yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
frustration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin frūstrātiō (“disappointment”), related to frūstrā (“in vain”). By surface analysis, frustrate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: frustrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thing that frustrates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The hope , however , is a slight one , and most attempts to love end in frustration : even Singer cannot endure the thought of life without Antonapoulos . The next most selfless seeker after love and happiness is Mick , who longs to express herself and to communicate with others through music, and her failure is pathetic because[…]
Derived words: antifrustrationism
frustrage
frustrational
fuckstration
nonfrustration
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разочарование
roman: razočarovanie
lang: Dutch
word: frustratie
lang: Finnish
word: turhauttaminen
lang: Finnish
word: turhautuminen
lang: French
word: frustration
lang: Galician
word: frustración
lang: German
word: Frustration
lang: Italian
word: frustrazione
lang: Māori
word: hēmanawatanga
lang: Māori
word: whakahēmanawatanga
lang: Portuguese
word: frustração
lang: Romanian
word: frustrare
lang: Romanian
word: frustrație
lang: Russian
word: расстро́йство
roman: rasstrójstvo
lang: Russian
word: срыв
roman: sryv
lang: Russian
word: круше́ние
roman: krušénije
lang: Russian
word: фрустра́ция
roman: frustrácija
lang: Russian
word: крах
roman: krax
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: frustrácija
lang: Spanish
word: frustración
lang: Turkish
word: bıkkınlık
lang: Hungarian
word: akadályoztatás
lang: Hungarian
word: csalódottság
lang: Hungarian
word: csalódás
lang: Hungarian
word: kiábrándultság
lang: Hungarian
word: elkeseredettség
Fuegian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English (Tierra del) Fuego
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Fuegian
From (Tierra del) Fuego + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Fuegians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Tierra del Fuego.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native of Tierra del Fuego.
pos: noun
Translations:
fulmination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French fulmination, from Latin fulminātiō; equivalent to fulmine + -ation.
Base: fulmine
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: fulminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is curious, reading the fulminations of American purists of the last generation, to note how many of the Americanisms they denounced have not only got into perfectly good usage at home but even broken down all guards across the ocean.
gloss: That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: fulminate
fulminator
fulminating compound
fulminic acid
Translations:
fumigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fumygacioun, from Old French fumigation, from Late Latin fumigatio, fumigationem, from Latin fumigo.
Inflected forms:
form: fumigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: fumigate
Derived words: biofumigation
fumigation tent
refumigation
Translations:
fundamental
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
Inflected forms:
form: fundamentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fundamental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fundamental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
pos: noun
tags: singular
gloss: A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
When any one offers me a compleat Catalogue of his Fundamentals, he does not unreaſonably demand me to quit mine for nothing[…]
Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government.
gloss: The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
pos: noun
gloss: The lowest partial of a complex tone.
pos: noun
gloss: Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
pos: adj
gloss: Essential; extremely important.
pos: adj
examples: a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom; a fundamental element; fundamental principle; fundamental law
A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
Synonyms: groundlaying
Related words: fundament
Derived words: algebraic fundamental group
antifundamental
bifundamental
first fundamental form
fundamental analysis
fundamental constant
fundamental data
fundamental force
fundamental frequency
fundamental group
fundamental interaction
fundamentalism
fundamentalist
fundamentalistic
fundamentality
fundamentally
fundamentalness
fundamental niche
fundamental painting
fundamental particle
fundamental right
fundamental science
fundamental theorem
fundamental theorem of arithmetic
fundamental theorem of calculus
fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals
fundamental unit
nonfundamental
prefundamental
unfundamental
Translations:
furious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”).
Inflected forms:
form: more furious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most furious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
pos: adj
examples: a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
gloss: Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
pos: adj
examples: a furious stream; a furious wind or storm
Derived words: fast and furious
frumious
furious fifties
furiousness
furious rabies
overfurious
unfurious
Translations:
furze
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English fȳr (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: furzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: firrs
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gonz. Now would I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground : Long heath, Browne firrs, any thing;[…]
At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk'd out of town, hid his gown in a furze bush, and footed it to London, […]
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.
Translations:
gainsay
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gainsayen, ȝeinseggen (“to say against, say in opposition to”), equivalent to gain- + say. Compare Old Danish gensige (“to speak against; gainsay”), Swedish gensaga (“a speaking against; protest”).
Base: say
Affixes: gain-
Inflected forms:
form: gainsays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gainsaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gainsaid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gainsaid
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To say something in contradiction to.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: […]vve are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already publiſhed of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gayneſay vs.
The supreme court, therefore, may assume jurisdiction over subjects and between parties, not allowed by the constitution, and there is no power in the federal government to gainsay it.
So she had, cried Scrooge. You’re right. I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!
Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
And there was something childlike about Griffith, too, even in his Matlock days, as a deceptively sharp 'simple country lawyer,' a big-kid boyishness that did not mask his intelligence or gainsay his authority.
Translations:
galley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
media
monarchy
nautical
nobility
politics
printing
publishing
transport
Etymology: From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek γάλεα (gálea) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek γαλέη (galéē), a kind of a small fish, from γαλεός (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”).
Inflected forms:
form: galleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gallies
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
pos: noun
gloss: The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
pos: noun
gloss: An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
pos: noun
gloss: An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
pos: noun
examples: It was very nerve-racking. When I was finally able to write the story, I wrote it at the typewriter and never reread it until I had to edit the typos on the printer's galleys for the publication of the book.
gloss: A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
pos: noun
gloss: A representation of a single-masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.
pos: noun
Synonyms: lymphad
Related words: bireme
trireme
quadrireme
unireme
monoreme
penteconter
quinquereme
pentere
polyreme
Galley Common
Derived words: everything but the galley stove
galleass
galley downhaul
galley kitchen
galleylike
galley news
galley proof
galley slave
galley slice
galley worm
galley-worm
galley yarn
galliot
Translations:
galvanization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English galvanize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English galvanization
From galvanize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: galvanizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: galvanisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of galvanizing.
pos: noun
Translations:
gaoler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, gaol + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gaolers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of jailer.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
examples: The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.
One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.
Translations:
gauge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows.
Inflected forms:
form: gauges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gauging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gauged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gauged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gage
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To estimate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
gloss: To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: gage
gouge
Derived words: gaugeable
misgauge
regauge
ungauged
Translations:
gaze
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
media
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
Inflected forms:
form: gazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gazed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stare intently or earnestly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They gazed at the stars for hours.
Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.
In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]
gloss: To stare at.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
examples: Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare.
gloss: A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
pos: noun
examples: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
gloss: The object gazed on.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
gloss: In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
pos: noun
examples: She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
gloss: The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
usually
examples: hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient
The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze.
Synonyms: gape
stare
muse
Derived words: at gaze
begaze
crystal-gazing
downgaze
eyegaze
gazee
gazeful
gazeless
gazement
gazer
gazing ball
gazy
nongaze
outgaze
overgaze
shoegaze
stargaze
ungazed
foregaze
female gaze
gazehound
male gaze
Nancy Reagan gaze
sidegaze
upgaze
Translations:
gazette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
Inflected forms:
form: gazettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gazettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gazetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gazetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gazetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
pos: noun
gloss: An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
pos: noun
gloss: To publish (something) in a gazette.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.
Related words: dime novel
penny dreadful
Derived words: appear in the Gazette
gazettal
gazetteer
gazettement
gazettist
Gin and Gospel Gazette
have one's name in the Gazette
official gazette
degazette
Translations:
geld
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc. Doublet of yield.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.
Inflected forms:
form: gelds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gelding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gelded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gelded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tax geld.
pos: verb
tags: historical
Translations:
gentry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
Inflected forms:
form: gentries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Birth; condition; rank by birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: People of education and good breeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: landed gentry
English gentry
wealthy gentry
The manor was owned by the local gentry.
She wrote novels about the rural gentry.
gloss: In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: the quality
the Quality
Related words: gentrification
Derived words: gentrify
gentry bush
gentry cove
gentry mort
landed gentry
Translations:
genuine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.
Inflected forms:
form: more genuine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genuine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.
pos: adj
gloss: Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated.
pos: adj
examples: a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
[…] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
Synonyms: authentic
legit
lubish
natural
real
true
uncounterfeited
actual
bona fide
genuine
legitimate
non-fake
pukka
sterling
unadulterated
undissembled
unfaked
unfeigned
veritable
Antonyms: bullshit
fake
ingenuine
counterfeit
fraudulent
knockoff
inauthentic
phony
Related words: genus
de facto
de jure
invalid
potential
valid
actually
Derived words: genuine article
genuine fake
genuine issue of material fact
genuinely
genuineness
genuine number eleven
nongenuine
ungenuine
Translations:
Germanization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English German
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English Germanization
From German + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: Germanizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something have more German characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The adoption of German customs or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The adoption of German customs or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Related words: Germanize
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَلْمَنَة
roman: ʔalmana
lang: Czech
word: germanizace
lang: Czech
word: poněmčení
lang: Czech
word: poněmčování
lang: Esperanto
word: germanigo
lang: French
word: germanisation
lang: Georgian
word: გაგერმანულება
roman: gagermanuleba
lang: Georgian
word: გერმანიზაცია
roman: germanizacia
lang: German
word: Germanisierung
lang: German
word: Eindeutschen
lang: Kazakh
word: немістендіру
roman: nemıstendıru
lang: Kyrgyz
word: немистештирме
roman: nemisteştirme
lang: Malay
word: penjermanan
lang: Marathi
word: जर्मनिकरण
roman: jarmanikraṇ
lang: Polish
word: germanizacja
lang: Romanian
word: germanizare
lang: Russian
word: германиза́ция
roman: germanizácija
lang: Slovak
word: germanizácia
lang: Swedish
word: förtyskning
lang: Swedish
word: germanisering
lang: Turkish
word: Almanlaştırma
germination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”) + -ation, from Latin germinātiō, germinātiōnem (“sprouting, budding, growing”), from germinātus (“sprouted, budded, grown”), past participle of germinō (“to sprout, bud, grow”), from germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”). By surface analysis, germinate + -ion.
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: germinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
Translations:
gestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin gestāre
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin gestātiōlbor.
English gestation
Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: gestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of development of a plan or idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.
Synonyms: pregnancy
Derived words: gestational
gestation period
midgestation
multigestation
pregestation
uterogestation
Translations:
gesticulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio.
Inflected forms:
form: gesticulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the eagerness of his gesticulations, first he knocked off my hat, then he knocked off Lessingham’s, then his own, then all three together […]
It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; this is asserted, for instance, in the able but hastily compiled pamphlet (written evidently by someone not an eye-witness of Martian actions) to which I have already alluded, and which, so far, has been the chief source of information concerning them.
The breeze had died away and the tree was now quite motionless save when William's statements required forcible gesticulations, which made it sway in a gentle nodding manner as though it were confirming every word the old sage uttered.
gloss: An odd or fanciful motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
Related words: gesticulate
gesticulative
gesticulatory
gesture
gestural
Translations:
ghee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani گھی (ghī) / घी (ghī), traditionally explained as from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛta, “sprinkled”) (See घृत entry 3 for details). First attested in the late 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: ghees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow.
A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.
gloss: Vegetable oil for cooking.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
uncountable
usually
examples: There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.
Related words: butter oil
clarified butter
Translations:
girdle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).
Base: gird
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: girdles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: girdles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: girdling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: girdled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: girdled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
pos: noun
examples: the girdle of the world
Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies
from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
that gems the starry girdle of the year
gloss: A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
pos: noun
examples: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail!
She therefore assumed the novice's garb, so universally worn by young Italians—a robe of black silk, only fastened round the waist by a girdle.
Her little chambers drip with flower-like red,
Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head,
Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet
She tramples all that winepress of the dead.
Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.
gloss: A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
pos: noun
gloss: The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin bed or stratum of stone.
pos: noun
gloss: The clitellum of an earthworm.
pos: noun
gloss: The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
pos: noun
gloss: To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.
gloss: To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.
Derived words: athlete's girdle
begirdle
breast-girdle
engirdle
girdlelike
Girdle Ness
girdle scone
girdlestead
girdle traverse
limb girdle syndrome
mirdle
notch girdle
panty girdle
pectoral girdle
peel girdle
pelvic girdle
shoulder girdle
Venus's girdle
girdler
ungirdle
Translations:
glaciation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French glaciation, from glace (“ice”).
Inflected forms:
form: glaciations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That the habitability of our planet was severely endangered by the significant rise in oxygen levels and reduction in methane due to oxygen-producing bacteria combined with the low luminosity of the Sun in the Proterozoic era (2500– 542 million years ago) is suggested by geological evidence for severe global glaciations in this epoch.
This simulation aims at describing the hydrological conditions at a Swedish deep repository of nuclear waste during a glaciation.
gloss: A particular instance of glacier formation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Deposits of the Caribou Hills glaciation only locally retain a distinct hummocky morainal form, with filled kettle depressions and subdued knobs. Along the mountain fronts the marginal deposits of this glaciation reach an average altitude of slightly more than 3,000 feet.
Deposits from the glaciation are sparse, but glacial surfaces at 4150–4300 m in the Hunza area, above 2600 m in the Gilgit region, above 3200 m in the Haramosh region, above 4000 m on Deosai, and at 3200–3500 m in the Shigar valley area provide much evidence for this glaciation.
gloss: The act of freezing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For cave glaciation to occur it is necessary that the air temperature outside the caves be negative either for all or part of a year; such conditions exist in many regions of the world.
Derived words: deglaciation
Elster glaciation
Elsterian glaciation
interglaciation
Mindel glaciation
neoglaciation
periglaciation
reglaciation
Translations:
contumacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”) + -ious.
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more contumacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contumacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
pos: adj
examples: […] and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.
But the emperor has ordered that if the count remain contumacious Thekla shall be taken from us and placed in a convent, where she will be forced to embrace Catholicism, and will, when she comes of age, be given in marriage to some adherent of the emperor, who will with her receive the greater portion of her father's lands.
Its verbs are conjugated in a way that defies all the injunctions of the grammar books; it has its contumacious rules of tense, number and case; […]
gloss: Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
pos: adj
Related words: contumaciously
contumaciousness
contumacy
contumely
contumelious
Translations:
lang: French
word: contumace
lang: Japanese
word: 服従しない
roman: fukujūshinai
lang: Latin
word: contumax
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ulydig
lang: Polish
word: oporny
lang: Polish
word: nieposłuszny
lang: Polish
word: krnąbrny
lang: Spanish
word: contumaz
lang: Swedish
word: tredskande
cumbersome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
Base: cumber
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more cumbersome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cumbersome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
pos: adj
examples: "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.
gloss: Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
pos: adj
examples: Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
gloss: Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
pos: adj
examples: A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
gloss: Inert, lumbering, slow in movement.
pos: adj
Synonyms: cumbrous
lumpish
unwieldy
Derived words: cumbersomely
cumbersomeness
uncumbersome
Translations:
contrive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver).
Inflected forms:
form: contrives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contriving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contrived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contrived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
pos: verb
examples: […]I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.
Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
gloss: To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
pos: verb
gloss: To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
pos: verb
gloss: To spend (time, or a period).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: becast
cast about
Derived words: contrivable
contrivance
contrived
contrivement
contriver
precontrive
recontrive
uncontriving
Translations:
conveniently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English convenient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English conveniently
From convenient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more conveniently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conveniently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
pos: adv
examples: his body was now conveniently inclin'd towards me, and just softly chucking his smooth beardless chin, I asked him if he was afraid of a lady?
gloss: In a manner provoking suspicion due to how well it suits someone's purposes.
pos: adv
examples: You expect me to believe that someone created a wormhole, and now conveniently has disassembled it?
If you prefer to deal in actual figures, as opposed to conveniently distracting speculative ones, then do recall that the British taxpayer bailed out Lloyds to the tune of around £20bn, and continues to face a massive loss on those shares.
Translations:
convivial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French convivial, from Latin convīvium (“a feast”), combined form of con- (“together”) + vīvō (“to live”).
Inflected forms:
form: more convivial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most convivial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity
pos: adj
examples: I spent many a convivial evening at the club.
My grandpa was famously convivial.
I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.
Translations:
coordination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coōrdinātiōnem (accusative of coōrdinātiō), from con- + ōrdinātiō. Morphologically coordinate + -ion.
Base: ōrdinātiō
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: coordinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: co-ordination
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coördination
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies.
gloss: The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.
gloss: The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I’m terrible at sports; I have no coordination.
gloss: The state of being equal in rank or power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute co-ordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.
gloss: An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There’s a wealth of other complex facts about coordination that could be explored […] coordinations with but are limited to two coordinates […]; yet coordinations with and or with or can have any number of coordinates, with the coordinator preceding just the last one […] or repeated before all except the first […]
gloss: The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: incoordination
subordination
Related words: coordinated
uncoordinated
coordinator
coordinating conjunction
Derived words: colour coordination
color coordination
coordination chemistry
coordination complex
coordination compound
coordination number
discoordination
dyscoordination
eye-hand coordination
hand-eye coordination
heterocoordination
hexacoordination
hypercoordination
microcoordination
miscoordination
multicoordination
overcoordination
pentacoordination
postcoordination
precoordination
pseudo-coordination
recoordination
uncoordination
undercoordination
Translations:
copulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“to join, unite, connect”).
Inflected forms:
form: copulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
gloss: Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
Synonyms: aphrodisia
carnal knowledge
coitus
coition
commerce
commixtion
congress
conjunction
connection
consummation
conversation
copulation
coupling
intercourse
intimacy
intimate relations
intromission
joining
lovemaking
lustmaking
mating
mounting
pareunia
penetration
relations
sex
sexual congress
sexual intercourse
sexual relation
sexual union
swiving
union
the beast with two backs
the birds and the bees
boom-boom
chesterfield rugby
horizontal dancing
horizontal hula
horizontal jogging
horizontal mambo
horizontal refreshments
horizontal slam dance
how's your father
love
Netflix and chill
physical love
roll in the hay
Ugandan affairs
Ugandan discussions
action
ass
bang
barney-mugging
beef injection
bonking
cuntfuck
fucking
frig
fucky-fucky
hot beef injection
hump
humpa humpa
jig-jig
jiggy-jiggy
lay
legover
meat injection
nookie
old hat
pipe
plow
plough
poon
poontang
punani
pussy
ride
root
rumpo
rumpy-pumpy
seeing-to
sexy time
sexy times
screw
screwing
shag
skin
snu snu
tang
trim
hanky-panky
funny business
making whoopee
jiggery-pokery
monkey business
fooling about
fooling around
playing around
Antonyms: abstinence
Related words: conjugal visit
copulate
flirt
courtship
masturbate
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction
Derived words: autocopulation
postcopulation
pseudocopulation
retrocopulation
Russian copulation
Translations:
corpuscle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”).
Inflected forms:
form: corpuscles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
pos: noun
examples: [b]y mixing divers Liquors, very odd and remarkable Productions and Changes of Colours may be effected, of which no cause can be more obvious and rational than that the saline Corpuscles of one Liquor do variously act upon or unite with the tinging Corpuscles of another, so as to make them swell, or shrink, (whereby not only their bulk but their density also may be changed,) or to divide them into smaller Corpuscles, (whereby a colour'd Liquor may become transparent,) or to make many of them associate into one cluster, whereby two transparent Liquors may compose a colour'd one.
It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
gloss: A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.
pos: noun
examples: They gave me blood tests, of course. All kinds of blood tests testing my white corpuscles, testing my red corpuscles, testing one against the other.
Related words: corpuscular
corpuscularism
corpuscularianism
Derived words: blood corpuscle
kidney corpuscle
Malpighian corpuscle
renal corpuscle
lamellar corpuscle
Pacinian corpuscle
Rainey's corpuscle
red corpuscle
Ruffini's corpuscle
Vater-Pacini corpuscle
white blood corpuscle
Translations:
corpulent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.
Inflected forms:
form: more corpulent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corpulent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Large in body; fat; overweight.
pos: adj
examples: corpulent person
gloss: Physical, material, corporeal.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: corpulence
Derived words: corpulently
corpulentness
uncorpulent
Translations:
corrugation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: corrugations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.
gloss: washboarding (the appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: