yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
inadequate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin aequō
Latin adaequō
Latin adaequātuslbor.
English adequate
English inadequate
From in- + adequate.
Inflected forms:
form: more inadequate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inadequate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inadæquate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: inadequates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inadæquate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Not adequate; lacking in quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.
pos: adj
examples: inadequate resources
inadequate representation
I had not yet seen Mrs. Kennedy. I wondered with what inadequate words I could try to console her.
In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.
By the 21st century, the clearly inadequate facilities needed to be replaced, so the area was rebuilt and modernised between 2009-13 as part of regeneration efforts focused upon the wider area.
“Russia is a terrorist country whose leader is an inadequate person”. Putin's failings are evident to the “entire world”, he said.
gloss: A person who is inadequate.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, at some critical level of unemployment, “the unemployed” becomes a negative reference group of inadequates, the hardcore unemployed […]
Antonyms: abundant
adequate
enough
plentiful
sufficient
unexiguous
Translations:
inalienable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed around 1645 from French inaliénable, from in- + aliénable (“alienable”), equivalent to in- + alienable.
Base: alienable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not subject to being alienated, that is, surrendered, taken away, or transferred to another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: indelible, unsurrenderable, permanent
An inalienable right is a right that cannot be given away nor taken away.
"Know thy own worth, and reverence the lyre," is a line that should be as a fillet bound round the brow—a philactory embroidered on the garments of every son and daughter of Adam distinguished by the possession of that sacred gift, which, whether used or abused, applauded in itself or derided in its possessor, is the highest and the most inalienable distinction humanity ever has or ever can be gifted with, whether bestowed on the highest or the humblest being, in the great mass to which we all belong.
gloss: Of or pertaining to a noun belonging to a special class in which the possessive construction differs from the norm, especially for particular familial relationships and body parts, regarding permanence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Just as some languages have a "be" for permanent states (which are essential) and a different "be" for temporary states (which are incidental), some languages have a "have" for unchangeable possession (which is inalienable) and a different "have" for changeable possession (which is alienable).
Related words: unalienated
Derived words: inalienableness
inalienably
inalienably
Translations:
inauguration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inauguration.
Inflected forms:
form: inaugurations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The formal beginning, initiation, or entry into service of any movement, enterprise, building, event, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: dedication
The inauguration of the new bar was a success, with plenty of discounts.
Not a year goes by without the inauguration of new metros or light rail lines somewhere in the world.
Derived words: preinauguration
reinauguration
Translations:
inbred
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the past participle of inbreed, equivalent to in- + bred.
Base: bred
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inbred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inbred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inbreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bred within; innate.
pos: adj
examples: We who from daily experience knew Miss Smedley like a book—were we not only too well aware that she had neither accomplishments nor charms—no characteristic, in fact, but an inbred viciousness of temper and disposition?
His cold experience tempers all his heat, And inbred worth doth boasting valour slight.
gloss: Having an ancestry characterized by inbreeding.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
often
gloss: Describing a strain produced through successive generations of inbreeding resulting in a population of genetically identical individuals which are homozygous at all genetic loci.
pos: adj
gloss: Insular or self-contained, primarily interacting with and drawing upon one another.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The Lavender Quill Society, that group of in-bred Manhattan gay writers who believe that gay literature begins and ends in their clique (outsiders need not apply for membership).
The level of academic inbreeding differs between countries and continents. Macháček et al. (2022) reported that in North America only 31% of all researchers are inbred (based on 22 major fields of science), while in Asia, this proportion is 55%, in Western and Northern Europe 37% and in Central and Eastern Europe reaches nearly 79% which is the highest proportion of inbreeders on the global scale.
gloss: A plant or animal produced by inbreeding.
pos: noun
gloss: A person born of incest.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: Since you all marry your cousins I bet you're a bunch of inbreds.
Synonyms: indigenous
Derived words: inbredness
noninbred
Translations:
inbreed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English breed
English inbreed
From in- + breed.
Inflected forms:
form: inbreeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inbreeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inbred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inbred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: imbreed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To breed or reproduce with those that are related.
pos: verb
gloss: To breed with those that share common traits or qualities.
pos: verb
gloss: To produce or generate within.
pos: verb
Related words: inbred
Translations:
incantation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English incantacioun, from Old French incantation, from Latin incantatio. More at enchant.
Inflected forms:
form: incantations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: encantation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
pos: noun
examples: new years eve we dropped mushrooms / and danced around the house / making music with everything that we found / incantation replaced resolution
gloss: A formula of words used as above.
pos: noun
examples: My ancient Incantations are too weake, / And hell too ſtrong for me to buckle with:
We did not know what scrambled eggs were, and we fancied that it must be some Red Indian or Sandwich Islands sort of dish that required dances and incantations for its proper cooking.
Then he produced a string of beads, and after placing it over the scratchings he had made on the soil, jerked out some strange incantation in a voice that thickened and quivered with terror.
It is nothing new, these vital lies men tell themselves, muttering and mumbling them like charms and incantations against the powers of Night. The voodoos and medicine men and the devil-devil doctors were the fathers of metaphysics.
Yarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and by witches. Country folk still regard it as one of our most valuable herbs, especially for rheumatism.
The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
gloss: Any esoteric command or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The appropriate incantation of route is shown below; the gw keyword tells it that the next argument denotes a gateway.
There's more than one command incantation to create an AVI. It's all a question of experimenting with the different audio and video codecs.
Servers move from being special snowflakes to being disposable numbers on a list that can be created and destroyed without requiring someone to remember the specific incantation to make it work.
Related words: incanter
Derived words: disincantation
incantational
incantationism
incantationist
Translations:
incapacitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Inflected forms:
form: incapacitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry.
The incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4.
gloss: The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.
Synonyms: disablement
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: ubezwłasnowolnienie
incarceration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin incarcerātiōbor.
English incarceration
Borrowed from Medieval Latin incarcerātiō, equivalent to incarcerate + -ion.
Base: incarcerate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: incarcerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Perpetrated over time, better walk the narrow line / Never challenge what we say / In the darkness of our mind, never thought we'd be so blind / Let the nightmare get away / Isolation cannot be / The best, the best that we can do / Build a cage full of rage, inner demons call your name / Suicide, your only friend / Extermination of ourselves, mass incarceration / Termination of ourselves, mass incarcerate / In the cage, in the cage / You will remain
[…]Syria reemerged indirectly, through Turkey's incarceration of Pastor Andrew Brunson.
gloss: A strangulation, as in a hernia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: incarcerate
Derived words: decarceration
disincarceration
e-carceration
incarcerative
overincarceration
reincarceration
Translations:
incarnation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English incarnacion, borrowed from Old French incarnacion, from Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Late Latin incarnari (“to be made flesh”).
Inflected forms:
form: incarnations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incarnate being or form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before.
Robespierre, the very incarnation of lustful and deadly Vengeance, stands silently by..
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
gloss: A version or iteration (of something).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
gloss: A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An assumption of human form or nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
gloss: The act of incarnating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being incarnated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: carnal
incarnate
reincarnate
reincarnation
Derived words: disincarnation
incarnational
Translations:
incineration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incinerate
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 incineration
From incinerate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: incinerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
incomplete
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.
Base: complete
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incomplete
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incomplete
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incompletes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not complete; not finished.
pos: adj
examples: Stefania handed in her writing incomplete.
an incomplete jigsaw puzzle
My knowledge on the subject is incomplete.
He considers that his life would be incomplete if not for his children.
gloss: Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
pos: adj
gloss: Something incomplete.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: Something incomplete.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A designation of being incomplete.
pos: noun
examples: He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.
Antonyms: complete
Related words: incompletely
incompletion
Derived words: incomplete abortion
incomplete dominance
incomplete flower
incompleteness
incomplete sentence
subincomplete
Translations:
incoordination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English coordination
English incoordination
From in- + coordination.
Inflected forms:
form: incoordinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of coordination, especially in terms of muscle control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Charcot later gave the classical picture of incoordination, tremor and nystagmus.
Antonyms: coordination
Translations:
incorporation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English incorporacioun, from Old French incorporacion, from Late Latin incorporatio. By surface analysis, incorporate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: incorporations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the remarkable innovations in concrete technology is the development of self-healing cementitious materials through the incorporation of bacterial agents.
gloss: The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the city's incorporation into the capital district, the population rose.
Board Member Matt Disko is set to become Council Member Disko and says incorporation is primarily about greater control.
gloss: The act of creating a corporation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A body incorporated; a corporation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A phenomenon by which a grammatical category forms a compound with its direct object or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Incorporation is central to many polysynthetic languages such as those found in North America, Siberia and northern Australia.
gloss: A doctrine of constitutional law according to which certain parts of the Bill of Rights are extended to bind individual American states.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: articles of incorporation
bioincorporation
coincorporation
disincorporation
misincorporation
municipal incorporation
photoincorporation
preincorporation
reincorporation
unincorporation
Translations:
incrustation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin incrustātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: incrustations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything inlaid or embedded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An accumulated characteristic of a person that disguises their true nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Her reception of her brother was most affectionate—there are times when the most artificial, by habit, become natural; when the early memories of the heart, for a short time at least, spring up as a fountain of living waters, overflowing the selfish vanities and conventional incrustations which the world has planted—giving honest smiles to the countenance; artless, yet loving words to the tongue; and the gratified heart seems restored to a new childhood.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: инкрустация
roman: inkrustacija
lang: Māori
word: hōparatanga
lang: Polish
word: inkrustacja
lang: Polish
word: wysycenie
lang: Polish
word: wysycanie
lang: Portuguese
word: incrustação f // encrustação
incubation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin incubātiō, from incubō (“to lie on”).
Inflected forms:
form: incubations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, to develop the life within, by any process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1829, A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases
The course of small-pox, whether distinct or confluent, may be divided into five stages, which are known under the names of incubation, invasion, eruption, suppuration, and desiccation. This division, founded on the most prominent symptoms that the disease presents, although it is an arbitrary one, still affords a facility in the study. The period of incubation comprises the interval of time that elapses from the infection to the beginning of the attack; its duration is from six to twenty days. It is not designated by any visible symptom, as the individual apparently continues in good health.
gloss: A period of little reaction which is followed by more rapid reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the four proposed stages of creativity (preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification): the unconscious recombination of thought elements that were stimulated through conscious work at one point in time, resulting in novel ideas at a later point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sleeping in a temple or other holy place in order to have oracular dreams or to receive healing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Incubation in the vicinity of burial places, cremation grounds, holy wells and sacred streams was common. The ancient Hebrews visited vaults or slept among tombs to get meaningful dreams.
Related words: incubate
incubative
incubator
Derived words: coincubation
immunoincubation
incubational
incubation period
incubation time
microincubation
postincubation
preincubation
reincubation
Translations:
incur
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
finance
law
Etymology: From Middle English incurren, from Anglo-Norman encurir, Middle French encourir, from Old French encorre, from Latin incurrere.
Inflected forms:
form: incurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incurred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: encur
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: contract (debts, etc.)
Cruelty incurs calamity.
VVherefore I beſeech every one vvhom it may concerne, to put on a ſerious diſplicence, upon theſe occaſions, that they may not incurre this menace of Chriſt, VVoe be unto you that laugh novv, but rather entitle themſelves to this promiſe of the Holy Ghoſt, They ſhall laugh in the latter day.
[T]he master in his wrath may easily incur worse evil himself than he inflicts—[...]
And here it is to be noted that hatred is incurred as well on account of good actions as of bad;
gloss: To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: entail, invoke
The least neglect of duty will incur[...] the penalty of thirty-nine well laid on in the morning.
Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.
gloss: To enter or pass into.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To fall within a period or scope; to occur; to run into danger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Related words: incurrence
incursion
incursive
Derived words: incurrable
nonincurred
reincur
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كَبَّدَ
roman: kabbada
lang: Bulgarian
word: навличам си
roman: navličam si
lang: Catalan
word: incórrer
lang: Danish
word: udsætte sig for
lang: Danish
word: pådrage sig
lang: Dutch
word: zich blootstellen aan
lang: Finnish
word: aiheuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: saattaa itsensä alttiiksi
lang: French
word: s'exposer à
lang: French
word: encourir
lang: French
word: s'attirer
lang: French
word: subir
lang: German
word: zufügen
lang: German
word: sich aussetzen (etwas)
lang: German
word: sich zuziehen (etwas)
lang: German
word: sich einhandeln (etwas)
lang: German
word: (etwas) auf sich nehmen
lang: German
word: (Missfallen) erregen
lang: Italian
word: incorrere
lang: Italian
word: esporsi
lang: Lithuanian
word: pakliūti
lang: Norwegian
word: pådra seg
lang: Occitan
word: encòrrer
lang: Occitan
word: encorrir
lang: Russian
word: подвергну́ть
roman: podvergnútʹ
lang: Russian
word: подверга́ть
roman: podvergátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: incurrir en
lang: Spanish
word: incidir en
lang: Swedish
word: utsätta sig för
lang: Swedish
word: ådra sig
indefatigable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin indēfatīgābilis (“untiring”), from in- (“not”) + dēfatīgō (“to tire out”).
Inflected forms:
form: more indefatigable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indefatigable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely persistent and untiring.
pos: adj
examples: [...] But he was at the ſame Time an excellent Scholar, and moſt indefatigable in teaching the two Lads.
He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.
Translations:
indemnification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: indemnifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being indemnified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which indemnifies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
indentation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indent
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 indentation
From indent + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: indentations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of indenting or state of being indented.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the indentations of a leaf
indentations of the coast
gloss: A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The resulting document does not contain the indentation and line breaks found in the original document.
gloss: A measure of the distance from the flush line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an indentation of one em
gloss: A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The explanatory report acknowledges that the result of the rule under the second indentation can appear arbitrary.
Antonyms: protrusion
Derived words: dedentation
hanging indentation
indentational
macroindentation
microindentation
nanoindentation
picoindentation
reindentation
Translations:
independence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French indépendance. Analyzable as in- + de- + pend + -ence or in- + dependence.
Base: pend
Affixes: in-
de-
-ence
Inflected forms:
form: independences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: independance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 1947, India gained independence from the British Empire.
Bob the aforesaid, and his present chances of deriving a competent independence from the honourable profession to which he had devoted himself.
[…] I had achieved my own living, preserved my independence, and become indebted to no one.
And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia.
gloss: The state of having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antiindependence
anti-independence
financial independence
Independence County
independence day
independence number
independence war
independency
independentism
independentist
linear independence
nonindependence
postindependence
preindependence
war of independence
Translations:
indiscreet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English discreet
English indiscreet
From in- + discreet.
Inflected forms:
form: indiscreeter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: indiscreetest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not discreet; lacking in discretion.
pos: adj
examples: Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.
Translations:
individualization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English individual
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
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 -ization
English individualization
From individual + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: individualizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: individualisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: “The individualization of systemic problems under late-stage capitalism is crazy,” Diacono later said.
Translations:
indoctrination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1646; from indoctrinate + -ion.
Base: indoctrinate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: indoctrinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The regime relied on political indoctrination in schools.
Critics accused the organization of religious indoctrination.
political indoctrination
gloss: Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or belief system; information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ideological indoctrination
subject someone to indoctrination
Derived words: counterindoctrination
deindoctrination
indoctrinational
Translations:
indubitable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Either from French indubitable or Latin indubitābilis. By surface analysis, in- + dubitable.
Inflected forms:
form: more indubitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indubitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indubitables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Clearly true; providing no possibility of doubt.
pos: adj
examples: The indubitable effect of the potion convinced many nonbelievers.
gloss: That which is indubitable.
pos: noun
examples: If we build logically upwards from a few indubitables, the whole system must remain correct.
Translations:
inefficient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English efficient
English inefficient
From in- + efficient.
Inflected forms:
form: more inefficient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inefficient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inefficients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious.
pos: adj
examples: Celery is an inefficient food.
gloss: Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or unproductive; effecting little or nothing.
pos: adj
examples: inefficient workers
an inefficient administrator
Jessica was terribly inefficient at cleaning, so her brother usually had to clean the whole room.
The Defense Department, for example, has greatly expanded competitive bidding and is this year submitting to Congress the first-ever 2-year defense budget to replace the old, inefficient, year-by-year process.
[Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
gloss: A person who cannot or does not work efficiently.
pos: noun
examples: Two men were put to work who could not set their looms; a third man was taken on who helped the inefficients to set the looms. The other weavers thought this was a breach of their union rules and 18 of them struck […]
A general shaking up of the workers from top to bottom would result; and when equilibrium had been restored, the number of the inefficients at the bottom of the Abyss would have been increased by hundreds of thousands.
Antonyms: efficient
Derived words: inefficiently
Translations:
infatuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: infatuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An immensely strong love or sexual attraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As to the former, he is under a singular species of infatuation, to render himself thus subservient to the plans of Melliphant. Happily, however, we have effected our escape from them, and are on the road to our peaceful dwelling.
gloss: The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Something which infatuates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: apathy
impassivity
infuriation
Derived words: fatuity
fatuous
infatuate
infatuated
infatuational
Translations:
infelicitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English felicitous
English infelicitous
From in- + felicitous.
Inflected forms:
form: more infelicitous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infelicitous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unhappy or unfortunate.
pos: adj
examples: My last run this month is an amazing performance of an "A2/3" Pacific, No. 60524, Herringbone (could there possibly be a more infelicitous name for a locomotive than this, let alone for the unhappy horse which first had to bear it?), […].
If leading a "dog's life" be considered a peculiar phase of human misery, the life of a Boys' Dog is still more infelicitous.
gloss: Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.
pos: adj
examples: "Now, you've got just grounds for shooting me," he said gaily, and instantly regretted his infelicitous remark.
gloss: Of a sentence or utterance: not semantically and pragmatically coherent.
pos: adj
Synonyms: lamentable
Derived words: infelicitously
infelicitousness
Translations:
inference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.
Base: infer
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: inferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inferrence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.
gloss: Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: inference rule
inference to the best explanation
inferencing
inferential
macroinference
microinference
misinference
type inference
Translations:
infest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English infesten, from Old French infester (“to infest”), from Latin īnfestō (“assail, molest”, verb), from īnfestus (“hostile”), of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: infests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Insects are infesting my basement!
Sir, my liege,
Do not infest your mind with beating on
The strangeness of this business; at pick’d leisure
Which shall be shortly, I’ll resolve you,
Which to you shall seem probable, of every
These happen’d accidents; till when, be cheerful
And think of each thing well.
I come now to speak of the Pyrates infesting the West-Indies, where they are more numerous than in any other Parts of the World, on several Reasons […]
It has often happened, that whole caravans have perished in crossing those deserts, either by the burning winds that infest them, or by the sands which are raised by the tempest, and overwhelm every creature in certain ruin.
Nor was the biscuit much better; nearly all of it was broken into hard, little gunflints, honeycombed through and through, as if the worms usually infesting this article in long tropical voyages had, in boring after nutriment, come out at the antipodes without finding anything.
gloss: To invade a host plant or animal.
pos: verb
Synonyms: beride
plague
Related words: infestation
infestuous
Derived words: disinfest
infestive
infestment
preinfest
reinfest
Translations:
infiltration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English infiltracioun, from Medieval Latin infiltrātiōnem, infiltrātiō. By surface analysis, infiltrat(e) + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: infiltrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities
gloss: The act of secretly entering a physical location and/or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No one should be under any illusions about the objective of the Communist Party leadership: it’s long-term, systematic infiltration of social organisations, media and government. By the time China’s infiltration of Australia is readily apparent, it will be too late.
Derived words: agroinfiltration
bioinfiltration
coinfiltration
infiltration basin
infiltrationism
infiltration pond
postinfiltration
preinfiltration
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: процеждане
roman: proceždane
lang: Bulgarian
word: просмукване
roman: prosmukvane
lang: Czech
word: infiltrace
lang: Dutch
word: infiltratie
lang: French
word: infiltration
lang: German
word: Infiltration
lang: Hindi
word: घुसपैठ
roman: ghuspaiṭh
lang: Hungarian
word: víz beszivárgása
lang: Hungarian
word: beszivárgás
lang: Manx
word: yn-heeley
lang: Northern Sami
word: infiltrašuvdna
lang: Spanish
word: filtración
lang: Telugu
word: ఇంకు
roman: iṅku
lang: Ukrainian
word: інфільтра́ція
roman: infilʹtrácija
inflammation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French inflammation, from Latin īnflammātiō, equivalent to inflame + -ation.
Base: inflame
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: inflammations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inflaming, kindling, or setting on fire.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being inflamed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
gloss: Violent excitement.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: an inflammation of the mind, of the body politic, or of parties
Synonyms: inflammation
Related words: flammability
flammable
flammably
flammule
inflammable
inflammatory
-itis
Derived words: antiinflammation
autoinflammation
fibroinflammation
hyperinflammation
hypoinflammation
immunoinflammation
inflammage
inflammaging
metainflammation
microinflammation
necroinflammation
neuroinflammation
oncoinflammation
parainflammation
proinflammation
reinflammation
thromboinflammation
Translations:
inhabitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inhabit
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 inhabitation
From inhabit + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: inhabitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Abode; place of dwelling; residence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Population; inhabitants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Noiſe call you it or univerſal groan / As if the whole inhabitation periſ'd, / Blood, death, and deathful deeds are in the noiſe, / Ruin, deſtruction at the utmoſt point.
Translations:
inhalation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inhale
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 inhalation
From inhale + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: inhalations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inhaling; inbreathing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On Ickerson's part, with the help of "a few post-jentacular inhalations," as he in his colossal manner was pleased to phrase it, "from that fragrant weed which so propitiates clearness of thought, and tends to promote equanimity in action."
The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.
The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.
gloss: The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inhale
Derived words: inhalational
overinhalation
Translations:
initiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French initiation, from Latin initiātiō. Morphologically initiate + -ion.
Base: initiate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: initiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: initiation into a society
initiation into business
initiation into literature
gloss: The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The first step of transcription or of transduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: conclusion
end
Related words: initial
initiate
initiationism
Derived words: clutch initiation
initiational
initiation ceremony
initiation codon
lipoinitiation
noninitiation
overinitiation
photoinitiation
postinitiation
preinitiation
reinitiation
self-initiation
Translations: