yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
steersman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English steer
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English steersman
From steer + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: steersmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.
pos: noun
examples: And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat’s crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.
The Indian canoe races were the most exciting of all the Regatta. Ten paddles dipped as one paddle, ten men bent as one man, while the steersman kept time for them with grunting bows.
Translations:
broadcloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broad + cloth.
Compound parts: broad
cloth
Inflected forms:
form: broadcloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.
Related words: kersey
poplin
Derived words: broadclothed
Translations:
selfsame
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: PIE word
 *swé
From Middle English self sam, self same, selve same (“the very same, selfsame”) [and other forms], from self (“that specific (person mentioned), herself, himself, itself, themselves”, pronoun) (from Old English self, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + sam, same (“(adjective) equal, identical; unchanging; referred to earlier, abovenamed, aforementioned; (adverb) again, repeatedly”) (from Old Norse samr (“same; agreeing, of one mind”), ultimately probably from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”)). The English word is analysable as self + same.
Cognates
* Danish selvsamme (“identical, selfsame”)
* Old High German selbsama (“identical, selfsame”)
Compound parts: self
same
Inflected forms:
form: self same
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: self-same
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same; the very same; the same not only in being similar but in being identical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For both of you are Birds of ſelfe-ſame Feather.
In my ſchoole dayes, vvhen I had loſt one ſhaft [i.e., arrow], / I ſhot his fellovv of the ſelfe-ſame flight / The ſelfe-ſame vvay, vvith more aduiſed vvatch / To finde the other foorth, and by aduentring both, / I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, / Becauſe vvhat follovves, is pure innocence.
He and his Horse, were of a piece. / One Spirit did inform them both, / The self-same Vigor, Fury, Wroth: […]
He trod the very ſelf-ſame ground you tread, / And victory refuted all he ſaid.
Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free, / Like some broad river rushing down alone, / With the selfsame impulse wherewith he was thrown / From his loud fount upon the echoing lea:— […]
And Quack and Dupe, as we must ever keep in mind, are upper-side and under of the self-same substance; convertible personages: turn up your dupe into the proper fostering element, and he himself can become a quack; […]
But in [Isaac] Newton, science was as easy as breathing; he used the same wit to weigh the moon that he used to buckle his shoes; and all his life was simple, wise, and majestic. So it was in Archimedes,—always self-same, like the sky.
[T]hrough my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head. […] But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street, watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it.
Translations:
indistinguishable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English distinguish
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English distinguishable
English indistinguishable
From in- + distinguishable.
Inflected forms:
form: more indistinguishable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indistinguishable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indistinguishables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
pos: adj
examples: The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of the former Clifton South Junction.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
gloss: Not capable of being perceived or known.
pos: adj
gloss: Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
pos: noun
Antonyms: distinguishable
fuzzy
ill-defined
indistinct
invisible
undetectable
Related words: indistinguishability
Derived words: indistinguishableness
indistinguishably
Translations:
naturalness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English naturalnes, naturalnez, equivalent to natural + -ness.
Base: natural
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: naturalnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being natural.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a picture or recording, likeness to the original.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: naturality
Antonyms: artificiality
Translations:
stateliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stately
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English stateliness
From stately + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: statelinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being stately
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sourd
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sourden, from Old French sourdre, from Latin surgō, contraction of earlier subrigō. Compare source. Doublet of surge.
Inflected forms:
form: sourds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sourding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sourded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sourded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sourde
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To arise, issue or emerge; to give rise.
pos: verb
tags: Early
Modern
examples: […]wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde[…]
Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]
Cornead. The ſpirit of foolery out of this Archibald Rupenrope he ſhall never be able to caſt, were the nectar of his eloquence a thouſand times more ſuperabundant, inceſſant ſourding.
Translations:
prophetess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. By surface analysis, prophet + -ess.
Inflected forms:
form: prophetesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female prophet.
pos: noun
examples: What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.
Translations:
howsoever
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English howsoevere, how-so-evere, how so evere. By surface analysis, how + so + ever.
Inflected forms:
form: howsever
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Regardless of the way in which.
pos: adv
examples: Howsoever they pleaded, their pleas went unheard.
gloss: In any manner whatsoever.
pos: adv
examples: The party to this agreement may use the property whensoever and howsoever he or she pleases.
gloss: To whatever degree or extent.
pos: adv
examples: Their evidence, howsoever true it may have been, was not believed.
Translations:
unpunished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English punished
English unpunished
From un- + punished.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not punished
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Villa full-back Alan Hutton was perhaps fortunate to stay on the field when his two-footed challenge on Shane Long went unpunished by referee Phil Dowd.
Translations:
unreserved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English reserved
English unreserved
From un- + reserved.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not reserved: not otherwise or already committed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unreserved forest
gloss: Not booked in advance: with no reservation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unreserved table
For the steam services, passengers with reserved seats are assembled behind the appropriate notice boards in the centre cab road, which is barred to motor traffic on summer Saturdays. Unreserved passengers line up behind other boards, which merely display destinations and not departure times.
It cannot be right that someone who joins a train at 0800, having paid perhaps £200 for a single at the ticket office and who sits in an unreserved seat, can be removed from that seat at 1200 by someone who joins en route with a cheap Advance fare that he didn't even buy until 1100, and yet which came with a compulsory reservation. That turns our first passenger's seat from unreserved to reserved midway through the journey and is, to me, commercially immoral.
gloss: Without reserve: unrestrained, unconstrained.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unreserved demeanor
Related words: nonreservation
unreservedly
Translations:
misses
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A range of clothing sizes for women of average height and build.
pos: noun
Related words: ladieswear
womenswear
Translations:
mornings
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Every morning.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are closed mornings.
Translations:
merging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mergings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result, of being merged.
pos: noun
Translations:
multiplying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: multiplyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of multiplication.
pos: noun
Translations:
reciting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: recitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recitation.
pos: noun
examples: During these public recitings (and performances) of verse, an audience (sometimes a jury of experts and a lay audience) judges the performers.
Translations:
repelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: repellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act by which something is repelled; repulsion.
pos: noun
Translations:
selecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: selectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of selection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] selectings and rejectings of a few founders.
'He had gained the most privileged access to Stratford-on-Avon church under unique conditions. […] The portions under repair may be screened off if he requires it, and there is no reason to suppose that he cannot introduce workmen of his own selecting.
Translations:
sharpening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sharpenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is sharpened.
pos: noun
examples: There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
gloss: The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Derived words: pansharpening
sharpening stone
Translations:
slaughtering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slaughterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of slaughter; a killing.
pos: noun
examples: Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.
Translations:
squeaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squeakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound that squeaks.
pos: noun
examples: Then he paused a while, and Adrian seemed to hear certain strange squeakings proceeding from the walls.
Translations:
homing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
video-games
war
Inflected forms:
form: more homing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.
pos: adj
examples: Watch out for the boss's last attack — the blue bullets are homing.
gloss: Fitted with a guiding electronic device that allows it to find and hit a target.
pos: adj
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
outsourcing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
management
Inflected forms:
form: outsourcings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
witnessing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: witnessings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of bearing witness.
pos: noun
examples: false witnessings
Translations:
lessening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lessenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
pos: noun
Translations:
grappling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grapplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.
pos: noun
tags: gerund
examples: […] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.
gloss: A grappling hook or grappling iron.
pos: noun
gloss: A small anchor; a grapnel.
pos: noun
Synonyms: handygripes
Translations:
watering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: waterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of watering, i.e. pouring water on something, or diluting a liquid.
pos: noun
examples: The plants receive regular waterings.
gloss: The art or process of giving a wavy, ornamental appearance to something.
pos: noun
Translations:
conferring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: conferrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who confers.
pos: noun
examples: His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings.
Translations:
heaping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing a heap (of something). (Compare heaped.)
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
especially
not-comparable
examples: a heaping teaspoon of sugar
a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
aggravating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more aggravating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aggravating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That makes something worse.
pos: adj
examples: aggravating circumstances
gloss: Annoying.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: aggravating factor
aggravatingly
nonaggravating
unaggravating
Translations:
chasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Engraved or embossed decoration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: gold with chasings of silver
Translations:
enlarging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enlargings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who enlarges.
pos: noun
examples: They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
Translations:
beaming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more beaming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beaming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: beamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
pos: adj
examples: The honest Captain, with his Heart's Delight in the house, and Susan tending her, was a beaming and a happy man. As the days flew by, he grew more beaming and more happy, every day.
The beaming smile of David Brooks, proudly wearing his yellow Euro 2020 jersey and a bucket hat, instantly raised the spirits of those on the pitch who spotted the 25-year-old's frantic waving.
gloss: The act of someone or something that beams.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The auspicious beamings of the Reformation had indeed shed forth a partial light; but the gloomy sternness of Henry, and the arbitrary capriciousness of Elizabeth, were but ill calculated to give due energy to the new state of things […]
gloss: The use of beams (horizontal bars) to group notes and indicate metric value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
relieving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relieve
English -ing
English relieving
From relieve + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more relieving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relieving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That brings relief.
pos: adj
examples: Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.
Translations:
withdrawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: withdrawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: withdrawal
pos: noun
examples: The first gold transaction, to four-fifths of its amount, would be by direct withdrawings of coin or bullion from the Bank of England.
Translations:
jerking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jerkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion that jerks; a jerk.
pos: noun
examples: The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
Translations:
quoting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quotings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quoted statement; a quote.
pos: noun
examples: Nevertheless, in many variations, quotings, and paraphrasings, gigantic assertions gained currency.
Translations:
pruning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prune
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English pruning
From prune + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: prunings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: alpha-beta pruning
pruning hook
pruning shears
self-pruning
summer pruning
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: poda
lang: Czech
word: prořezávání
lang: Galician
word: poda
lang: German
word: reduzieren
lang: Greek
word: κλάδεμα
roman: kládema
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: beskjæring
lang: Portuguese
word: poda
lang: Russian
word: проре́живание
roman: proréživanije
lang: Russian
word: обрезка растений
roman: obrezka rastenij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: orezivanje
lang: Spanish
word: poda
lang: Spanish
word: podada
lang: Spanish
word: podadura
lang: Spanish
word: podazón
lang: Swedish
word: beskärning
lang: Tagalog
word: hitatag
beckoning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more beckoning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beckoning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: beckonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That beckons.
pos: adj
gloss: Such a wave or similar action.
pos: noun
Translations:
frying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb fry.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Pemoulie said the chefs tried various types of flour, multiple fryings, turning the batter into foam, and adding vodka to it (that idea stuck).
There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.
Translations:
identifying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more identifying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most identifying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: identifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.
pos: adj
examples: identifying characteristic
gloss: An act of identification.
pos: noun
examples: There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.
Translations:
inclining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: inclinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inclination
pos: noun
examples: The removal of the monarch and his court to the Brazils had tended to make the nobles less loyal in their inclinings[…]
185?, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Monsieur Rigaud sometimes stopped, as if he were going to put his case in a new light, or make some irate remonstrance; but Signor Cavalletto continuing to go slowly to and fro at a grotesque kind of jog-trot pace with his eyes turned downward, nothing came of these inclinings.
Translations:
arresting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more arresting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arresting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Striking, gripping.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic.
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
Translations:
appreciating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more appreciating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appreciating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: appreciatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Appreciative: having or showing appreciation.
pos: adj
examples: Gentle, affectionate, full of those small courtesies so endearing in daily life, generally silent, but such an appreciating listener, so unworldly, so young, and so lovely—Emily attached those with whom she lived, more than themselves suspected.
gloss: appreciation
pos: noun
examples: There are so many underlinings, so many exclamation points in the margins, and so much highlighting from my many readings and appreciatings that it looks like a case of severe book abuse. It is not; these are marks of love.
Translations:
apologizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: apologizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making an apology.
pos: noun
examples: There were appeals and apologizings and beseechings then, but they were on the other side and he did not respond; something was frozen away inside that never unthawed in the heat of their renewed association.
Translations:
guarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: guardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The duty of one who guards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A guardrail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Guardings and balustrades should be designed to minimize the risk of wheelchair users catching their feet between balusters […]
gloss: Tensing of the muscles, especially of the abdomen, in order to minimise the movement and agitation to the internal inflamed organs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: coastguarding
monkey guarding
puppy guarding
Translations:
foretaste
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fortaste, equivalent to fore- + taste (noun).
Base: taste
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: foretastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foretastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foretasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foretasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foretasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A taste beforehand.
pos: noun
gloss: A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
pos: noun
examples: When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
About two weeks ago I had another foretaste of success and immediately on it a veritable disaster.
gloss: To taste beforehand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To taste before another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]
Synonyms: foresmack
pregustation
Related words: aftertaste
Derived words: foretaster
Translations:
plunging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plungings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That descends steeply.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Very low-cut.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An occurrence of putting or sinking under water or other fluid.
pos: noun
gloss: A headlong violent motion like that of a horse trying to throw its rider.
pos: noun
examples: Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; […].
Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings, accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment.
It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.
Derived words: plungingly
plunging neckline
Translations:
scraping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.
Base: scrape
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: scrapings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of something being scraped.
pos: noun
examples: We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.
gloss: Something removed by being scraped.
pos: noun
examples: the scrapings of roads and ditches
[…] the tables in the refectory would be laid out with plates of bread and scrapings of butter, with bowls ready for the saltless and slightly burned porridge, with the dark wells of golden syrup that served a universal purpose in early Australian cookery.
gloss: Automated collection of data, data scraping.
pos: noun
examples: The practice of scraping the internet is longstanding and was largely disclosed by the companies and nonprofit organizations that did it. But it was not well understood or seen as especially problematic by the companies that owned the data.
Derived words: bowing and scraping
data scraping
screen scraping
web scraping
Translations:
permitting
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: permittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: permiting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Used in an absolute clause to indicate that the statement modified by the clause (typically an expression of intent) will only be fulfilled if not impeded by the noun.
pos: verb
examples: We'll come if we can, weather, health, and car permitting.
gloss: An act or instance of permitting something.
pos: noun
examples: How do we jump over that last hurdle before we start most of the permittings being done?
Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.
Translations:
overpowering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overpowering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overpowering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: overpowerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
pos: adj
examples: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
The fact that approximately 40% of spoken language at the cafeteria was not English, suggests that the effect of the near 100% English signage is far from overpowering.
gloss: The process of something being overpowered.
pos: noun
examples: Each of these concepts can be used, and is used, to justify the various overpowerings and abuses that are typical of capitalism as we know it, pace the Enlightenment thinkers and any other ideal model.
Translations:
unreasoning
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English reasoning
English unreasoning
From un- + reasoning.
Inflected forms:
form: more unreasoning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unreasoning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking or without reason.
pos: adj
examples: When we consider the enormous amount of suffering and disease, both of mind and body, arising from the sex-suppression of which I have just spoken, especially among women, we see that mere unreasoning taboos - which possibly had their place and use in the past - can be tolerated no longer.
Translations:
staggering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more staggering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most staggering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: staggerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
pos: adj
examples: The army suffered a staggering defeat.
It is this stretch which provides what is perhaps the most staggering scenic prospect of all; the impression made on the mind by the overwhelming height of the Eiger, towering over the train, is almost impossible to describe.
Binance may be the biggest crypto house exposed, but it is simply the latest in a long line of financial institutions whose lack of money laundering oversight — and willingness to look the other way — has drawn in staggering amounts of illicit wealth and attracted the world’s leading criminal rings and kleptocratic regimes.
gloss: Lurching, floundering.
pos: adj
gloss: The motion of one who staggers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
gloss: The condition of being staggered or amazed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings, although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory[…]
gloss: The spacing out of various actions over time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a result of the recommendation of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport, a Government-sponsored scheme for the staggering of working hours in London has been announced.
gloss: In animation, the repetition of a sequence of frames to show struggling effort
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: staggeringly
staggeringness
unstaggering
Translations:
smuggling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smugglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of something being smuggled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
arts
business
crafts
engineering
finance
firearms
government
hobbies
lifestyle
lutherie
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English lapping, lappyng, lappinge, equivalent to lap + -ing.
Base: lap
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: lappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the iron roller is previously wound round with from 20 to 30 thicknesses of a strong twilled woollen cloth , which is called by the machine printer the lapping , which protects both the calico and the copper roller
gloss: The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: self-lapping
Derived words: hotlapping
Translations:
locking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
Proto-Germanic *luką
Proto-West Germanic *lok
Old English loc
Middle English lok
English lock
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English locking
From lock + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
pos: noun
Translations:
imagining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: imaginings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.
pos: noun
examples: 1977, Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard in Izitso, Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love […]
Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings.
Despite my imaginings, disaster was denied over the deep waters of the Hawkesbury.
Translations:
robbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: robbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: robbery
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
Translations:
hiking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hikings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.
Consulting the data provided by ARPS to the county, the county discovers that ARPS has erroneously stated that the parking area too was on solid ground when in fact the earth was ill suited to anything other than hikings.
gloss: The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Like in previous years, Government policies with regard to restraining price hikings have been dealing with curtailing credit supplies and bank liquidities […]
Derived words: hiking boot
hiking pole
Translations:
puffing
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: puffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: It's called "puffing," when drivers start their car and then leave it unattended while running.
gloss: The act of one who puffs.
pos: noun
examples: the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train
gloss: A puffy ornament.
pos: noun
examples: Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns[…]
gloss: An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.
pos: noun
Related words: puffery
Translations:
galloping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gallopings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Movement at a gallop.
pos: noun
examples: But the dreams came upon him too: gallopings and shouts through a windy sky, wingbeats, cruel beaks and claws, a feeling of loss unspeakable and unbounded.
Translations:
contending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: contention
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: in the midst of some contendings in the Church, about the government of his house
Translations:
stifling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stifling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stifling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stiflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That stifles.
pos: adj
examples: The heat was stifling; it seemed hard to breathe and the exertion of rolling over on the bed seemed too much.
The oppression of the cabin was stifling, and Evelyn had left her; she could not bear his absence, and she followed him.
Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty? Not he.
gloss: The act by which something is stifled.
pos: noun
examples: Every man who is destroyed must destroy himself. When a man stifles an admonition of conscience, he may fairly be said to sow the stiflings of conscience.
Despite this, Mott McDonald's report says: "Following the loss of employment in mining and manufacturing opportunities across the area, a lack of connectivity and accessibility to new opportunities has led to the stifling of development and inward investment.
Translations:
offending
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: offendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of committing an offence.
pos: noun
examples: There are, besides, other corporations and individuals more or less connected in the activities of the other defendants, that are alleged to be instruments or accomplices in their activities and offendings[…]
gloss: Responsible; to be blamed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Something in the fridge smelled terrible. The offending article was soon identified and removed.
According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.
Translations:
redeeming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more redeeming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most redeeming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: redeemings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Compensating for the faults of someone or something.
pos: adj
examples: His lack of punctuality was offset by his redeeming sense of humor.
There are few redeeming features, if any, about the London Midland Region winter timetable.
gloss: Able to save people from sin, error or evil.
pos: adj
gloss: An act of redemption.
pos: noun
Derived words: redeemingly
redeeming quality
Translations:
punishing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more punishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most punishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: punishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That punishes physically and/or mentally; arduous, gruelling, demanding.
pos: adj
examples: Upon Amelia's return from the West Coast in October, George presented her with a punishing schedule of lectures and appointments to promote the new book and solidify her position as America's foremost woman aviator.
Regardless of the punishing heat and physicality, restaurant cooking is a calling many Chinese chefs cannot deny.
They took off at a punishing speed, making London in less than half a day.
gloss: Debilitating, harsh.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: 1999, Edward Gonzalez, Richard Nuccio, Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, The Rand Forum on Cuba, Rand Corp
Others argued that the worst of all outcomes after 40 years of a punishing embargo would be for the United States to adopt policies that might extend the life of a dictatorial regime.
Public debt of this magnitude can provoke punishing tax rates and crowd out private investment.
The apparent punishing effect of naloxone may be mediated through the withdrawal reaction that it produces[.]
a punishing blow
gloss: Punishment.
pos: noun
examples: We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts[…]
Derived words: nonpunishing
punishingly
punishingness
unpunishing
Translations:
treading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tredynge, tredyng; equivalent to tread + -ing.
Base: tread
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: treadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who treads.
pos: noun
examples: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
Translations:
joking
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jokings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Kidding, trying to fool.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
US
colloquial
transitive
examples: Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!
gloss: The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
pos: noun
examples: No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility[…]
Translations:
guiding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Guidance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Butler was ready to consider any proposition which would save her; but it must be a sound one—one not open to her whimsical moods or the guidings or leadings of romance.
gloss: Girl Guiding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Daisy Gordon Low then established two Girl Guide troops in poor sections of central London. Her belief was growing that guiding could serve many beneficial ends.
Translations:
moaning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moanings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The utterance of a moan.
pos: noun
examples: the moanings of the wounded men
But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow
⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]
Translations:
darkening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: darkenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something becoming darker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.
NEGATIVE FLASHES — Brief darkenings of a light that is otherwise steadily on.
Translations:
grumbling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grumblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more grumbling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grumbling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: complaining
pos: noun
examples: the grumblings of a bad-tempered man
The commissions paid on this transaction were high and gave rise to grumblings in Great Britain about a “banker's ramp.”
gloss: rumbling
pos: noun
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
unbuttoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + buttoned. In some instances possibly from unbutton.
Base: buttoned
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unbuttoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbuttoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the buttons undone.
pos: adj
examples: Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive, not to say drunk.
gloss: In disarray.
pos: adj
gloss: Informal, casual.
pos: adj
Antonyms: buttoned-up
Translations: