yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
skillful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English skilful, skylfull, scelvol, equivalent to skill + -ful.
Base: skill
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more skillful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skillful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skilfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: skilful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing skill; skilled.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: she's a skillful mechanical
gloss: Requiring skill.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: a skillful task
Related words: skill
skilled
Derived words: skillfully
skillfulness
unskillful
Translations:
mortar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
Inflected forms:
form: mortars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: morter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mortars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mortaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mortared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mortared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: morter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.
gloss: A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pound in a mortar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fire a mortar (weapon).
pos: verb
gloss: To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
pos: verb
examples: The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
Related words: bricks and mortar
gun
howitzer
Derived words: air mortar
antimortar
brick-and-mortar
brick and mortar
bricks-and-mortar
clicks and mortar
debris mortar
diamond mortar
life mortar
lime mortar
micromortar
mortar and pestle
mortarboard
mortar hoe
mortarless
mortarlike
mortarman
mortary
pestle and mortar
trench mortar
unmortared
Translations:
current
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere (“to run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.
Inflected forms:
form: currenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more current
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: currentest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most current
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Existing or occurring at the moment.
pos: adj
examples: current events
current leaders
current negotiations
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
gloss: Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.
pos: adj
examples: current affairs
current bills and coins
current fashions
That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
gloss: Electric; of or relating to electricity.
pos: adj
tags: South-Asia
examples: current bill
current shock
In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption is generally higher in summer as compared to monsoon and winter. The use of ACs will increase not only in homes but also in commercial establishments and current consumption will increase.
gloss: Running or moving rapidly.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
Derived words: cocurrent
current account
current affairs
current asset
current events
current liability
currently
currentness
current ratio
current shock
current thing
current year
discurrent
noncurrent
price current
uncurrent
Translations:
financial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English finance
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English financial
From finance + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: finantial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Related to finances.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means.
gloss: Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Jerry is a financial member of the club.
Related words: finances
financier
fiscal
Derived words: acquiring financial institution
chief financial officer
financial accounting
financial adviser
financial advisor
financial agreement
financial asset
financial capital
financial conglomerate
financial crisis
financial cushion
financial district
financial domination
financial doping
financial economics
financial engineering
financial independence
financial institution
financial instrument
financialise
financialize
financialist
financial law
financially
financial management
financial market
financial numeral
financial regulation
financial repression
financial slave
financial statement
financial year
findom
finfluencer
finsub
nonfinancial
unfinancial
Translations:
pollutant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pollute
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English pollutant
From pollute + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: pollutants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
pos: noun
examples: Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.
Translations:
pollute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English polluten, borrowed from Latin pollūtum, from pollūtus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of polluō (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).
Inflected forms:
form: pollutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: polluting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: polluted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: polluted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.
gloss: To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.
gloss: To corrupt or profane
pos: verb
examples: But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
gloss: To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
pos: verb
Related words: pollutant
pollution
Derived words: depollute
pollutable
polluter
pollutive
repollute
self-pollute
unpollute
Translations:
Spanish
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Spainish, Spanish, equivalent to Spain + -ish.
Base: Spain
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: Spanish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Spanishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Spain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Spanish borders
Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later[…]
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Spanish cuisines
Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose.
Spanish cuisine is not as spicy hot as Mexican, but it is flavorful and bright.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Spanish language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Spanish verbs
Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o].
gloss: Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
informal
nonstandard
not-comparable
gloss: The people of Spain, collectively.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
plural
uncountable
examples: The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.
gloss: Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish.
pos: noun
tags: US
collective
countable
in-plural
informal
nonstandard
uncountable
examples: Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: Jack Ar. […] I must come back to father — and what then? — he won't give me the Spanish.
Project. The Spanish! — now what the devil's that?
Jack Ar. Why, ready money, not credit or paper.
Translations:
amigo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish amigo (“friend”), from Latin amīcus (“friend”), derived from amāre (“to love”). Compare French ami, Italian amico, Portuguese amigo and Romanian amic. Doublet of amicus.
Inflected forms:
form: amigos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A friend.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
informal
examples: I don’t remember electing you dictator, amigo.
Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos
gloss: Mexican.
pos: noun
tags: California
colloquial
informal
gloss: A native of the Philippines who was friendly toward the Spanish.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: bromigo
Three Amigos
Translations:
abettor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English abettour, from Anglo-Norman abettour, from Old French abeter + -our (“-or”). See abet.
Inflected forms:
form: abettors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abetter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages.
pos: noun
examples: Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!
Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
gloss: A supporter or advocate.
pos: noun
examples: […] when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself […]
Synonyms: accessory
accomplice
advocate
aid
ally
assistant
confederate
cooperator
helper
Derived words: aider and abettor
Translations:
Portuguese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Portuguese português. By surface analysis, Portugal + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Portuguese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Portuguese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Portugueese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Portugueze
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Portugese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Portuguese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Portugueses
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: Portugueese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Portugueze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Portugese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Portugal.
pos: adj
examples: Portuguese borders
The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
pos: adj
examples: Portuguese cuisines
In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
pos: adj
examples: Portuguese verbs
The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
gloss: A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: […] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.
With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
Translations:
precipitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English precipitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English precipitously
From precipitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more precipitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most precipitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a precipitous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Population dropped to the lowest point in five millennia. State resources declined precipitously. In many strategic and formerly prosperous areas, there were tax revenue losses of 90 percent or more in less than a single lifetime.
gloss: In a precipitous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Never will I visit it again; it is a place of evil omen.' After a very brief halt for breakfast we pressed on with such good will that by two o'clock in the afternoon we were at the foot of the vast wall of rock that formed the lip of the volcano, and which at this point towered up precipitously above us for fifteen hundred or two thousand feet.
On all sides, wild mountains rise precipitously above wooded nullahs, and we have a clear view, to the right, of the famous Amah Rock, with its singular resemblance to a Chinese woman carrying her baby on her back in the traditional fashion.
Translations:
absorbency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English absorbance
English -y
English absorbency
From absorbance + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: absorbencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: absorbancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being absorbent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ratio of the absorbance or optical density of a substance to that of a similar body of pure solvent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Product benefits are quickly copied, whether it's cleaning power or diaper absorbency.
gloss: The action of absorbing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: absorptiveness
Translations:
absorbent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin absorbēns, present active participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
Inflected forms:
form: more absorbent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most absorbent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absorbents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
pos: adj
examples: Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent. That was quite a spill.
gloss: Anything which absorbs.
pos: noun
examples: In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year […] is low.
gloss: The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
pos: noun
gloss: A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
pos: noun
tags: physical
Translations:
abstention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1521. Borrowed from French abstention, from Late Latin abstēntiō from Latin abstinēō (“withhold, to abstain”)
Inflected forms:
form: abstentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of restraining oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The act of abstaining or refraining (from).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: abstention from alcohol
abstention from sex
gloss: The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There were five abstentions in the vote.
gloss: Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: abstinence
Derived words: abstention doctrine
abstentionism
abstentionist
abstentious
nonabstention
Translations:
abstractionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abstraction
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English abstractionism
From abstraction + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: abstractionisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The creation, principles, or ideals of abstractions, in particular art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The presentation of ideas in an abstract manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
absurd
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Compare surd.
Inflected forms:
form: absurder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more absurd
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: absurdest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most absurd
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absurds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
pos: adj
examples: This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great
“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
I know it sounds absurd / But please, tell me who I am
gloss: Inharmonious; dissonant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
pos: adj
examples: Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe.
gloss: Dealing with absurdism.
pos: adj
gloss: An absurdity.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
pos: noun
Synonyms: absurd
Laputan
cockamamie
cockeyed
farcical
foolish
full of it
irrational
inconsistent
incongruous
jabberwocky
laughable
ludicrous
nonsensical
preposterous
priceless
rich
ridiculous
skimble-skamble
unreasonable
Related words: nonsense
fake
insane
Derived words: absurdification
absurdify
Absurdistan
absurdity
absurdly
absurdness
nonabsurd
reduction to the absurd
unabsurd
Theatre of the Absurd
Translations:
abundance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
government
politics
Etymology: From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).
Base: abound
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: abundances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abundaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: habundance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boundance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aboundance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: abondance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large quantity; many.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
gloss: An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
gloss: Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A political ideology that is progressive but prioritises economic growth and infrastructure construction.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
uncountable
examples: In The Nation, Jeet Heer recently wrote that abundance “amounts to a new iteration of neoliberalism promoting deregulation and business-friendly policies.”
gloss: A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: enough, sufficiency.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: abundation
Related words: abound
abundant
Derived words: abundance of caution
abundancy
declared abundance
hyperabundance
in abundance
overabundance
royal abundance
superabundance
underabundance
Translations:
abundant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: First attested about 1380. From Middle English abundaunt, habundaunt, aboundant, from Anglo-Norman abundant, from Old French abondant, from Latin abundāns, present participle of abundō (“to overflow, to abound”). Compare abound.
Inflected forms:
form: more abundant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abundant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aboundant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: abundaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: habundaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: habundant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
pos: adj
examples: Blackberries are abundant in this part of the country in October, so we always make lots of jam.
an abundant selection of carpets to choose from
[W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation.
Kadara was of great interest to the Andromeda Initiative after it appeared on long-range surveys. Seemingly abundant liquid water and an oxygen-mix atmosphere made it a strong candidate for settlement, earning it the designation Habitat 4. Closer range surveys now reveal that Kadara's water sources are tainted and unpotable.
gloss: Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
pos: adj
examples: Abundant in goodness and truth.
gloss: Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
pos: adj
Synonyms: ample
bountiful
copious
exuberant
liberal
overflowing
plenteous
plentiful
profuse
rich
teeming
lavish
abundant
abounding
aplenty
brimming
galore
generous
numerous
prodigal
prolific
superabundant
uberous
largifluous
plentevous
largifical
profluent
Antonyms: insufficient
lacking
rare
scant
scarce
uncommon
adequate
satisfactory
sufficient
Related words: abound
heavy
filled
in spades
excess
lack
Derived words: abundantial
abundantly
abundant number
abundant year
hyperabundant
nonabundant
overabundant
superabundant
surabundant
unabundant
underabundant
Translations:
abutment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
dentistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1644; engineering sense first attested in 1793. From Old French aboutement. Equivalent to abut + -ment.
Base: abut
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: abutments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Each of the bridges consists of six separate girder spans on brick abutments.
gloss: The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Heavy rains have caused the dam's abutments to seep, raising concern over possible dam failure.
gloss: Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of abutting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The fulcrum acted as an abutment.
Translations:
abyss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
oceanography
politics
Etymology: From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “deep place”), from βυθός (buthós, “deep place”). Displaced native Old English neowolnes.
Inflected forms:
form: abysses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abysm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: abyssus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: abime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
pos: noun
examples: 'You cannot enter here,' said Gandalf, and the huge shadow halted. 'Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!'
gloss: A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
pos: noun
examples: Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
gloss: Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
pos: noun
gloss: Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
pos: noun
examples: They fell into the abyss of drug addiction.
gloss: An impending catastrophic happening.
pos: noun
gloss: The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
pos: noun
gloss: The abyssal zone.
pos: noun
gloss: A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: abysmal
Derived words: abysmic
abyssal
abyssic
abysslike
abyssobenthic
abyssolith
abyssolithic
abyssopelagic
oceanic abyss
Translations:
acanthus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Latin acanthus, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “thorn”), from ἀκή (akḗ, “point”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: acanthuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acanthi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the genus Acanthus of herbaceous prickly plants with toothed leaves, (family Acanthaceae, order Lamiales (formerly Scrophulariales)) found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India.
pos: noun
examples: The picture before which they paused represented one of those ruined fountains so common to Italy. Francesca gazed upon it as if it had been an old friend: many a time, beside such a one, with its curved and broken marble, had she wreathed the acanthus that hung around it, the green and trailing foliage so profuse in the South, into shapes even more fanciful than those which once suggested the Corinthian capital.
gloss: An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of Acanthus spinosus, used in the capitals of the Corinthian and composite orders.
pos: noun
examples: It is difficult to imagine that Bernard of Clairvaux was gullible enough to accept dozens of historiated windows, grisaille fields of griffins, mosaic pavements, carved acanthus capitals, inhabited vine columns, and golden altarware on the strength of the justifications offered by a single window, one tympanum, and Suger's libelli.
Related words: acantha
Acanthis
Translations:
accelerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.
Latin celer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin celerō
Latin accelerō
Latin accelerātuslbor.
▲
Latin accelerō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin accelerātiōder.
English accelerationbf.
English accelerate
First attested in the 1520s. Either from Latin accelerātus, perfect passive participle of accelerō (“to accelerate, hasten”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad + celerō (“to hasten”), which is from celer (“quick”) (see celerity), or back-formation from acceleration.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: accelerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accelerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accelerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accelerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.
The company plans to accelerate its growth with new marketing strategies.
She had to accelerate her work pace to meet the deadline.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
gloss: To cause a change of velocity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accelerate our departure
gloss: To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The car began to accelerate as soon as the light turned green.
gloss: Grow; increase.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: quicken
speed up
Antonyms: decelerate
retard
unaccelerate
Related words: accelerando
accelerant
acceleration
accelerograph
accelerometer
Derived words: acceleratable
accelerated ageing
accelerated aging
accelerated critical illness
accelerated depreciation
accelerated erosion
accelerated graphics port
accelerated motion
accelerating force
acceleratingly
accelerating universe
accelerative
accelerator
deaccelerate
nonaccelerating
outaccelerate
overaccelerate
post-accelerate
reaccelerate
unaccelerating
Translations:
acceleration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.
Latin celer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin celerō
Latin accelerō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin accelerātiōder.
English acceleration
First attested in 1531. From French accélération or more likely directly from Latin accelerātiō (“a hastening, acceleration”). Equivalent to accelerate + -ion.
Base: accelerate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: accelerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acc.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity.
On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price.
gloss: The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The boosters produce an acceleration of 20 metres per second per second.
A period of social improvement, or of intellectual advancement, contains within itself a principle of acceleration […]
gloss: The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: deceleration
retardation
Related words: displacement
velocity
jerk
Derived words: accelerational
acceleration clause
accelerationism
accelerationist
acceleration lane
acceleration of freefall
acceleration of gravity
acceleration principle
angular acceleration
antiacceleration
autoacceleration
cardioacceleration
celeration
centripetal acceleration
deacceleration
four-acceleration
hardware acceleration
microacceleration
nonacceleration
overacceleration
Planck acceleration
plasma acceleration
plasma wakefield acceleration
postacceleration
proper acceleration
quadriacceleration
reacceleration
underacceleration
Translations:
accelerator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
chemistry
computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
physics
physiology
sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *kel-der.
Latin celer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin celerō
Latin accelerō
Latin accelerātuslbor.
▲
Latin accelerō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin accelerātiōder.
English accelerationbf.
English accelerate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English accelerator
* First attested in 1611.
* (motor vehicle): First attested in 1900.
* accelerate + -or
Base: accelerate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: accelerators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, accelerates.
pos: noun
examples: The Second World War is said to have been a great accelerator for many scientific findings.
gloss: A device for causing acceleration.
pos: noun
gloss: A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
pos: noun
gloss: A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.
pos: noun
examples: As soon as you get onto the slipway, push the accelerator.
gloss: A chemical that reduces development time.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles; a particle accelerator.
pos: noun
gloss: A muscle or nerve that speeds the performance of an action.
pos: noun
gloss: An accelerator key.
pos: noun
examples: If they had allowed single-character accelerators, Windows wouldn't be able to determine whether the character was input or a shortcut.
gloss: A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.
pos: noun
gloss: A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A mentoring program for startup companies.
pos: noun
examples: In the nineties, before the accelerator era, startups were usually launched by mid-career engineers or repeat entrepreneurs, who sought millions in venture capital and then labored in secret on something complicated that took years to launch.
Synonyms: gas pedal
gas
throttle
go pedal
particle accelerator
atom smasher
Derived words: accelerator card
accelerator effect
accelerator key
other element
accelerator mass spectrometry
accelerator nerves
nerves that speed up a bodily function
accelerator pedal
a pedal used to control a vehicle's speed
antiaccelerator
cardioaccelerator
hit the accelerator
laser-plasma accelerator
particle accelerator
plasma accelerator
plasma wakefield accelerator
preaccelerator
a device that speeds up computer processing
a key which a user can press to activate a menu
Translations:
accomplished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * First attested in the late 15th century, from accomplish + -ed.
Base: accomplish
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more accomplished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accomplished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: accomplisht
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Completed; effected; established.
pos: adj
examples: an accomplished fact
gloss: Having many accomplishments, often as a result of study or training.
pos: adj
examples: an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain
Daughter of God and Man, accompliſht Eve,
When Margaret Frances Desha returned to Batesville, the most accomplished woman of the town, she was wooed and won by William French Denton, a distinguished lawyer of Batesville, and a gift of Tennessee to Arkansas growth.
The presence of the dog and hart further clarifies the meaning of these scenes: hunting was one of the ways in which an accomplished young man could assert himself.
Knowing this, makes all the difference in the world as to how you will be received as an accomplished young lady when you are presented to the world, and later presented to your Adam.
gloss: Showing skill and artistry.
pos: adj
examples: an accomplished first novel
"Oh! yes—the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so accomplished!—She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her—a present from my master; she comes here to-morrow with him."
Derived words: accomplishedly
nonaccomplished
superaccomplished
unaccomplished
underaccomplished
Translations:
accomplish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English accomplisshen, acomplissen, from Old French acompliss-, extended stem of acomplir (Modern French accomplir), from Vulgar Latin *(ac)complīre, from Latin complēre (“fill up/out, complete”, whence English complete).
First attested in the late 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: accomplishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accomplishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accomplished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accomplished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To finish successfully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To complete, as time or distance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
But the rising ground which lay between him and the French prevented him from seeing the enemy until he had accomplished half a league or more.
gloss: To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to accomplish a design, an object, a promise
This that is written must yet be accomplished in me
gloss: To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: The armorers accomplishing the knights
It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
gloss: To gain; to obtain.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And more unlikely / Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!
gloss: To fill out a form.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
transitive
Synonyms: do
perform
fulfill
realize
effect
effectuate
complete
consummate
execute
achieve
perfect
equip
furnish
carry out
pull off
Related words: complete
comply
Derived words: accomplishable
accomplisher
accomplishment
mission accomplished
reaccomplish
Translations:
accentuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-der.
Proto-Italic *kanō
Latin canō
Latin accinō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
▲
Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)calq.
Latin accentus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin accentuō
Medieval Latin accentuātusbor.
English accentuate
First attested in 1731; borrowed from Medieval Latin accentuātus, perfect passive participle of accentuō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin accentus. accent + -u- + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: accentuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: accentuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: accentuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: accentuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility
These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
Several digital effects are supported by Deck, ranging from a digital equalizer, which lets you accentuate or attenuate certain frequencies, to a stereoizer, which processes a mono- phonic recording to simulate stereo.
Eating meat does not conform to God's original intention, and resorting to carnivorism merely accentuates an unattractive part of human nature.
Soft girl makeup, as the name suggests is a pastel, sweet style that focuses on accentuating natural features with a signature element being blush and faux freckles.
gloss: To mark with a written accent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: accent
betone
Related words: accentual
accentuation
Derived words: accentuable
accentuator
misaccentuate
overaccentuate
reaccentuate
unaccentuated
Translations:
acclaim
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: * First attested in the early 14th century.
* (to applaud): First attested in the 1630s.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmō (“raise a cry at; applaud”), formed from ad- + clāmō (“cry out, shout”).
Inflected forms:
form: acclaims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acclaiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: acclaimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: acclaimed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: acclaims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shout; to call out.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To express great approval (for).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a highly-acclaimed novel
a widely-acclaimed article
The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of being a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War, but he was more than satisfied with the execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece.
gloss: To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: To claim.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To declare by acclamations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thou ſhalt be crown'd— / An Iron Crown, intenſely hot, ſhall gird / Thy hoary Temples; while the ſhouting Crowd / Acclaims thee King of Traitors.
gloss: To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
gloss: An acclamation; a shout of applause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
poetic
uncountable
gloss: A claim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: acclaimable
acclaimer
acclamatory
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: rukyaw
lang: Bulgarian
word: аплодирам
roman: aplodiram
lang: Dutch
word: toejuichen
lang: Dutch
word: prijzen
lang: Dutch
word: loven
lang: Esperanto
word: aklami
lang: Finnish
word: osoittaa suosiotaan
lang: French
word: acclamer
lang: French
word: applaudir
lang: German
word: applaudieren
lang: German
word: klatschen
lang: Hungarian
word: megtapsol
lang: Italian
word: acclamare
lang: Italian
word: applaudire
lang: Māori
word: whakamanahau
lang: Middle English
word: recomaunden
lang: Norwegian
word: hylle
lang: Portuguese
word: aclamar
lang: Russian
word: аплоди́ровать
roman: aplodírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: aclamar
lang: Spanish
word: aplaudir