yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
quandary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 16th century. Origin unknown; perhaps a dialectal corruption (simulating a word of Latin origin with suffix -ary) of wandreth (“evil, plight, peril, adversity, difficulty”), from Middle English wandreth, from Old Norse vandræði (“difficulty, trouble”), from vándr (“difficult, requiring pains and care”).
Inflected forms:
form: quandaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement.
pos: noun
examples: As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
gloss: A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice.
pos: noun
examples: The preservation of Judah's ignorance here is important, for the final turn of his painful moral education must be withheld for the quandary in which he will find himself later when he encounters Joseph as viceroy of Egypt without realizing his brother's identity.
To quote the oracle of Delphi, / Love thou thy neighbor as thyself, aye, / And hate him as thyself thou hatest. / There quandary is at its greatest.
But we may suppose that John has set his priorities in such a way that the quandary is spurious.
What a difficult quandary for a bright, talented child!
Then I would begin contemplating the next quandary: "Does the Torah say it's okay to portray a hooker, and is a heart of gold a mitigating factor?"
The film explores Oppenheimer’s moral quandary over his role in creating the most destructive weapon ever made, but nuclear disarmament campaigners fear its power to persuade people of the existential threat posed by nuclear arms may be diminished by its focus on scientific achievement.
Related words: doubt
indecision
dilemma
Translations:
Maricopa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Maricopas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Maricopa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American people belonging to the Yuman linguistic stock, a part of the Hokan family. They originate in the Colorado River area, but following an exodus in the 1700s or 1800s, they live amongst the Pima in the vicinity of the Gila and Salt Rivers.
pos: noun
examples: In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.
Translations:
biophysics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English physics
English biophysics
From bio- + physics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:biophysics.
Translations:
subduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”). Equivalent to subduct + -ion or subduce + -tion.
Base: subduct
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: subductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
Evidence for a subduction polarity flip is clear in the Irish Caledonides, where the S-dipping slab beneath the Lough Nafooey arc (Dewey & Ryan 1990; Clift & Ryan 1994) became a N-dipping subduction zone after the Grampian Orogeny.
Earthquakes on the subduction interface itself are low-angle thrusts in the depth range 15–45 km, generally reaching a maximum depth of 20 km in the west and 45 km in the centre of the arc, near Crete.
gloss: The act of subducting or taking away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: threatened the subduction of his own presence
gloss: Arithmetical subtraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the other Operation of Arithmetick , namely , Subduction
gloss: A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Accordingly, a diffeological principal S¹-bundle over a diffeological space X is a subduction π : P → X and a smooth map τ satisfying the same conditions; see [30] for a thorough discussion.
Subductions (art. 1.46) express a global behavior of some surjections. As we localized the notion of induction and then obtained the notion of local induction (art. 2.15), the notion of subduction can be localized, or refined, as well, and leads to the concept of local subduction. Exercise 61, p. 60, illustrates the case where a subduction is not everywhere a local subduction.
Related words: subduct
Derived words: palaeosubduction
subduction zone
Translations:
tectonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of crustal plates and other large-scale structural features of the Earth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The science and art of assembling, shaping, or ornamenting materials in construction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: architectonics
tectonic
Derived words: geotectonics
glaciotectonics
morphotectonics
neotectonics
plate tectonics
plumbotectonics
salt tectonics
seismotectonics
Translations:
Jurassic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and Jurassic?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, Jurassic is older.”
Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004).
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
proscribed
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.
gloss: Very old-fashioned and outdated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later.
For every three shops or restaurants that looked as if they might have had a poster of Che Guevara somewhere on the premises, there was one stubborn Jurassic retailer offering knit suits for older women or an Italian restaurant that offered all-you-can-eat garlic bread and didn't call itself a trattoria.
Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: юрски
roman: jurski
lang: Catalan
word: juràssic
lang: Czech
word: jurský
lang: Finnish
word: jurakautinen
lang: French
word: jurassique
lang: Galician
word: xurásico
lang: Georgian
word: იურული
roman: iuruli
lang: Hebrew
word: יורה
roman: yúra
lang: Irish
word: Iúrasach
lang: Macedonian
word: јурски
roman: jurski
lang: Mongolian
word: юрийн
roman: jüriin
lang: Polish
word: jurajski
lang: Portuguese
word: jurássico
lang: Turkish
word: Jura
plush
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French peluche (“fluff, plush”). The fact that historically (in past centuries) plush upholstery was so expensive as to be socially exclusive undoubtedly connects the senses of "luxurious" and "soft".
Inflected forms:
form: plusher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: plushest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Very extravagant.
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: They lived in a plush apartment complex.
gloss: Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).
pos: adj
examples: This plush toy is so cute and soft — I want it!
gloss: A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
gloss: A plush toy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.
[…] L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).
gloss: To give a soft, fluffy surface to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Green moss plushed the boulders that were stewn ^([sic]) about, reaching up to splash the cliffs with a velvet mantle.
Derived words: plush animal
plush toy
plushblue
plushcrown
plushen
plushie
plushification
plushlike
plushly
plushness
plushophile
plushophilia
plushophilic
plushsuit
plushy
Translations:
moronic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moron
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English moronic
From moron + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more moronic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moronic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a mental age of between seven and twelve years.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Behaving in the manner of a moron; idiotic; stupid.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: moronic behavior
Excessive contrarianism against the liberal establishment has also resulted in slopulism spiralling off into the most moronic of conspiracy theories.
Related words: moron
moronic acid
Derived words: moronically
moronicity
moronicness
sophomoronic
submoronic
unmoronic
Translations:
whisker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mathematics
metallurgy
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
transport
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wisker, whisk (verb) + -er.
Base: whisk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: whiskers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
pos: noun
gloss: A hair of the beard.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
pos: noun
gloss: The (very small) distance between two things.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: It missed falling on your foot by a whisker.
Boosted by their reward, Wolves continued to push forward and Jamie O'Hara came within a whisker of doubling the lead, smashing a 25-yard effort on to the bar.
gloss: Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
pos: noun
gloss: A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
pos: noun
gloss: A small tendril that forms on metal.
pos: noun
Derived words: box and whisker plot
by a whisker
cat's whisker
cat's whisker receiver
cat's whiskers
gnat's whisker
tin whisker
whisker biscuit
whiskered
whiskerless
whisker pole
whiskery
within a whisker of
Translations:
wringer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wringere, equivalent to wring + -er.
Base: wring
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wringers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wrings.
pos: noun
examples: We wringers of hands don't really want a step to take! We want to continue our hand-wringing and feel hostile toward anyone who acts as if there's something simple to do about any problem.
gloss: One who wrings.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for drying laundry consisting of two rollers between which the wet laundry is squeezed (or wrung).
pos: noun
gloss: Something that causes pain, hardship, or exertion; an ordeal.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Reynders brushed a messy lock of orange hair out of her eyes for the dozenth time. Her body didn't change in the ADDC, actively resisted and eventually reverted any changes being consciously made to it, but in her constant state of nervous paranoia she was doing a bang-up job of making herself look like she'd been through several sequential wringers. "I know there's a better way to describe this, but it's very hard to focus. Bear with it. I hate being like this a lot more than you hate hearing it, trust me."
Derived words: get one's tits in a wringer
put through the wringer
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: vääntäjä
lang: Finnish
word: vääntelijä
cordon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
botany
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English cordon, from Middle French cordon, from Old French cordon, diminutive of corde. More at cord.
Inflected forms:
form: cordons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cordons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cordoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cordoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cordoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ribbon normally worn diagonally across the chest as a decoration or insignia of rank etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A line of people or things placed around an area to enclose or protect it.
pos: noun
gloss: The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully.
pos: noun
gloss: A woody plant, such as a fruit tree, pruned and trained to grow as a single stem on a support.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of cordon off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Strong detachments of infantry instead of gendarmes cordoned the streets leading to the Lycée.
Derived words: sanitary cordon
Translations:
corridor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Inflected forms:
form: corridors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
pos: noun
examples: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?
gloss: A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
pos: noun
examples: In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train.
gloss: The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
pos: noun
tags: historical
rare
gloss: Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: The land near an important road, river, railway line.
pos: noun
examples: Main Street corridor
Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle
Derived words: air corridor
boom corridor
corridor care
corridor discussion
corridor disease
corridored
corridorless
corridorlike
corridor of uncertainty
corridor shooter
corridors of power
corridor train
corridor warrior
Danubian corridor
economic corridor
ghost corridor
green corridor
humanitarian corridor
M62 corridor
Mormon corridor
non-corridor
noncorridor
Northeast Corridor
Suwalki corridor
utilidor
wildlife corridor
Translations:
uncertainty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English uncerteynte; equivalent to un- + certainty or uncertain + -ty.
Base: certainty
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncertainties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uncertainity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
India
Senses:
gloss: Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
Piecing together Corbynomics is difficult, not least because it has evolved during Mr Corbyn’s time in charge of Labour. The gulf between the Labour leadership’s past positions and the milder proposals in the manifesto means that enormous uncertainty hangs over what a Corbyn-led government would do in office.
It's a full circle. Over the past 43 years, RAIL has reported on how the railways have gone from uncertainty under government control to sectorisation, privatisation, and back to uncertainty under government control.
gloss: Something uncertain or ambiguous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
gloss: A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: uncertainness
Antonyms: certainty
closure
Derived words: cone of uncertainty
corridor of uncertainty
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Knightian uncertainty
uncertainty aversion
uncertainty principle
Translations:
Sami
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Samic *sāmē
Northern Sami sápmi
Northern Sami Sápmider.
English Sami
From Northern Sami Sápmi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémijāˀ (“land”). Displaced native Old English Finn (the direct descendant is Finn (“person from Finland”)). More at Sápmi and Sami.
Inflected forms:
form: Sami
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Samis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Saami
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sámi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Saami
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sámi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, or the Sami languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
halo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: haloes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haloing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haloed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haloed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To encircle with a halo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
auxiliary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin auxiliārius (“assistant, ally”), equiv. to auxiliāris (“helping, aiding”), from auxilium (“help, aid”), from augēre (“to increase”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Helping; giving assistance or support.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: auxiliary troops
gloss: Supplementary or subsidiary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to an auxiliary verb.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tuner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tune
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English tuner
From tune (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tuners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who tunes a piano or organ.
pos: noun
gloss: A device, electronic or mechanical, that helps a person tune a musical instrument by showing the deviation of the played pitch from the desired pitch.
pos: noun
gloss: On a musical instrument, a peg or mechanical device that changes the tension, and hence pitch, of a string.
pos: noun
gloss: The component of an audio system that receives radio broadcasts.
pos: noun
gloss: One who sings or makes music.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: amplifier
high fidelity
TV tuner
Derived words: auto-tuner
microtuner
Translations:
astride
Part of speech: adv
prep
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English stride
English astride
From a- + stride.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With one’s legs on either side.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The men ride their horses astride.
gloss: With one’s legs on either side of.
pos: prep
examples: The boy sat astride his father’s knee.
gloss: Extending across (something).
pos: prep
examples: Chʻung-ming, an island astride the mouth of the Yangtze, had been captured against quite stiff opposition from the Chinese River Defense Force and was being developed into an advance naval and air base.
The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
Synonyms: agee
astraddle
Translations:
utensil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English utensyl, from Old French utensile, from Latin ūtēnsilis (“useful, usable”).
Inflected forms:
form: utensils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument or device for domestic use, especially in the kitchen.
pos: noun
examples: We have convenient storage for all the kitchen/eating utensils.
gloss: Specifically, a eating utensil (fork, table knife, or spoon); a piece of flatware or cutlery.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
gloss: A useful small tool, implement, or vessel.
pos: noun
examples: He stocked up on old-style writing utensils.
Relations, sparing no expense'll/Send some useless old utensil,/Or a matching pen and pencil./"just the thing I need! how nice!"
Derived words: chamber utensil
cooking utensil
Translations:
idempotent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin roots idem (“same”) + potent (“having power”), thus “having the same power”. Coined in 1870 by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in the context of algebra, later generalized to computer science.
Compound parts: idem
potent
Inflected forms:
form: idempotents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: (said of a function) Such that, when performed multiple times on the same subject, it has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A projection operator is idempotent.
An HTTP request using the PUT verb should be idempotent, so that it can be sent to the server any number of times with the same end result.
gloss: (said of an element of an algebraic structure with a binary operation, such as a group or semigroup) Such that, when it operates on itself, the result is equal to itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Every finite semigroup has an idempotent element.
Every group has a unique idempotent element: namely, its identity element.
gloss: (said of a binary operation) Such that all of the distinct elements it can operate on are idempotent (in the sense given just above).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Since the AND logical operator is commutative, associative, and idempotent, it distributes with respect to itself.
gloss: (said of an algebraic structure) Having an idempotent operation (in the sense given above).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An idempotent element.
pos: noun
gloss: An idempotent structure.
pos: noun
Related words: idempotence
nilpotent
nullipotent
unipotent
involutory
Derived words: idempotently
idempotentness
nonidempotent
Translations:
idiopathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From idio- + -pathic. First appears c. 1669, in the publications of William Simpson.
Affixes: idio-
-pathic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or designating a disease or condition having no known cause.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
Translations:
radiant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
biology
botany
geometry
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English radyant, from Latin radiāns, radiantis, present participle of radiāre (“to emit rays or beams”).
Inflected forms:
form: more radiant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: radient
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: radiants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radient
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Radiating light and/or heat.
pos: adj
examples: the radiant sun
They in ranks / Sat all, where ſtood the fiery ſteeds of each, / And where his radiant arms lay on the field.
The couple's sustainability efforts also included installing radiant heat under the concrete-slab floor.
gloss: Emitted as radiation.
pos: adj
gloss: Beaming with vivacity and happiness.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a radiant face
His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil ! You ! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow !” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
gloss: Strikingly beautiful.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.
gloss: Emitting or proceeding as if from a center.
pos: adj
gloss: Giving off rays.
pos: adj
examples: the sun radiant
a crown radiant
gloss: Having a ray-like appearance, like the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
pos: adj
gloss: A point source from which radiation is emitted.
pos: noun
gloss: The apparent origin, in the night sky, of a meteor shower.
pos: noun
gloss: A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
pos: noun
Derived words: octoradiant
radiance
radiancy
radiant energy
radiant heat
radiantly
radiantness
subradiant
superradiant
unradiant
Translations:
clerisy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros) + -isy. Introduced by Coleridge, based on German Clerisei (modern Klerisei), from Late Latin clēricus.
Affixes: -isy
Inflected forms:
form: clerisies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elite group of intellectuals; learned people, the literati.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2003: By the nineteenth-century clerisy […] Christianity itself, yoked to material civilization, came to be questioned as gross and vulgar. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 432)
2016: Only the highly educated write so badly. Indeed, the point of such ludicrous prose is to signal membership in a closed clerisy that possesses a private language. — George F. Will, Washington Post, 18 Nov, 2016
2022: We invent ourselves as American writers—it's not a clerisy we’re born into... — Edward Hirsch, The Heart of American Poetry (Library of America, 2022)
gloss: The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.
Synonyms: intelligentsia
Translations:
oscillation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From French oscillation, from Latin oscillatio, from Latin oscillo. By surface analysis, oscillate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: oscillations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The trial running tests which were made with the vehicles showed that they ride very steadily laterally, with almost complete absence of oscillation at all speeds.
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
gloss: a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a single such cycle
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: (of a function) defined for each point x in the domain of the function by inf diam(f(U))∣Uisaneighborhoodofx, and describes the difference (possibly ∞) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: oscillate
Derived words: eigenoscillation
equioscillation
magnetooscillation
multioscillation
oscillational
oscillationless
oscillationlike
superoscillation
Translations:
query
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
Etymology: An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”); perhaps suffixed with -y (“abstract noun”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
Inflected forms:
form: queries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: querying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: queried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: queried
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quæry
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To ask a question.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ask, inquire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]
“You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”
I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried^([sic]) her favourite colour, quelle banel.
gloss: To question or call into doubt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
gloss: To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
pos: verb
examples: Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.
gloss: To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
gloss: To send out a query letter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: inquiry
querent
quest
question
Derived words: overquery
queriable
querier
queryable
requery
Translations:
fender-bender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fender-benders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fender bender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A minor accident involving at least one motor vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: My insurance went up even though all my accidents were just fender-benders.
Translations:
gynocentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gyno- + -centric.
Base: gyno
Inflected forms:
form: more gynocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gynocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting gynocentrism; focused on females.
pos: adj
Translations:
androcentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr
Proto-Hellenic *anḗr
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νδρός (ăndrós)der.
English andro-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der.
English -centric
English androcentric
From andro- + -centric.
Inflected forms:
form: more androcentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most androcentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males.
pos: adj
Translations:
prayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English preiere, from Old French preiere, from Early Medieval Latin precāria, derived from Latin precem. Displaced native Old English ġebed (whence modern English bead).
Inflected forms:
form: prayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
In many cultures, prayer involves singing.
gloss: An act of praying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
In that spirit, we’ll close with the wish we always offer at the end of our annual review, although this time it’s more of a prayer: Happy new year.
gloss: The specific words or methods used for praying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
For Baha'is, there's a difference between obligatory prayers and devotional prayers.
gloss: A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.
gloss: A request; a petition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.
gloss: The remotest hope or chance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
uncountable
examples: That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.
Synonyms: orison
precation
bead
Derived words: antiprayer
arrow prayer
call to prayer
dawn prayer
evening prayer
Friday prayers
house of prayer
morning prayer
not have a prayer
on a wing and a prayer
prayer bead
prayer beads
prayer book
prayer box
prayer bump
prayer card
prayer circle
prayer flag
prayer for relief
prayerful
prayerhouse
prayerish
prayerless
prayerlike
prayer mat
prayer meeting
prayer mill
prayer-monger
prayer plant
prayer room
prayer rope
prayer rug
prayer shawl
Prayers of the People
prayersome
prayer square
prayer wheel
prayerwise
preprayer
psychic prayer
sinner's prayer
sunset prayer
the answer to a maiden's prayer
wing and prayer
without a prayer
Translations:
vocabulary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.
Latin voc(ā)
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
Latin -bulum
Latin vocābulum
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin vocābulāriumlbor.
English vocabulary
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium.
Inflected forms:
form: vocabularies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The collection of words a person knows and uses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My Russian vocabulary is very limited.
gloss: The stock of words used in a particular field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.
gloss: The words of a language collectively; lexis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
Vocabulary provides a foundation from which grammar, phonology, and morphology emerge, and in a subject area it provides access to conceptual knowledge. Vocabulary selection for pedagogical purposes is therefore crucial.
gloss: A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: dictionary
Related words: vocable
vocal
Derived words: active vocabulary
controlled vocabulary
defining vocabulary
extended vocabulary
in someone's vocabulary
international scientific vocabulary
vocabulary word
working vocabulary
Translations:
alphabetize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Semitic *ʔalp-
Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor.
Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)
Proto-Semitic *bayt-
Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor.
Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)
Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der.
Classical Latin alphabētumbor.
Middle English alphabete
English alphabet(ical)
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
English alphabetize
From alphabet(ical) + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: alphabetizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alphabetizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alphabetized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alphabetized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: alphabetise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.
Translations:
cufflink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cuff
English link
English cufflink
From cuff + link.
Inflected forms:
form: cufflinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuff link
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cuff-link
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A button or stud used to hold a sleeve cuff together.
pos: noun
examples: Every gentleman needs at least one pair of cufflinks.
Translations:
Pollyanna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the protagonist in the 1913 novel Pollyanna, by Eleanor Porter.
Inflected forms:
form: Pollyannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pollyanna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is persistently cheerful and optimistic, even when given cause not to be so.
pos: noun
examples: You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna.
I never wanna hear / From any cheerful Pollyannas / Who tell you Fate supplies a mate / It's all bananas
‘Next time we’re going to have fun, OK?’ I wanted this album to go towards the light. You indulge in the grief to a certain point, but then you have to be a little bit Pollyanna.”
Translations:
airspace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
broadcasting
business
construction
engineering
government
manufacturing
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
Etymology: From air + space.
Compound parts: air
space
Inflected forms:
form: airspaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: air space
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A specified portion of the atmosphere, especially that under the technical aviation control and/or jurisdiction of a particular state over which territory (and territorial waters) it lies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: aerospace (not synonymous)
Various European countries transferred the aviation control of their adjoining airspace to Eurocontrol, while each retaining legal jurisdiction.
Haines has previous experience of dealing with a hugely disruptive crisis. He said: "I left the railway in 2008 and went to the Civil Aviation Authority. And within a few months I was in the middle of an Icelandic volcanic storm. Eyafjallajokull closed airspace across northern Europe.
During the war, Israel quickly took control of much of Iran's airspace, and attacked its military infrastructure. Top commanders of the Revolutionary Guard and the army were swiftly killed.
gloss: that part of the sky designated for the sole use of aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Space (i.e. a few neighboring frequencies) available for broadcasting within a particular frequency band.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The legalisation of free radios caused a bitter fight for airspace.
gloss: The portion of an enclosed area which contains air, especially breathable air.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cavity in a cavity wall containing air for insulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: dead-air space
u-space
Translations:
Nigel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: English form of Latin Nigellus, from nigellus (“slightly black”), diminutive of niger (“(shining) black”), particularly used in the Middle Ages to Latinize Norman Néel and Irish Neil.
Inflected forms:
form: Nigels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of dweeb (“boring or socially inept person”).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
derogatory
examples: He's such a Nigel, hanging around in the library all day by himself.
gloss: An Englishman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Synonyms: Nigel no friends
Nigel no mates
Nige
Translations:
momentum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.
Inflected forms:
form: momentums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: momenta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...
gloss: The surmise of an accelerated price trend in the analysis (technical or fundamental) of an asset.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: wind at one's back
Derived words: angular momentum
crystal momentum
four-momentum
gain momentum
-mentum
momenergy
momentum junkie
momentumless
Planck momentum
pseudomomentum
quasimomentum
supermomentum
Translations:
simony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English simonie, symonye, from Old French simonie, from Late Latin simonia, named after Simon Magus (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (Šimʻôn, “Simon”)), with reference to Acts 8:18–20.
Inflected forms:
form: simonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The buying or selling of spiritual or sacred things, such as ecclesiastical offices, pardons, or consecrated objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.
‘There are those two,’ he then said, ‘who were recently arraigned on a charge of high simony. Fancying a monstrance and stealing it and proposing to sell it. They pleaded the usual pagan ignorance.’
He openly practiced simony; in other words, he sold benefices.
Translations: