yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
regaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: regainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is regained.
pos: noun
examples: We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.
Translations:
witching
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wicching, wicchand, equivalent to witch + -ing.
Base: witch
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more witching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most witching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers.
pos: adj
examples: 'Tis the witching time of night, / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the Stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen.
gloss: Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something.
pos: adj
gloss: Bewitching, enchanting.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: But who is this witching beauty by his side, who would fain impress you with a belief that that mischief which will not remain concealed for the briefest period, is not her entire composition?
Derived words: triple witching hour
witching hour
Translations:
pissing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pissings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of urination.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: […] the house reeked of her mother's territorial pissings; I couldn't even take a piss in my own fucking bathroom without smelling the offensive stench of this possible mother-in-law […]
gloss: An intensifier used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
vulgar
examples: I can't get this pissing computer to work.
Translations:
booming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more booming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most booming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: boomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.
pos: adj
examples: The power of China's booming economy continues to stun the world.
gloss: Loud and resonant.
pos: adj
examples: He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice.
gloss: Delivered with aggressive loudness; blaring; vociferous.
pos: adj
examples: The truth panic had the unwelcome side-effect of emboldening those it sought to oppose. “Fake” was one of Trump’s favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates. A booming Maga media further amplified the president’s lies and denials.
gloss: A deep hollow or roaring sound.
pos: noun
examples: Heavy boomings of a dull deep bell.
The fleet of several dozen cars pulled into East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens, or “Chicano Park” as locals call it, on a recent weekend with the booming of powerful stereo systems announcing their arrival.
Synonyms: resounding
Derived words: boomingly
Translations:
obstructing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obstructing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstructing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
intruding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: intrudings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: intrusion
pos: noun
examples: […] he rose and adjusted his alarm-clock, so that it would emphatically repeat the hour of five. Then to bed again, and driving off all intrudings of thoughtfulness, and resolutely bending himself to slumber, he by-and-by fell into its […] arms.
Translations:
inhaling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: inhalings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inhalation
pos: noun
examples: Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship.
Translations:
ripening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ripenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of becoming ripe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pitching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: pitchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of throwing or casting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: wild pitching in baseball
gloss: The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
gloss: A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: defense-independent pitching statistics
pitching piece
pitching wedge
Translations:
draining
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more draining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most draining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: drainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Designed and/or used for drainage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The author of this experiment has constructed, and uses a draining wheel of cast iron, that weighs about 4 cwt .
The mole-plough as a draining machine can never be of much utility in a country like Scotland, where alluvial deposits, though not deficient in extent, are characterized more by the abundance of stony matter than of clay in the subsoil; it is only in the few carses that such clays occur as would suit the mole plough.
We made a draining rack in a few odd minutes which saved considerable time over the common method of tying in sacks.
A brush support and wiping device comprising a vertical-walled skirt adapted to surround the upper periphery of a container, a draining ledge connected to the upper area of said skirt near the edge thereof and extending inwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of from approximately two to approximately six degrees from the horizontal , . . .
gloss: Causing a depletion of energy or resources; exhausting.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: I was very tired; working everyday and then staying at the hospital was very draining.
He was in the luxurious position of not having to hunt for girls—a process he finds very draining.
Not every space is going to energise you, but if you work on looking after yourself more, the tolerance levels for spaces which you found more draining will increase.
gloss: The practice of exploring drains, tunnels, or sewers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The process by which something is drained or emptied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The liquid drained from something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
Derived words: drainingly
draining-well
lifedraining
nondraining
draining board
Translations:
excusing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: excusings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making an excuse.
pos: noun
examples: "I was fond of her," he insisted dully. "She suffered a lot on account of me." The words dropped to me through immeasurable cold space. I believe there were more explanations, excusings.
Translations:
divining
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: divinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We took a long stroll through the lamp-lit streets, talking of the blessed hopes that struggled in our bosoms; of the faint divinings of the future; told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
gloss: That or who divines (in any sense of the verb).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
skipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is skipped or omitted.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose we permit irregular skippings and connect, for example, 1 with 3 with 6 with 2 with 4 – but now we cannot skip any more because the only missing point is the adjacent point 5.
gloss: The game, activity, or exercise of jump rope.
pos: noun
Derived words: French skipping
neoskipping
stone skipping
Translations:
consoling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more consoling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consoling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: consolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.
pos: adj
examples: "The one thing you can rely on is that they won't do anything unnecessary that is palpably to their own disadvantage."
"That's very consoling," she retorted; […]
gloss: The act by which somebody is consoled.
pos: noun
Translations:
brimming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Full to the brim.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a brimming cup of coffee
Translations:
balancing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: balancings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An action wherein someone balances or something is balanced
pos: noun
examples: In other places of the holy writings the Almighty is described as weighing the mountains in scales, making the weight for the winds, knowing the balancings of the clouds; and, in others, as weighing the actions of men, and laying their calamities together in a balance.
And he locked her up all day in her room doing her balancings, the boomerang on the front wheel, the standstill on the back-wheel, or the bike upside down, with Lily standing on the pedals, like a convict on the tread-mill.
But she had been reading deeply of the Alps, and in all the histories of mountain exploits which she had read, of climbs up vertical cracks in sheer walls of rocks, balancings upon ridges sharp as a knife edge, crawlings over smooth slabs with nowhere to rest the feet or hands, it was the ice-slope which had most kindled her imagination.
Translations:
tilting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: tiltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.
gloss: Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bawdy-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bawdy-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bawdy house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bawdyhouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brothel; a house of prostitution.
pos: noun
tags: formal
historical
examples: 1980, Stew Newton, "Think About I!!", pamphlet reproduced in 1981, Feb 14, Alexander Wilson, "The New Right Attacks Childhood Sexuality: A Canadian Perspective", in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 7.
Yet Sewell can publicly embrace a homosexual like George Hislop who helps to run a bawdy house for men and is a candidate for alderman in Ward 6.
The spread of venereal disease slaughtered innocent wives and families by the thousands; the plague of bawdy houses destroyed the peace and livelihood of honest citizens.
Translations:
classed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Marked in terms of or connected with socioeconomic class.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Howard tries to popularize "culture" and make his farm-laborer audience aware of their role in its creation and consumption. To do so, however, Howard encourages a classed form of regional competition - a "we aren't going to let these rich city folk tell us what's what" mentality."
In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother.
Translations:
censured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more censured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most censured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been blamed or criticized for wrongdoing.
pos: adj
Translations:
affixed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more affixed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affixed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Enduringly stuck to, or attached to, something.
pos: adj
gloss: With an affix.
pos: adj
Derived words: affixedness
nonaffixed
unaffixed
Translations:
outlined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: containing an outline
pos: adj
Translations:
equalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Matched; found comparable.
pos: adj
Translations:
outraged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more outraged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outraged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
graced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
draped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: more draped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most draped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered by or clothed in cloth that drapes loosely around the object or body.
pos: adj
examples: The Venus Victrix is more draped than we expected from the subject, for the Princess Borghèse lay for it, as all the scandalous Chronicles have repeated a dozen times, in a state of nudity— certainly not consistent with the notions of female decency entertained in our climate.
He was followed (literally) by a troupe of very draped ladies, exactly the score of 'love-sick maidens', led by an imperious Lady Jane.
The hero, of whom only part of the nude torso and draped lower body is preserved, reclines toward the right on a draped kline.
gloss: Having curtains or drapery (often of a specified type)
pos: adj
examples: And for the newly mobilized, vacationing multitudes after the Second World War, there were the "Colonial" pilgrimages, which allowed lowly folk to step inside the very draped and chandeliered rooms where our Betters had lived out their Elegant and Traditional Colonial Lives.
Valances, swags, or cornices may be installed over draped walls to enhance the impression of a window treatment.
As Marilyn led them down the hallway, Lorna glanced into the partially draped rooms.
gloss: Loosely fitted, with softly hanging fabric.
pos: adj
examples: Double-breasted coats, swagger coats, bias, very draped, and very pleated skirts require more cloth than straight cuts and hence cost more.
Not to mention he was draped in those gaudy symbols.
See the high cowl but here wider and very draped .
More complicated designs, draped and otherwise, require their wearer to move in a certain way.
gloss: Hanging loosely.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: They lay side by side, limbs draped, energy exhausted.
Completing the picture are some heavily draped power lines, a few meandering chickens and, looking completely incongruous, a dry docked, large and sleek, modern motor boat.
He just looked very draped, like a section of curtain supplicated over his crazy paving.
gloss: surrounding or surrounded.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Her energy is very draped. She is covering and caring for many that she loves and supports. The draping will extend as she moves forward on her path.
His comprehensive correspondence with the musician Heinrich Köselitz (pseudonym Peter Gast) for example reads like a single repository of meteorological lamentations and complaints about the daily weather: Nietzsche feels "very draped and hidden" again and again, incapable of any productivity, because the climate strikes him as an “absurd disorder" (eKGWB/BVN- 1888,1049 - letter from 20.06.1888 ).
Derived words: moss-draped
undraped
Translations:
charred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more charred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most charred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Burnt, carbonized.
pos: adj
Translations:
centred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: centered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of centered.
pos: adj
Translations:
thatched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered or roofed with thatch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a thatched cottage
The thatched cottage in the heart of the country is artistically most attractive—provided that we have not got to live in it!
gloss: Having a specified kind of hair.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
informal
not-comparable
examples: Yet if this is unacceptable, so is the alternative of denying any objective difference between wealth and poverty — or between a well-thatched man and a bald one.
Translations:
garnished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more garnished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most garnished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Decorated with garnish.
pos: adj
Translations:
emphasized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more emphasized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emphasized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been given extra stress or focus.
pos: adj
examples: A slight inward swinging of the arms is always necessary, and is slightly more emphasized with girls.
Whenever the subgroup members meet, the fraternal activities are more emphasized and anticipated, because the meeting usually creates an informal and pleasurable ethnic-style atmosphere. Fraternal activities are much more emphasized by immigrant churches and temples than by congregations in Korea, because for many members the lay association meeting is the only source for social gathering outside their home and workplace.
I'm the first one in my family to graduate from college . . . higher education just hasn't been very emphasized.
Translations:
sponging-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sponging-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: she perswaded the Creditors to send Two Bayliffs, who carry'd me to a Spunging-House in a very weak Condition […]
Translations:
enfranchised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enfranchised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enfranchised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: emancipated
pos: adj
Translations:
etched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
pos: adj
examples: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
gloss: Toned and with a well-defined musculature.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonetched
unetched
Translations:
strapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a strap or straps.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: The pregnant woman should wear a wide-strapped bra that supports the breasts without causing nipple pressure.
gloss: Muscular.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
gloss: Armed; carrying a weapon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Punched him in his belly and he gave him a slap, / But little did he know the lil' boy was strapped, / The kid pulled out a gun, he said "Why did ya hit me?" / The barrel was set straight for the cop's kidney
I ain't gonna be out here strapped.
gloss: Poor; broke.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Families struggling to meet mortgage payments or pay for health care can easily find themselves too strapped to take advantage of school meals, even though they are a bargain.
Derived words: cash strapped
cash-strapped
strapped for money
Translations:
grizzled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more grizzled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grizzled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Greyed, old.
pos: adj
gloss: Grey or partly grey.
pos: adj
gloss: Streaked or mixed with grey; grizzly; griseous.
pos: adj
Derived words: grizzledness
grizzled skipper
ungrizzled
Translations:
summers
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the summer.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
braided
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more braided
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most braided
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Plaited, woven, entwined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Divided into several channels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Further upstream, at the gravel mining site near the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the Arroyo Seco channel is very braided and shallow with some exposed bedrock ledges.
Derived words: braided belt
braidedness
braided river
cobraided
unbraided
Translations:
shrivelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Equivalent to shrivel + -ed.
Base: shrivel
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more shrivelled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shrivelled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shriveled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: A prune is a shrivelled plum.
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
gloss: Collapsed in size.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Derived words: unshrivelled
Translations:
unhinged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unhinge + -ed.
Base: unhinge
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more unhinged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unhinged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
humorous
usually
examples: The revolution of 1830 and the discomforts of his private life so preyed upon his mind that his reason became unhinged, and he had to be removed to an asylum near Caen, where he died in 1834.
After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.
While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.
Translations:
clutches
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Grasp; possession; control.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
plural-normally
examples: Once the organization was in his clutches, her future there was bleak.
Translations:
mistranslation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English translation
English mistranslation
From mis- + translation.
Inflected forms:
form: mistranslations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incorrect translation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: MORE mischief has been done to the cause of truth by mistranslations of, and consequent miscomments on the holy scripture, than is at first thought imagined or perceived.
The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.
gloss: The incorporation of the incorrect amino acid into a peptide sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cremaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr, “suspender”).
Inflected forms:
form: cremasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin muscle attached to the testicles.
pos: noun
gloss: In the pupae of certain species of butterfly, a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of the chrysalis casing, by which the caterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.
pos: noun
Derived words: cremasterial
cremasteric
Translations:
freer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: freers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who frees.
pos: noun
Translations:
firmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English firm
English -er
English firmer
From firm + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: firmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physical exercise or cosmetic product intended to firm part of the body.
pos: noun
examples: face firmers
gloss: A thin chisel with a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it.
pos: noun
Translations:
inconstancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + constancy or inconstant + -cy.
Base: constancy
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inconstancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inconstancie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lack of constancy; lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although she loved him for many years, his inconstancy eventually drove her to another.
Translations:
infallibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: infallibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being infallible; the ability to never make a mistake.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The myth of the infallibility and objectivity of medicine and all science has come to replace religious myths.
Translations:
undoubted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English undouted, undoutid, equivalent to un- + doubted.
Base: doubted
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more undoubted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undoubted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without doubt; without question; certain.
pos: adj
examples: His undoubted skill meant that he was in much demand.
More should I question thee, and more I must,
Though more to know could not be more to trust,
From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest
Unquestion’d welcome and undoubted blest.
Thou Spirit who ledſt this glorious Eremite
Into the Deſert, his Victorious Field
Againſt the Spiritual Foe, and broughtſt him thence
By proof the undoubted Son of God, […]
Of what he has particularly accused me I am ignorant; but of the truth of what I shall relate, I can summon more than one witness of undoubted veracity.
The place of psychology in business is undoubted; whether it can prevail against more concrete and material facts, and if so, how long, remain debatable propositions.
Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
The “recognition” before a 2,300-strong congregation of foreign royals, heads of state, former prime ministers, and charity and community representatives, saw him presented four times as “your undoubted king” to the compass points of the raised coronation theatre with no murmur of dissent.
Translations:
regeneration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
fantasy
lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From re- + generation or regenerate + -ion, from Latin regenerātiō.
Base: generation
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: regenerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration.
Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the forests after the exhaustion of the plot.
But the key thing that excites Jolliffe about biochar is that it avoids waste and it can actually give something back to the environment. "The nice thing is that the biochar doesn't just sit there in a heap," she says. "It's used for soil regeneration. You can spread it on the land and it can not only enhance the soil's capacity to manage moisture, but it also acts as a fertiliser.
gloss: Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.
gloss: The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: palingenesia
rebirth
regen
Related words: regenerate
Derived words: autoregeneration
bush regeneration
irregeneration
myoregeneration
neuroregeneration
osteoregeneration
photoregeneration
regenerationism
regenerationist
self-regeneration
superregeneration
unregeneration
urban regeneration
Translations:
restructuring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: restructurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reorganization; an alteration of structure.
pos: noun
Translations:
eventful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From event + -ful.
Base: event
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more eventful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eventful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eventfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to high levels of activity; having many memorable events.
pos: adj
examples: With the number of drunken revellers on the streets it could hardly fail to be an eventful night.
[…] there was something of the habitude of the wild animal in the unreflecting instinct with which she rambled on — disconnecting herself by littles from her eventful past at every step, obliterating her identity […]
Antonyms: eventless
Translations:
cheerily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cheery
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cheerily
From cheery + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cheerily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cheerily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cheerful manner; with a cheery demeanour.
pos: adv
examples: Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.
Matters stood thus in the Castle of Avenel, when a winded bugle sent its shrill and prolonged notes from the shore of the lake, and was replied to cheerily by the signal of the warder.
What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]
Translations:
meekly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mekely, mekeliche, equivalent to meek + -ly. Compare Old Norse mjúkliga.
Base: meek
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more meekly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most meekly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a meek manner; quietly and humbly.
pos: adv
examples: When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God,
Meekly thou did'st resign this earthly load
Of Death, call'd Life; which us from Life doth sever.
It comes from the Latin insurgo, meaning “to rise up within”: so insurrectionists are, etymologically, the same as “insurgents”, even if that is normally a word for those who do not meekly accept western military rule.
Translations:
fortepiano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian fortepiano, from forte (“loud”) + piano (“soft”).
Inflected forms:
form: fortepianos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fortepianoes
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A keyboard instrument; the smaller, quieter precursor to the pianoforte.
pos: noun
Translations:
inattentive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English attentive
English inattentive
From in- + attentive.
Inflected forms:
form: more inattentive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inattentive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a lack of attention; not paying attention; careless.
pos: adj
examples: He was inattentive in class and did not do well in his exams.
Antonyms: attentive
vigilant
Translations:
marketable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English market
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 marketable
From market + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more marketable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marketable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being marketed.
pos: adj
examples: The quality and scarcity ensured that the product was eminently marketable.
If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
gloss: Saleable (of goods) or employable (of people).
pos: adj
examples: The massive unemployment rate among young people today can surely be explained at least in part by the manner in which public schools prevented them from obtaining many marketable talents and attributes.
Derived words: marketability
marketableness
marketably
nonmarketable
unmarketable
Translations:
auricula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
anatomy
biology
business
chemistry
horticulture
lifestyle
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin auricula (“external ear; ear”). Doublet of auricle.
Inflected forms:
form: auriculae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auriculas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The external part of the ear.
pos: noun
gloss: A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart.
pos: noun
gloss: A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornamental primrose (Primula auricula)
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.
Related words: auricle
auricular
auricularis
auriculate
auriculo-
Translations:
brushwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brush + wood.
Compound parts: brush
wood
Inflected forms:
form: brushwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His pupils assemble every evening before his tent; where, by the light of a large fire, made of brushwood and cow’s dung, they are taught a few sentences from the Koran, and are initiated into the principles of their creed.
Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]
gloss: Small trees and shrubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...]
Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.
Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.
Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.
Translations:
fire-resistant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of withstanding fire, either permanently or for a pre-determined time.
pos: adj
Translations:
holier-than-thou
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Isaiah 65:5 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou”; from Biblical Hebrew קְדַשְׁתִּיךָ (qəḏaštîḵā).
Inflected forms:
form: more holier-than-thou
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most holier-than-thou
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hypocritically or self-righteously pious; sanctimonious; smugly morally superior.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: [T]here are local jealousies and disunities which are not likely to be soothed by the patent fact that companies which most strenuously assert the I-am-holier-than-thou claim daily violate the rules by which they profess to be invariably governed, [...]
Hippolytus is quite insufferable in his endless protestations of pity and purity. One tires of such abnormal goodness and wishes for a little natural depravity. He is a perfect type of the "holier than thou" individual whose secret heart is a very stagnation of egotism, selfishness and disregard for others' feelings.
His garb is such as any gentleman might wear—a farmer, a thrifty mechanic, a teacher, or a plain business man—a brown slouch hat, any kind of a simple necktie, any kind of a coat except the unctuous holier-than-thou broadcloth with the front full of button holes.
I don't think the "black is white" campaign of the Republican Party is going to succeed. I think the voters are going to see through this holier-than-thou disguise that our Republican friends are putting on.
But I can understand the hon. member's sense of sanctimony; he has now been a member of the NDP caucus for a while and the holier-than-thou attitude has been bred into him.
The Soviet economy is hurting now, and I say that not holier-than-thou, but it is; factually, the Soviet economy is in bad shape.
Whether you see that as belated recognition of a collective shame (if not guilt) or as a "holier than thou" pharisaism, it was certainly made much simpler by the fact that the generation under discussion had started to fade from public life.
Everything connected with the care of children no matter how trivial has to be seen to be politically correct. This tends to create a "holier-than-thou" attitude, where if something even hints of being politically incorrect, then no matter how much fun it might be for the children, it will not take place.
While he may not deserve to be branded a “slimeball,” as Trump did on Sunday, Comey does risk coming across as a disgruntled ex-employee and someone seeking vengeance for his dismissal. He has a highly developed sense of his own morality and sometimes comes across as holier than thou.
Translations:
landaulet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English landau
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English landaulet
From landau + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: landaulets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: landaulette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small landau.
pos: noun
Translations:
Confucianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ)
Latin -ius
New Latin Cōnfuciuslbor.
English Confucius
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Confucian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Confucianism
From Confucian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Confucianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The philosophy and teaching of Confucius, which emphasizes self-cultivation, collective harmony, righteousness and the family structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A third important part of Confucianism is the concept of chun tzu or "ideal gentlemanly behavior." Confucius believed that the ideal man "is kind and upholds moral principles. He is a man who loves learning, who is calm and perfectly at ease and constantly careful of his own conduct, believing that by example he has great influence over society."
gloss: The school of thought and philosophy centered on Confucian principles, originating in China, including later teachings of scholars such as Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Chinese New Year holiday period, being disrupted this year by the outbreak of a viral illness, has evolved over more than 3,000 years to become the most important of China’s traditional festivals.
As celebrated in China and in many other places where its known as the Lunar New Year, it is largely a secular holiday, yet it includes rituals and traditions that derive from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as from ancient myths and folk religions.
gloss: A saying, epithet or idea attributed to Confucius.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: Ruism
Derived words: Confucian
Confucianist
Translations:
deliverer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deliver
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 deliverer
From deliver + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: deliverers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who delivers.
pos: noun
gloss: One who brings deliverance.
pos: noun
examples: "Thus, even thus, have I lived for full two thousand years [...] tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire - without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led on only down my dreary road by the marsh lights of Hope, which, though they flickered here and there, and now glowed strong, and now were not, yet, as my skill told me, would one day lead unto my deliverer."
Synonyms: deliveryperson
Translations:
inquirer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inquire
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 inquirer
From inquire + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: inquirers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enquirer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who inquires.
pos: noun
Translations:
preserver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English preserve
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 preserver
From preserve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: preservers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who preserves.
pos: noun
examples: Like lightning Numa turned upon this new enemy, and, defenseless as he was, Tarzan of the Apes was nearer to death that instant than he ever before had been. It was the black who saved him. The warrior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only a miracle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fangs that had been so near to his own flesh.
gloss: A life preserver.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who refinishes furniture.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
pos: noun
Related words: preservation
preserve
Derived words: life preserver
preserveress
Translations: