yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
rewrite
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English write
English rewrite
From re- + write.
Inflected forms:
form: rewrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rewrites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rewriting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rewrote
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rewritten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The act of writing again or anew.
pos: noun
examples: The film script underwent a rewrite for the European market.
After a month of writing and another month for rehearsals and re-writes, the three planned a one-night-only performance billed as a work in progress at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint in San Francisco.
gloss: Something that has been written again.
pos: noun
gloss: The replacement of subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
pos: noun
gloss: To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.
If we are going to rewrite all of those diagrams and change the duties of all of those staff, it will take a few weeks.
The conservative establishment will have to ask themselves, what else they can do? […] And even though they rewrite the electoral rules in their favour, their parties still lose the election.
It’s in this context that internet trends like retardmaxxing gain traction. For many, it becomes a way to disrupt the mental loop, sending an email without rewriting it ten times, applying for the job without feeling “fully ready”, starting the workout without waiting for motivation, or putting creative work out for the world even when it's not perfect to the tee.
gloss: To write again (without changes).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To replace subterms of a formula with other terms, according to certain rules, by way of transformation.
pos: verb
Derived words: page-one rewrite
rewriteman
rewritability
rewritable
rewrite history
rewriter
Translations:
rode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: rodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The line from a vessel to its anchor.
pos: noun
Translations:
ridden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically ride + -en.
See ride (verb).
Base: ride
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: more ridden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ridden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
gloss: Oppressed, dominated or plagued by.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
Translations:
ring
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.
Cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas
More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krǎg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)).
Inflected forms:
form: rings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ringed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ringed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enclose or surround.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
Today, when stepping off the train, you're presented with a bright and airy concourse that's ringed with a variety of facilities.
gloss: To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.
The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.
gloss: To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We managed to ring 22 birds this morning.
Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
gloss: To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to ring a pig’s snout
Ring these fingers with thy household worms.
gloss: To rise in the air spirally.
pos: verb
examples: […] how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing / In his ecstacy!
gloss: To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A. Woodley, Trio: 3 short stories
Gabe said that as Derry had only caught part of the conversation, it's possible that they were discussing a film, it was bad enough that they'd unwittingly been brought into ringing cars, adding drugs into it was far more than either of them could ever be comfortable with.
They used two bases in Digbeth to break down luxury motors, some of which were carjacked or stolen after keys were taken in house raids. The parts were then fitted to salvaged cars bought online. […] Jailing the quartet, a judge at Birmingham Crown Court said it was a "car ringing on a commercial and substantial scale".
gloss: To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
transitive
examples: ‘I was ringing for your dad out there at Haddon Hill the year you was born. It was a good year for calves.’
Derived words: ringer
ring-fence
ringfence
ring in
Translations:
rang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French rang.
Inflected forms:
form: rangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A long strip of rectangular lots of land in Quebec.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
rung
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English rung, from Old English hrung, from Proto-West Germanic *hrungu, from Proto-Germanic *hrungō. Cognate with Dutch rong (“pole, stanchion”), German Runge (“stake, pole, stanchion”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌲𐌲𐌰 (hrugga, “a staff”).
Inflected forms:
form: rungs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
pos: noun
gloss: A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
pos: noun
examples: One of its arms was a disabled flail which used to be wielded by Goodman Rigby, before his spouse worried him out of this troublesome world; the other, if I mistake not, was composed of the pudding stick and a broken rung of a chair, tied loosely together at the elbow.
gloss: A position in a hierarchy.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the lowest rung of the society
“I’m very proud that I’ve worked on every rung of the ladder,” Ashley says. “When you go to college, you don’t want to be a senior right away—you want to be a freshman.”
gloss: A floor timber in a ship.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] he passed by his gate with a decided scowl on his furrowed brow, and grunting and growling like a newly rung pig.
A "rung" pig is comfortable as long as he confines his food hunt to the surface of the ground. Ringing a pig of ordinary size is easy, but special arrangements must be made for handling the big ones.
Derived words: runged
runghead
rungless
Translations:
parasol
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From French parasol, from Italian parasole, from para- (“to shield”) + sole (“sun”).
Base: sole
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
form: parasols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parasols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parasoling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: parasolling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: parasoled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: parasoled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: parasolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: parasolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
pos: noun
gloss: A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
pos: noun
gloss: A sun umbrella for garden use etc., mounted on a stand; these can be foldable and demountable.
pos: noun
gloss: A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
pos: noun
gloss: A parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)
pos: noun
gloss: To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]
[…] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.
Synonyms: sunshade
sun umbrella
beach umbrella
chatta
chatra
Derived words: microparasol
parabrella
parasol ant
parasol beech
parasol cell
parasolette
parasol leaf tree
parasol mushroom
parasol pine
parasol tree
parasol wing
Translations:
risen
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically rise + -n.
Base: rise
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having risen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the scent of newly risen bread
Translations:
ran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
said
Part of speech: adj
det
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English seide (preterite) and seid, iseid (past participle), from Old English sǣde, sæġde (preterite) and ġesæġd (past participle), equivalent to say + -ed.
Base: say
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: saide
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sayde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seyde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sayed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: sed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: saide
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sayde
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seyde
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sayed
pos: det
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: sed
pos: det
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The said party has denied the charges.
How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
gloss: Mentioned earlier; aforesaid.
pos: det
examples: Said party has denied the charges.
Translations:
seen
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically see + -n.
Base: see
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: seens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Understood; comprehended.
pos: verb
tags: Jamaica
examples: Everything irie, seen?
gloss: The letter س in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
Antonyms: unseen
Derived words: aforeseen
afterseen
beseen
seenness
seenzone
underseen
Translations:
sold
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sold
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sold
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Convinced, won over.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?
Translations:
sent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Estonian sent. Doublet of cent.
Inflected forms:
form: senti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.
pos: noun
Translations:
sewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been created through the sewing process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shook
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
Inflected forms:
form: shooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shooked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more shook
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shook
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
pos: noun
gloss: The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
pos: noun
gloss: To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
pos: verb
gloss: Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.
Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."
He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.
gloss: Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.
Synonyms: stook
shooketh
Derived words: shookt
shook up
Translations:
shorn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a person, having had a haircut.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
Derived words: unshorn
Translations:
allege
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aleggen, perhaps from Old French alleguer, or from Anglo-Norman aleger, the form perhaps from Old French esligier (“to acquit”), from Medieval Latin *exlītigāre (“to clear at law”), from Latin ex (“out”) + lītigō (“sue at law”), but the meaning from Old French alleguer, from Latin allēgāre (“send on a mission, depute; relate, mention, adduce”), from ad (“to”) + lēgō (“send”). See also al-.
Affixes: al-#Etymology_2
Inflected forms:
form: alleges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alleging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alleged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alleged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: alleadge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: alledg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: alledge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: allegge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To state under oath, to plead.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will further alleage a storie[…]to make us palpably feele his naturall condition.
gloss: To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.
Related words: allegation
privilege
Derived words: allegeable
alleger
misallege
reallege
Translations:
ambivalent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent. Compare ambivert.
Base: ambi
Inflected forms:
form: more ambivalent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambivalent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
pos: adj
examples: In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
gloss: Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
pos: adj
examples: His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
Related words: ambiguous
ambivalence
equivalent
Derived words: ambivalently
nonambivalent
preambivalent
unambivalent
Translations:
anomaly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
biology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo-sder.
Ancient Greek ὁμᾰλός (homălós)
Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía)bor.
Latin anōmalialbor.
English anomaly
From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Inflected forms:
form: anomalies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
pos: noun
examples: This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
gloss: Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
pos: noun
examples: He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
gloss: Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
pos: noun
examples: She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
gloss: Any of various angular distances.
pos: noun
gloss: A defect or malformation.
pos: noun
gloss: A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
pos: noun
gloss: An irregularity or disproportion.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Synonyms: aberrant
abnormality
anomaly
deviance
deviant
farlie
freak
irregularity
odd fish
oddity
outlier
peculiarity
queerness
rarity
rum
strange fish
strangeness
unusualness
weirdness
Related words: odditorium
Derived words: anomalism
anomalistic
anomaloscope
anomalous
calendar anomaly
Chediak-Higashi anomaly
collie eye anomaly
deuteranomaly
eccentric anomaly
flyby anomaly
isanomaly
Kohn anomaly
mean anomaly
Pioneer anomaly
quantum anomaly
Schottky anomaly
stereoanomaly
true anomaly
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شُذُوذ
roman: šuḏūḏ
lang: Dutch
word: anomalie
lang: Dutch
word: onregelmatigheid
lang: Finnish
word: säännöttömyys
lang: Finnish
word: epäsäännöllisyys
lang: Finnish
word: poikkeus
lang: French
word: anomalie
lang: German
word: Anomalie
lang: Greek
word: ανωμαλία
roman: anomalía
lang: Hungarian
word: anomália
lang: Italian
word: anomalia
lang: Polish
word: anomalia
lang: Polish
word: nieprawidłowość
lang: Portuguese
word: anomalia
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: anomalija
lang: Swedish
word: anomali
lang: Swedish
word: avvikelse
arbitrary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arbiter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin arbitrāriusder.
Middle English arbitrarie
English arbitrary
From Middle English arbitrarie, Latin arbitrārius (“arbitrary, uncertain”), from arbiter (“witness, on-looker, listener, judge, overseer”).
Inflected forms:
form: more arbitrary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arbitrary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arbitraries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary.
The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
gloss: Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.
pos: adj
examples: 1937/1938, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born
The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator.
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
gloss: Any, out of all that are possible.
pos: adj
examples: The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.
gloss: Determined by independent arbiter.
pos: adj
gloss: Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.
pos: adj
gloss: Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.
pos: noun
examples: And in this long chain of consistence, a chain stretching from the long dead to the far unborn, the notion of the arbitrary could only survive as the notion of a pre-established arbitrary.
Related words: arbit
arbiter
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrary and capricious
arbitrary law
arbitrate
arbitration
arbitrator
Derived words: arbitrarily
arbitrariness
arbitrarity
arbitrary-precision arithmetic
arbitrary unit
nonarbitrary
unarbitrary
Translations:
arid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-eh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *āzēō
Latin āreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin āriduslbor.
French arideder.
▲
Latin āridusder.
English arid
From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”), compare its synonymous contracted form ardus. Originally from the verb āreo (“to be dry, to be parched”), akin to ārdeō (“to be on fire, to burn”).
Inflected forms:
form: arider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more arid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: aridest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most arid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very dry.
pos: adj
examples: The cake was arid.
gloss: Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
pos: adj
examples: Deserts are known for being arid.
And because this part of Utah is arid, the geologic landscape is fully revealed with very little vegetation to hide it, faults and all.
Once a livestock hub, Abilene has become an AI boomtown. Its arid outskirts are home to the flagship campus of Stargate, the data-center partnership between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank heralded by Trump in January.
gloss: Devoid of value.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The millionaire viewed his gift as arid.
Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.
Related words: aridity
Derived words: aridic
aridification
aridify
aridisol
aridland
aridly
aridness
Aridoamerica
Aridzona
hyperarid
nonarid
subarid
Translations:
assiduous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin assiduus, from assidere (“to sit down to”), from ad- (“to”) + sedere (“to sit”). Compare sedulous.
Cognate (via assidere) to assess.
Inflected forms:
form: more assiduous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assiduous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
pos: adj
examples: He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.
He died after three weeks' illness, during which Mrs. Penniman, as well as his daughter, had been assiduous at his bedside.
A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections.
The most recent attempt to contact Pioneer 10 was on 6-7 February 2003. But in this case, the Madrid station got conclusively null results after an assiduous search.
Klein rose to prominence in the 1960s by assiduous application of accounting methods to the music industry.
“Asteroid City,” the latest from Wes Anderson, is filled with the assiduous visuals, mythic faces and charming curiosities that you expect from this singular filmmaker.
Translations:
asylum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Inflected forms:
form: asylums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asyla
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place of safety or refuge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.
gloss: The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.
gloss: A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Synonyms: sanctuary
shelter
Derived words: asylee
asylophobic
asylum hotel
asylumlike
asylum seeker
asylum shopping
insane asylum
Khia asylum
khia asylum
lunatic asylum
lunatics have taken over the asylum
Magdalene asylum
mental asylum
orphan asylum
political asylum
Translations:
bourgeois
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
history
human-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), from Frankish *burg, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.
Inflected forms:
form: more bourgeois
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bourgeois
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: burgeois
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bourgeois
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burgeois
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bourgeoises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bourgeoising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bourgeoised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bourgeoised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: burgeois
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
pos: adj
examples: bourgeois opinion
It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
The increasing social interactions between the two nations through religion, court and commerce would expose differences in speech too and would soon deepen bourgeois Scots’ deteriorating perception of their own tongue.
gloss: Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
pos: adj
tags: Marxism
gloss: The middle class.
pos: noun
tags: collective
plural-normally
uncountable
usually
gloss: An individual member of the middle class.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
gloss: A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
usually
gloss: An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.
pos: noun
tags: Marxism
uncountable
usually
examples: Der Bourgeois sieht in seiner Frau ein bloßes Produktionsinstrument. Er hört, daß die Produktionsinstrumente gemeinschaftlich ausgebeutet werden sollen, und kann sich natürlich nichts anderes denken, als daß das Los der Gemeinschaftlichkeit die Weiber gleichfalls treffen wird.
Нет ничего характернее для буржуа, как перенесение черт современных порядков на все времена и народы.
gloss: To make bourgeois.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: bourgeoise
bourgeoisie
embourgeoisement
épater le bourgeois
petit-bourgeois
petit bourgeois
petty-bourgeois
petty bourgeois
Derived words: antibourgeois
bobo
bougie
bourgeoisification
bourgeoisify
bourgeoisly
bourgeoisness
bourgie
de-bourgeoisify
narcobourgeois
nonbourgeois
postbourgeois
semibourgeois
unbourgeois
Translations:
candor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“to shine”).
Inflected forms:
form: candors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: candour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
UK
Senses:
gloss: The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: Impartiality.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: Whiteness; brilliance; purity.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd,
Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child[…]
Related words: candid
candle
Derived words: candorless
uncandor
Translations:
capricious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capricieux, from Italian capriccioso, from capriccio. By surface analysis, caprice + -ious.
Inflected forms:
form: more capricious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capricious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impulsive and unpredictable; determined by chance, impulse, or whim.
pos: adj
examples: I almost died in a capricious winter storm.
Stringent rulers are unlikely to act capriciously.
I am heere with thee, and thy Goats, as the moſt capricious Poet honeſt Ouid was among Gothes.
"Capricious?" And at this monsieur began to laugh. "Oh no, I'm not capricious. I am very faithful. I am very constant. Comprenez?"
Although much has been learned about lightning and its effects through research and study, many questions are still unanswered and the upper limits of voltage, current and total energy that may be associated with lightning are not conclusively defined. The apparent capricious nature of lightning is evidenced by the range of extremes as well as, in some cases, the unique nature of the damage that results. Thus, to predict in the absence of physical evidence the exact mechanism of ignition in this particular case is not possible. By the same reasoning, in view of the known facts of this accident, there is no logical explanation for ignition of the flammable vapors other than some effect stemming directly from the lightning strike.
Translations:
charlatan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano (“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore (“chatterer”) + cerretano (“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerreto di Spoleto being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).
Inflected forms:
form: charlatans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mountebank, someone who addresses crowds in the street; (especially), an itinerant seller of medicines or drugs.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The poor foreigner, more dead than alive, answered that he was an Italian charlatan, who had practised with some reputation in Padua […].
gloss: A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
pos: noun
examples: “If there’s something you don’t understand,” urged Dr. Breed, “ask Dr. Horvath to explain it. He’s very good at explaining.” He turned to me. “Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan.”
“Then I’m dumber than an eight-year-old,” Miss Pefko mourned. “I don’t even know what a charlatan is.”
That this disgraceful charlatan holds one of the great offices of state in this country should be a source of constant shame and embarrassment to the Prime Minister.
Related words: charlatanism
charlatanry
Derived words: charlatanic
charlatanical
charlatanship
Translations:
circuitous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1664. From Latin circuitōsus, from circuitus, from circumeō (“to go around”), from circum (“around”) + eō (“to go”). By surface analysis, circuit + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more circuitous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most circuitous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not direct or to the point.
pos: adj
gloss: Being a long and winding route.
pos: adj
examples: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.
The advantages of the train ferry in combining through running (without double handling) with speed and relatively large loads are shown in the decision of the Swedish State Railways to build 100 large covered and 50 open wagons for working to Britain by the ferry services, although the route from Sweden to any destination in the U.K. via Zeebrugge/Harwich is comparatively circuitous; the first of the Swedish covered wagons has already run through to London.
Derived words: circuitously
circuitousness
uncircuitous
Translations:
cogent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cogent, from Latin cōgēns, present active participle of cōgō (“drive together, compel”), from cō + agō (“drive”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cogent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cogent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reasonable and convincing; based on evidence.
pos: adj
examples: We congratulate our correspondents on some very cogent reasoning, and shall have to watch our step even more carefully in future!
Clearly, the mere fact that some Emergentists may in practice have made use of invented examples in testing their theories does not tell against any cogent general objections they may have offered to such practice. What is needed is a decision on the methodological point, not just a cry of “You did it too!”.
gloss: Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning.
pos: adj
gloss: Forcefully persuasive; relevant, pertinent.
pos: adj
examples: The prosecution presented a cogent argument, convincing the jury of the defendant's guilt.
Synonyms: compelling
conclusive
convincing
indisputable
Antonyms: debatable
irrelevant
uncogent
Related words: cache
coagulate
squat
Derived words: cogency
cogently
incogent
uncogent
Translations:
congregation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English congregacioun, from Old French congregacion, from Latin congregātiō, itself from congregō (“to herd into a flock”). Adopted (1520s) by the English Bible translator William Tyndale, to render the Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “those called together, (popular) meeting”) (hence Latin ecclēsia) in his New Testament, and preferred by 16th century Reformers instead of church. By surface analysis, congregate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: congregations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of congregating or collecting together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
In Hebrew, bonai shalom means “builders of peace,” and the congregation welcomes both Jews and non-Jews to participate in all aspects of the community.
gloss: A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any large gathering of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During the wedding ( usually held on a Saturday ) , you and your committee sit on " facing benches ” before the rest of the congregation ( your guests ) . Everyone worships silently until you two feel that it's time to say your vows .
gloss: A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Oh! I wasted most of my morning crawling to a murmuration of starlings, which I foolishly mistook for congregation of plover."
gloss: The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Related words: aggregant
aggregate
aggregation
congregant
congregate
congregator
gregarious
gregariousness
Derived words: congregational
congregationalism
congregationally
congregationless
cybercongregation
preach to the congregation
Translations:
diminutive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
grammar
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English diminutif, derived from Old French diminutif, derived from Latin dīminutīv|us, ~a, ~um (adjective), from dīminūt|us, ~a, ~um (participle), perfect passive participle of dīmin|uō, ~uere, ~uī, ~ūtum (verb). First attested in 1398.
Inflected forms:
form: more diminutive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diminutive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dim.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: diminutives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dim.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Very small.
pos: adj
examples: Mrs. Washington ("Oh, la, call me Martha, Boys") is a diminutive woman with a cheerful rather than happy air, who seems to bustle even when standing still..
Roman Sharonov rose unchallenged to head a corner wide, while diminutive winger Gokdeniz Karadeniz ghosted in with a diving header from the edge of the six-yard box that was acrobatically kept out by Gomes.
gloss: Serving to diminish.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, 1714 edition republished by Gregg International Publishers, 1968, Volume 3, Miscellany 3, Chapter 2, p. 175,
They cou’d, perhaps, even embrace POVERTY contentedly, rather than submit to any thing diminutive either of their inward Freedom or national Liberty.
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or creating a word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
pos: adj
gloss: A word form expressing smallness, youth, unimportance, or endearment.
pos: noun
examples: Booklet, the diminutive of book, means ‘small book’.
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
When we come to occupative names, we are again confronted by crowds of diminutives.
The British use the term “fidlets”, a diminutive of “Fid”, which in turn is an acronym for Falkland Island Dependencies, the former name of the British Antarctic Survey.
gloss: The smallest, thinnest version of a traditional heraldic ordinary ("geometric shape on a shield"), often used to represent multiple instances of a charge or to modify a main, central, and larger charge; not itself modifiable.
pos: noun
Related words: diminish
diminution
diminutization
diminutize
hypocorism
pet form
pet name
dimwit
proper nouns
interjections
and suffixes
Derived words: diminutively
diminutiveness
diminutivize
diminutivise
nondiminutive
undiminutive
Translations:
dupe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: dupes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dupes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: duping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: duped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: duped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who has been deceived.
pos: noun
examples: It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.
I am responding to Allen Young's letter to the editor concerning two articles I wrote for GCN about my experiences in Cuba. The gist of Mr. Young's letter is that I am a commie dupe and the Cubans who shared there opinions and experiences with me were simply lying.
gloss: To swindle, deceive, or trick.
pos: verb
Synonyms: chump
chumpion
cousin
cull
cully
dupe
dotterel
easy mark
fall guy
fish
gudgeon
gull
juggins
live one
mark
mug
muggins
pigeon
rube
sap
saphead
schlemiel
sheep
simp
Simple Simon
soft touch
steamer
stiff
stooge
sucker
Related words: patsy
scapegoat
taking the fall
beginner
naive
deceiver
Translations:
empirical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English empiric
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 empirical
From empiric + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more empirical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most empirical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: empiricals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
pos: adj
examples: The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.
For some presumptive diagnoses, empirical antibiotic therapy begins immediately, whereas specific antibiotic therapy must await the results of the culture and sensitivity test.
The village carpenter […] lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship.
gloss: Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
pos: adj
gloss: Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
pos: adj
examples: demonstrable with empirical evidence
gloss: A measurement or result achieved by empirical means.
pos: noun
Synonyms: empiric
Antonyms: nonempirical
Related words: empiricism
empiricist
Derived words: antiempirical
empirical data
empirical ego
empirical formula
empiricalize
empirically
empiricalness
empirical research
empirical rule
equiempirical
hyperempirical
nonempirical
non-empirical ego
psychoempirical
semiempirical
superempirical
ultraempirical
unempirical
Translations:
emulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1586; borrowed from Latin aemulātus, perfect active participle of Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: emulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emulated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: æmulate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To attempt to equal or be the same as.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To copy or imitate, especially a person.
pos: verb
examples: People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
gloss: To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].
gloss: of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
pos: verb
Related words: emulation
emulative
emulator
emulous
simulate
Derived words: emulable
emulatable
emulation
emulative
emulator
emulatory
unemulated
Translations: