yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
farcical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From farce + -ical, after comical etc.
Base: farce
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more farcical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most farcical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.
pos: adj
examples: A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.
In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.
An inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street, which could determine the fate of Boris Johnson, is expected to lay bare a “farcical” culture of drinking and impromptu socialising, with little oversight from senior officials, the Guardian understands.
Translations:
truly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English truely, treuly, treuli, trewely, treoweliche, treowliche, from Old English trēowlīċe (“faithfully; truly”), equivalent to true + -ly. Cognate with Dutch trouwelijk, Middle Low German truwlike, German treulich, Swedish trolig, Icelandic trygglega.
Base: true
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: trulier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more truly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: truliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most truly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: trooly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: truely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
form: trully
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with the facts; truthfully, accurately.
pos: adv
examples: He adds, very truly, that what was fatal to such philosophies as his was not Christianity but the Copernican theory.
gloss: Honestly, genuinely, in fact, really.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: That is truly all I know.
Truly, that is all I know.
gloss: Very.
pos: adv
examples: You are truly silly.
I’m distantly related to the truly great writer, Chaim Potok, which for a magazine editor seems like a good thing.
Synonyms: frankly
sincerely
literally
exceedingly
Derived words: really truly
truly yours
untruly
well and truly
yours truly
Translations:
know-how
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from know how. American English, 1838.
Inflected forms:
form: knowhow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The knowledge and skill to be able to (do something correctly).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Marlo has the know-how to fix your computer.
Today this situation has — at least in theory — been reversed in a startling way because the main source of wealth is no longer natural resources but scientific knowledge and technological know-how that has been accumulated incrementally since the advent of civilization.
American innovators — with their world-class strengths in product design, marketing and finance — may have a historic opportunity to convert the scientific know-how from abroad into market gains and profits. Mr. Hill views the transition to “the postscientific society” as an unrecognized bonus for American creators of new products and services.
Translations:
birthweight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From birth + weight.
Compound parts: birth
weight
Inflected forms:
form: birthweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that a baby weighs at the time of birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Premature infants often have a very low birthweight.
Translations:
founded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more founded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most founded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a basis.
pos: adj
examples: She offered a well-founded hypothesis.
Translations:
outfit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
statistics
Etymology: Variant of earlier out-fit, from fit out. Equivalent to out- + fit.
Base: fit
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outfits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: out-fit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: outfits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outfitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outfitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outfitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: out-fit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set of clothing (with accessories).
pos: noun
examples: She wore a fashionable outfit with matching purse and shoes.
Don't call what you're wearing an outfit.
gloss: Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
pos: noun
gloss: Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
pos: noun
examples: But I won't have it any longer with George and his shirty bit—there's no room for a—madonna in the outfit.
The League of One was suddenly exposed and in danger of being hunted by enemies of the salarians. Before any harm could be done, the team mysteriously disappeared […] Realizing the threat posed by this rogue outfit, the Special Tasks Group dispatched a team of hunters. When they didn't return, the STG dispatched ten of its brightest operators with broad discretionary powers. Only two returned; they reported no evidence of the League.
gloss: A business or firm.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Should we buy it here, or do you think the outfit across town will have a better deal?
gloss: A sports team.
pos: noun
examples: With only two fit centre-backs available, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp employed young midfielder Jake Livermore at the back alongside Sebastien Bassong but Spurs struggled against a seasoned Champions League outfit, who beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp in 2009-10 and continually worked their way between the home defence to create some golden opportunities.
gloss: An outlier-sensitive fit.
pos: noun
gloss: A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
historical
examples: […] the outfit of 1821, which outfit suffered a loss. From 1822 there were profits on each outfit as the many subsequent credit entries indicate.
gloss: To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The expedition was outfitted with proper clothing, food, and other necessities.
Derived words: boutfit
groutfit
outfit doctor
Translations:
st
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. Compare hist.
Inflected forms:
form: sst
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing a sudden desire for silence.
pos: intj
Translations:
blacken
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en (verbal suffix).
Base: black
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: blackens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blackening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blackened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blackened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to be or become black.
pos: verb
tags: causative
transitive
examples: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
gloss: To become black.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
gloss: To make dirty.
pos: verb
tags: causative
transitive
gloss: To defame or sully.
pos: verb
gloss: To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: black
blacken
black up
blackwash
blatch
bletch
denigrate
forswart
infuscate
nigrify
pitch
swart
swarten
Related words: black color
Derived words: blackened crust
blackener
blackenization
blackenize
overblacken
reblacken
Translations:
normally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin norma
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nōrmālisder.
English normal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English normally
From normal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more normally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most normally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time
pos: adv
examples: Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.
It comes from the Latin insurgo, meaning “to rise up within”: so insurrectionists are, etymologically, the same as “insurgents”, even if that is normally a word for those who do not meekly accept western military rule.
A normally bustling border crossing between Tanzania and Malawi was noticeably quieter than usual on Thursday as a result of an escalating regional trade row.
gloss: In the expected or customary manner.
pos: adv
examples: Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.
gloss: To a usual or customary extent or degree.
pos: adv
examples: He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.
An even more important reason is that our generation is not only normally ignorant but abnormally so. That is, we not only have scholars who do not know the history of the church's testimony, but we have those who tell it like it was not.
gloss: In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.
pos: adv
Synonyms: frequently
ordinarily
habitually
routinely
as a matter of course
as a rule
generally
in general
normally
regularly
typically
unexceptionally
usually
wontedly
wontly
Antonyms: atypically
exceptionally
irregularly
unusually
Related words: normality
Derived words: binormally
nonnormally
normally black
normally white
Translations:
gran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of granny.
Inflected forms:
form: grans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
informal
usually
Translations:
sizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gelatinous glue for glazing or sizing canvas, paper, plaster or wood; often made from animal skins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Paste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A weak glue used in various trades; size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
uncountable
Derived words: nanosizing
smartsizing
vanity sizing
Translations:
bricklayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English brekelayeer, brekelayer, equivalent to brick + layer.
Compound parts: brick
layer
Inflected forms:
form: bricklayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.
pos: noun
Translations:
voter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vote + -er.
Base: vote
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: voters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who votes.
pos: noun
examples: The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
"Until relatively recently, there was a Midwestern rural white voter who was distinct from a southern rural white voter," Mr. Rosenfeld said. "There was a real progressive tradition in the Midwest uncoopted by Jim Crow and racial issues."
Translations:
teachable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English techeable, techeabyll, techeabylle, equivalent to teach + -able.
Base: teach
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more teachable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most teachable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: teachables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being taught; apt to learn.
pos: adj
gloss: Willing to receive instruction or to learn; docile.
pos: adj
gloss: That can be taught.
pos: adj
examples: Common sense is not a teachable subject.
gloss: Facilitating teaching; instructive.
pos: adj
examples: Such natural opportunities for social learning become teachable moments, in which children are motivated to learn new strategies.
gloss: A major or minor academic concentration that is an acceptable prerequisite for certain teaching certifications or teacher education programs.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: docile
Translations:
docility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French docilité, from Latin docilitas.
Inflected forms:
form: docilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being docile.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?
Antonyms: rebelliousness
Translations:
burial
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English biriel, a backformation from biriels, which was re-interpreted as a plural, itself from from Old English byrġels, from byrġan (“to bury”) + -els. By surface analysis, bury + -al, but originally unrelated to this suffix.
Inflected forms:
form: burials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buriall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of burying; interment; placing remains into the earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His whole family was present at his burial.
The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.
A dreary year for the Squadron, this 1819, when officers and men fell sick by the shipload and were sent home by the tenderful, when Lemon Valley Hospital was supplemented by the one at High Peak, when Court-Martials were held at the rate of one a fortnight, burials thrice a week, and surveys on foul provisions every other day!
However, many Cromlechs and Dolmins are carelessly called "Druid's circles", when in reality they were the burial places of ancient chieftains and their households[.]
Translations:
clandestine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
Etymology: From Latin clandestīnus (“secret, concealed”); compare French clandestin.
Inflected forms:
form: more clandestine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clandestine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
pos: adj
examples: clandestine military operations
Monimia, who while she yielded to his earnest entreaties had always felt, from the natural rectitude of her understanding, the impropriety of their clandestine correspondence, would, he feared, be more than ever sensible of her indiscretion, when she found that a servant was entrusted with it...
Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire. Mr. and Mrs. Morland never did.
Wildeve's clandestine plan with her was to take a little gravel in his hand and hold it to the crevice at the top of the window shutter, which was on the outside, so that it should fall with a gentle rustle, resembling that of a mouse, between shutter and glass.
Lady Bullingdon could not, of course, countenance such an arrangement for a moment, and the two unhappy persons escaped for a clandestine marriage.
Bodies were always a nuisance -- even the small guinea-pig bodies from the slight clandestine experiments in West’s room at the boarding-house.
Probably, the Master-at-arms' clandestine persecution of Billy was started to try the temper of the man...
The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee!
As I stand at the edge of existence; nameless shores of infinity. Perpetual unbirth unraveling distance, clandestine truths unveiled.
In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
2005 — Stewart Lee, 90's Comedian DVD
And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.
And (Wouter) Basson (who had worked on South Africa's clandestine bioweapons program) was there, too.
gloss: Not recognized as a regular member.
pos: adj
Derived words: clandestinely
clandestineness
clandestinity
nonclandestine
Translations:
secretive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English secretife, equivalent to secret + -ive.
Base: secret
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more secretive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most secretive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an inclination to secrecy.
pos: adj
examples: She's a secretive girl, not giving away much about her life.
Why are you acting all secretive? What are you hiding?
Sitting back on a bench in the sunshine, Tom and I began to catch up with each other while the girls arranged their surprises at the remotest picnic table in the lay-by. Genial lorry drivers, munching wurst high in their cabs, looking down on their secretive toing and froing with interest.
Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Translations:
undercover
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From under + cover.
Compound parts: under
cover
Inflected forms:
form: more undercover
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undercover
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: undercovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: undercovers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: undercovering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: undercovered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: undercovered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Performed or happening in secret.
pos: adj
gloss: Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who works undercover.
pos: noun
examples: Then there's the heterosexual, open-mined ^([sic]) entourage who loves us dearly and are our best friends. They laugh at our humor and understand our sorrow. For they are rare and unique in prison. But the vipers always ruin things. They refer to our straight friends as "Closet-Cases," "Undercovers," and "Flip-Floppers."
gloss: To provide too little coverage.
pos: verb
examples: The estimates of bias reported here depend on the assumption that 6- to 14-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as children 0 to 14 years old and that 16- to 17-year-olds were undercovered at the same rate as 16- to 19-year-olds.
To oversimplify, if black males age 20 to 29 are undercovered by 50 percent, then the first stage sampling weights for black males age 20 to 29 are doubled to properly sum to known population totals.
Synonyms: clandestine
Related words: cloak-and-dagger
Derived words: undercover car
Translations:
secrecy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration (on model of primacy, etc) of Late Middle English secretee, from Old French secré.
Inflected forms:
form: secrecies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was sworn to secrecy.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
gloss: The habit of keeping secrets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: dern
Related words: secretiveness
Derived words: antisecrecy
hypersecrecy
nonsecrecy
professional secrecy
secrecy jurisdiction
semisecrecy
supersecrecy
Translations:
concealment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy”). By surface analysis, conceal + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: concealments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of keeping secrets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: weapons concealment
act of concealment
concealment of identity
The documents were hidden in deliberate concealment.
He was charged with the concealment of evidence.
gloss: The condition of being hidden or concealed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: protection from observation or surveillance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nonconcealment
unconcealment
Translations:
surveillance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French surveillance (“a watching over, overseeing, supervision”), from surveiller (“to watch, oversee”), from sur- (“over”) + veiller (“to watch”), from Middle French, from Old French veillier (“to stay awake”), from Latin vigilāre (“to be watchful”). More at vigilant.
Inflected forms:
form: surveillances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The surveillance program includes at least 480 LPRs that scan and record about 16.2 million vehicles per week and stores that data for two years, he wrote in the court filing.
gloss: Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lady Anne appeared in a week or two to have greatly recovered her appetite, and she talked much of the benefit derived from her native air, in order to gain which, she constantly drove out in Lord Rotheles's carriages, and appeared to derive comfort from her admiration of his beautiful bays; beyond this Helen could not perceive that her airings were useful, as her cough increased exceedingly, and all the visitants at the castle expressed surprise "that she did not place herself under the surveillance of one or other of the great physicians of the metropolis."
gloss: Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.
Cook was making an impassioned plea to end the technology industry’s collection and sale of user data. “This is surveillance,” he continued.
And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
gloss: In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: surveil
lookout
shadowing
sousveillance
stakeout
tailing
wiretapping
Derived words: antisurveillance
biosurveillance
countersurveillance
cybersurveillance
dataveillance
e-surveillance
geosurveillance
hypersurveillance
immunosurveillance
mass surveillance
oversurveillance
re-surveillance
serosurveillance
superveillance
surveillance approach
surveillance camera
surveillance capitalism
technosurveillance
telesurveillance
uberveillance
video surveillance
xenosurveillance
Translations:
suspicion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.
Base: suspect
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: suspicions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suspition
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 'spicion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
"When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust."
Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and "natural" boundaries between different sorts of people.
gloss: The condition of being suspected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Uncertainty, doubt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.[…]Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
gloss: A trace, or slight indication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a suspicion of a smile
The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion[…]of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
Keep hot for 3 minutes, then turn right side up, polish the top with a suspicion of butter, cut in quarters, and send to table.
gloss: The imagining of something without evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: inkling
Derived words: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
index of suspicion
sneaking suspicion
sneaky suspicion
suspect
suspicionable
suspicional
suspicionful
suspicionless
suspicious
undue suspicion
unsuspicion
Translations:
bizarre
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French bizarre (“odd, peculiar, bizarre”, formerly “headlong, angry”), then either from Italian bizzarro (“weird, eccentric, frisky”) or, less likely, from Basque bizar (literally “beard”, from the notion that bearded Spanish soldiers made a strange impression on the French).
Inflected forms:
form: more bizarre
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bizarrer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bizarre
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bizarrest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bizarres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
pos: adj
examples: That was a bizarre adventure!
[…]no, the abjectly unheroic nature of the death,—that was the sting,—that and the bizarre wording of the resulting obituary: “Shot with a rock, on a raft.”
Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker’s coming relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of despair to any of us as we had dreaded.
[…] she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.
I confess that I had not up to now taken a very serious view of the case, which had seemed to me rather grotesque and bizarre than dangerous.
That's what we are / We all want a love bizarre
West Brom enjoyed more possession as the half progressed and were handed a penalty of their own in the 21st minute in bizarre circumstances.
Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
gloss: Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several types of flower with stripes of various colours.
pos: noun
examples: Another singular feature in the tulip is, that after it breaks, it ever remains the same, and never returns to its self-color again.
The show or fancy tulips are divided into three classes:—
1. Bybloemen, or violets, such as have a white ground, variegated with purple or violet, the edges well feathered, the leaflets erect, and the whole forming a perfect cup.
2. Bizarres, having a yellow ground, variegated with rose, scarlet, purple, or violet. 3. Roses, with white ground color, variegated with rosy-red, pink, or soft rose.
Translations:
unconventional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English convention
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English conventional
English unconventional
From un- + conventional.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconventional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unconventional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unconventionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
pos: adj
gloss: Out of the ordinary.
pos: adj
gloss: Atypical.
pos: adj
examples: The other two banned titles are The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, which features a lesbian couple, and Who’s In My Family: All About Our Families, which describes unconventional parental set-ups.
gloss: Something or someone that is unconventional.
pos: noun
Derived words: unconventionally
Translations:
atypical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English typical
English atypical
From a- + typical.
Inflected forms:
form: more atypical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most atypical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: atypicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not conforming to the normal type.
pos: adj
examples: The condition also has an associated atypical development of the retina and optic nerve misrouting, resulting in significant vision issues.
gloss: Unusual or irregular.
pos: adj
gloss: An atypical antipsychotic.
pos: noun
Antonyms: typical
Derived words: atypical autism
atypicality
atypically
atypicalness
atypical pneumonia
atypical tarantula
neuroatypical
neuroatypicality
nonatypical
Translations:
mutate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1796; back-formation from mutation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin mūtō (“to exchange; to change, to vary”). Doublet of moult.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: mutates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mutating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mutated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mutated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To undergo mutation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.
gloss: To cause mutation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: mutant
mutation
mutatis mutandis
Derived words: dismutate
hypermutate
mutase
mutatable
mutative
mutator
mutein
paramutate
premutate
stereomutate
transmutate
Translations:
beautification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1600, from beautify (“to make beautiful”) + -ication.
Base: beautify
Affixes: -ication
Inflected forms:
form: beautifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: prettification
Thanks to the beautification efforts, the appearance of the highway has vastly improved.
This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)
Translations:
tautomerism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tautomer
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 tautomerism
From tautomer + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: tautomerisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of isomerism in which a dynamic equilibrium between multiple isomers exists, such as that between an enol and a ketone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
equilibrium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin aequilībrium, from equal + lībra (“balance”).
Inflected forms:
form: equilibriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: equilibria
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquilibrium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
pos: noun
examples: To Hydroſtaticks belong whatever relates to the Gravities and Equilibria of Liquors; with the Art of weighing Bodies in Water, in order to eſtimate the ſpecifick Gravities.
1999, The Matrix, Agent Smith speech
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
gloss: Mental balance.
pos: noun
examples: Tiffany Pollard: What just happened?!
Eric Andre: That coffee mug is broken.
Tiffany Pollard: I can't take this. This is gonna mess up my equilibrium.
gloss: The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
pos: noun
gloss: The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
pos: noun
examples: It now appears that the locomotive did not blow up, as was commonly stated at the time, but that the aeroplane flew so low as to come into contact with the dome of the engine, knocking it off. It was the combination of the impact and the uprush of steam that so disturbed the equilibrium of the raider as to cause it to crash.
Related words: equilibrate
equilibrioception
equilibrize
equivalence
Derived words: acid-base equilibrium
chemical equilibrium
disequilibrium
dynamic equilibrium
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
dysequilibrium
economic equilibrium
equilibrist
equilibrium constant
equilibrium price
equilibrium time
equilibrium vapor pressure
general equilibrium
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
heterogeneous equilibrium
homogeneous equilibrium
hydrostatic equilibrium
hypoequilibrium
isoequilibrium
market equilibrium
Nash equilibrium
neutral equilibrium
nonequilibrium
partial equilibrium
photoequilibrium
preequilibrium
pseudoequilibrium
punctuated equilibrium
quasiequilibrium
radioactive equilibrium
reequilibrium
secular equilibrium
stable equilibrium
static equilibrium
superequilibrium
thermodynamic equilibrium
unstable equilibrium
Translations:
countermand
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”).
Inflected forms:
form: countermands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: countermanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: countermanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: countermanded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: countermands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: counteract
to countermand an order for goods
gloss: To recall a person or unit with such an order.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.
gloss: To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”
gloss: To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
gloss: To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
gloss: To maintain control of, to keep under command.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe,
That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land.
And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.
gloss: An order to the contrary of a previous one.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
Related words: counterargue
Derived words: countermandable
countermander
countermandment
uncountermanded
Translations:
physiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογίᾱ (-logíā)
Ancient Greek φῠσῐολογίᾱ (phŭsĭologíā)bor.
Latin physiologiabor.
French physiologie
English physiology
From French physiologie, from Latin physiologia, from Ancient Greek φυσιολογία (phusiología, “natural philosophy”), from φύσις (phúsis, “nature”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”). Equivalent to physio- + -logy.
Affixes: physio-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: physiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of life or of living matter (as organs, tissues, or cells) and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So he clung to the sides of the vertical tunnel, le wormhole, employing the setules covering his legs, that is, millions of tiny spider-hairs with triangular tips, a wall-creeper physiology if you wish, a hang-upside-down-from-the-ceiling anatomical boon.
gloss: The biology and/or form of a living organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study and description of natural objects; natural science.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: physiologic
physiological
physiologist
physiologize
biochemistry
Translations:
changed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more changed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most changed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone a change.
pos: adj
examples: I'm a changed man since joining the local church.
"May I inquire if it is a recent photograph of the gentleman, sir?" he asked.
"About six years ago," said the lieutenant, taking in this new actor in the drama with frank curiosity. "But he is very little changed."
Translations:
vituperation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin vituperātiō (“censure, blame”), equivalent to vituperate + -ion.
Base: vituperate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: vituperations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...but, for several successive days, as she was careful in observing the strictest regimen (..), she actually became much better, especially as to these favourable circumstances was added great calmness of temper, she wisely substituting the quiet sneer of contempt for angry vituperation and vindictive scorn.
"Do you call me a spy?" / "And what have you called me? Because you are a husband, is the privilege of vituperation to be all on your side?"
His face turned red with passion; he made one bound, hurled me across the house with a sweep of his arm, spun the wheel down, and began to pour out a stream of vituperation upon me which lasted till he was out of breath.
The rather too inclusive speech brought down a torrent of vituperation from other quarters upon fair Tess’s unlucky head[…]
Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity. He had indeed that nice-Nelliness which is often characteristic of the Don Juan type.
Related words: vituperable
vituperant
vituperate
vituperative
vituperatively
vituperator
vituperatory
vituperous
vituperously
Translations:
megabase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English base
English megabase
From mega- + base.
Inflected forms:
form: megabases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mega base
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A length of nucleic acid containing one million nucleotides (bases if single-stranded, base pairs if double-stranded)
pos: noun
gloss: A very large player-built structure where the player lives.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Mb
Mbp
megabase pair
Related words: kilobase
submegabase
Translations:
kilobase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kilo-
English base
English kilobase
From kilo- + base.
Inflected forms:
form: kilobases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A length of double-stranded DNA containing two thousand nucleotides, one thousand on each strand.
pos: noun
gloss: A length of single-stranded RNA containing one thousand nucleotides.
pos: noun
Synonyms: kb
kbp
kilobase pair
Related words: megabase
Derived words: multikilobase
Translations:
adipocere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From adipo- + Latin cēra.
Affixes: adipo-
Inflected forms:
form: adipoceres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adipocire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acids) that forms on dead animal tissues in response to hydrolysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In some cases, however, brains outlast all other soft tissues and remain intact for hundreds or thousands of years. […] [Alexandra] Morton-Hayward's experiments suggest the brains endure through a process called molecular cross-linking, in which brain protein remnants and degraded lipids form a spongy polymer. […] The mechanism appears distinct from how some other bodily tissues are preserved after turning to adipocere, or "grave wax," which forms when body fats transform into a tallow-colored soaplike substance. "Adipocere forms in adipose tissue — that's buttocks, arms, cheeks," says Sonia O'Connor, an archaeologist and pioneering researcher of ancient brains at the University of Bradford in England. "There is no adipose tissue in the brain. It's the wrong chemistry."
Translations:
sailing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).
Base: sail
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: sailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Travelling by ship.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The time of departure from a port.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 'Then I should like a full list of the warships in Pentland Harbour, recent sailings, and those expected, please. The "Navy List" I suppose you have here?'
New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
Derived words: boardsailing
clear sailing
daysailing
land sailing
nonsailing
oblique sailing
plain-sailing
plain sailing
plane sailing
rhumb sailing
sailing boat
sailing dinghy
sailing-ice
sailing-master
sailing ship
sailing vessel
sailing yacht
smooth sailing
stadium sailing
Thames sailing barge
traverse sailing
Translations: