yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cardinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
nautical
philosophy
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin cardō
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin cardinālisder.
Middle French cardinalbor.
English cardinal
From Middle French cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that on which something turns or depends, important, principal, chief”), from cardin-, cardō (“hinge”) + -ālis, adjectival suffix.
Inflected forms:
form: more cardinal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cardinal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
pos: adj
examples: a cardinal rule
But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
the cardinal intersections of the zodiack
Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.
gloss: Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
pos: adj
examples: a cardinal mark
gloss: Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).
pos: adj
gloss: Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.
pos: adj
Translations:
daystar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English daysterre, from Old English dæġsteorra, equivalent to day + star. Cognate with Scots daystern (“morningstar; daystar”).
Compound parts: day
star
Inflected forms:
form: daystars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: day star
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The planet Venus as the morning star.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: Near-synonyms: Vesper, Hesperus, evening star, Venus
Here dawn'd the daystar of Hesperia's fame, / Here herald glory first emblazed her name;
And we have more sure the prophetic word; to which ye do well that ye take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts;
gloss: The Sun.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: I only go outdoors at night, away from the daystar's burning glare.
Translations:
Genoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Genua (with influence from Italian Genova), as the city was known by the ancient Ligurians. Probably from the Ancient Ligurian word for “knee”, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a thematic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu; in this sense “angle”, from its geographical position, thus akin to Geneva.
Inflected forms:
form: Genoas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Genoa cake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
size
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
government
microbiology
military
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Attested since the 14th century, originally meant a “law or regulation that determines the amount to be paid”, from Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”), from the verb asseoir (“to sit down”), from Latin assidēre, composed of ad- (“to, towards, at”) + sedeō (“sit; settle down”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. Displaced native Old English miċelnes (literally “bigness”).
Base: sedeō
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: sizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a statute […] to size weights, and measures
gloss: To classify or arrange by size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To classify or arrange by size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To classify or arrange by size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: However, SDS-PAGE consistently sized most of the proteins smaller than the ProteoAnalyzer, resulting in a larger percent difference between the two systems.
gloss: To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
gloss: To take a greater size; to increase in size.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love
Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.
gloss: To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
gloss: To swell; to increase the bulk of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 2. Queen.[…]lend us a knee;
But touch the ground for us no longer time
Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off:
ell him if he i'th blood cizd field, lay swolne
Showing the Sun his Teeth; grinning at the Moone
What you would doe.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сортирам по размер
roman: sortiram po razmer
lang: Finnish
word: luokitella koon mukaan
lang: Finnish
word: lajitella koon mukaan
lang: Japanese
word: 大きさ順に選別する
roman: ōkisa-jun ni senbetsu suru
lang: Japanese
word: 大きさ順に並べる
roman: ōkisa-jun ni naraberu
lang: Spanish
word: formar por tamaño
lang: Spanish
word: ordenar por tamaño
directory
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.
Inflected forms:
form: directories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more directory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most directory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
pos: noun
examples: look up an address in the directory
gloss: A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
pos: noun
gloss: A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
pos: noun
examples: […] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.
gloss: Containing directions; instructing; directorial.
pos: adj
Related words: atlas
gazetteer
index
rolodex
Derived words: directory assistance
directory climbing
directory enquiries
directoryless
directory service
directory traversal
ex-directory
metadirectory
non-directory
superdirectory
Translations:
urination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English urinate
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 urination
From urinate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: urinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of passing urine, that is, of eliminating liquid waste from the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wallah
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Arabic وَٱللّٰه (wal-lāh, literally “by God”).
Inflected forms:
form: wallahee
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: wallahi
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: wellah
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: wullah
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: by God (Allah); may God be my witness. Used in making a solemn oath
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
accentuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
Etymology: From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate + -ion.
Base: accentuate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: accentuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A more distinct or prominent form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The secretary withdrew with an accentuation of his unhappy manner. It was very distressing to him, this dispersal of the family heirlooms.
gloss: Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This elementary instruction is language at its most advanced to minds trained on the accentuation of the antepenult (multiplicity) and on Sievers-type C2 half-line metrical patterns[.]
gloss: Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: misaccentuation
overaccentuation
reaccentuation
Translations:
slingshot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From sling + shot.
Compound parts: sling
shot
Inflected forms:
form: slingshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slingshots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slingshotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slingshotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slingshotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Philippines
US
examples: ‘Terry Madison. Instead of fiddling with that shanghai, give us a thought.’ ‘It’s a gongai,’ Swiftie said. ‘I mean that’s the name for a shanghai which is another name for a catapult...that Mr Delarue calls a slingshot.’
gloss: A stationary, often triangular object that launches any ball that hits its longest side back at a high force, now usually located above the flipper and between it and the inlane, with one each for both lower flippers.
pos: noun
gloss: A sling bikini.
pos: noun
gloss: An implement of a broad fabric worn around and connecting both bicipites brachii to support benching the most heavy weights.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of passing cars queuing in the left-hand lane and using the right-hand lane to go around a roundabout, exiting at the desired junction having avoided the queue.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: Synonym of slingshot effect.
pos: noun
gloss: To move or cause to move in a manner resembling a projectile shot from a slingshot.
pos: verb
gloss: To use the gravity of a moving planet to add momentum to a spacecraft.
pos: verb
examples: The shuttle will slingshot around Jupiter on its way to Saturn.
gloss: To perform the slingshot manoeuvre (see Noun).
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
Related words: gravity assist
Derived words: gravitational slingshot
gravity slingshot
slingkini
slingshot effect
Translations:
cwm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.
Inflected forms:
form: cwms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.
pos: noun
examples: A fine glacier descends from Mount Longstaff. It has cut very deep and the walls stand at an angle of at least 50°. Otherwise, although there are many cwms on the lower ranges, the mountains themselves seem little carved.
Translations:
sarnie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From sarn- (“perhaps from a dialectal pronunciation of the first syllable of sandwich”) + -ie. Alternatively, perhaps a misreading or an intentional dissimilation of samie (i.e. sammie), where the 'm' is mistaken for or replaced with 'rn'.
Base: sarn-
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: sarnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sarny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sarney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sandwich.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: Hello my flower, shall I fix up a cheese sarnie for you?
With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention
While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
In fact no one was playing bingo, 10p or otherwise. Nor had the patrons been enticed by the complimentary shrink-wrapped sarnies and packets of cheese-and-onion on offer in the roped-off ‘Over 18s VIP area’, with its £500-jackpot fruit machines.
Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
gloss: The Sandwich tern.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: tongue sarnie
Translations:
cornet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cornet, from Old French cornet, a diminutive of a popular reflex of Latin cornū (“horn”).
Inflected forms:
form: cornets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
pos: noun
gloss: A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK, dated) an ice cream cone.
pos: noun
gloss: A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They discerned a body of five cornets of horse very full, standing in very good order to receive them.
gloss: A kind of organ stop.
pos: noun
gloss: A hollow horn-like growth.
pos: noun
Derived words: corneter
cornetfish
cornetist
ice-cream cornet
field cornet
Translations:
pellet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pelote, pelet, from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”). Doublet of pelota.
Inflected forms:
form: pellets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pellets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pelleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pelleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pelleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
pos: noun
examples: a pellet of wood, paper, or ore
gloss: A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
pos: noun
gloss: Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
pos: noun
gloss: A roundel sable (black circular spot).
pos: noun
gloss: One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
pos: noun
gloss: To form into pellets.
pos: verb
gloss: To strike with pellets.
pos: verb
Derived words: biopellet
ice pellet
immunopellet
macropellet
micropellet
pelletable
pelletal
pellet drum
pelleter
pellet gun
pelletization
pelletless
pelletlike
pellet moulding
pellet stove
pellistor
repellet
Translations:
nocturnal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French nocturnal, from Latin nocturnālis (“nocturnal”), from Latin nocturnus (“nocturnal”), from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts (“night”). Cognates include Ancient Greek νύξ (núx), Sanskrit नक्ति (nákti), Old English niht (English night) and Proto-Slavic *noťь.
Inflected forms:
form: more nocturnal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nocturnal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nocturnall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nocturnals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nocturnall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Primarily active during the night.
pos: adj
examples: nocturnal birds
gloss: Taking place at night, nightly.
pos: adj
examples: a suspicious nocturnal outing
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
gloss: A person or creature that is active at night.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A rather different instrument was the nocturnal: it enabled you to tell the time at night, provided you knew the date, from the position of the stars in the constellation of the Great Bear, which rotate around the Pole Star.
Synonyms: lucifugous
nightish
nightly
nighttime
nocturnal
Antonyms: diurnal
nonnocturnal
Derived words: noctophobia
nocturnal active photolocation
nocturnal arc
nocturnal arch
nocturnal delirium
nocturnal emission
nocturnalism
nocturnalist
nocturnality
nocturnally
nocturnal penile tumescence
nocturnal pollution
nonnocturnal
seminocturnal
sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome
Translations:
diurnal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin diurnālis, from diēs (“day”). Doublet of journal.
Inflected forms:
form: diurnals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most birds are diurnal.
However, in general, lizards are more diurnal than rattlers, which may be one of the reasons why young rattlers are more diurnal than adults.
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring / Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring.
gloss: Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
uncommon
gloss: Published daily.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
gloss: A flower that opens only in the day.
pos: noun
gloss: A book containing canonical offices performed during the day, hence not matins.
pos: noun
gloss: A diary or journal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He was by birth, some authors write, / A Russian, some a Muscovite, / And 'mong the Cossacks had been bred, / Of whom we in diurnals read.
gloss: A daily news publication.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Synonyms: daily
daytime
diurnal
Antonyms: nocturnal
nightly
nondiurnal
Derived words: bidiurnal
diurnal aberration
diurnal active photolocation
diurnal arc
diurnalist
diurnality
diurnally
diurnal motion
diurnalness
equidiurnal
intradiurnal
nondiurnal
semidiurnal
sesquidiurnal
terdiurnal
tridiurnal
undiurnal
Translations:
quickly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quykly, quikliche, quicliche, cwikliche, cwickliche, from Old English cwiculīċe. By surface analysis, quick + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: quicklier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more quickly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: quickliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most quickly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rapidly; with speed; fast; with expedition.
pos: adv
examples: Luckily, the error was quickly corrected.
gloss: Very soon.
pos: adv
examples: If we go this way, we'll get there quickly.
Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
There are eight principles in all, but three are really important if we want to shift quickly and inclusively toward a longer-term mode of thinking and acting.
Synonyms: apace
expeditiously
fast
hastily
hurriedly
posthaste
quicksome
rapidly
speedily
soon
swiftly
with dispatch
at the high port
balls-out
balls to the wall
cranking
flat out
full throttle
hauling
hauling ass
hell-for-leather
hell-bent for leather
lickety-split
like a bat out of hell
like a blue-arsed fly
like a dose of salts
like a rat up a drainpipe
like gangbusters
like shit through a goose
like the clappers
like there is no tomorrow
like the wind
screaming
before you can say Jack Robinson
in a flash
in a jiffy
in no time
in the twinkling of an eye
in two shakes
on the double
PDQ
pronto
quick as a flash
quick as a wink
on the pdq
toot sweet
Antonyms: slowly
Related words: quick
speedy
drink
immediately
rush
Derived words: as quickly as possible
death-come-quickly
Translations:
feces
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin faecēs, nominative plural of faex (“residue, dregs”), further origin unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.
Inflected forms:
form: faeces
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: fæces
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or other mammal's stomach to the intestines.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
plural
plural-only
examples: We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.
Translations:
excrement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin excrēmentum, from excernō (“to excrete”).
Inflected forms:
form: excrements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
examples: The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.
gloss: Any waste matter excreted from the human or non-human animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand […]. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.
Related words: excreta
excrete
excremental
excrementitious
Derived words: excrementive
excrementize
Mexcrement
Translations:
wolverine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.
Inflected forms:
form: wolverines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wolverene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wolvering
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A solitary, fierce mammal of the Mustelidae family, Gulo gulo.
pos: noun
examples: “Wish I'd been more polite to that girl,” the sheriff remarked regretfully. “ I ain't had a bite to eat since four o'clock this morning, and I'm hungry as a wolverine. … I know she'd have give me another drink of that old moonshine she has.”
Translations:
additive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
grammar
group-theory
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin additivus, from the participial stem of Latin addere (“to add”).
Inflected forms:
form: more additive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most additive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: additives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
pos: adj
gloss: That is distributive over addition.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Matrix multiplication is additive, in that M#92;vecv#43;M#92;vecw#61;M(#92;vecv#43;#92;vecw).
gloss: Whose operator is identified as addition.
pos: adj
examples: It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.
gloss: Pertaining to chemical addition.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to genes (or the interaction etc. of such genes) which govern the same trait and whose effects work together on the phenotype.
pos: adj
gloss: A substance added to another substance or product to produce specific properties in the combined substance.
pos: noun
examples: Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.
gloss: A word or phrase that adds something, such as also, even, or nor.
pos: noun
Related words: additivity
Derived words: additive category
additive color
additive combinatorics
additive function
additive group
additive identity
additive inverse
additively
additive manufacturing
additiveness
additive number theory
additive operation
additive plural
additivism
adele
countably additive
cycloadditive
food additive
geoadditive
heteroadditive
hypoadditive
interadditive
nonadditive
overadditive
pre-additive category
protoadditive
subadditive
superadditive
underadditive
phytoadditive
Translations:
eclectic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French éclectique, from Ancient Greek ἐκλεκτικός (eklektikós, “selective”), from ἐκλέγω (eklégō, “to pick, choose”), from ἐκ (ek, “out, from”) + λέγω (légō, “to choose, count”).
Cognate to elect.
Inflected forms:
form: more eclectic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eclectic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eclectick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: eclectics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eclectick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
pos: adj
examples: Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. […] It is an eclectic religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.
gloss: Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
pos: adj
examples: All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.
The Austrians concentrated their entire armored formation into the 1st Division; the 2nd Division consisted solely of the wooden ship of the line Kaiser, looking incredibly out of place in a battle of ironclads, along with five frigates; and the 3rd Division had an eclectic collection of smaller gunboats and armed merchantmen.
gloss: Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.
pos: noun
examples: Neo-Pagans are eclectics, often borrowing from a variety of cultural traditions as they try to shape their religious organizations and practices to meet group and individual needs.
Antonyms: exclusive
homogeneous
orthodox
standard
uniform
Related words: cherry pick
heteroclite
holistic
Derived words: eclectically
eclecticism
eclecticist
eclecticize
eclectic medicine
eclection
noneclectic
uneclectic
Translations:
unprecedented
Part of speech: adj
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 precedent
English -ed
English unprecedented
From un- + precedent + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With the descent of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is, to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever. This event and its after-effects, along with the war against the Japanese in the 1940s, was to cast a long shadow over the years ahead, and led to the creation of the wholly unprecedented worship of Kim Il-sung, and his elevation to almost God-like status. It was also to create the system in which his son was to occupy almost as impossibly elevated a position.
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
Translations:
precedent
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Latin praecēdēns, present participle of praecēdere (“to precede”); See precede.
Inflected forms:
form: precedents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præcedent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: præcedent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: precedents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: precedenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: precedented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: precedented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præcedent
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
pos: noun
examples: Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only.
gloss: A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
pos: noun
gloss: An established habit or custom.
pos: noun
gloss: The aforementioned (thing).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
with-definite-article
examples: A third argument may be derived from the precedent.
gloss: The previous version.
pos: noun
gloss: A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,
I did suppose it should be on constraint ;
And keep it safe for our remembrance :
But , heaven be thank'd , it is but voluntary ,
Return the precedent to these lords again
gloss: Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].
gloss: To provide precedents for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be a precedent for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: stare decisis
Derived words: binding precedent
condition precedent
declaratory precedent
original precedent
persuasive precedent
precedency
precedented
precedential
precedentless
precedently
precedent-setting
precedent sub silentio
unprecedent
unprecedental
unprecedented
unprecedently
Translations:
avid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti
Latin aveō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin avidusbor.
French avide
English avid
From French avide, from Latin avidus (“eager, desirous; greedy”), from aveō (“wish, desire, long for, crave”).
Inflected forms:
form: more avid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: avider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
uncommon
form: most avid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: avidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Enthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
pos: adj
examples: an avid fan of 1960s sci-fi movies
an avid learner of history
I'm an avid reader.
A blanket disdain for indigenous foods doesn't explain the delay, because Spain was avid to adopt a different New World root.
We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
gloss: greedy
pos: adj
Derived words: avidly
avidity
avidness
Translations:
obsessive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obsess
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English obsessive
From obsess + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more obsessive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obsessive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obsessives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prone to cause obsession.
pos: adj
examples: The idea is too tempting, it's obsessive.
gloss: Having one thought or pursuing one activity (an obsession) to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others.
pos: adj
examples: Hardcore fans' obsessive behavior may take over their lives.
gloss: Excessive, as results from obsession.
pos: adj
examples: A workaholic's obsessive zeal may lead to success or burnout.
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
gloss: A person who is obsessed, who has an obsession.
pos: noun
Related words: obsess
obsession
obsessional
Derived words: antiobsessive
nonobsessive
obsessive-compulsive
obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsiveness
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
obsessive compulsive spartanism
obsessive-compulsivity
obsessive love disorder
obsessively
obsessiveness
schizo-obsessive disorder
unobsessive
Translations:
intuitive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intuitif, from Medieval Latin intuitivus, from Latin intueri.
Inflected forms:
form: more intuitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intuitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intuitives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
pos: adj
examples: The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
These impressions [of potential papal candidates], collected from interviews with a variety of church officials and experts, may influence the very intuitive, often unpredictable process the cardinals will use to decide who should lead the world’s largest church.
gloss: Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
pos: adj
examples: Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
gloss: Having a marked degree of intuition.
pos: adj
examples: I'm real intuitive, everyone is, we're just conditioned not to trust it.
gloss: One who has (especially parapsychological) intuition.
pos: noun
Antonyms: unintuitive
nonintuitive
counterintuitive
Related words: intuition
intuit
Derived words: contraintuitive
intuitive eating
intuitively
intuitiveness
intuitivism
intuitivist
intuitivity
Translations:
context
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
biology
computing
engineering
history
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
mycology
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Latin context(us).
Inflected forms:
form: contexts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: —In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.
The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
gloss: The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.
gloss: The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: isolation
Derived words: context-based learning
context clue
context collapse
context compaction
context-dependent
context-free
context-free grammar
context-free language
contextful
contextless
context menu
contextomy
context principle
context-sensitive
context-sensitive grammar
high-context culture
high context culture
KWIC
KWOC
licensing context
low-context culture
low context culture
macrocontext
metacontext
microcontext
out of context
out-of-context
put into context
supercontext
take out of context
Translations:
putter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Alteration of potter.
Inflected forms:
form: putters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: puttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: puttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: puttered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: putters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
gloss: One who puts or places.
pos: noun
examples: He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.
[…] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).
gloss: A shot-putter.
pos: noun
gloss: One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
pos: noun
Related words: carter
Translations:
unreal
Part of speech: adj
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-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
English unreal
From un- + real.
Inflected forms:
form: more unreal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unreal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
pos: adj
examples: The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I’ve never seen anything so unreal in my life.
"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
gloss: very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The video includes unreal footage of an eight-metre wave.
I just had an unreal hamburger.
He stops his cab at every traffic light, unrolls his window and calls out to the other drivers: "I've got a movie star in the car! Follow me down to see her come out. She is unreal, man! I am in seventh heaven! I have a dream!"
"She just set me up" "Now that's unreal, man. I mean, we're talking about a fairly considerable sum here, aren't we, Dexter?" "Listen to me. She set me up, with a dude she was cheatin' on me with
“Yeah, she does have a certain mental toughness that is unreal,” agreed Berto. “I really don't think of her as a girl, I mean, it's like she's a tough buddy or tough sister to me.”
He walks around and tries to pluck a flower on the ground. david exclaims, “Holy shit, this is unreal! i can feel the flower, the heat from the sun, and i can even hear the wind! The smells are so vibrant! How could i possibly be smelling flowers?
Synonyms: insubstantial
Antonyms: real
Derived words: unreal mode
Translations:
tournament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Old French tornoiement (Modern French tournoiement) from the verb tornoier.
Inflected forms:
form: tournaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
pos: noun
examples: England secured their place at Euro 2012 with a scrambled draw in Montenegro - but Wayne Rooney was sent off and will miss the start of the tournament.
gloss: A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
pos: noun
Derived words: donkament
hat tournament
nontournament
pre-tournament
pretournament
single-elimination tournament
subtournament
Translations:
derive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English deriven, from Old French deriver, from Latin dērīvō (“to lead, turn, or draw off (a liquid), draw off, derive”), from dē (“away”) + rīvus (“a stream”); see rival. Unrelated to arrive.
Inflected forms:
form: derives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deriving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: derived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: derived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Reading books is the best way to derive knowledge.
Bob the aforesaid, and his present chances of deriving a competent independence from the honourable profession to which he had devoted himself.
Power is derived from a British United Traction Limited "A"-type 150-h.p. six-cylinder horizontal diesel engine; this drives through a fluid flywheel, and thence through a free wheel unit to a four-speed epicyclic gearbox.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
gloss: To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To originate or stem (from).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her excellent organisation skills derive from her time as a secretary in the army.
Britannia's firebox would appear to have derived from those of the Bulleid Pacifics, which it closely resembles.
Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
gloss: To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
pos: verb
examples: For fear it [water] choke up the pits […] they [the workman] deriue it by other drains.
gloss: To differentiate (a function).
pos: verb
tags: proscribed
transitive
Derived words: derivability
derivable
derival
derivate
derivation
derivative
derivement
misderive
rederivable
rederive
zero derive
Translations:
astray
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagārī (“to wander, stray”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction.
pos: adv
examples: Go, set the storm-winds free, / And sink their ships or scatter them astray, / And strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey.
gloss: Away from what is right and good; into error or evil.
pos: adv
Related words: stray
estray
Derived words: go astray
lead astray
Translations:
persevere
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English perseveren, from Old French perseverer, from Latin persevērāre (“to continue steadfastly, persist, persevere”), from perseverus (“very strict or earnest”), from per (“through, by the means of”) + severus (“strict, earnest”). Doublet of perseverate.
Inflected forms:
form: perseveres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: persevering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: persevered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: persevered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: perservere
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: persever
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I will persevere in
my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore
between that and my blood.
Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it.
He is a trifle discouraged, but he perseveres.
gloss: To stay constant; to continue in a certain state; to remain.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
obsolete
Synonyms: abide
astand
bear up
carry on
continue
endure
follow up
hang in there
hold on
hold out
hold the line
hold up
keep a stiff upper lip
keep trying
keep up
persevere
persist
plod
plug
plug away
resist
soldier on
stay
stay the course
stay the distance
stick it out
stick to
stick by one's guns
stick to one's guns
stick with
stick with it
Antonyms: cease
desist
give up
quit
stop
surrender
yield
Related words: perseverance
perseverant
Translations: