yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cognizant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A new formation from cognizance + -ant; first attested in the 19th century. Compare Old French conoissant (present participle of conoistre; modern French connaissant), from Latin cognōscentem (accusative singular present participle of cōgnōscō).
Base: cognizance
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: more cognizant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cognizant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cognisant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.
pos: adj
examples: The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.
And now the memory has so far regained its dominion, that, in some measure, I am cognizant of my state.
At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.
gloss: Sapient; self-aware.
pos: adj
examples: It is important to note that zombies are not cognizant life forms. As such, they cannot be deterred or reasoned with in any way. However, there are zombie-inducing forces that can be deterred form^([sic]) further action.
Antonyms: unwitting
Related words: cognisant
cognize
Derived words: cognizantly
incognizant
miscognizant
noncognizant
precognizant
uncognizant
Translations:
defrock
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French défroquer, from dé- + froc. By surface analysis, de- + frock.
Inflected forms:
form: defrocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defrocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defrocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defrocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To divest of a frock.
pos: verb
tags: literally
gloss: To formally remove the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The defrocked priest may no longer perform rites.
The Vatican has defrocked the anti-abortion US priest Frank Pavone for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop.
gloss: To formally remove the rights and authority of someone, e.g. a government official or a medical practitioner.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).
Synonyms: disfrock
unfrock
Translations:
decontamination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English contamination
English decontamination
From de- + contamination.
Inflected forms:
form: decontaminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.
pos: noun
Translations:
swineherd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt.
Inflected forms:
form: swineherds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
pos: noun
examples: But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
Translations:
jeweler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English jueler, from Anglo-Norman jueler, or Old French juelier. By surface analysis, jewel + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jewelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jeweller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job is making, repairing or selling jewelry.
pos: noun
Translations:
sulkily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sulky
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sulkily
From sulky + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sulkily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sulkily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sulky manner.
pos: adv
examples: But the pretty milk-maid was much too vexed to make any answer. She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs.
By hammering trenchantly on that point, Podson was induced to say sulkily, "Oh, all right, if you're so set on it...I never mentioned it. Hang it, I'm not likely to mention it to anybody, am I?"
Translations:
nonaligned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English aligned
English nonaligned
From non- + aligned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not allied with any particular nation, or with any side in a dispute.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Neutral; impartial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
being-for-itself
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The nihilation of being-in-itself
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Consciousness conceived as a lack of being, a desire for being, a relation to being.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The origin of negation and destruction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: being-in-itself
facticity
transcendence
Translations:
being-in-itself
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: existentialism
human-sciences
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The self-contained and fully realized being or existence of objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
finitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fin(is) + -itude or directly from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō.
Affixes: -itude
Inflected forms:
form: finitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Matter expresses the finitude of time-space; in this world of limitation a new way of knowing becomes possible, and this way is language.
A one-car life is one of finitude and limitations.
Antonyms: infiniteness
infinitude
infinity
limitlessness
unlimitedness
Translations:
royalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From royal + -ist, also capitalised as Royalist.
Base: royal
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more royalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most royalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: royalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: royalistic
pos: adj
examples: For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
gloss: A monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.
pos: noun
gloss: A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: supporter of a royal régime
Antonyms: republican
democrat
Related words: royalism
Translations:
environmentalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
medicine
politics
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French environnementbor.
English environment
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English environmental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English environmentalism
From environmental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: environmentalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment.
gloss: A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The need for environmentalisms engaged with the commons rather than relegated to the individual consumer or tied to the middle-class principles of private property.
Related words: antienvironmentalism
enviro-
environment
environmental
environmentalist
Translations:
godhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English godhede, equivalent to god + -head (“-hood”). First attested in the Ancrene Wisse (ca. 1225); compare godhood and Dutch godheid as well as German Gottheit.
Base: god
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: godheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Divinity or godhood, divine essence or nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For the inuisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearely seene, being vnderstood by the things that are made, euen his eternall Power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse:
It was at Fort Yukon that White Fang saw his first white men. As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of beings, a race of superior gods. They impressed him as possessing superior power, and it is on power that god-head rests.
gloss: God.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
uncountable
usually
examples: For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
when at the holy mount / Of Heav'ns high-ſeated top, th' Impereal Throne / Of Godhead, fixed for ever firm and ſure,
They unanimously pronounced, that the worship of images is agreeable to Scripture and reason, to the fathers and councils of the church: but they hesitate whether that worship be relative or direct; whether the Godhead, and the figure of Christ, be entitled to the same mode of adoration.
Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear / The Godhead's most benignant grace; / Nor know we any thing so fair / As is the smile upon thy face;
gloss: Any deity or idol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Adoring firſt the Genius of the Place, / Then Earth, the Mother of the Heav'nly Race, / The Nymphs, and native Godheads yet unknown, / And Night, and all the Stars that gild her ſable Throne,
gloss: An admired or influential person or entity.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: He pauses, as if hesitant to mention the godhead of computer design aloud, and adds, "Maybe even something Apple would be interested in."
Related words: godhood
Translations:
myrrh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek μύρρα (múrrha), from Semitic. Compare Arabic مُرّ (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew מור / מֹר (mōr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”). Compare מרור : maror.
Inflected forms:
form: myrrhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the genus Commiphora, especially Commiphora myrrha, used as perfume, incense or medicine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
A compound of eggs boiled with myrrh, pepper, and cinnamon, taken on several successive days, is recommended by Arabs for strengthening amorous vigor.
gloss: Synonym of chrism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The herb chervil.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
uncountable
usually
Derived words: African myrrh
common myrrh
heerabol myrrh
herabol myrrh
hirabol myrrh
myrrhbearer
myrrhed
myrrhic
myrrhin
myrrhine
myrrhlike
myrrhol
myrrhy
Translations:
frankincense
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French franc encens (“noble incense”).
Inflected forms:
form: frankincenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of incense obtained from the Boswellia thurifera tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The glories of Mary held his soul captive : spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
Frankincense, Frankenstein, Francophile, Philistine / Frankly, we are killing time
Translations:
heedless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English heed
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English heedless
From heed + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more heedless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heedless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unaware; without noticing; careless; inattentive.
pos: adj
examples: Sing we joyous, all together, heedless of the wind and weather.
Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless."
Translations:
wassailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wassailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of performing a wassail.
pos: noun
examples: I had rather kiss you than the tumbler, my dear / If there’s death in the cup, let us kiss before bier. / Our lips close with a cling / Undespondingly bring, / Then two happiest pairs to a good wassailing.
Translations:
webisode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Web + episode, coined to describe Scott Zakarin's The Spot (1995–1997).
Compound parts: Web
episode
Inflected forms:
form: webisodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short audio or video presentation on an Internet site.
pos: noun
examples: 2012, J. C. Calciano, quoted in 2012, Suzanne Lyons, Independent Film Producing: The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking, unnumbered page,
I've build a fan-base on the Internet to market my movies through my webisodes. I started the webisode a year before my first movie, and within two years, each of my webisodes average between 20,000 to 50,000 views a day.
Webisodes such as the '6 beers of separation' described in the IMC Challenge at the start of the chapter are online episodes or chapters of an ongoing story. One of the best early examples is the BMW webisode where well-known people such as Guy Ritchie tell engaging stories involving BMW cars.
gloss: An episode of an Internet-based movie etc.
pos: noun
examples: With the pilot webisode Fault Effect done and the additional character concepts prepared, it was time to start laying the groundwork for the initial batch of future webisodes.
Overall, through an analysis of the structure, content, and context of these Web series, this chapter assesses the power of the webisode as a tool for the expression of Black voices, as empowerment for Black creative forces, and as a potential site for creating Black community.
gloss: An episode of a television show that is only aired online.
pos: noun
examples: n most cases, what was referred to as an episode or a webisode wasn't even a complete scene but instead an unfinished thought. A typical Seventh Portal webisode would set up its characters and present a conflict. Then, just as the conflict arose, the webisode reached its designated time limit and the audience was left hanging, rubbing its collective head and wondering, what the heck was that?
The webisodes made clear: Jammer betrayed the Resistance.[…]The webisodes reveal not only character details, but aspects of the narrative arc of the series as well. In Webisode Five, Viper pilot and new husband Duck cries when his wife is killed in a Cylon raid on New Caprica.
Related words: appisode
webisodic
Translations:
hospitalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hospitalize + -ation. Piecewise doublet of hotelization.
Base: hospitalize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: hospitalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hospitalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Insurance that pays a patient's expenses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inpatient
Derived words: dehospitalization
hallway hospitalization
posthospitalization
prehospitalization
rehospitalization
Translations:
hosanna
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin osanna, hosanna, from Ancient Greek ὡσαννά (hōsanná), from Aramaic אושענא/ܐܘܫܥܢܐ ('ōsha‘nā), from Biblical Hebrew הוֹשַׁע נָא (hōsha‘ nā, “please save”).
Inflected forms:
form: hosana
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hosannah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hoshanna
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hoshiana
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hosannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hosana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hosannah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoshanna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoshiana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hosannas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hosannaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hosannaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hosannaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hosana
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hosannah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hoshanna
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hoshiana
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.
pos: intj
gloss: A cry of ‘hosanna’.
pos: noun
examples: When we arrived in New York, we found a day of extreme brilliance. It would be impossible ever to forget the first sight of the groups of slender towers that form the skyline of New York City, chanting hosannas to an autumn sky.
Imagine God in Heaven surrounded by the choirs of adoring angels singing hosannahs unendingly.
The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation.
I’ve written before about the inevitable, tragic dynamic of this brokeback bromance; Trump needs a mindless cheering section screaming hosannas no matter how often he stumbles toward the nuclear and political precipice.
gloss: To give a cry of ‘hosanna’.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
hawker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably Borrowed from Low German or Dutch, from Middle Low German hoker and ultimately from the root of huckster.
Inflected forms:
form: hawkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A peddler, a huckster, a person who sells easily transportable goods.
pos: noun
examples: The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
First-generation hawkers were mostly immigrants from China, and to a smaller extent from India and the Malay Archipelago. A 1950 Hawkers Inquiry Commission report stated that 84 per cent of the hawkers in Singapore were Chinese.
gloss: Any dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae; a darner.
pos: noun
gloss: A seller of food in a hawker centre.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
Derived words: azure hawker
blue hawker
brown hawker
common hawker
hawker center
hawker centre
hawkering
hawker stand
hawk
migrant hawker
moorland hawker
southern hawker
hawkerless
Translations:
harmonisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harmony
English -ise
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 -isation
English harmonisation
From harmony + -isation.
Inflected forms:
form: harmonisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of harmonization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cavort
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originated in the United States in 1793, as cauvaut, applying to horses, probably from the colloquial intensifying prefix ca-/ka- + vault (“jump, leap”); later generalized. Early sources connect it to cavault, a term for a certain demeanor of horses. Alternatively, a variation of curvet.
Inflected forms:
form: cavorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cavorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cavorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cavorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prance, frolic, gambol.
pos: verb
examples: […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]
gloss: To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted, / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do; […]
He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.
[…]and soon a high-spirited snowball fight was being waged by dozens of happy, hyperkinetic boys cavorting in dungarees and T-shirts, in sweatsuits, in pajamas, even some in only underwear.
They descended by the tens of thousands on Britain’s southern beaches and jammed into city parks. They cavorted by the hundreds in streams.
[…] while a woman in a bright red coat cavorts through a crosswalk with what appears to be an impeccably groomed Afghan hound.
gloss: To engage in extravagant pursuits, especially of a sexual nature.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: As he moves back into the shadows, the stage is taken over by a troupe of Pan-like dancers, leaping and cavorting in an obscene ballet.
We can't even write stories about moguls like Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller unless it involves photographs of them cavorting with young flesh.
Related words: horse around
Derived words: cavorter
cavortingly
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: skotačit
lang: Dutch
word: steigeren
lang: Esperanto
word: pranci
lang: Hungarian
word: ágaskodik
lang: Hungarian
word: táncol
punch-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punch updeverb.
English punch-up
Deverbal from punch up.
Inflected forms:
form: punch-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fight with the fists.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
stressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more stressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering stress (either physical or mental).
pos: adj
gloss: Having a stress or accent.
pos: adj
Synonyms: harassed
harried
tried
Antonyms: unstressed
Related words: stressed out
stressed-out
Derived words: nonstressed
photostressed
prestressed
pre-stressed
stressedness
technostressed
Translations:
mammogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mammo-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor.
English -gram
English mammogram
From mammo- + -gram.
Inflected forms:
form: mammograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mammogramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: An X-ray picture of the breasts (mammaries), used to screen for breast cancer.
pos: noun
examples: If I had found out in 2010, when I had the mammogram, I would not have wanted preventive surgery because I hoped to have another child, and I wanted to breastfeed again.
An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40. […] This is a marked difference from the task force’s previous guidance, which was to start biennial mammograms by age 50.
In a country where the equipment to perform mammograms is in short supply, the expertise of these examiners is crucial.
Translations:
irreligious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin irreligiōsus. By surface analysis, ir- + religious.
Inflected forms:
form: more irreligious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irreligious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no relation to religion.
pos: adj
gloss: Contrary to religious beliefs and practices.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he virtuous reader may condemn her for showing too great regard to a base-born infant, to which all charity is condemned by law as irreligious […]
gloss: Contrary to religious beliefs and practices.
pos: adj
Related words: irreligiosity
irreligiously
religious
Derived words: irreligiousness
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: epäuskonnollinen
lang: Finnish
word: uskonnonvastainen
lang: French
word: irréligieux
lang: German
word: irreligiös
lang: Hebrew
word: לא דתי
roman: lo datí
lang: Hebrew
word: חילוני
roman: khiloní
lang: Hindi
word: अधर्मी
roman: adharmī
lang: Irish
word: díreiligiúnach
lang: Latin
word: irreligiōsus
lang: Maltese
word: irreliġjuż
lang: Polish
word: niereligijny
lang: Portuguese
word: irreligioso
lang: Spanish
word: irreligioso
divergent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin dis- (“apart”) + vergere (“to turn”) + the adjectival suffix -ent.
Inflected forms:
form: more divergent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most divergent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Growing further apart; diverging.
pos: adj
examples: Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.
gloss: (said of a sequence or series) Diverging; not approaching a limit.
pos: adj
gloss: Disagreeing from something given; differing.
pos: adj
examples: a divergent statement
gloss: Causing divergence of rays.
pos: adj
examples: a divergent lens
Related words: diverge
converge
Derived words: codivergent
divergent gill trama
divergently
divergent series
divergent thinking
enantiodivergent
hyperdivergent
hypodivergent
multidivergent
neurodivergent
nondivergent
normodivergent
regiodivergent
stereodivergent
undivergent
Translations:
humidify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ūmeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin ūmidus
Latin hūmidusder.
Old French humideder.
English humid
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English humidify
From humid + -ify.
Inflected forms:
form: humidifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: humidifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: humidified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: humidified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To increase the humidity in the air.
pos: verb
examples: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
Antonyms: dehumidify
Translations:
humidifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ūmeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin ūmidus
Latin hūmidusder.
Old French humideder.
English humid
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English humidify
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 humidifier
From humidify + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: humidifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that is used to increase the humidity of the air.
pos: noun
examples: Even the plants look expensive. A humidifier hisses beneath her calatheas.
Antonyms: dehumidifier
Translations:
disciplinarian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From discipline + -arian or disciplinary + -an.
Base: discipline
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: disciplinarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more disciplinarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disciplinarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who exercises discipline.
pos: noun
examples: He is the chief disciplinarian in the school.
Miss Brownell had the reputation in Blair Water of being a fine teacher—due mainly to the fact that she was a strict disciplinarian and kept excellent “order.”
gloss: One who believes in discipline as a tool for regulation or control.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Relating to discipline.
pos: adj
examples: Disciplinarian system.
Related words: disciple
Derived words: disciplinarianism
multidisciplinarian
Translations:
regency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English regencie (cf. regente), from Medieval Latin regentia, from Latin regēns, present participle of regō. By surface analysis, regent + -cy; compare also + -ency (“abstract-noun suffix”).
Affixes: -ency
Inflected forms:
form: regencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or queen when that king or queen becomes unable to rule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The time during which a regent is in power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An administrative division ranking below a province in Indonesia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: coregency
regal
regalia
regent
interregnum
Derived words: omniregency
Regency Kingdom of Poland
Regency of Algiers
viceregency
Translations:
demystification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English mystification
English demystification
From de- + mystification.
Inflected forms:
form: demystifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of mystery or confusion surrounding a topic or idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bastinado
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish bastonada (compare French bastonnade), from baston (“a stick or staff”).
Inflected forms:
form: bastinadoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bastinade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bastinadoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bastinadoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bastinadoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bastinadoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bastinade
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A blow with a cudgel or stick.
pos: noun
examples: [H]e is Sir / The moſt vnutterable covvard, that ere nature / Bleſt vvith hard ſhoulders, vvhich vvere only giuen him, / To the ruine of baſtinados.
gloss: Beating the bare soles of the feet with a stick as a form of corporal punishment used primarily within prisons in various countries. The receiving person is required to be barefoot.
pos: noun
gloss: To punish a person by beating the bare soles of the feet, using a stick or truncheon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
spinsterhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spinster
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English spinsterhood
From spinster + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: spinsterhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a spinster.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: sheʼs long ago resigned herself to eternal spinsterhood, to a future without the joys of marriage and motherhood
gloss: The time during which one is a spinster.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tidbit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis
Proto-Germanic *tīdiz
Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
Old English tid
English bit
English tidbit
From Old English tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + English bit (“morsel”).
Inflected forms:
form: tidbits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: titbit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: A part of poultry when prepared as food
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The best mode of cutting up this Poultry is by raising, one after another, the four members, beginning by a thigh and wing on the same side, the tidbits and the white-meats; then break off the rump, and cut the body horizontally. Divide each thigh into two, and wing into three pieces; the body and the rump making six distinct ones; the white meats remaining entire. Place each piece on the dish in such a manner that all may be seen. All this should be done as quickly and cleverly as possible, in order to prevent the pieces getting cold. The tidbit is a veiny piece under the thigh, at the beginning of wing.
If in any case he ever reserved the tidbits of his own table for his own taste, he was never weary of sending the whole joint, tidbit and all, nay even when the whole joint was itself a tidbit, to his neighbor's table.
gloss: A tasty morsel (of food).
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Only a tidbit to a ravenous mouth. (Said when the little tidbit Denmark flies down the huge gullet of Prussia; or when Saghalin falls into Russia's maw.)
gloss: A short item of news, gossip, or information.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Maya: Maybe we should leave a juicy tidbit for someone to read!
In the congressional apportionment that followed the 1910 census, the average district had 210,328 people, according to the Census Bureau. We make note of this historical tidbit simply to emphasize the obvious fact that DC’s current population is far greater than the population of many of the districts of generations past.
“Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.
gloss: Generically, any small thing.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: This little book is very entertaining—quite a literary tidbit.
Translations:
jeepers
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of Jesus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: used to express surprise or dismay
pos: intj
Translations:
applecart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From apple + cart.
Compound parts: apple
cart
Inflected forms:
form: applecarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apple cart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: apple-cart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A barrow from which apples and other fruit were formerly sold in the street
pos: noun
Translations:
postgraduate
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English graduate
English postgraduate
From post- + graduate.
Inflected forms:
form: postgraduates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.
pos: noun
gloss: Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In May, a proclamation was issued specifically targeting Chinese nationals and denying them F and J visas used to attend graduate and postgraduate programs in the US. Trump’s new action suspends the issuance of new visas H-1B visas for professional workers; H-2Bs for non-agricultural seasonal workers, J-1s for cultural exchanges and L-1s for intracompany transfers.
Antonyms: pregraduate
undergraduate
Translations:
Visayan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bisaya
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bisayan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Visayans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bisaya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bisayan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Visayans or the Visayas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or descendant of the Visayan people of the Philippines.
pos: noun
Translations:
ingratitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + gratitude, from Old French ingratitude, from Late Latin ingrātitūdō. By surface analysis, in- + Latin grat(us) + -itude.
Base: gratitude
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: ingratitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack or absence of gratitude; thanklessness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”
Blondie: Tut, tut. Such ingratitude after all the times I saved your life.
Translations:
pharmacist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pharmacy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English pharmacist
From pharmacy (“the art of preparing drugs, a drug, especially laxatives”) + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A health professional who controls, formulates, preserves, and dispenses medications and provides medical advice and counseling on how medicines should be used in order to achieve maximum benefit, and minimal side effects in order to avoid drug interactions.
pos: noun
examples: He has served as a prescriptionist to the leading pharmacists of the old country, and been employed in many of our American cities.
By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.
gloss: One who studies pharmacy.
pos: noun
tags: literary
Synonyms: druggist
chemist
pharmacian
apothecary
pharmacopolist
quack
snake oil salesman
pharmacopole
gallipot
Related words: pharmacy
Derived words: ethnopharmacist
nonpharmacist
polypharmacist
radiopharmacist
street pharmacist
Translations:
philanderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From philander (“lover”) + -er, from Ancient Greek φίλανδρος (phílandros), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
Base: philander
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: philanderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plays at courtship; a fickle lover; a flirt (usually applies only to men).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who engages in casual sex, usually frequently.
pos: noun
examples: A philanderer's tie, a murderer's shoe
Life's rich demand creates supply in the hand of the powers—the only vote that matters
Translations:
ballad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ballade, from Old Occitan ballada (“poem for a dance”), from Late Latin ballare. Doublet of balada and ballade.
Inflected forms:
form: ballads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ballads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ballading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balladed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balladed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
pos: noun
examples: The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.
Of all varieties of poetry, the Ballad, in the form which it affects among us, in distinction to other countries, is, perhaps, one of the most attractive.
A wandering minstrel I — / A thing of shreds and patches, / Of ballads, songs and snatches, / And dreamy lullaby!
gloss: A slow romantic song.
pos: noun
examples: On Friday nights, the roller rink had a time-block called "Lovers' Lap" when they played nothing but ballads on the overhead speakers.
He was playing the guitar and singing a ballad to his girlfriend while she was playing the drums.
gloss: To make mention of in ballads.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To compose or sing ballads.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: balladeer
ballader
balladesque
balladic
balladist
balladize
balladlike
balladling
balladmonger
ballad opera
balladry
balladwise
border ballad
bothy ballad
bush ballad
murder ballad
power ballad
Translations:
balladeer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ballad
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English balladeer
From ballad + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: balladeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: balladeers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: balladeering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balladeered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balladeered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.
pos: noun
gloss: To sing a ballad
pos: verb
examples: Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.
Translations:
lodestone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1515, from Middle English lode (“guide”) + stone. From use as a guide tool by mariners. See also: lodestar.
Inflected forms:
form: lodestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loadstone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The mineral magnetite.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any naturally occurring magnet.
pos: noun
gloss: The focus of one's attraction or attention
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: an ideological lodestone
Translations:
signum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin signum. Doublet of sign.
Inflected forms:
form: signa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: signums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sign, mark, or symbol.
pos: noun
gloss: A medieval tower bell used particularly for ringing the eight canonical hours.
pos: noun
gloss: A function that extracts the sign of a real number x, yielding −1 if x is negative, +1 if x is positive, or 0 if x is zero.
pos: noun
Related words: signum manus
Translations:
glia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλία (glía), γλοία (gloía, “glue”), γλοιός (gloiós, “a glutinous substance, gum”)
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
glioma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glia
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)der.
English -oma
English glioma
From glia + -oma.
Inflected forms:
form: gliomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gliomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tumour that arises from glial cells in the brain or spinal cord
pos: noun
Translations:
sourpuss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sour (“bad-tempered”) + puss (“slang for mouth”).
Compound parts: sour
puss
Inflected forms:
form: sourpusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is habitually gloomy, sullen or miserable; a grouch; a scowling person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: They butt heads sometimes because Jenna can be pretty selfish and tone-deaf, and Jeordie can be a little bit of a sourpuss.
Translations:
mesothelioma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Hellenic *métsos
Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.
English meso-
English -thelium
English mesothelium
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)der.
English -oma
English mesothelioma
From mesothelium + -oma.
Inflected forms:
form: mesotheliomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mesotheliomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An uncommon malignant tumour of the mesothelium, usually of the lungs after exposure to asbestos.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He died a few weeks later, his mesothelioma perhaps caused by the asbestos-lined ceiling he cracked open at 430 King's Road. [Malcom] McLaren had stood there regaling in the mess, while everybody else ran for safety.
Translations:
teratoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From German Teratom; equivalent to terato- + -oma.
Base: terato
Inflected forms:
form: teratomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teratomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign or malignant tumour, especially of the gonads, that arises from germ cells and consists of different types of tissue such as skin, hair, or muscle.
pos: noun
examples: ‘What is a teratoma?’ asked Jack, holding the object in his hand. ‘A kind of grenado?’ ‘It is an inward wen, a tumour: we find them, occasionally, in the abdominal cavity. Sometimes they contain long black hair, sometimes a set of teeth: this has both hair and teeth.’
Translations: