yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unmanned
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 manned
English unmanned
From un- + manned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not operated by a person or a crew.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unmanned drones
an automated e-mail message sent from an unmanned mailbox
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
But her presence, via Beam, a teleconference robot that looks like the offspring of a computer and a Segway, roams the floor at what Beam reps say is the world’s first and only unmanned store.
The album [Drones] tackles issues of agency and independence and coercion within relationships as much as it acknowledges warfare and an imagined totalitarian force that needs to be overcome, but the image of unmanned robots wielding power from the sky is always present.
Turning to artificial intelligence and smart tech to overhaul maritime safety, his company Zelim is working on a trio of life-saving technologies — including an autonomous, unmanned lifeboat called “Guardian.”
gloss: Of a bird of prey: not accustomed to the presence of human beings.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a setting, situation or event, devoid of males.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
neologism
not-comparable
slang
Related words: remote-controlled
unstaffed
uncrewed
Translations:
sextet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French sextette, from Italian sestetto.
Inflected forms:
form: sextets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sextett
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sextette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any group of six people or things.
pos: noun
gloss: A composition for six voices or instruments.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of six singers or instrumentalists.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hexad
Related words: sestet
number
Derived words: antisextet
Translations:
peddle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from pedlar. (Compare burgle from burglar.)
Inflected forms:
form: peddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities.
pos: verb
examples: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
gloss: To sell illegal narcotics.
pos: verb
examples: - How much you think this stuff is worth?
- Yeah, there must be a million bucks' worth.
- Think we could peddle it?
- Oh, you can always get rid of it.
gloss: To spread or cause to spread.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
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.
As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
Related words: peddler
pedlar
peddling
Derived words: peddle one's ass
peddlesome
repeddle
unpeddled
Translations:
unethical
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 ethical
English unethical
From un- + ethical.
Inflected forms:
form: more unethical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unethical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Breaching the established standards of conduct or behavior within a particular organization or profession.
pos: adj
examples: He was sacked for unethical conduct.
The following potentially unethical coding practices are presented along with the standard from the AHIMA Standards of Ethical Coding that they may violate.
However, occasionally one encounters unethical but not immoral practice, because in China, market regulations are neither sufficient nor regularly updated.
For example, individuals accused of unethical conduct might challenge the decision rendered by an ethics review panel if they were displeased with the ethics review process or outcome.
gloss: Immoral, morally wrong.
pos: adj
examples: The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas is one of only a handful of sites around the world that conduct medical research on great apes. Scientists say their research is conducted humanely, but many animal rights groups say testing on chimps is unneeded and unethical.
Antonyms: ethical
Related words: inhumane
inequitable
unfair
Translations:
sentencing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sentencings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a judicial sentence.
pos: adj
examples: There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.
gloss: The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After the verdict, the sentencing was not delayed.
Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."
gloss: That which has been pronounced as a judgement or sentence for a crime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He struggled with sentencing his frayed and angry verses from poem to prose.
Derived words: circle sentencing
presentencing
sentencing range
Translations:
moldy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mold
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English moldy
From mold + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: moldier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more moldy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: moldiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most moldy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mouldy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with mold.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Stale or musty.
pos: adj
tags: US
Derived words: moldily
moldiness
Translations:
mould
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English molde, moulde (“mould, cast”) and Old French modle, from Latin modulus.
Inflected forms:
form: moulds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moulds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moulding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moulded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moulded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The portals are being constructed in situ, using a moveable mould that is made up of three parts. The inner form traveller supports the weight of the steel rebar and concrete as it is being poured and forms the inner shape of the portal. The external shape is formed by wall sections (assembled in situ) and a moveable arch-shaped outer section.
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
pos: verb
examples: Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by the wind, and above the trees rise the vicarage chimneystacks resembling miniature church towers.
Max Chafkin, Thiel's biographer, describes Vance as his "extension", while Cadwalladr describes Vance, somewhat impolitely, as "Thiel's creature… a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers".
Derived words: overmould
Translations:
erupt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin eruptus, past participle of ērumpō (“to break out (of), to burst out (from)”), from e (“out”) + rumpō (“to break”).
Inflected forms:
form: erupts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erupting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: erupted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: erupted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The volcano erupted, spewing lava across a wide area.
gloss: To burst forth; to break out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The third molar tooth erupts late in most people, and sometimes does not appear at all.
gloss: To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The crowd erupted in anger.
The whole table erupted in laughter.
And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
gloss: (Of birds, insects, etc.) To suddenly appear in a certain region in large numbers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After particularly good seasons, flocks "erupt" from their breeding grounds and appear in reed beds where they have not been seen for years, if ever.
Synonyms: burst
Related words: eruption
Derived words: eruptible
eruptive
nonerupted
nonerupting
unerupted
Translations:
eruption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.
Inflected forms:
form: eruptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a volcanic eruption
gloss: A sudden release of pressure or tension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.
gloss: An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?
gloss: An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bimbo eruption
eruptional
eruption column
maleruption
noneruption
overeruption
posteruption
Translations:
helio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of heliotrope.
Inflected forms:
form: helios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heliotrope (surveying instrument).
pos: noun
examples: A helio or sun-reflecting signal was evidently the desideratum.
A light keeper's duties require him to be alone on a station for days or even weeks at a time, showing a helio to the observer in the afternoon for two or three hours and watching by the signal lamp at night.
On a cloudy but bright day, it is possible to use a helio effectively over moderate distances of about 6 miles. Light keepers should be made aware of this, since they often think that brilliant sun is essential.
Translations:
boro
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: borrow
pos: verb
tags: Jamaica
Translations:
sudoku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Japanese 数(すう)字(じ) (sūji)
Japanese は (wa)
Japanese 独(どく)身(しん) (dokushin)
Japanese に (ni)
Japanese 限(かぎ)る (kagiru)
Japanese 数独 (sūdoku)bor.
English sudoku
Borrowed from Japanese 数独 (sūdoku).
Inflected forms:
form: sudokus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: su doku
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of pencil puzzle played on a square grid, requiring each of the columns, each of the rows, and each of the subregions (called "boxes" or "regions") to contain the lowest whole numbers up to the dimension of the puzzle, usually 1 to 9, once each. The subregions are rectangular or square except in variants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For Preston is the publishing director at Puzzler Media, which creates magazines filled with puzzles, including one called sudoku that has taken Britain by storm. […] The puzzles are widely available over the Internet because efforts to trademark the name in Britain have not been successful, and you can even download sudokus to mobile phones.
In fact, anything we do just to kill time—even essentially healthy activities like reading, chatting on the phone, or completing a sudoku puzzle—becomes a 'time thief.
The annual championship event comprises two days of Sudoku, followed by three days of other types of pencil-and-paper logic puzzles. Some of the Sudokus were classics: In a 9-by-9 grid, insert a number from 1 to 9 into each cell so that no number repeats in any row, column or bolded 3-by-3 square region.
Translations:
wheal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whele (“boil”), from Old English *hwele (“boil”); related to Old English hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also Old English hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).
Inflected forms:
form: wheals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.
pos: noun
examples: A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.
So they gripped again until red wheals rose on their backs and shoulders by reason of the grievous clasping of their arms.
Translations:
episiotomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From episio- + -tomy (“surgical incision”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσιον (epísion, “pubic region”) + τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”)).
Base: episio
Inflected forms:
form: episiotomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surgical incision through the perineum made to enlarge the vagina and assist childbirth.
pos: noun
examples: The following eight hours were the worst of my life that haven't ended in an episiotomy.
Translations:
coercion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
law
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
semantics
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cohercioun, from Old French cohercion, from Latin coërcitiō (“magisterial coercion”), from past participle coercitus of coërceō (“to restrain, coerce”), from co- (“with”) + arceō (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Inflected forms:
form: coercions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coersion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: coërcion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion.
gloss: Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A specific instance of coercing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion
...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided.
gloss: The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: noncoercion
Related words: coerce
coercer
coercible
coercitive
coercive
Derived words: coercionary
coercionist
Translations:
foxy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
beverages
food
human-sciences
lifestyle
oenology
philosophy
sciences
wine
Etymology: From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).
Base: fox
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: foxier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: foxiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Having the qualities of a fox.
pos: adj
gloss: Cunning, sly.
pos: adj
gloss: Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.
pos: adj
gloss: Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
pos: adj
examples: His eye for colour was so exquisite that I do not think there is a single instance in all his works of a heated tint which is called foxy. This cannot be said of Rubens or Rembrandt […]
Although the skies of Brydael's pictures are often broken with rather heavy masses of orange and yellow clouds, yet, taking him altogether, he was not a 'foxy' painter; on the contrary, there is a silvery coolness about some of his pictures which pleases us.
gloss: Of wine, having an animal-like odor.
pos: adj
gloss: With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
pos: adj
examples: For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."
Related words: silver-foxy
Derived words: foxily
foxiness
foxy bolete
foxy boxing
unfoxy
Translations:
bromo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bromine.
Inflected forms:
form: bromos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dose of a proprietary sedative containing bromide (a bromo-seltzer).
pos: noun
Translations:
indio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish indio, Portuguese índio.
Inflected forms:
form: indios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Indio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: índio
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of various indigenous peoples in the Americas, Pacific, and East Asia formerly subject to Spain or Portugal, specifically a Native American in Mexico or Brazil, or an indigenous inhabitant of the Philippines.
pos: noun
examples: On the sugar estates the índios were then annihilated by the infections the Portuguese had brought from Europe.
Translations:
pyrolysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Latin pyr
English pyro-
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der.
English -lysis
English pyrolysis
From pyro- + -lysis.
Inflected forms:
form: pyrolyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The decomposition of a material or compound due to heat, in the absence of oxygen or other reagents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: Techniques that have successfully identified ionic intermediates in solution have been applied to gas-phase pyrolyses.
Twenty years ago our real understanding of the mechanism of alkane pyrolyses was little better than rudimentary.
Pyrolysis involves the thermal degradation of the rubber of the tyre to give an oil and gas leaving a residual solid carbon and the steel casing of the tyre.
Traditional pyrolysis of wood relies on low temperatures and long processing time to increase the charcoal yield. In contrast, modern or fast pyrolysis uses moderate temperatures (400-500°C) and very short residence times (typically only a few seconds) to maximize the production of liquids (Diebold and Bridgewater, 1997).
Translations:
sodomize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sodom
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English sodomize
From Sodom + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: sodomizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sodomizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sodomized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sodomized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of sodomise.
pos: verb
examples: Antonio thus "actively" sodomized the presumably adolescent Lorenzo by fellating him
Translations:
anglaise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anglaises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of English country dance.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
planetoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English planet
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English planetoid
From planet + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: planetoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An asteroid of any size
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The group of small bodies that circle round the Sun, outside the orbit of Mars, are known under the designation of the planetoids.
Numbering of the Planetoids or Asteroidal Planets.—In numbering the planetoids a difficulty has arisen [...]
if one can argue for the early existence of a few largely molten planetoids with dimension of kilometers or tens of kilometers, one can quite as easily argue for very large numbers of such planetoids.
gloss: An asteroid-like body in an orbit beyond the asteroid belt, such as a centaur or Kuiper belt object
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A larger, planetary, body in orbit around the Sun, such as Vesta or (candidate) dwarf planets such Eris or Sedna
pos: noun
examples: After discovering "planetoids", bodies orbiting the Sun, even larger than Pluto's moon Charon ... the question of how Sedna and other planetoids came to be.
Eris [...] was the upstart planetoid that knocked Pluto off the planetary lists
gloss: Any planetary body, including classical planets and moons: a planetary-mass object
pos: noun
examples: Plate tectonics is a style of convection for an active planetoid where lid fragment (plate) motions reflect sinking of dense lithosphere in subduction zones […] In 2015 humanity completed a 50+ year effort to survey the 30 largest planets, asteroids, satellites, and inner Kuiper Belt objects, which we informally call “planetoids”.
gloss: A dwarf planet
pos: noun
examples: We prefer the word "planetoid" as a new word to describe round objects orbiting the sun.
A dwarf planet or a planetoid is a celestial body that [...]
'Dwarf planet' is a dumb phrase. For years we've called things like Pluto and Xena 'planetoids'—planetlike.
Related words: dwarf planet
microplanetoid
minor planet
planemo
planetesimal
Derived words: planetoidal
Translations:
atheistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English atheist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English atheistic
From atheist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more atheistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most atheistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to atheists or atheism.
pos: adj
Translations:
yup
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.
Inflected forms:
form: yups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yes; an affirmative answer.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: One was either a Yup or a Nope, depending upon his answer to that age-old question, "Gotcher deer yet?" I, of course, was still a Nope. Although Yups and Nopes looked pretty much alike they were as different as mallards from mongooses.
But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...
She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.
It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.
Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.
His hands moved, gesturing towards the two bidders, enticing them to raise their stakes against each other, as he chanted a litany of numbers followed by “going once, going twice” only to be followed by a resounding “yup” as he turned, alternately, towards each of the two men.
A rotating cast of auctioneers unleashed a torrent of increasingly high bids, speaking at a machine gun's pace while a chorus of increasingly aggressive "yups" emerged from the audience.
gloss: Yes.
pos: intj
tags: informal
Antonyms: nope
Translations:
plage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French plage, from Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“region”) (cognate with English flake). Doublet of playa.
Inflected forms:
form: plages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.
Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe,
You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain,
As far as from the frozen place ^([sic – meaning plage]) of heauen,
Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^([sic – meaning bower]).
In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.
gloss: A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.
pos: noun
Related words: plague
Translations:
slaughterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slaughter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English slaughterer
From slaughter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slaughterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A butcher (as a profession or job).
pos: noun
gloss: A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet.
pos: noun
Related words: carnage
massacre
slaughter
slaughterhouse
slaughterman
slaughterous
slaughterwoman
Derived words: manslaughterer
Translations:
slaughterhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slaughter + house.
Compound parts: slaughter
house
Inflected forms:
form: slaughterhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where animals are slaughtered.
pos: noun
gloss: The scene of a massacre.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
Related words: slaughter
slaughterer
slaughterous
killing floor
knacker's yard
Translations:
identikit
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: criminology
government
human-sciences
law
law-enforcement
sciences
Etymology: Genericized trademark, from blend of identification + kit.
Compound parts: identification
kit
Inflected forms:
form: identikits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to construct a likeness of a person sought for a crime.
pos: noun
gloss: Indistinguishable from each other; mass-produced or mass marketed.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
informal
not-comparable
examples: These identikit destinations have been developed through the activities of multinational tourism organizations.
These identikit productions do not require specific performers to bring a new interpretation but require the repetition of the successful event for the paying audience.
She guesses it is only a few years old; one of seven identikit mock-Tudor mansions built on a recent cul-de-sac development just outside Chichester.
Bellingham is the identikit modern midfield player and the manner in which he combined with Foden for England's second goal, completed by a rousing finish from Kane, was a glimpse into a golden future.
The Rue Sainte-Catherine in Bordeaux […] mixes international brands, uniquely French names and small independents in a soft-stone 18th-century backdrop that draws both local residents and visiting tourists—no one wants an identikit high street you can find back home.
Translations:
provincial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.
Base: province
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
form: more provincial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most provincial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: provincials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a province.
pos: adj
examples: a provincial government
a provincial dialect
More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
gloss: Constituting a province.
pos: adj
gloss: Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
pos: adj
examples: […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
gloss: Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
pos: adj
gloss: Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
pos: adj
examples: That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
gloss: Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
pos: adj
examples: a provincial synod
gloss: A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
pos: noun
gloss: A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
pos: noun
examples: The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
gloss: A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
gloss: A country bumpkin.
pos: noun
Derived words: comprovincial
ecoprovincial
extraprovincial
interprovincial
intraprovincial
multiprovincial
nonprovincial
provincialate
provincial council
provincialist
provinciality
provincialization
provincialize
provincially
provincial park
subprovincial
transprovincial
unprovincial
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: գավառական
roman: gavaṙakan
lang: Finnish
word: maalaismainen
lang: Finnish
word: maalainen
lang: Georgian
word: პროვინციული
roman: ṗrovinciuli
lang: Greek
word: επαρχιώτικος
roman: eparchiótikos
lang: Greek
word: χωριάτικος
roman: choriátikos
lang: Spanish
word: provinciano
lang: Spanish
word: paleto
lang: Thai
word: บ้านนอก
roman: bâan-nɔ̂ɔk
lang: Finnish
word: hiippakunnallinen
lang: Finnish
word: arkkihiippakunnallinen
lang: Finnish
word: kapeakatseinen
lang: Finnish
word: nurkkakuntainen
lang: Hungarian
word: provinciális
remorseful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From remorse + -ful.
Base: remorse
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more remorseful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most remorseful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling or filled with remorse.
pos: adj
examples: He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
gloss: Expressing or caused by remorse.
pos: adj
examples: There was a remorseful look on her face.
Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.
Synonyms: penitent
apologetic
regretful
remorseful
repentant
contrite
guilt-ridden
Antonyms: remorseless
unremorseful
unrepentant
impenitent
obdurate
recidivistic
unapologetic
unbowed
uncontrite
unreformed
Related words: remorse
remorsefully
remorsefulness
Translations:
polis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tpelH-
Proto-Hellenic *ptólis
Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis)lbor.
English polis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “fortified town; city state”). Doublet of Puri and puri
Inflected forms:
form: poleis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Greek city-state.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance.
Translations:
ordo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōrdō. Doublet of order.
Inflected forms:
form: ordines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ordos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
pos: noun
gloss: A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
pos: noun
gloss: A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below classis and above familia.
pos: noun
gloss: an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy
pos: noun
Related words: ordo salutis
pontifical
Derived words: infraordo
Translations:
nauseous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin nauseōsus (“causing nausea”), corresponding synchronically to nausea + -ous.
Base: nausea
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more nauseous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nauseous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
pos: adj
examples: […] And flattery tipt with nauseous fleer,
And guilty shame, and servile fear,
Envy, and cruelty, and pride,
Will in your tainted heart preside.
[T]he Italians grossness of Conversation is still very offensive & nauseous, tho' long accustomed to it.
And then what proper person can be partial / To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
gloss: Inclined to nausea; sickly, squeamish.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Afflicted with nausea; sick.
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
examples: After he had scarcely eaten enough, he felt nauseous; but nausea ceased as soon as he stopped eating entirely, …
[…] during stretching the patient felt nauseous …
Is it a myth that you shouldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics? I often do and haven't felt remotely nauseous.
Synonyms: nauseating
Related words: nauseated
queasy
Derived words: nauseously
nauseousness
Translations:
beatnik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in 1958. From beat (generation) + -nik (“person who exemplifies or endorses something”). Compare jazznik.
The suffix, a cutesy or ironic use of the Russian suffix -ник (-nik), experienced a surge of use in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.
Base: beat generation
Affixes: -nik
Inflected forms:
form: beatniks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beatniki
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and is supposed to reject conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior.
pos: noun
examples: The drive against the stilyagi has hampered but not destroyed the development of (Soviet-style) “beatniki” among the younger artistic and literary intelligentsia. […] The tendency of Soviet “beatniki” is to emulate what they consider the Left-Bank bohemianism of Paris. It is a faint whisper of a similar movement among young East European intellectuals, particularly in Poland, to make ultrasophistication their mark of separateness from “proletarian” society.
gloss: A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.
pos: noun
examples: The Beatles first surfaced in the USSR in 1964, when the style of dress of the ‘Beatniki’ was enthusiastically copied.
Worrying news from the west upset Soviet authorities even further. Punk rock was already causing trouble in Poland and other east-European countries. Did someone in the administration fear a repetition of Beatlemania, with decent, twist-dancing beatniki being replaced by pogo-dancing, sneering and gobbing impersonators of Johnny Rotten?
In tight black jeans and black polo-neck sweater he reminded her of an old-fashioned beatnik.
Related words: Baghdad by the Bay
fringie
hepcat
hippie
hippy
Derived words: beatnikery
beatnikish
beatnikism
Bootnik
jazznik
peacenik
wordnik
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: бі́тнік
roman: bítnik
lang: Czech
word: beatník
lang: Estonian
word: biitnik
lang: Finnish
word: beatnik
lang: French
word: beatnik
lang: German
word: Beatnik
lang: Hebrew
word: ביטניק
lang: Japanese
word: ビートニク
roman: bītoniku
lang: Korean
word: 비트족
roman: biteujok
lang: Korean
word: 비트닉
roman: biteunik
lang: Macedonian
word: битник
roman: bitnik
lang: Norwegian
word: beatnik
lang: Polish
word: beatnik
lang: Polish
word: bitnik
lang: Portuguese
word: beatnik
lang: Russian
word: би́тник
roman: bítnik
lang: Spanish
word: beatnik
lang: Swedish
word: beatnik
lang: Ukrainian
word: бі́тник
roman: bítnyk
lang: Yiddish
word: ביטניק
roman: bitnik
intrathecal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From intra- + theca + -al.
Base: intra
Inflected forms:
form: intrathecals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Delivered into the spinal canal (intrathecal space surrounding the spinal cord), e.g. a spinal anesthesia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An intrathecal injection.
pos: noun
Translations:
nihilistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nihilist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English nihilistic
From nihilist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more nihilistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nihilistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to nihilism.
pos: adj
examples: Some of his gloomy judgments have tempted critics to the conclusion that Kazantzakis was even more nihilistic than Nietzsche, and this book can support that view.
The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.
Translations:
behest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English biheste, from Old English behǣs (“vow, promise”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaisi, from *bi- (“be-”) + *haisi (“command”), from Proto-Germanic *haisiz, from *haitaną (“to command”). Final -t by analogy with other similar words in -t. Related to Old English behātan (“to command, promise”), Middle Low German beheit, behēt (“a promise”). Compare also hest (“command”), hight.
Inflected forms:
form: behests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of and at one's behest.
pos: noun
examples: Moſt great and puiſant Monarke of the earth,
Your Baſſoe wil accompliſh your beheſt: […]
to do his master's high behest
I have spells for the north, I have charms for the west, / And the south and the east must obey my behest.
Paul did not dare pronounce, let matters rest, / His master having given him no behest.
The London Midland Region has announced receipt of authority from the Ministry of Transport to resume the reconstruction of Stafford station and layout, interrupted at the Minister's behest; contracts have now been placed for the erection of the new station buildings and the yardmaster's office.
Sophie felt she should sit on too though she knew it to be an irrational fantasy of hers that these little services were held at his behest.
And young Mr. Fleetwood Vibe was here at the behest of his father, Wall Street eminence Scarsdale Vibe, who was effectively bankrolling the Expedition.
the House of Representatives will try to water down even this feeble effort at the behest of the unions whose members enjoy some of the most lavish policies.
The Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, is to meet with the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, at the behest of the Premier League in a bid to resolve their long-running feud.
gloss: A vow; a promise.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1440, Markaryte Paston, letter to John Paston
The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made.
Derived words: behest loan
Translations:
chum
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1675–85; of uncertain origin, possibly from cham, shortening of chambermate, or from comrade. Less likely from Welsh cymrawd (“fellow”), compare brawd (“brother”).
Inflected forms:
form: chums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chumming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chummed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chummed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: choom
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To share rooms with someone; to live together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Henry Wotton and John Donne began to be friends when, as boys, they chummed together at Oxford, where Donne had gone at the age of twelve years.
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
gloss: To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make friends; to socialize.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was not surprised to see somebody sitting aft, on the deck, with his legs dangling over the mud. You see I rather chummed with the few mechanics there were in that station, whom the other pilgrims naturally despised—on account of their imperfect manners, I suppose.
"You'll make yourself disliked on board!"
"By von Heumann merely."
"But is that wise when he's the man we've got to diddle?"
"The wisest thing I ever did. To have chummed up with him would have been fatal -- the common dodge."
gloss: To accompany.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
informal
transitive
examples: I'll chum you down to the shops.
Translations:
hefty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 19th century. From heft (“weight”) + -y.
The similarity with German heftig (“vigorous, violent, intense”) is apparently coincidental. From the German are Dutch, Danish, Norwegian heftig, Swedish häftig.
Base: heft
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: heftier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: heftiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
pos: adj
examples: He can throw a hefty punch.
The Remove dormitory echoed to the old, familiar sound of Bunter's hefty snore.
Fill up on some of the heftiest burritos in captivity, fashioned around grilled beef, chicken, greasy and indulgent barbecued pork al pastor, carnitas and the more exotic [things].
[…] on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
gloss: Strong; bulky.
pos: adj
examples: They use some hefty bolts to hold up road signs.
gloss: Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
pos: adj
examples: He was a tall, hefty man.
gloss: Heavy, weighing a lot.
pos: adj
examples: She carries a hefty backpack full of books.
gloss: Large, healthy.
pos: adj
examples: That's going to cost you a hefty sum.
a hefty fine
Derived words: heftily
heftiness
unhefty
Translations:
popularise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communication
communications
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *poplos
Old Latin populus
Latin populus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Latin populārislbor.
Old French populairebor.
▲
Latin populārisbor.
Middle English populer
English popular
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ise
English popularise
From popular + -ise.
Inflected forms:
form: popularises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: popularising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: popularised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: popularised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: popularize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
British
English
Oxford
US
Senses:
gloss: To make something popular.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Homer Simpson popularised the term "d'oh".
Towards the end of August, the Southern Railway decided to adopt a novel form of publicity to popularise the services. Sandwich board men were employed at Charing Cross and Cannon Street to display placards, and distribute leaflet timetables, calling attention to the vacant seats on the services via Nunhead.
Special cheap day return facilities have been introduced to popularise the railbuses.
gloss: To present information in a form less difficult for the general public to understand or enjoy, especially by excluding details and jargon found in technical or academic publications.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: repopularise
unpopularise
Translations:
monocle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).
Base: oculus
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monocles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
pos: noun
gloss: A one-eyed animal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: glasses
spectacles
Derived words: bemonocled
monocled
Translations: