yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
outlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten (“to allow, let out, emit”), equivalent to out- + let. Compare West Frisian útlit (“outlet”), Dutch uitlaat (“outlet”), German Auslass (“outlet”).
Base: let
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
pos: noun
examples: Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
Song of the bleeding throat, / Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, / If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.)
gloss: A river that runs out of a lake.
pos: noun
gloss: A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
pos: noun
gloss: A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
pos: noun
examples: I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
Derived words: media outlet
multioutlet
nonoutlet
no outlet
postal outlet
thoracic outlet syndrome
Translations:
cryptography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crypto- + -graphy.
Affixes: crypto-
-graphy
Inflected forms:
form: cryptographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Holonym: cryptology
We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
[A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.
Translations:
Dutchwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Dutch
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English Dutchwoman
From Dutch + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: Dutchwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Dutch woman; a woman from the Netherlands.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman of Dutch descent.
pos: noun
gloss: A female Pennsylvania German.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A woman from Germany.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dated
gloss: A female white Afrikaner.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
derogatory
ethnic
slur
Related words: Dutchman
Translations:
agora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂goréh₂
Proto-Hellenic *agorā́
Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá)lbor.
English agora
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá).
Inflected forms:
form: agorae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agorai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place for gathering.
pos: noun
examples: The custom was to dance its length, moving from partner to masked partner all the way to the agora, the city’s gathering place.
gloss: A marketplace, especially in Classical Greece.
pos: noun
Related words: agoraphobia
agorism
Translations:
welding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, weld + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: weldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of welding:
pos: noun
examples: […] and at Dinsdale work will commence in 1957 on a depot to deal with rail welding and track pre-assembly. The plant envisaged will weld new flat-bottom rails into 180-ft. lengths for laying in selected lines.
This type of physical testing by the non-destructive test is performed to check the welding quality in a closed container such as tanks and pressure vessels.
gloss: The action or process of welding:
pos: noun
Related words: welder
weldment
Derived words: arc welding
cold welding
induction welding
inertia welding
MIG welding
shot welding
spot welding
stick welding
TIG welding
welding booth
welding bug
welding iron
welding machine
Translations:
lekker
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans lekker, from Dutch lekker.
Inflected forms:
form: more lekker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lekker
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tasty, nice, fun, great.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
examples: There were 2 000 rounds of ammo to fire between us four loadies. We sat there for hours and took our potshots. It was kiff; the R5 was a lekker thing.
gloss: Good in a generic sense, worthy, functional.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
examples: The other men ask why he's crying, when he's got such a lekker car. The guy shakes his head and says, "I just saw my wife, and she was driving a skateboard."
Derived words: lekker lewe
Translations:
colloquy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
law
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin loquor
Latin colloquor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin colloquiumder.
Middle English colloquies
English colloquy
From Middle English colloquies pl, from Latin colloquium (“conversation”), from com- (“together, with”) (English com-) + form of loquor (“speak”) (from which English locution and other words). Doublet of colloquium.
Inflected forms:
form: colloquies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: # A conversation or dialogue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
formal
uncountable
examples: And she repeated the free caress into which her colloquies with Maisie almost always broke and which made the child feel that her affection at least was a gage of safety.
House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.
gloss: A formal conference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A written discourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the end of the colloquy, Judge Spicer asked Carr whether anyone had "pressured" him into accepting the deal.
gloss: A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Colloquies are, in essence, a textbook of linguistic exercises to help students to practice and improve their Latin, but Erasmus also recognized his book’s potential for inspiring Europe with his humanist ideals.
That a man should speak Latin was taken for granted, but to speak good Latin required training, and to give this training was the object of numerous school colloquies, which aimed to teach the Latin of Terence and of Cicero's Letters, ...
Antonyms: soliloquy
Related words: circumlocution
collogue
colloquium
eloquent
grandiloquent
illocution
interlocution
interlocutor
locution
loquacious
magniloquent
perlocution
soliloquy
ventriloquy
Colloquy
Derived words: colloquial
colloquist
colloquize
Translations:
anarchism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ)
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἄναρχος (ánarkhos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰρχῐ́ᾱ (ănărkhĭ́ā)der.
New Latin anarchiader.
English anarchy
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 anarchism
From anarchy + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: anarchisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A political and philosophical belief that all forms of government are undesirable, unnecessary, or unethical, and as such that society would function without a state.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Der Anarchismus ist die rechtsphilosophische Verneinung des Staates, das heisst diejenige Art der rechtsphilotopbischen Staatslehren, welche den Staat verneint.
gloss: A political and philosophical belief that proposes the establishment of a stateless society as well as the abolition of authority and hierarchy in most or all forms.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: Opposed as it is to authority and hierarchy, anarchism is typically associated with chaos and disorder, and thus often connected with violence and terror. The means by which to achieve a nonhierarchical society animate debates within anarchism.
Anarchism is skepticism toward authority. Its unifying position is that not all forms of authority are justified, and we should refrain from any acceptance of them prior to their satisfactory justification. One form of authority that anarchists consider unjustified is the political authority of the state.
gloss: The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
examples: By now the evils of the governments born of twentieth-century revolutions have been documented. And so anarchism – the absence of government, the direct administration by people of their own lives – is still intact as an ideal, for it has never been tried.
Related words: anarchy
Derived words: anarchist
anarcho-
anti-anarchism
cyberanarchism
ecoanarchism
postanarchism
Translations:
rhinoceros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin rhīnocerōs, from Ancient Greek ῥῑνόκερως (rhīnókerōs, “nose-horned”), composed of ῥῑ́ς, ῥῑνός (rhī́s, rhīnós, “nose, of (the) nose”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”).
Inflected forms:
form: rhinoceros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhinoceroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhinocerosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
uncommon
form: rhinoceri
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: rhinoceroi
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: rhinocerotes
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
pos: noun
examples: Herein therefore to draw up our determinations beside the several pieces of Scripture mentioning this Animal (which some may well contend to be only meant of the Rhinoceros) we are so far from denying there is any Unicorn at all, that we affirme there are many kinds thereof. In the number of Quadrapedes we will concede no less then five; that is the Indian Oxe, Indian Ass, Rhinoceros, the Oryx, and that which is more eminently termed Monoceros, or Unicornis.
gloss: An ungulate mammal of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea, including the hornless Paraceratherium.
pos: noun
Related words: abada
crash
Derived words: First Rhinoceros Party
rhino-
rhinocerical
rhinocerine
rhinoceros auklet
rhinoceros beetle
rhinoceros bird
rhinoceroslike
Rhinoceros Party English Wikipedia has an article on:rhinoceros Party
Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–1993)
rhinocerotic
Rhino Party
Rhino
Rhinos
Second Rhinoceros Party
Translations:
reprehensible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
Base: reprehend
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more reprehensible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reprehensible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reprehensibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
pos: adj
gloss: Deserving of reprehension.
pos: adj
examples: Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.
We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?
At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.
gloss: A reprehensible person; a villain.
pos: noun
Related words: reprehensibility
reprehend
reprehensive
irreprehensible
reprehension
Derived words: nonreprehensible
reprehensibleness
reprehensibly
unreprehensible
Translations:
Cypriot
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs, “Cypriot”). By surface analysis, Cypr(us) + -iot.
Inflected forms:
form: Cypriots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Cyprus.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or relating to Cyprus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Andorran
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Catalan Andorrabor.
English Andorra
Middle English -n
English -n
English Andorran
From Andorra + -n.
Inflected forms:
form: Andorrans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Andorra; a person of Andorran citizenship or nationality and their descendants.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from or relating to Andorra or the Andorran people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English date
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 dater
From date + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: daters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dates.
pos: noun
examples: Strategic presentation is a challenging issue for many online daters, of whom 22% have asked someone else to help them create or review their profile […]
gloss: A date-stamping device.
pos: noun
Derived words: e-dater
Translations:
Antiguan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Antigua + -n.
Base: Antigua
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Antiguans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Antiguan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Antiguan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the island of Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Antigua, or the Antiguan people.
pos: adj
Translations:
Armenian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Armenia + -an.
Base: Armenia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Arm.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Armenians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Arm.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
gloss: A person of an Indo-European ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands, comprising the ethnic majority of Armenia.
pos: noun
examples: The Armenians were led in turn, however, by a politicized vanguard often living cosmopolitan, urban lives remote from rural eastern Anatolia
Translations:
Antillean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Antilles
English -ean
English Antillean
From Antilles + -ean.
Inflected forms:
form: Antilleans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Holonym: Caribbean
gloss: A person from the Antilles or of Antillean descent.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: Caribbean
Translations:
Angolan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Angola + -n.
Base: Angola
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Angolans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Angola or the Angolan people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Angola.
pos: noun
Translations:
womanly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English womanly, wommanlich, wommanly, wommanlych, wummonlich, equivalent to woman + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Base: woman
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: womanlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: womanliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: womonly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: womynly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: womonly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: womynly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine.
pos: adj
examples: I know that the sound of it moved me more even than her words, it was so very human - so very womanly.
"What I mean, a woman who doesn't go in for booze and sport and cigarettes. Man gets sick of these tough flappers. Give me a womanly woman every time. As I said before, I could see at a glance that you were a thoroughly womanly woman."
gloss: Female.
pos: adj
tags: rare
gloss: In the manner of a woman.
pos: adv
Antonyms: masculine
male
manly
Derived words: womanliness
Translations:
dragonfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dragon + fly. Compare drakefly (“mayfly”).
Base: dragon
Inflected forms:
form: dragonflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dragon-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched.
pos: noun
examples: There were two dragonflies in the garden today.
The delicate coloured Dragon Flies may have likewise some Corrosive quality.
The sapphire needled dragonflies
That flirt with the crested newt!
And now before his newtly nose, […]
Stacey Combes, who studies the biomechanics of dragonfly flight at Harvard, once watched a laboratory dragonfly eat 30 flies in a row.
As the airboat skimmed across the shallow water, scattering blue dragonflies and launching a heron into the air, Keith Price squinted into the sun and relished the isolation of Florida’s unrivaled river of grass.
Translations:
asteroid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: ]Introuced by German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1802 upon the suggestion of classical scholar Charles Burney Jr. (1757–1817), the son of music historian Charles Burney, a friend of Herschel's. Probably coined as a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs, “starlike”), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “celestial body”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, aster + -oid.
Base: ἀστήρ
Affixes: -ειδής
Inflected forms:
form: asteroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
pos: noun
gloss: In the Solar System, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter.
pos: noun
examples: The orbital planes of asteroids, minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ...
Related words: aster
asterisk
asterism
minor planet
astroid
comet
exoasteroid
meteor
meteorite
planetoid
Derived words: Apohele asteroid
asterite
asteroidal
asteroid belt
asteroidlike
Aten asteroid
Atira asteroid
binary asteroid
disasteroid
icesteroid
iceteroid
interasteroid
kuiperoid
Vatira asteroid
ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim asteroid
Translations:
tuft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tūfa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”).
Inflected forms:
form: tufts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tufts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tufting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tufted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tufted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
pos: noun
gloss: A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
pos: noun
gloss: A small clump of trees or bushes.
pos: noun
examples: “Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].”
gloss: A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room.
Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
gloss: To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His tufted cottage rising through the snow
gloss: To form into tufts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time!
gloss: To be formed into tufts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: ear tuft
golden-tuft alyssum
golden-tuft madwort
London tuft
purpletuft
scalping tuft
shaggy tuft
sulfur tuft
sulphur tuft
tufthunter
tufthunting
tuftless
tuftlet
tuftlike
tuft-taffeta
Translations:
Mediterranean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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-Italic *meðjos
Latin medius
Proto-Indo-European *ters-der.
Proto-Italic *terzā
Latin terra
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin -āneus
Latin mediterrāneus
▲
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Mediterranean
From Latin mediterrāneus (“inland”) [from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix)] + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Mediterranean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mediterranean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding region.
pos: adj
Translations:
locative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin locātīvus, from locus. In Indian English, by surface analysis, locate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: locatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a locative adjective
the locative case of a noun
gloss: The locative case.
pos: noun
examples: Brian: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the… accusative! Accusative! Ah! Domum, sir! Ad domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah!
Centurion: Except that domus takes the…?
Brian: The locative, sir!
Centurion: Which is…?!
Translations:
locator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
Etymology: From Latin locātor. By surface analysis, locate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: locators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, locates.
pos: noun
examples: I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator.
gloss: One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.
pos: noun
Related words: locant
location
locus
Derived words: echolocator
emergency locator transmitter
emergency locator transponder
geolocator
locator map
locator outer marker
personal locator beacon
personal locator radio-beacon
record locator
Uniform Resource Locator
vendor locator
Translations:
hem
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)
Inflected forms:
form: hems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hems
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hemming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hemmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hemmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.
pos: intj
examples: "Hem! hem! however there will be a by-place for me behind the stove."
gloss: An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
pos: noun
examples: his morning hems
gloss: To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
pos: verb
examples: Hem, and stroke thy beard.
“Sit down,” said the young man, gruffly. “He’ll be in soon.”
I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
Translations:
instrumental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
grammar
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis, equivalent to instrument + -al.
Base: instrument
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more instrumental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most instrumental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: instrumentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Essential or central; of great importance or relevance.
pos: adj
examples: He was instrumental in conducting the business.
The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth
Few songwriters have been as instrumental in creating the mold for American music.
[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
gloss: Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency.
pos: adj
examples: Maxwell started back to his study, feeling that kind of satisfaction which a man feels when he has been even partly instrumental in finding an unemployed person a remunerative position.
gloss: Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).
pos: adj
examples: instrumental music
an instrumental part
Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds.
He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship.
gloss: Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.
pos: adj
examples: the instrumental case
gloss: The instrumental case.
pos: noun
gloss: A composition written or performed without lyrics or singing, using a lead instrument to replace vocals.
pos: noun
examples: I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent […]
gloss: A pause in the vocals of a song, usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.
pos: noun
Antonyms: noninstrumental
Related words: instrument
Derived words: instrumental error
instrumentalisation
instrumentalism
instrumentalist
instrumentality
instrumentalize
instrumentally
instrumentalness
instrumental rationality
instrumental version
instrumental width
instrumentive
uninstrumental
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: инструментален
roman: instrumentalen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 有幫助的 /有帮助的
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可作為方法的 /可作为方法的
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可作為手段的 /可作为手段的
lang: German
word: dienlich
lang: German
word: förderlich
lang: German
word: entscheidend
lang: German
word: hilfreich
lang: Indonesian
word: instrumental
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: instrumentell
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: instrumentell
lang: Polish
word: instrumentalny
lang: Portuguese
word: instrumental
instrumentalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instrumental
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 instrumentalist
From instrumental + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: instrumentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
pos: noun
gloss: An adherent of instrumentalism.
pos: noun
Derived words: brass instrumentalist
multi-instrumentalist
noninstrumentalist
reed instrumentalist
string instrumentalist
wind instrumentalist
Translations:
instrumentality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instrumental
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English instrumentality
From instrumental + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: instrumentalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
gloss: Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.
Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.
God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance.
gloss: A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
Translations:
lang: German
word: Tatmittel
lang: German
word: Tatwerkzeug
instrumentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instrumental
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English instrumentally
From instrumental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more instrumentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most instrumentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end
pos: adv
examples: They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so.
Institutionally based, restrictive relationships, such as those among family members or professional colleagues, must thus be contrasted with instrumentally based, nonrestrictive relationships serving the aims of practical pursuits, such as those between freely practicing experts and their clients or between sellers and buyers. In instrumentally structured situations it is not necessary for the participants to curb their needs, because the mere expression of needs in no way compels others to gratify them, as it tends to do in the family.
gloss: With musical instruments
pos: adv
examples: an instrumentally accompanied song
join in instrumentally
In a song that has vocals, the intro is often played instrumentally and serves to establish the overall feel of the song.
Synonyms: instrumently
Translations:
thirty-one
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one.
pos: num
examples: Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.
Translations:
prepositional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: prepositionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:
 (80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike]
 (80) (b) He fell out [of the window]
 (80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
 (80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)
gloss: Of the prepositional case.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The prepositional case.
pos: noun
Derived words: deprepositional
nonprepositional
phrasal prepositional verb
prepositional article
prepositional case
prepositionally
prepositional phrase
prepositional pronoun
prepositional verb
Translations:
nadir
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
astronomy
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin nadir, from Arabic نَظِير السَّمْت (naẓīr as-samt), composed of نَظِير (naẓīr, “counterpart, corresponding to”) and السَّمْت (as-samt, “the zenith”).
Inflected forms:
form: nadirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nadirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nadiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nadired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nadired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
pos: noun
examples: […] when we are Nadyr to the Sunne, we have no ſhadow […]
gloss: The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: dead
[…] the seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe […]
In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year’s end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets.
The myth describes the dangerous moment of the nadir, the dead of winter, the moment when it is not known whether the world will be re-created and another cycle will bring on another spring.
Trust had reached a nadir.
gloss: The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
pos: noun
examples: The nadir of the sun is the axis of the shadow projected by the Earth.
gloss: An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: azimuth
zenith -
Derived words: nadiral
Translations:
masculinity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French masculinité, from Old French, equivalent to masculine + -ity. Earlier in same sense was masculineness.
Base: masculine
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: masculinities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The degree or property of being masculine or manly; manliness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.
Of the six homosexual patients, three men finally overcame the underlying vaginaphobia, increased their heterosexual activities, and enhanced their masculinity.
Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red Rivers dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in '''Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon ''masculinity".
“What this work shows is that masculinity is not just an ideology that men strive to achieve. It’s something we value as a culture,” said lead author Theresa Vescio, a professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Antonyms: feminility
feminineness
womanlikeness
Translations:
mase
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.
Inflected forms:
form: mases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: masing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
pos: verb
Translations:
maser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From MASER, acronym of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
Inflected forms:
form: masers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a device for the coherent amplification or generation of electromagnetic radiation (especially of microwave frequency) by the use of excitation energy in resonant atomic or molecular systems
pos: noun
gloss: Any celestial object that generates microwaves using the same method
pos: noun
Related words: laser
Derived words: astronomical maser
gas maser
hydrogen maser atomic clock
kilomaser
masering
megamaser
micromaser
nonmaser
optical maser
solid-state maser
Translations:
mash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
games
gaming
lifestyle
manufacturing
Etymology: From Middle English mash, from Old English mǣsċ, māsċ, māx, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maiskō (“mixture, mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Akin to German Meisch, Maische (“mash”), (compare meischen, maischen (“to mash, wash”)), Swedish mäsk (“mash”), and to Old English miscian (“to mix”). See mix.
Inflected forms:
form: mashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mashed potatoes.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mess; trouble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too
gloss: To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
The potatoes need to be mashed.
gloss: In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
UK
Yorkshire
transitive
examples: He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
gloss: To press down hard (on).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to mash on a bicycle pedal
gloss: To press.
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
informal
transitive
gloss: To act violently.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Derived words: bangers and mash
instant mash
mash-fat
mash tun
mash vatmishmash
monster mash
sour mash
button mash
mashable
mashed potato
mashed potatoes
mashing
mash it up
mashup
mash up
mashwort
mashy
smash
mosh
Translations:
masher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mash
English -er
English masher
From mash + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: mashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, mashes.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for making mash.
pos: noun
Derived words: button masher
molar masher
potato masher
Translations:
mashy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mash
English -y
English mashy
From mash + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mashier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mashiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
pos: adj
examples: […] the pot of strawberry jam was of the mashiest, stickiest description; […]
Translations:
masked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mask
English -ed
English masked
From mask + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more masked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most masked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: masqued
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a mask or masks.
pos: adj
examples: As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.
gloss: Characterized by masks.
pos: adj
gloss: Concealed; hidden.
pos: adj
gloss: Personate.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage.
pos: adj
Derived words: backmasked
gas-masked
masked ball
masked battery
masked bee
masked crab
masked crimson tanager
masked facies
masked finch
masked hunter
masked lapwing
masked man fallacy
masked-man fallacy
masked palm civet
masked pig
masked plover
masked shrike
nonmasked
southern masked weaver
Translations:
masker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mask
English -er
English masker
From mask + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: maskers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade or wears a mask in a ritual.
pos: noun
examples: But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away […].
Like the men's society, the corporate consciousness of women and their respected place in the political body is represented by a masked spirit. This sowei (masker), like all the officials of the society, represents the corporate body of women and retains the authority to levy fines and punish women and men or the community as a whole. The ndoli Jowei (dancing sowei) is a masker whose figure is completely covered with black raffia, topped by the sowei mask.
gloss: That which masks (noise in a signal, etc.).
pos: noun
Derived words: antimasker
pro-masker
Translations:
maslach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Arabic مَسْلُوق (maslūq): compare French masloc.
Inflected forms:
form: malach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An excitant containing opium, much used historically by the Turks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
maslin
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English missellane, misceline, miscelin, meslin, from Old English mæstling, mæsling, mæslen. See also miscellane.
Inflected forms:
form: maslins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maislin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maselyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mashlam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mashlin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mashlum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mastlin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: meslin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mislen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mislin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maislin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: maselyn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mashlam
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mashlin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mashlum
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mastlin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: meslin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mislen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mislin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mixture composed of different materials; especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now for this fallow field it must euer be made where the yéere before you did reape your Pease, in case you haue but thrée fields, or where you did reape your Wheate, Rye, and Maslin, in case you haue foure fields, according to the manner of the blacke clay.
gloss: Composed of different sorts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Maslin bread is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.
Derived words: maslin pan
Translations:
lang: French
word: méteil
Masonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Mason
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Masonic
From Mason (“Freemason”) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
masonry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English masonry, masonrie, partly from Old French maçonerie and partly from mason + -ry.
Base: mason
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: masonries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or occupation of a mason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He studied masonry for five years.
gloss: The work or performance of a mason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The masonry was exquisite.
gloss: That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The masonry was cracked.
Many houses built between the Civil War and 1940 have masonry walls, usually of brick, with the inside surfaces covered by a layer of plaster.
gloss: The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; Freemasonry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: stonecraft
stonework
Derived words: antimasonry
concrete masonry unit
Freemasonry
masonried
masonry cement
masonry heater
masonry layout
masonrylike
masonry veneer
monumental masonry
Operative Masonry
Speculative Masonry
stonemasonry
Translations:
Masoretic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hebrew מָסֹרֶת (masóret) + -ic.
Base: מָסֹרֶת
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: Masoretical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Massoretic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Massoretical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Masorah, or to its authors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Masoretic points and accents are the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.
Translations: