stream editor.
Inflected forms:
form: seds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sedded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: seds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To edit a file or stream of text using sed.
pos: verb
tags: neologism
slang
examples: Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?
gloss: A line fastening a fish-hook.
pos: noun
Translations:
ferricyanide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ferricyanides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various salts containing the trivalent anion Fe(CN)₆³⁻; used in making blue pigments.
pos: noun
gloss: A complex ion in which a central ferric iron atom is surrounded by six cyanide ions.
pos: noun
Related words: ferrocyanide
Derived words: ferrithiocyanide
ferrous ferricyanide
nitroferricyanide
potassium ferricyanide
Translations:
ferrocyanide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Old Latin *fersom
Latin ferrum
English ferro-
English cyanide
English ferrocyanide
From ferro- + cyanide.
Inflected forms:
form: ferrocyanides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The complex ion Fe(CN)₆⁴⁻; any salt containing this ion; they are used in making blue pigments
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ferrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin ferrum (“iron”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ferrous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ferrous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or containing iron.
pos: adj
examples: ferrous metals
ferrous scrap
gloss: Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of +2.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)
pos: adj
examples: ferrous metals
Antonyms: nonferrous
Related words: ferritic
Derived words: carbon-ferrous
diferrous
ferrous chloride
ferrous ferricyanide
ferrous fumarate
ferrous oxide
ferrous phosphate
ferrous sulfate
ferrous sulphate
ferrous sulfide
ferrous sulphide
monoferrous
non-ferrous
oxyferrous
Translations:
chelate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi चेला (celā)bor.
English chela
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English chelate
From chela + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more chelate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chelate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chelates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chelates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chelating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chelated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chelated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having chelae, or in the form of a chela.[from 19th c.]
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to chelation.
pos: adj
gloss: A chelate compound.
pos: noun
examples: In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.
gloss: to form a chelate compound by combining a metal atom to form a ring.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to remove heavy metals from the bloodstream using a chelate (such as EDTA).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: achelate
chelatable
chelatase
chelate complex
chelater
chelation
chelator
dechelate
ferrochelate
metallochelate
monochelate
rechelate
semichelate
subchelate
transchelate
Translations:
deuteron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From deutero- + -on. From deuterium, from Ancient Greek δεύτερος (deúteros, “second”).
Base: deutero
Inflected forms:
form: deuterons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the nucleus of deuterium, consisting of a proton and a neutron
pos: noun
Translations:
triton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From trit- + -on. From tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”).
Base: trit
Inflected forms:
form: tritons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
nelson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Cricket sense: origin disputed; supposedly from the belief that Lord Nelson had one eye, one arm and one leg.
Wrestling sense: Back-formation from full nelson.
Inflected forms:
form: nelsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A score of 111, sometimes considered to be unlucky.
pos: noun
gloss: A wrestling hold in which a wrestler's arm is locked behind their back.
pos: noun
Derived words: double nelson
half nelson
triple nelson
Translations:
impediment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English impediment, borrowed from Latin impedimentum.
Inflected forms:
form: impediments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress; impedance.
pos: noun
examples: I require and charge you (as you will aunswere at the dreadefull daye of iudgemente, when the secretes of all hartes shalbee disclosed) that if either of you doe knowe any impedimente why ye maie not bee lawfully ioyned together in matrimonie, that ye confesse it.
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment.
Your kind Deſire to knovv the State of my Health had not been unſatiſfied of ſo long, had not that ill State been the Impediment.
I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.
Patterns incised on this mineral form seem to evade the eye; you have to stand at a certain distance, and in a particular light, to make them out. This impediment is part of the charm for him.
In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.
gloss: A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
pos: noun
examples: Working in a noisy factory left me with a slight hearing impediment.
And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.
1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,
Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes […]
Better for you not to be tall! In fact it is almost a kindness of Heaven to be gifted with some safe impediment of body, slightly crooked back or the like, if you much dislike the career of honor under Friedrich Wilhelm.
[…] Walter Ivans replied as rapidly as the impediment in his speech permitted.
gloss: Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: We were all on foot, officers and men alike. Our horses, baggage, and impediments had been left at Brashear to follow the column of General Emory.
Synonyms: hindrance
obstruction
obstacle
Related words: impede
impedimenta
Derived words: absolute impediment
diriment impediment
hindering impediment
impedimental
impedimented
impediment of crime
speech impediment
Translations:
nightwatchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From night + watchman.
Compound parts: night
watchman
Inflected forms:
form: nightwatchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night watchman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who guards a premises at night.
pos: noun
gloss: A batsman who is sent in to bat higher than his usual position near the end of a day's play (when light is poor), in order to protect better batsmen.
pos: noun
Translations:
non-striker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English striker
English non-striker
From non- + striker.
Inflected forms:
form: non-strikers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is not participating in an industrial strike.
pos: noun
gloss: The batsman standing at the bowler's end of the pitch.
pos: noun
Translations:
striker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
engineering
firearms
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
soccer
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strike
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 striker
From strike + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: strikers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
examples: The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that hits someone or something else.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
pos: noun
examples: Olympiakos had barely been in the Arsenal half but should have levelled in the 14th minute. A low corner was not dealt with and the ball fell to the feet of striker Rafik Djebbour, who saw his close-range effort brilliantly cleared from the goalline by Arteta.
Olympique Lyonnais midfielder Nemanja Matic and Le Havre striker Ahmed Hassan have each been handed two-game bans with a further two matches suspended after they concealed Ligue 1’s anti-homophobia insignia on their shirts, the French top-flight said.
gloss: An officer's servant or orderly.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Dog-robber" has a definite significance to some army men; but unless one has spent some time in uniform he will probably have to search long for its meaning: an officer's servant or striker.
gloss: The batter.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
pos: noun
gloss: A harpoon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A harpooner.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [W]here ever we come to an Anchor, we always ſend out our Strikers, and put out Hooks and Lines overboard, to try for Fiſh.
gloss: An inexperienced member of a ship's crew.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A wencher; a lewd man.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 'Twill prove a notable striker, like his father.
gloss: A blackmailer in politics.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: One whose political influence can be bought.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: dolphin-striker
dolphin striker
firestriker
high striker
hunger striker
non-striker
strikerless
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lyöjä
pawl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 17th c., perhaps from Low German or Dutch pal (“catch (mechanism)”), or from either French pal (“stake”) or épaule (“shoulder”).
Inflected forms:
form: pawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pawled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
pos: noun
examples: A pawl is a sort of catch that fits into a ratchet wheel and pushes it around, or it may be used as a catch to prevent the backward motion of a windlass or the wheel on a derrick.
The nails in the rim of the wheel went ratcheting over the leather pawl and the wheel slowed and came to a stop and the woman turned to the crowd and smiled.
gloss: A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets.
pos: noun
gloss: To stop with a pawl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: pawl bitt
pawl rim
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: палец
roman: palec
lang: Bulgarian
word: език
roman: ezik
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 千斤
roman: qiānjīn
lang: Czech
word: západka
lang: Dutch
word: pal
lang: Esperanto
word: kliko
lang: Finnish
word: lukituskynsi
lang: French
word: cliquet
lang: German
word: Sperrklinke
lang: German
word: Klaue
lang: German
word: Klinke
lang: Italian
word: cricchetto
lang: Japanese
word: 歯止め
roman: hadome
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pal
lang: Polish
word: zapadka
lang: Russian
word: соба́чка
roman: sobáčka
lang: Spanish
word: matraca
lang: Swedish
word: spärrhake
lang: Swedish
word: klinka
skateboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From skate + board. The foot-treadable skateboard sense (noun sense 1) came first (mid-20th century). The vehicle chassis sense (noun sense 2) was named for its resemblance thereto (late 20th or early 21st century).
Base: skate
Inflected forms:
form: skateboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skateboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skateboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skateboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skateboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow, wooden or plastic platform mounted on pairs of wheels, on which one stands and propels oneself by pushing along the ground with one foot.
pos: noun
examples: She's been riding skateboards since she was eight years old.
In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
“Maybe it’s a video to talk about the situation. They use the skateboard as their weapons to (educate) the generation around Europe and the world,” Tutenges said. “It’s a good way to keep talking about Ukraine.”
gloss: A skateboard vehicle chassis: A chassis format, used for electric vehicles, which holds the drive motors and power energy store (i.e. batteries), forming the vehicular base; an instance of this format.
pos: noun
examples: A new crossover model will arrive next year and will be based on an existing skateboard.
gloss: To use a skateboard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Mentally, it’s hard to live here,” a teenage skateboarder named Konstantino told him. “So we skateboard to free ourselves and heal ourselves. We go out into the street every day, as if it were our medicine.”
He explained how the race was initially his idea, but it was Gay – a Bend resident ranked fourth in the world for the most miles skateboarded in 24 hours – who had to “sell the whole idea to the city” while seeking permission to host the race.
Derived words: electric skateboard
e-skateboard
skateboardable
skateboard deck
skateboarding
skateboardlike
skateboard rail
skateboard truck
skateboard wheel
snakeboard
Translations:
misguided
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more misguided
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misguided
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ill-conceived or not thought through.
pos: adj
examples: I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided. Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
gloss: Misled or mistaken.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking proper guidance.
pos: adj
examples: You're just a poor misguided fool
Who thinks they know what I should do
A line for me and a line for you
I lose my right to a point of view.
Martin Luther King Jr's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on the need for moral intervention should be taped to every tech CEO's wall: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”
Derived words: misguidedly
misguidedness
unmisguided
Translations:
cayuse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the Cayuse tribe of the Pacific Northwest. However, the etymology of this tribe name is unknown; it may be an exonym, and may in fact come from Spanish caballo (“horse”), which is the source of the word for horse in many Native American languages of western North America.
Inflected forms:
form: cayuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small Indian horse or pony.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Yehudi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew יְהוּדִי (yehudí, “Jew”). Related to Judah. An endonym for and doublet of Jew.
Inflected forms:
form: Yehudis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
Translations:
Maoism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Mao (surname of Mao Zedong) + -ism.
Base: Mao
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Maoisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Some of the farmers were arrested in Wuhan parks where they allegedly spoke against Maoism and the Communist dictatorship, the report said.
Translations:
dinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ding
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 dinger
From ding + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bell or chime.
pos: noun
examples: Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
gloss: The suspended clapper of a bell.
pos: noun
gloss: One who rings a bell.
pos: noun
gloss: A home run.
pos: noun
examples: The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.
He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.
Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.
For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: "He had a red wool sock on his dinger. That's all."
gloss: Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: ‘Say, does that sock in the jaw hurt any more? It was a dinger.’
Casy said, “See how good the corn come along until the dust got up. Been a dinger of a crop.”
“I won’t lie to you. She been in trouble the last couple years, but she got herself wrapped up in a real dinger this time.”
gloss: A condom.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: The buttocks, the anus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: Let′s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
"We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
"Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger!"
gloss: A catapult, a shanghai.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
examples: We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance.
gloss: An unregistered car.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
Related words: double
single
triple
Translations:
psychotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?
Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.
New Latin therapīabor.
English therapy
English psychotherapy
From psycho- + therapy.
Inflected forms:
form: psychotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The treatment of people diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders using dialogue and a variety of psychological techniques.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
Literally hundreds of studies have shown that on average psychotherapy works as well for these conditions as do medications.
Translations:
Cayuse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adapted from French cailloux, a pre-existing French word. The reason this word came to be used for the tribe is unknown; see the Wikipedia article for theories.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Native American tribe of Oregon.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Richter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Richterbor.
English Richter
Borrowed from German Richter.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: (Followed by a decimal number): A Richter scale magnitude to indicate the severity of an earthquake. "Richter" is prefixed to the magnitude value. This has generally been superseded by the Moment-Magnitude Scale
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
logarithmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English logarithm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English logarithmic
From logarithm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to logarithms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pungent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pungens (stem pungent-), present participle of pungo (“to sting”). Doublet of poignant.
Inflected forms:
form: more pungent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pungent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a strong odor that stings the nose; said especially of acidic or spicy substances.
pos: adj
examples: I accidentally dropped the bottle of ammonia and after few seconds, a very pungent stench could be detected.
Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.
I can almost smell the fir scent... resinous, pungent.
gloss: Having a strong taste that stings the tongue; said especially of hot (spicy) food, which has a strong and sharp or bitter taste.
pos: adj
gloss: Stinging; acerbic.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The critic gave a pungent review.
gloss: Having a sharp and stiff point.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonpungent
overpungent
pungence
pungency
pungently
unpungent
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пикантен
roman: pikanten
lang: Czech
word: ostrý
lang: Czech
word: palčivý
lang: Czech
word: výrazný
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δριμύς
roman: drimús
lang: Latvian
word: ass
lang: Malayalam
word: എരിവ്
roman: erivŭ
lang: Polish
word: ostry
lang: Romanian
word: înțepător
lang: Sanskrit
word: तिग्म
roman: tigma
lang: Spanish
word: acre
lang: Spanish
word: acerbo
lang: Spanish
word: pungente
lang: Swedish
word: skarp
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: كسكین
roman: keskin
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ایتی
roman: iti
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: حریف
roman: hirrif
stanza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
broadcasting
communications
computing
engineering
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
poetry
publishing
sciences
sports
writing
Etymology: From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.
Inflected forms:
form: stanzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
pos: noun
gloss: An apartment or division in a building.
pos: noun
gloss: An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
pos: noun
examples: Definition of XML Stanza: An XML stanza is the basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
Whenever an XMPP client generates an XML stanza, it typically constructs the XML of the stanza by building up a structured document […]
Technically speaking, federation is the ability for two XMPP servers in different domains to exchange XML stanzas.
gloss: A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
pos: noun
gloss: A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
pos: noun
examples: Actually NBC and other webs have used similar devices in the past, particularly during the war, when net used plattered segments for its news and documentary stanzas. As far as can be determined, however, this is the first post-war instance in which the net has allowed even a partial plattering of a regularly skedded commercial stanza.
gloss: A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.
pos: noun
examples: The game's prime moment wasn't the decisive and popular eighth-inning, two-run homer by Mark Bellhorn, which ticked off the friendly Fenway right-field foul pole, but a sensational play by Boston's Manny Ramirez in the top of that same stanza.
Related words: stance
stand
strophe
Derived words: Burns stanza
interstanza
Monk's Tale stanza
Spenserian stanza
stanzaed
stanzaic
stanzalike
Translations:
no-hitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: no-hitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A game in which no batter on one of the teams got a hit.
pos: noun
examples: Not many pitchers can say they threw two no-hitters in their career.
A record three of the no-hitters have come against Cleveland, with Zach Plesac having started all three games for the Indians.
It was the 18th no-hitter in franchise history, the 10th since the team moved to San Francisco and first since Chris Heston no-hit the New York Mets in 2015.
Translations:
playboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + boy.
Compound parts: play
boy
Inflected forms:
form: playboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single man, especially a wealthy one, who devotes himself to a life of leisure and pleasure, often sexual, without commitments or responsibilities.
pos: noun
examples: Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society / I don't hang around playboy millionaires / I'm just an ordinary guy you left behind
Translations:
propellant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English propel
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English propellant
From propel + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: propellants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: propellent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: anything that propels
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: anything that propels
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then they backed the membrane with a gel matrix containing a perfluorocarbon (PFC) propellant and fluorescent "nanobullets" about a micron wide, and hit it with ultrasound.
gloss: anything that propels
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bipropellant
jet propellant
monopropellant
nonpropellant
propellantless
rocket propellant 1
Translations:
lang: French
word: propulseur
lang: Latin
word: prōpellēns
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: drivstoff
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: drivstoff
lang: Spanish
word: propelente
lang: Spanish
word: propulsor
lang: Spanish
word: propulsora