yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
enunciation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ēnuntiātiō. By surface analysis, enunciate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: enunciations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was time for the enunciation of an important truth.
gloss: The mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially with regards to the fullness and distinctness of articulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She speaks with an impressively clear enunciation.
gloss: That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; formal declaration
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: diction
Derived words: misenunciation
nonenunciation
overenunciation
Translations:
equalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
diving
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English equalize
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 equalization
From equalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: equalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: equalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The removal of the nebulous terms "gross indecency" and "indecent act" from the Criminal Code and their replacement by a specific listing of offences, and the equalization of penalties for all remaining homosexual and heterosexual acts
gloss: Maneuvers to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Repayment to an investor in a unit trust or OEIC of an increase in the unit price to cover the seller’s entitlement to income received from the underlying investments but not yet distributed to unit holders, repaid as part of the first distribution of income to that investor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: equalize
equalizer
Derived words: disequalization
equalization payment
misequalization
Translations:
equally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equal
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 equally
From equal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more equally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most equally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: æqually
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: In an equal manner; in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; evenly
pos: adv
examples: All citizens are equally taxed.
The pie was divided equally among the guests.
They shared equally in the spoils.
And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.
gloss: In equal degree or extent; just as.
pos: adv
examples: The gas stations are equally far from the highway.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
gloss: Used to link two or more coordinate elements
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
examples: John suffered setbacks at his job. Equally, Frank's business slowed.
Synonyms: equally
equivalently
evenly
mutually
Antonyms: unequally
Derived words: equally as
equally pinnate
nonequally
semi-equally
Translations:
equator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin (circulus) aequator (diei et noctis).
Inflected forms:
form: equators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aequator
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: æquator
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: equatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemispheres.
pos: noun
examples: Baishui is about as close to the equator as Tampa, Florida.
gloss: A similar great circle on any sphere, especially on a celestial body, or on another reasonably symmetrical three-dimensional body.
pos: noun
gloss: The midline of any generally spherical object, such as a fruit or vegetable, that has identifiable poles.
pos: noun
examples: Slice the onion through the equator.
gloss: The celestial equator.
pos: noun
Related words: Ecuador
equal
equi-
Derived words: celestial equator
equatorial
Equatorial Guinea
equatorial telescope
equatorward
equatorwards
magnetic equator
palaeoequator
paleoequator
Translations:
vituperative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Formed from vituperātus, perfect passive participle of Latin vituperō (“to blame, to censure”) + -ive; by surface analysis, vituperate + -ive.
Base: vituperō
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more vituperative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vituperative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by harsh abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.
pos: adj
examples: Floris gave the play a vituperative review laced with frequent personal insults.
[…] ten times in a day calling the child of his prayers TRISTRAM!—Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven.
[…] Lady Mary saw as clearly into the bodies, and I believe souls, of every servant who approached her, as if they had been cased in chrystal. And she saw so many foulnesses there, and so many aberrations, that Lady Mary’s language was almost wholly moral and vituperative.
...and there were few words of vituperative abuse furnished by a lady's vocabulary (and even some beyond it) that were not launched upon his head, as a "city tradesman," that of the "puling baby," his wife, his flirting sister and her wittol husband;...
1875, William Gifford, footnote to Act IV, Scene 2 of Every Man in His Humour in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Bickers & Son, Volume I, p. 106,
[…] our ancestors, who were not very delicate, nor, generally speaking, much overburthened with respect for the feelings of foreigners, had a number of vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities, of many of which the precise import cannot now be ascertained.
[…] she […] proceeded, without a pause, to pour out a rolling flood of vituperative Latin, in which reproof, indignation, and sarcastic pleasantries followed one another with astonishing volubility.
The injunction also became a pretext for yet another round of vituperative cant from Idaho’s reactionary congressional delegation.
Translations:
equitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French équitation.
Inflected forms:
form: equitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art, practice or act of horseriding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
equivocal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin aequivocus + -al, from aequus + vocō. By surface analysis, equi- + vocal.
Base: aequivocus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more equivocal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equivocal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: æquivocal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: equivocals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquivocal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation.
pos: adj
examples: equivocal words
an equivocal sentence
For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes.
gloss: Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected.
pos: adj
examples: His actions are equivocal.
equivocal repentances
From that position he observed his confederate go through the curious procedure of kneeling down on the bedroom floor and for a full minute pressing his ear to the sheet of metal that had already engaged his attention. Then he rose to his feet, nodded, dusted his trousers, and Mr Carlyle moved to a less equivocal position.
gloss: Uncertain, as an indication or sign.
pos: adj
examples: How equivocal a test.
gloss: A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term.
pos: noun
examples: Some equivocals are merely ambiguous. Sharp is an example. It is equivocal since it is appropriate to call different types of things 'sharp' though what it is for them to be sharp differs.
Related words: equivocation
equivoque
Derived words: equivocal generation
equivocality
equivocally
equivocalness
Translations:
equivocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: c. 1380, from Middle English equivocacion, from Old French equivocation, from Medieval Latin aequivocātiō, from aequivocō, from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”), from Latin aequus (“equal”) + vocō (“call”); a calque of Ancient Greek ὁμωνυμία (homōnumía).
Inflected forms:
form: equivocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquivocation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Federal courts have mostly ruled against the executive branch in such cases. The equivocation that has characterized the [Trump] administration’s legal responses to date is turning into objection and refusal.
Related words: amphiboly
evasion
evasiveness
prevarication
equivoque
Translations:
eradication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ērādīcātiō, from ērādīcō + -tiō, from ē- (“out”) + rādīx (“root”) + -ō. Equivalent to eradicate + -ion or e- (“without”) + radication.
Base: ērādīcō
Affixes: -tiō
Inflected forms:
form: eradications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting or rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
pos: noun
gloss: The state of being plucked up by the roots.
pos: noun
Antonyms: radication
Related words: eradicate
Derived words: eradicational
eradicationism
Translations:
esplanade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1590s, from French esplanade (“clear, level space”), from either Spanish esplanada (explanada), form of esplanar (“to flatten, to make level”) or Italian spianata, form of spianare (of the same meaning), both from Latin explānāre, from which English explain; see also plain (“level area, to flatten”).
Inflected forms:
form: esplanades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
pos: noun
gloss: The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
pos: noun
gloss: A grass plat; a lawn.
pos: noun
gloss: Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; especially, a terrace by the seaside.
pos: noun
gloss: Grassy strips between two divided highway lanes; a traffic island.
pos: noun
tags: Texas
Related words: explain
plain
Derived words: esplanaded
Translations:
ethology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From the Latin ēthologia (“the art of depicting or imitating character”), from the Ancient Greek ἠθολογία (ēthología, “painting of character, especially by mimic gestures”), from ἠθολόγος (ēthológos, “painting character by mimic gestures”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, especially moral character”). Equivalent to etho- + -logy.
Base: etho
Inflected forms:
form: ethologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study of the human ethos.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: ethologist
entomology
ethnology
etiology
aetiology
etymology
Derived words: ecoethology
ethologic
neuroethology
palaeoethology
paleoethology
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: etologia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 動物行為學 /动物行为学
roman: dòngwù xíngwéixué
lang: Czech
word: etologie
lang: Danish
word: etologi
lang: Dutch
word: ethologie
lang: Dutch
word: gedragsbiologie
lang: Finnish
word: käyttäytymistiede
lang: Finnish
word: eläinpsykologia
lang: Finnish
word: etologia
lang: French
word: éthologie
lang: Galician
word: etoloxía
lang: German
word: Ethologie
lang: Greek
word: ηθολογία
roman: ithología
lang: Hindi
word: आचारशास्त्र
roman: ācārśāstra
lang: Hungarian
word: etológia
lang: Hungarian
word: állatviselkedés-tan
lang: Icelandic
word: atferlisfræði
lang: Icelandic
word: hátternisfræði
lang: Ido
word: etologio
lang: Irish
word: eiteolaíocht
lang: Italian
word: etologia
lang: Japanese
word: 動物行動学
roman: dōbutsu kōdōgaku
lang: Latin
word: ēthologia
lang: Malay
word: kaji tingkah laku
lang: Malay
word: etologi
lang: Polish
word: etologia
lang: Portuguese
word: etologia
lang: Romanian
word: etologie
lang: Russian
word: этоло́гия
roman: etológija
lang: Spanish
word: etología
lang: Swedish
word: etologi
lang: Turkish
word: etoloji
lang: Ukrainian
word: этоло́гія
roman: ètolóhija
lang: Vietnamese
word: phong tục học
lang: Vietnamese
word: tập tính học
etch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch etsen (“to etch”), from German ätzen (“to etch”), from Old High German azzon (“to cause to bite or feed”), from Proto-Germanic *atjaną, causative of *etaną (“to eat”) (whence also English eat).
Inflected forms:
form: etches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: etching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: etched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: etched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
pos: verb
gloss: To engrave a surface.
pos: verb
gloss: To make a lasting impression.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.
gloss: To sketch; to delineate.
pos: verb
examples: There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.
Related words: etchant
etching
Derived words: cryoetch
etchable
etcher
etchplain
etchplanation
microetch
overetch
photoetch
piranha etch
self-etch
total-etch
underetch
Translations:
SubGenius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English genius
English SubGenius
From sub- + genius.
Inflected forms:
form: SubGeniuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: SubGenii
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Church of the SubGenius parody religion.
pos: noun
Translations:
etiquette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1740, from French étiquette (“property, a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket”), from Middle French estiquette (“ticket, memorandum”), from the Old French verb estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stekan, *stikkjan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”).
Akin to Old High German stehhan (“to stick, attach, nail”) (German stechen (“to stick”)), Old English stician (“to pierce, stab, be fastened”).
The French Court of Louis XIV at Versailles used étiquettes (literally “little cards”) to remind courtiers to keep off of the grass and similar rules. More at stick (verb) and stitch. Doublet of ticket.
Inflected forms:
form: etiquettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: étiquette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
Much shock was expressed in the British press about the Palace’s utter failure to control the Markles and the Markles’ lack of etiquette.
Whenever Root would put his elbows on the table or clatter his dishes or commit any other breach of etiquette, the Professor would gently correct him.
gloss: The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
gloss: A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ethics
Derived words: chatiquette
cyberetiquette
etiquettal
hatiquette
jetiquette
netiquette
petiquette
reddiquette
textiquette
twetiquette
weediquette
wikiquette
Translations:
eugenics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Coined by Francis Galton in 1883. From ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “breeding”), “well-bred”, “good in stock”. Parallel to Eugene. By surface analysis, eugenic + -s.
Base: ἐΰς
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In keeping with the goals of the new eugenics movement, McCulloch was claiming to offer scientific evidence of the incorrigibility of poor rural whites.
The eugenics mania that swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to forced sterilizations and the passage of laws in 27 states designed to limit the numbers of those considered genetically unfit: immigrants, Jews, African-Americans, the mentally ill and those deemed “morally delinquent.”
Translations:
evacuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1526; borrowed from Latin ēvacuātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvacuō (“to empty out, evacuate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: evacuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evacuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evacuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evacuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The soldiers evacuated the fortress.
The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
gloss: To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
pos: verb
examples: The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.
Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
gloss: To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
pos: verb
examples: The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
gloss: To make empty; to deprive.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important doctrines.
gloss: To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
pos: verb
examples: In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
gloss: To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
pos: verb
examples: to evacuate a contract or marriage
it would not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation and actual consummation
Related words: evacuation
Derived words: ejaculate and evacuate
evacuative
evacuator
evacuatory
self-evacuate
Translations:
evacuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English evacuacioun, from Old French evacuation, from Late Latin ēvacuātiō. Equivalent to evacuate + -ion.
Base: evacuate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: evacuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The peak of the record-breaking month came during the fourth week, when the railways were called upon to handle the transport side of the official evacuation from the London area. During the first seven days of this evacuation, 175 special trains left the main London termini carrying mothers and children to the safety of the countryside.
Roads on either side of the river Rhine will be closed as authorities seal off the large evacuation zone. The Unesco World Heritage Cologne Cathedral sits just outside the area.
gloss: Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, country, fortress, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The operating difficulties of this evacuation movement were further intensified by the fact that Sunday, June 2, saw the movement of nearly 48,000 children in 70 trains from Kentish and other East Coast towns, and 32 of these trains originated on the Southern Railway. [...] Moreover, during the period of intensive B.E.F. evacuation, the British railways also carried some 20,000,000 passengers and over 6,000,000 tons of freight.
gloss: The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; urination; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A large evening meal, deep sleep in a better bed than hers, a full evacuation, a hot bath (her own house had only a cold shower), a breakfast of bacon and eggs and sausages from Crabbe's boy — these had smoothed and restored her.
gloss: That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool, urine or other natural means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Abſcess being broken an Ulcer is left behind, which may be known by the Evacuation of Matter by Vomit and Stool
gloss: Abolition; nullification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: evacuation of all Romish ceremonies
Related words: evacuee
evacuate
evacuation slide
Derived words: CASEVAC
evac
Evacuation Day
intact dilation and evacuation
med-evac
noncombatant evacuation operations
nonevacuation
self-evacuation
tactical aeromedical evacuation
voice evacuation
Translations:
evaluation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From French évaluation. By surface analysis, evaluate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: evaluations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The result of the semestral evaluation will go towards your final score.
gloss: A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: evaluate
revaluation
valuation
Derived words: bioevaluation
evaluational
function-evaluation routine
lazy evaluation
McCarthy evaluation
metaevaluation
minimal evaluation
misevaluation
nonevaluation
overevaluation
partial evaluation
program evaluation and review technique
program evaluation review technique
project evaluation and review technique
project evaluation review technique
re-evaluation
reevaluation
self-evaluation
short-circuit evaluation
Translations:
evangelization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evangelize
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 evangelization
From evangelize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: evangelizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their cooperation was really anticipated and their middle position gave evangelization a more disposing tone as the message could be given from native evangelizers too.
Translations:
evaporation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French évaporation, from Latin evaporatio. Morphologically evaporate + -ion.
Base: evaporate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: evaporations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Heat causes the evaporation of water from the surface.
The lake shrank because of rapid evaporation.
rate of evaporation
water evaporation
rapid evaporation
gloss: The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to increase the concentration of solid matter in the mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is evaporated; vapor.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: vaporization
sublimation
Derived words: coevaporation
evapocondensation
evaporational
evapotranspiration
hyperevaporation
nonevaporation
pervaporation
photoevaporation
reevaporation
rotoevaporation
Translations:
punitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French punitif, from Medieval Latin pūnitīvus, from pūniō (“to punish”).
Inflected forms:
form: more punitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most punitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inflicting punishment; punishing.
pos: adj
examples: Beijing imposed punitive sanctions on Canada.
The jury awarded $10,000 in punitive damages.
The council took punitive measures against poachers.
But Judge Alex W. Gabert, in a Rio Grande City courtroom, ordered the punitive damage reduced to conform to a 2003 Texas law that caps punitive damages at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $750,000 on top of noneconomic damages.
Antonyms: nonpunitive
unpunitive
Translations:
evisceration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eviscerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.
gloss: A vigorous verbal or physical assault.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.
If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.
Synonyms: exenteration
Derived words: abdominal evisceration
Translations:
evocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French évocation.
Inflected forms:
form: evocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled.
a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui
Translations:
exaggeration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Latin aggerō
Latin exaggerō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin exaggerātiōbor.
English exaggeration
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: exaggerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of heaping or piling up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.
gloss: A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: overstatement
hyperbole
Antonyms: trivialization
understatement
Derived words: counterexaggeration
nonexaggeration
overexaggeration
Translations:
exasperation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: exasperations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alone between the sheets / only brings exasperation
gloss: Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
excitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English excitacion, excitacioun, from Old French excitation, from Latin excitātiō. Morphologically excite + -ation.
Base: excite
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: excitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Generator excitation is obtained by a combination of the separately-excited and self-excited fields, and the output is controlled by a resistance in the separate field circuit adjusted by the load regulator under the control of the engine governor.
Wheelslip automatically causes the main generator field excitation to be reduced; the load regulator is forced back to minimum excitation and, if operating in one of the two stages of traction motor field divert, causes reversion to full field.
gloss: The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Baiae: An ancient Roman pleasure resort [...]. It was the focal point of all kinds fo erotic experiments, unbridled debauchery, amorous intrigues and excitations, sexual encounters and aberrations.
These women are experts at flattery, cajolery and sexual excitation, and also possess unusual talents for stirring up quarrels, stimulating jealousies and spreading slander and malicious rumors.
I'm pickin' up good vibrations / She's giving me the excitations.
The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.
gloss: The activity produced in an organ, tissue, or part, such as a nerve cell, as a result of stimulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A transition of a nucleus, atom or molecule to an excited state by the absorption of a quantum of energy; the opposite of relaxation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cardioexcitation
chemiexcitation
deexcitation
de-excitation
disexcitation
electroexcitation
excitation energy
excitation function
hyperexcitation
hypoexcitation
isoexcitation
neuroexcitation
overexcitation
photoexcitation
preexcitation
reexcitation
self-excitation
selfexcitation
superexcitation
sympathoexcitation
Translations:
exclamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French exclamation, from Latin exclāmātiō, from exclāmō (“to cry out”) + -tiō.
Inflected forms:
form: exclamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loud calling or crying out, for example as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "And now, my dearest Lucy, collect yourself, for all depends upon our own resources." Such were the whispered exclamations with which Francesca cheered her trembling companion, whose courage was not heightened by the darkness and stillness around them as they proceeded on their hazardous enterprise.
gloss: A word expressing outcry; an interjection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An exclamation mark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: exclamational
exclamation mark
exclamation point
mark of exclamation
note of exclamation
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: wykrzyknik
excommunication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.
Inflected forms:
form: excommunications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
excoriation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excoriate
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 -ion
English excoriation
From excoriate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: excoriations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of excoriating or flaying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.
gloss: A severe verbal denouncing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: excoriation disorder
Translations:
execration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin execrātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: execrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; an imprecation; an expression of utter detestation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He inveighed againſt the Folly of making oneſelf liable for the Debts of others; vented many bitter Execrations againſt the Brother; and concluded with wiſhing ſomething could be done for the unfortunate Family.
[W]hile all mourned and honoured the dead, thou hast lived to merit our hate and execration—lived to unite thyself with the vile tyrant who murdered thy nearest and dearest— […]
When some of those brave and honest though misguided men who had sate in judgment on their King were dragged on hurdles to a death of prolonged torture, their last prayers were interrupted by the hisses and execrations of thousands.
For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.
gloss: That which is execrated; a detested thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For thus ſaith the Lord of hoſts the God of Israel, As mine anger and my furie hath beene powred foorth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ſo ſhall my furie bee powred foorth upon you, when yee shall enter into Egypt: and ye ſhall be an execration, and an aſtoniſhment, and a curſe, and a reproch; and ye ſhall ſee this place no more.
Related words: execrate
execrative
execrator
execratory
Translations:
exemplification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English exemplificacion, exemplification, from Anglo-Norman exemplification, from Medieval Latin exemplificātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: exemplifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: counterexemplification
nonexemplification
Translations:
exfoliation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
Etymology: From Latin exfoliare (to remove leaves).
Inflected forms:
form: exfoliations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of a layer of dead skin, as in cosmetic preparation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The loss of leaves from a plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: exfoliant
foliate
foliation
Derived words: chemexfoliation
microexfoliation
overexfoliation
pseudoexfoliation
Translations:
exhalation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin exhālātiō, from exhālō (“to breathe out, to exhale”), from hālō (“to breathe”). Equivalent to exhale + -ation.
Base: exhale
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: exhalations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of exhaling; breathing out
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: short exhalations of breath
gloss: That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: exhalations from the earth or flowers
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter II, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
For a week the party watched the flood, and each day it receded to a considerable extent. A thick deposit of mud was left behind, but though the sun shone out warmly no offensive exhalations arose.
gloss: A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exhilaration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exhilarate + -ion.
Base: exhilarate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: exhilarations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: exhilarate
hilarious
Hilary
Translations:
exhortation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English exhortacioun, from Old French exhortacion, from Latin exhortātiōnem, accusative singular of exhortātiō (“encouraging; exhortation”), from exhortor (“to encourage, exhort”), from ex (“out of, from”) + hortor (“encourage”). By surface analysis, exhort + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: exhortations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of exhorting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All gladly drew round the table, and Mrs. Palmer's exhortation of “Poor dears, do enjoy yourselves,” was fulfilled, even to her own satisfaction.
His exhortations to his assistants to waste no time in getting on with the job, and to be tactful and courteous with those outside the railway service with whom they had to deal, are as apposite today as they were a century ago.
Earlier on the Other stage on Friday afternoon, Charli XCX took a more straightforward, rabble-rousing approach, a flurry of confetti cannon, inflatables and exhortations to wild hedonism: “I hope everyone gets really fucked up this weekend!”
gloss: Language intended to give advice or to urge or encourage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Come good Lorenzo, faryewell a while,
Ile end my exhortation after dinner.
And ye haue forgotten the exhortation which speaketh vnto you as vnto children, My sonne, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.
Synonyms: hortation
Derived words: apostolic exhortation
Translations:
exhumation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: exhumations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of digging up that which has been buried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: burial
inhumation
interment
Translations:
exoneration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin exonerātiō. By surface analysis, exonerate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: exonerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.
Mr. Spitzer’s proposal also calls for the creation of a state office that would be responsible for studying all cases that resulted in exonerations and looking for flaws in the system that led to those wrongful convictions.
gloss: The state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: rehabilitation
vindication
Derived words: nonexoneration
Translations:
expatiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the participle stem of Latin expatior, from ex- + spatior (“walk about”).
Inflected forms:
form: expatiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expatiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expatiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expatiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
pos: verb
examples: [H]e expatiated on the inconveniences of trade, that carried from us the commodities of our country, and made a parcel of upſtarts as rich as men of the moſt ancient families of England.
To the pure mind of Isabella thought of no other had arisen; and it was far better that the generous romance of her young heart should expatiate on the rival in heaven, than for a moment dread a rival on earth, and therefore become subject to jealousy...
Governor Bellingham, in a loose gown and easy cap,—such as elderly gentlemen loved to indue themselves with, in their domestic privacy,—walked foremost, and appeared to be showing off his estate, and expatiating on his projected improvements.
Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world. / Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it? / Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do. / Jeeves: Very good, sir.
“It can't fly,” he expatiated. “It can move forward only by hopping.”
gloss: To range at large, or without restraint.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: [L]ooks on heav'n with more than mortal eyes, / Bids his free ſoul expatiate in the skies, / Amidſt her kindred ſtars familiar roam, / Survey the region, and confeſs her home! Such was the life great Scipio once admir'd, / Thus Atticus, and Trumball thus retir'd.
gloss: To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: expatiatingly
expatiative
expatiator
Translations:
expatriate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1787, the adjective and noun in 1812; borrowed from Medieval Latin expatriātus, perfect passive participle of expatriō (“to banish”) (see -ate (etymology 1,2 and 3)), from Latin ex- (“out of”) + patria (“native land”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); possibly after French expatrier and expatrié.
Inflected forms:
form: expatriates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expatriates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expatriating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expatriated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expatriated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Living outside of one's own country.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an expatriate rebel force
gloss: One who lives outside one's own country, especially temporarily for a profession or education.
pos: noun
gloss: One who has been banished from one's own country.
pos: noun
gloss: To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To withdraw from one’s native country.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: inpatriate
emigrant
exile
immigrant
repatriate
patriate
Derived words: expat
expatriatism
nonexpatriate
rex-patriate
Texpatriate
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: banneling
lang: Arabic
word: مَنْفِيّ
roman: manfiyy
lang: Armenian
word: աքսորաբնակ
roman: akʻsorabnak
lang: Bulgarian
word: заточеник
roman: zatočenik
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 流人
roman: liúrén
lang: Danish
word: udvist
lang: Dutch
word: banneling
lang: Estonian
word: pagulane
lang: Finnish
word: maanpakolainen
lang: German
word: Verbannter
lang: German
word: Exilant
lang: German
word: Exulant
lang: German
word: Exilierter
lang: German
word: Ausgebürgerter
lang: Greek
word: εξόριστος
roman: exóristos
lang: Hungarian
word: száműzött
lang: Japanese
word: 国外追放者
roman: kokugai-tsuihōsha
lang: Macedonian
word: изгнаник
roman: izgnanik
lang: Macedonian
word: прогнаник
roman: prognanik
lang: Polish
word: wygnaniec
lang: Portuguese
word: expatriado
lang: Russian
word: изгна́нник
roman: izgnánnik
lang: Spanish
word: expatriado
lang: Swedish
word: landsflyktning
lang: Turkish
word: sürgün