yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
whippoorwill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of its note.
Inflected forms:
form: whippoorwills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whip-poor-will
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whippowill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whip-o-will
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whip-o'-will
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus), a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call.
pos: noun
examples: “Seems like I heard a whippoorwill callinʼ, and I thought to myself, Go on away from here, weʼll whip ole Will when we find him.”
gloss: The distinctive call of the above bird.
pos: noun
examples: The bird sang his whippoorwills all night.
From across the road a bird sang 'Whippoorwill, whippoorwill!'
Somewhere in the darkness a few cold-sounding frogs lamented the lost summer, and the bird which the Chippewa called muck-a-wiss sang whippoorwill.
For I'm sure 'tis a bird that now sings 'Whippoorwill, Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill!'
Related words: chuck-will's-widow
nightjar
Derived words: eastern whippoorwill
Mexican whippoorwill
Translations:
whipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: whippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The punishment of being whipped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The lashing of the end of a rope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Never cut a line or leave the end of a line dangling loose without a whipping to prevent it from unlaying. A line without a whipping will unlay of its own accord. A frayed line is a painful sight to a good seaman. Whenever a line or hawser has to be cut, whippings should be put on first. Put one whipping on each side of the cut. To prevent fraying, a temporary or plain whipping can be put on with any type of cordage, even with rope yarn.
gloss: The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: whipping boy
whipping cream
whipping frog
whipping girl
whipping post
whipping top
Translations:
whirl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English whirlen, contracted from earlier *whirvelen, *whervelen, possibly from Old English *hwyrflian, *hweorflian (attested in hwirflung, hwerflung (“change, vicissitude”)), frequentative form of Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), itself from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban, from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”); or perhaps from Old Norse hvirfla (“to go round, spin”). Cognate with Dutch wervelen (“to whirl, swirl”), German wirbeln (“to whirl, swirl”), Danish hvirvle (“to whirl”), Swedish virvla (older spelling hvirfla), Albanian vorbull (“a whirl”). Related to whirr and wharve.
Base: wharve
Affixes: -el
Inflected forms:
form: whirls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whirling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whirled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whirled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
gloss: To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My head is whirling after all that drink.
My brained ^([sic]) whirled as he went on, but yet there was a fearful impression that the worst was not told.
gloss: To make something or someone whirl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
He whirls his sword around without delay.
gloss: To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.
To-night the winds begin to rise
⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:
⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
The passionate heart of the poet is whirl’d into folly.
gloss: An act of whirling.
pos: noun
examples: She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
gloss: Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
pos: noun
gloss: A confused tumult.
pos: noun
gloss: A rapid series of events.
pos: noun
examples: My life is one social whirl.
gloss: Dizziness or giddiness.
pos: noun
examples: My mind was in a whirl.
gloss: A brief experiment or trial.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: OK, let's give it a whirl.
Derived words: awhirl
fire whirl
give something a whirl
merry-go-whirl
whirl bone
whirl-bone
whirligig
whirlpool
whirly
Translations:
whirlpool
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From earlier whirlpoole, whirlpole, apparently from Middle English *whirlpole, potentially coalescing Old English hwierfel (“whirlpool”) and Old English hwierfepōl (“whirlpool”). Equivalent to whirl + pool. Cognate with Scots quhirlepole, whirle-pule (“whirlpool”). Compare also English whirlpit.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English gurges (“whirlpool”), borrowed from Latin gurges (“whirlpool”).
Compound parts: whirl
pool
Inflected forms:
form: whirlpools
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whirlpools
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whirlpooling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whirlpooled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whirlpooled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swirling body of water.
pos: noun
examples: A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.
gloss: A hot tub, a jacuzzi.
pos: noun
examples: The meatloaf has been cooking in the oven for the last hour and should be ready just about the time George climbs out of the whirlpool.
gloss: A state of turmoil, or agitated excitement.
pos: noun
gloss: To spin or swirl like the water in a whirlpool.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: whirlpool bath
whirlpool galaxy
Translations:
whirling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
social-science
sociology
Inflected forms:
form: whirlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Revolving, rotating, turning rapidly.
pos: adj
examples: a whirling carousel; whirling dancers
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
gloss: A swift or rapid turning or rotation; a circling movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An organized attack where a group of people, usually teenagers, surround and attack women, with sudden physical assaults or harassment.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncommon
uncountable
Translations:
whirr
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whirren, probably from Old Norse: compare Danish hvirre, virre, Norwegian kvirre, Old Norse hvirfla (“to whirl, spread”).
Inflected forms:
form: whirrs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whirring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whirred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whirred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whir
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: whirrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
pos: verb
gloss: To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.
gloss: To cause (something) to make such a sound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: (of a panther) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented, much like the domestic cat’s purr.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
pos: noun
examples: At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
gloss: A bustle of noise and excitement.
pos: noun
gloss: The vibrating sound made by a panther in its throat when contented.
pos: noun
Translations:
bustling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bustling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bustling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bustlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.
pos: adj
examples: bustling marketplace
bustling square
bustling streets
bustling town
gloss: A bustle; a busy stir.
pos: noun
examples: the bustlings of waiters in the crowded restaurant
Translations:
bustle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) + -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: bustles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bustles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bustling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bustled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bustled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An excited activity; a stir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the whirl and bustle of a large metropolis
we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.
In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]
gloss: A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
examples: All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
gloss: Money; cash.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: Why the old clerical's turned coper—a new way of raising the wind——letting his friends down easy—gave you a good dinner, I suppose, Sir John, and took this method of drawing the bustle for it: an old trick of the reverend's.
gloss: To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
pos: verb
examples: The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
gloss: To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
pos: verb
examples: The train station was bustling with commuters.
gloss: To push around, to importune.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.
Derived words: bustlesome
bustly
hustle and bustle
hustle-bustle
abustle
bustler
outbustle
Translations:
lek
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from Swedish lek (“child's play”), by means of Swedish leka (“to play”). The verb is first attested in English in 1871 and the noun at least as early as 1867.
Inflected forms:
form: leks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lekking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lekked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lekked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.
pos: noun
examples: 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, figure caption, 2000, page 333,
Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek.
Given that a combination of factors have "released" males from attending nests, why have some species organized their courtship bouts in leks, especially the tightly clumped leks that are typical of manakins and cocks-of-the-rock?
Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses.
gloss: To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved.
The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.
2010, Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini), Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, page 437,
In a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured.
Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.
gloss: To play.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Yorkshire
colloquial
dialectal
examples: T’lads is lekkin i t’park.
Translations:
gank
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1980s, of uncertain origin; possibly imitative or a derivation from gangster.
Inflected forms:
form: ganks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ganking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ganked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ganked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To swindle.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Then I met this girl she tried to gank me / So I smacked her in the booty with M.C. Plank Bee
Jay was ganked (mugged) for $55 by some Noongar boys when Brad told them he had a lot of money on him.
Just as Eazy had robbed Lonzo at Crew Cut Records, Suge and Dre had now ganked Eazy. This time, however, there was a slight problem.
And in the old days, you know, if you ganked a drug dealer, they would beat you senseless.
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: “I ganked these from the Major's house last night,” I explained, reaching into the backpack to withdraw the two books.
It was one of the syringes Splinter ganked from the hospital the other day when he was in there for chest pains.
Translations:
albumen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).
Inflected forms:
form: albumens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: albumina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.
gloss: The endosperm of flowering plants.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: albumin
Derived words: albumenise
albumenization
albumenize
albumenoid
vegetable albumen
Translations:
albumin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare albumen.
Inflected forms:
form: albumins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
white-hot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: white hot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
gloss: Extremely fervid or zealous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: a white-hot rage
Swift’s catalog of generation-defining hits and canny marketing sense have helped her achieve a level of white-hot demand and media saturation not seen since the 1980s heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna[…]
French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
gloss: Blazing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.
Translations:
whiten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).
Base: white
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: whitens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whitening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whitened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whitened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Age had whitened his hair.
The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'
gloss: To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
pos: verb
gloss: To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
pos: verb
Derived words: prewhiten
Translations:
whitening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whitenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of making something white or whiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
litany
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek λῐτή (lĭtḗ)
Ancient Greek -ᾰνός (-ănós)
Ancient Greek λῐτᾰνός (lĭtănós)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek λῐτᾰνεύω (lĭtăneúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek -είᾱ (-eíā)
Ancient Greek λῐτᾰνείᾱ (lĭtăneíā)der.
Latin litaniader.
Old French letanieder.
Middle English
English litany
From Middle English, from Old French letanie, from Latin litania, from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”), from λιτή (litḗ, “prayer, entreaty”).
Inflected forms:
form: litanies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.
pos: noun
gloss: A prolonged or tedious list.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: jeremiad
The litany of packaging innovations introduced to or popularized in the U.S. food market over the last generation seems endless: flexible aseptic packaging, barrier plastics, squeezables, lightweight glass, the retort pouch, […]
To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. "It seems I may not be good enough at listening," he said regretfully.
There are, to be sure, some differences in how the candidates propose addressing this litany of concerns.
[Sam Bankman-Fried] is charged with a litany of fraud and campaign finance law violations, in what US prosecutors are calling “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.
Derived words: Lesser Litany
litanic
litany desk
litany stool
litanywise
Translations:
successfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English successful
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English successfully
From successful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more successfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most successfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
pos: adv
examples: He successfully climbed the mountain.
They successfully completed their project together.
Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - […]
A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.
Translations:
neoteny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Neotenie, coined in 1884 by anatomist Julius Kollmann from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “young”) + τείνειν (teínein, “to tense”).
Inflected forms:
form: neotenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.
Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.
gloss: The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: pedomorphism
Related words: agerasia
Derived words: neotenic
neotenin
neotenist
neotenous
neotenously
Translations:
carafe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1786, from French carafe, from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”). Doublet of carboy.
Inflected forms:
form: carafes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bottle, usually glass and with a flared lip, used for serving water, wine, or other beverages.
pos: noun
examples: Amongst the scattered letters and papers, there stood a claret jug, a large carafe of water, and an empty glass.
[…]I ask if he'd like something to drink besides the carafe of tap water that has materialised on the table while we've been talking.
gloss: A glass pot with a spout for pouring, used both for serving coffee and as a receptacle during the brewing process.
pos: noun
examples: Emma brings out the carafe of dark coffee.
Translations:
influential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin īnfluentiālis, from īnfluentia + -ālis. By surface analysis, influence + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more influential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most influential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: influentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having or exerting influence.
pos: adj
examples: John Lennon was a very influential person in music, as well as in politics, fashion and general culture.
Jane was very influential in getting the motion passed.
A parent/child relationship during adolescence is a time when youngsters often crave independence and when their peers are often more influential than adults.
gloss: A person who has influence
pos: noun
Translations:
briefly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: duration
manner
time
Etymology: From Middle English breefly, breffly, brevely, brevelike, breveliche, equivalent to brief + -ly.
Base: brief
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more briefly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most briefly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brief manner, summarily.
pos: adv
examples: He covered the subject briefly in his book.
gloss: For a brief period.
pos: adv
examples: He only worked here briefly.
Instead, ddakji was played for dramatic effect earlier in the season — pitting two men who had forged a sweet bond against each other, making one of them briefly believe he’d been eliminated by his friend.
gloss: To be brief, in short.
pos: adv
examples: Briefly, I am not happy about what happened, but no one will be losing their job.
Synonyms: summarily
temporarily
transiently
Translations:
conducting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of conductive.
pos: noun
Translations:
genographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of genetic + geographic.
Compound parts: genetic
geographic
Inflected forms:
form: more genographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of the use of genetics to study human migration over time
pos: adj
Translations:
banning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English banning, bannyng, bonnyng, equivalent to ban + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian banning, Dutch banning, German Low German Banning, German Bannung.
Base: ban
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: bannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.
pos: noun
examples: And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.
Translations:
debut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Old English butt (“tree stump”). More at butt. The Philippine sense is influenced by Spanish debut.
Inflected forms:
form: debuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: début
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: debuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: début
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A performer's first performance to the public, in sport, the arts or some other area.
pos: noun
examples: Liverpool's performance - despite a defensive injury crisis that saw a promising debut for teenage academy graduate John Flanagan - was a resounding advert for Kenny Dalglish to be given the manager's job on a permanent basis.
Hulking defenceman Gudbranson, who came to Vancouver in a trade with the Florida Panthers last May, scored in his debut for the Canucks.
gloss: The first public presentation of a theatrical play, motion picture, opera, musical composition, dance, or other performing arts piece.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: Since making its debut two years ago, the program has gained cult status.
their long-anticipated debut album
gloss: The first appearance of a debutante in society.
pos: noun
gloss: The coming-of-age celebration of a woman's eighteenth birthday.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: To formally introduce, as to the public.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Amalgamated Software Systems debuted release 3.2 in Spring of 2004.
He recently debuted a preview of his cover of Cher’s 1998 hit “Believe” on his official Instagram account.
gloss: To make one's initial formal appearance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Release 3.2 debuted to mixed reviews in Spring of 2004.
The nine-car electric unit debuted on the 0630 Newcastle-London King's Cross.
Related words: débutant
débutante
debutant
debutante
Derived words: full debut
redebut
undebuted
Translations:
successor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
mathematics
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman successour, from Latin successor.
Inflected forms:
form: successors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: successour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
pos: noun
examples: George W. Bush was successor to Bill Clinton as President of the US.
After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
gloss: The next heir in order or succession.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who inherits a title or office.
pos: noun
gloss: The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
pos: noun
examples: A limit ordinal is not the successor of any ordinal.
Synonyms: heir
succeeder
successor
successour
Antonyms: predecessor
Derived words: successoral
successorial
successor ideology
successorship
Translations:
prestigious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since the 1540s; Latin praestigiosus (“full of tricks”), praestigiae (“juggler's tricks”), possibly an alteration of praestringō (“to blindfold, to dazzle”), from prae- (“before”) with stringō (“to bind or tie”); equivalent to prestige + -ious. Unstressed /ɛ/ is retained by analogy with prestige.
Base: prestige
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more prestigious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prestigious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præstigious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of high prestige.
pos: adj
examples: She has a prestigious job with an international organization.
Translations:
dipstick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From dip + stick.
Compound parts: dip
stick
Inflected forms:
form: dipsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dip-stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dipsticks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dipsticking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dipsticked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dipsticked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dip-stick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stick or rod used to measure the depth of a liquid. Often used to check the level at which a liquid in an opaque or inaccessible tank or reservoir stands; gauge.
pos: noun
examples: I haven't checked the oil level of my car's motor since I lost the dipstick three months ago.
gloss: An exciseman or supervisor who measures with a dipstick.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A useless person of inferior intellect; a dipshit.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: That referee is a right dipstick.
“Outta the way, dipstick.” He middle-fingered the driver of a Mazda, who was hogging the passing lane, then zipped past, horn blaring, fist raised.
gloss: To check (a person) for their understanding of something, as of a lesson, or attitude toward something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What most educators mean by “doing Madeline Hunter” is using her seven-step approach to planning a lesson. In Santa Barbara, as in most of her road shows, several hours are devoted to spelling out this technique, which calls for specific acts of review, introduction, explanation, “modeling” (demonstrating), “dipsticking” (checking for understanding), “monitored practice” and independent study.
In private, Secretary Powell, an amateur automotive mechanic, complains that old friends spend too much time sympathetically taking his temperature — “dip-sticking me,” as he puts it.
gloss: To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.
Translations:
retribution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin retribuere (“repay”).
Inflected forms:
form: retributions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whereas retribution focuses on the offender's wrong, retaliation focuses on the impulse of the victim (or of those who sympathize with him) to strike back at the offender.
1. Revenge is for an injury; retribution is for a wrong.
2. Retribution sets an internal limit to the amount of the punishment according to the seriousness of the wrong; revenge need not.
3. Revenge is personal; the agent of retribution need have no special or personal tie to the victim of the wrong for which he exacts retribution.
4. Revenge involves a particular emotional tone, pleasure in the suffering of another, while retribution need involve no emotional tone.
Translations:
pretension
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From Middle English pretencioun, pretensioun, from Medieval Latin prētēnsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: pretensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prætension
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pretensions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pretensioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pretensioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pretensioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a foreign stamp gazette it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, “reprinted from one of his books,” and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported.
gloss: Pretentiousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
pos: verb
gloss: To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.
pos: verb
Related words: pretense
pretentious
Derived words: pretensional
pretensionless
Translations:
aspiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aspire
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English aspiration
From aspire + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: aspirations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.
Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.
TfL retains aspirations to further increase frequency on the ELL [East London Line] to 24tph, which would require a switch from conventional signalling to a digital railway solution involving automatic train operation on the core section.
Derived words: aspirational
Translations:
usefulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English useful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English usefulness
From useful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: usefulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being useful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.
Always kept in the background, and undervalued by Lady Anne, who disliked the spirit of active usefulness which characterized her youngest daughter, this was the first time that Isabella had been loved for herself;...
Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: […] and the general usefulness of the book as a self-administered method for changing behavior or psychological change.
It turns out, there’s research that backs up the usefulness of lowering our expectations. Participants in one study had to make decisions that either led to financial gains or losses, all while inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Researchers then duplicated this experiment as an app to crowdsource more data.
Translations:
telling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Gerund from the verb tell, from tell + -ing.
Base: tell
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more telling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most telling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.
pos: adj
examples: a telling blow
gloss: Revealing information; bearing significance.
pos: adj
examples: a telling smile
But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.
gloss: Serving to convince.
pos: adj
examples: telling evidence
gloss: The act of narration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The disclosure of information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There may he sit and smile, or creep among the ships, or moan and sigh round islands in his great content—the miser lord of wealth in gems and pearls beyond the telling of all fables.
gloss: Counting, numbering.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Ability to determine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "One white man." said Bill, after a brief inspection. "Out on his line, I s'pose, and there's no tellin' when he'll be back. So we won't wait. We'll just serve notice on him."
Derived words: untelling
tellingly
tellingness
ain't no telling
fortune-telling
life-telling
storytelling
taletelling
telling bone
telling-to
there is no telling
truth-telling
Translations:
rapidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁p-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rp-i-der.
Proto-Italic *rapjō
Latin rapiō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin rapidusder.
Middle French rapidebor.
▲
Latin rapidusbor.
English rapid
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English rapidly
From rapid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more rapidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most rapidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With speed; in a rapid manner.
pos: adv
examples: She packed her case rapidly and hurried out.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
But even as he announced the military operation, he appeared to be rapidly trying to get himself back to the middle by insisting that the strike was a one-off and that he continues to seek peace.
Translations:
founding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The establishment of something.
pos: noun
examples: the founding of the republic
Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?
gloss: Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The founding fathers of our country.
Translations:
personnel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French personnel. Doublet of personal.
Inflected forms:
form: personnels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Collection of people in an organization, such as employees and office staff, members of the military, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: People like to see such friendly relationship existing between the respective personnels of their Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel.
In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
gloss: A member of an organization such as an army.
pos: noun
tags: countable
nonstandard
examples: An army personnel has been killed in action in a gunfight after security forces intercepted terrorists making an infiltration attempt near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, officials said today.
An army personnel was seen to torture an injured protester.
gloss: A human resources department.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I've just had a letter from personnel.
Derived words: antipersonnel
anti-personnel
armored personnel carrier
armoured personnel carrier
military personnel
nonpersonnel
personnel basket
personnel carrier
personnel transfer basket
Translations:
max
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of maximum.
Inflected forms:
form: maxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Maximum; maximal.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
gloss: at the most; maximum.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Four days max, then, to get them to safety.
gloss: To reach the limit; to reach the maximum.
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: He maxed out his odds of dating Rebecca.
She maxed out all her credit cards while she was out of work.
gloss: To relax.
pos: verb
tags: especially
informal
Translations:
Olympics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Olympic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English Olympics
From Olympic + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any real or perceived competition.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
often
slang
uncountable
examples: A champion in the beauty Olympics
Translations:
increasingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English encreessingli, equivalent to increasing + -ly.
Base: increasing
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: encreasingly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Increasing in amount or intensity.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.
Sydney is a fast city, and the pace is becoming increasingly more frantic.
As more and more people moved behind the increasingly larger walls, the fortress settlement evolved into the walled city.
Rooney had been suffered a barren spell for England with only one goal in 15 games but he was in no mood to ignore the gifts on offer in front of an increasingly subdued Bulgarian support.
They will remind you that rail already faces fierce competition from cars, coaches, airlines, and (increasingly) remote working and videoconferencing.
So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?
Translations:
agri-entertainment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros
Proto-Italic *agros
Latin agerder.
English agri-
English entertainment
English agri-entertainment
From agri- + entertainment.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The diversification of farming to nonproductive activities that entertain the public, such as children's petting areas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A permission granted to customers to pick their own produce, thereby reducing labor costs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: