yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ceremonial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cerymonial, from Latin caerimōniālis. Morphologically ceremony + -al or -ial.
Base: ceremony
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more ceremonial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ceremonial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cæremonial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ceremonials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cæremonial
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, consisting of, or used in a ceremony.
pos: adj
examples: What mockery will it be / To want the bridegroom when the priest attends / To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!
His merit introduced him to ſplendid tables and elegant acquaintance, but he did not find himſelf alvvays qualified to join in the converſation. He vvas diſtreſſed by civilities, vvhich he knevv not hovv to repay, and entangled in many ceremonial perplexities, from vvhich his books and diagrams could not extricate him.
[T]his change in ceremonial observances and outward show was trifling when compared to that in the objects of worship […]
Philomena Guinea's black Cadillac eased through the tight, five o'clock traffic like a ceremonial car.
“You must swear it. By Adamcos,” said Catweazle, drawing his ceremonial knife. “Crumbs! What's that?” asked Carrot, very taken with the knife.
gloss: Used only for the purpose of ceremony; symbolic.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of ceremonious (“of a person: fond of ceremony or ritual, or of observing strict etiquette or formality; punctilious”).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Oh monstrous, superstitious puritan, / Of refin’d manners, yet ceremoniall man, […]
[W]ith dumb Pride, and a set formal Face, / He moves, in the dull Ceremonial track, […]
gloss: A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Curt’sies, and the usual Ceremonials between Women who are Strangers to each other being past, Sophia said, ‘I have not the Pleasure to know you, Madam.’
Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.
There was little ceremonial to mark the opening of the completed railway beyond the fact that a decorated train left Paddington at 8 a.m. on the morning of June 30 a hundred years ago and, passing the beflagged ends of Box tunnel, arrived at Bristol at noon.
I have been in favour of ceremonial and patterns all my life, and I have no desire to break the funeral pattern.
Derived words: anticeremonial
ceremonial county
ceremonial first pitch
ceremonialise
ceremonialism
ceremonialist
ceremonially
ceremonial marriage
ceremonialness
nonceremonial
preceremonial
semiceremonial
unceremonial
Translations:
haemophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From haemo- + -philia, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + φιλία (philía, “friendship”). Originally called haemorrhaphilia, probably from the word haemorrhage.
Base: haemo
Inflected forms:
form: haemophilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hæmophilia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: hemophilia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Any of several hereditary illnesses that impair the body's ability to control bleeding, usually passed from mother to son.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
uncountable
Translations:
dyspepsia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From dys- + Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -ia.
Affixes: dys-
Inflected forms:
form: dyspepsias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any mild disorder of digestion characterised by stomach pain, discomfort, heartburn, and nausea, often following a meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He divides dyspepsias into accidental, temporary (indigestions) and habitual.
It is not my strength of mind (exert it as I may) that will prevent me from experiencing dyspepsia, if such follies as these are exhibited before me.
"And the cramps when my body - like a badly articulated skeleton - would all get twisted into one rigid tangle! But now, except some dyspepsia and urticaria of the palms, I am free from pain."
I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
gloss: Irritation or disgruntlement.
pos: noun
tags: comparable
countable
figuratively
uncountable
Synonyms: indigestion
Derived words: dyspeptic
Pepsi
pepsi
Translations:
sensory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English sensory
From sense + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: sensoric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the physical senses or sensation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Species of things are perceived rather there whereto they are carried. But every ſenſory Nerve each in its place carries the Species to the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow, and therefore each in their place are judged and received by the Soul, in the beginning of the ſpinal Marrow.
It is evident that in the ancestor of these two groups the first pair of appendages became early adapted for purely sensory purposes, and were naturally projected far in advance of the mouth, forming the antennæ.
Findings of the sensory analysis panel at NWFSC [the Northwest Fisheries Science Center], which tested and classified flesh characteristics of both Pacific and giant grenadier, are averaged and summarized in Table 10.
gloss: Conveying nerve impulses from the sense organs to the nerve centers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: sensory neurons
Synonyms: sensely
sensible
sensory
sensual
sensuous
sensatory
sensorial
Related words: sensible
sensual
sensuous
Derived words: audiosensory
autonomous sensory meridian response
biosensory
bisensory
chemosensory
dual sensory impaired
electrosensory
extrasensory
genitosensory
hemisensory
hygrosensory
intersensory
laterosensory
magnetosensory
mechanosensory
metabosensory
monosensory
multisensory
neurosensory
nonsensory
orosensory
osmosensory
parasensory
photosensory
polysensory
prosensory
psychosensory
sensori-
sensorily
sensoriness
sensorineural
sensoriperceptual
sensori-volitional
sensory bin
sensory dep
sensory deprivation
sensory garden
sensory gating
sensory hypersensitivity
sensory memory
sensory neuron
sensory overload
sensory play
sensory processing sensitivity
sensory recall
sensory receptor
sensory root
somatic sensory cortex
somatosensory
subsensory
supersensory
suprasensory
thermosensory
trisensory
unisensory
unsensory
viscerosensory
visuosensory
Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis
Wartenberg's migratory sensory neuropathy
Translations:
extrasensory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English sensory
English extrasensory
From extra- + sensory.
Inflected forms:
form: extra-sensory
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to extrasensory perception.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
vanishing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That vanishes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Translations:
inadvertently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin inadvertēnsbor.
English inadvertent
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inadvertently
From inadvertent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unintentionally; because of an oversight.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 'Dear me! I may have inadvertently touched the handle,' said he.
Neven Subotic hooked a volley wide after Ramsey inadvertently headed a Reus free-kick back into the danger zone, and Blaszczykowski was also off target when he met Kevin Grosskreutz's cross.
for the living human, who in grief may share deeply personal data with the commercial entity that owns the bot, but also for the ghost, which might inadvertently reveal a n old family secret from beyond the grave.
Antonyms: advertently
advert
Translations:
indigence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English indigence, late 14th century, from Old French indigence (13th century), from Latin indigentia, from indigentem, form of indigēre (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egēre (“be in need, want”).
Only relation to antonym affluence is common Latinate suffix + -ence.
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: indigences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extreme poverty or destitution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.
Translations:
indeterminate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
architecture
biology
botany
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more indeterminate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indeterminate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indeterminates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not accurately determined or determinable.
pos: adj
examples: Four miles to the east of Warmington, the River Cherwell flows into Cropredy under a bridge that in 1644 was the scene of another Civil War battle - with an equally indeterminate result.
gloss: Imprecise or vague.
pos: adj
gloss: Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
pos: adj
gloss: With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
pos: adj
gloss: Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
pos: adj
gloss: Intersex.
pos: adj
gloss: Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
pos: adj
examples: It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.
gloss: A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;
pos: noun
tags: strict-sense
examples: 1862, H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part III, Report of the 31st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science, page 292,
The form is linear, quadratic, cubic, biquadratic or quartic, quintic, &c., according to its order in respect of the indeterminates it contains; and binary, ternary, quaternary, &c., according to the number of its indeterminates. Thus x²+y² is a binary quadratic form, x³+y³+z³-3xyz is a ternary cubic form.
1892, Henry B. Fine, Kronecker and His Arithmetical Theory of the Algebraic Equation, Thomas S. Fiske, Harold Jacoby (editors), Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Volume 1, New York Mathematical Society, page 179,
Such a factor is therefore an integral function of x and the indeterminates u_1,u_2,…u_n with coefficients belonging to the domain of rationality (R',R,..) and may be represented by g(x,u_1,u_2,..u_n).
2006, Alexander B. Levin, Difference Algebra, M. Hazewinkel, Handbook of Algebra, page 251,
Let T=T_σ and let S be the polynomial R-algebra in the set of indeterminates y_i,τ_(i∈I,τ∈T) with indices from the set I×T.
gloss: A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;
(loose sense) a variable.
pos: noun
tags: strict-sense
Synonyms: indeterminant
Antonyms: determinate
Related words: indeterminacy
indefinite
undetermined
Derived words: indeterminate equation
indeterminate form
indeterminate growth
indeterminate imperfective
indeterminately
indeterminateness
indeterminate state
indeterminate system
indeterminate verb
seroindeterminate
statically indeterminate
Translations:
lang: French
word: indéterminée
lang: German
word: Unbestimmte
incongruity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French incongruité, from Medieval Latin incongruitās, from Latin incongruus.
Inflected forms:
form: incongruities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being incongruous, or lacking congruence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was told that the Australian Government had had to send my name to London before agreeing to my appointment. My credentials were actually addressed to Her Majesty, despite the fact that the Government of the United Kingdom had recognized the Chinese Communist regime in Peking as early as 1950. No one, however, seemed to notice the incongruity of such an arrangement.
gloss: An instance or point of disagreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thing that is incongruous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
implode
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
programming
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from implosion.
Inflected forms:
form: implodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: imploding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: imploded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: imploded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To collapse or burst inward violently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The submarine imploded as it sank below its crush depth.
gloss: To collapse or burst inward violently.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: Ragusa's campaign imploded after she confused coal mining with oil drilling during a speech.
gloss: To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
pos: verb
gloss: To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
Derived words: imploder
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: luhistua
lang: Finnish
word: romahtaa
lang: French
word: imploser
lang: German
word: implodieren
lang: Ido
word: implozar
lang: Italian
word: implodere
lang: Norwegian
word: implodere
lang: Norwegian
word: kollapse
lang: Polish
word: implodować
lang: Portuguese
word: implodir
lang: Russian
word: взрываться
lang: Spanish
word: implosionar
lang: Swedish
word: implodera
lang: Turkish
word: yıkılmak
implacable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English implācāble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin implācābilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + plācābilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from plācō (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)).
Inflected forms:
form: more implacable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most implacable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be placated or appeased.
pos: adj
examples: He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
gloss: Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
pos: adj
examples: The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
gloss: Adamant; immovable.
pos: adj
examples: Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.
Related words: placability
placable
placableness
placably
unplacable
Derived words: implacability
implacableness
implacably
Translations:
imperturbable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *né
From Late Middle English imperturbable (“undisturbed; impossible to disturb”), borrowed from Late Latin imperturbābilis, from Latin im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + Late Latin perturbabilis (“perturbable”) (from Latin perturbō (“to confuse; to alarm, disturb, trouble, perturb”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives denoting a capacity or worth of being acted upon)). Perturbō is derived from per- (intensifying prefix) + turbō (“to agitate, disturb, unsettle, perturb; to upset”) (from turba (“disorder, disturbance, turmoil”) (possibly from Ancient Greek τῠ́ρβη (tŭ́rbē, “confusion, disorder, tumult”), either from Pre-Greek, or Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH- (“to agitate, stir up; to urge on, propel”)) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of regular first-conjugation verbs)). By surface analysis, im- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + perturbable.
Inflected forms:
form: more imperturbable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imperturbable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capable of being, or not easily, perturbed, excited, or upset; calm and collected, even under pressure.
pos: adj
examples: [T]o a vviſe man there can happen no iniury or offence at all, to moleſt the felicity of his minde, vvhich (in the Stoicks opinion) ought to bee imperturbable, and his heart adamantine.
[T]he good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. "Prodi-gi-ous!" was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.
In the meanwhile, Sir Piercie Shafton sate still as a stone on the chair in which he had deposited himself, […] his eyes cast up to the ceiling as if he had meant to count every mesh of cobweb with which the arched roof was canopied, wearing at the same time a face of as solemn and imperturbable gravity, as if his existence had depended on the accuracy of his calculation.
"We may keep it by us," replied the pawnbroker, "for months; there is no demand for such articles." "But," exclaimed she, eagerly, "I shall soon redeem it!" "So you all say," returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
This sort of thing is meat and drink to the born Controller—and Controllers are born with the right imperturbable temperament for the job; hence the fact that they are recruited from many different grades of operating staff, and some recruits don't stay the course.
Translations:
impermeable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Apparently from im- + permeable. Compare French imperméable, from Latin impermeābilis, from im- + permeābilis (“permeable”).
Base: permeable
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: more impermeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impermeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to permeate.
pos: adj
gloss: Not allowing passage, especially of liquids; waterproof.
pos: adj
Synonyms: nonpermeable
sealed
Antonyms: permeable
Related words: impermeability
permeability
hermetically sealed
impenetrable
Derived words: impermeableness
impermeably
Translations:
crocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See crock (verb)
Inflected forms:
form: more crocked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crocked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: injured (of a person)
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: St Johnstone boss Derek McInnes had made two changes, with Callum Davidson, who has now recovered from injury, the replacement for crocked fellow defender David McCracken and David Robertson taking the place of Chris Millar in midfield.
gloss: broken (of a thing)
pos: adj
tags: UK
Synonyms: imbrued
injured
inoperative
knackered
Translations:
judicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French judicieux, ultimately derived from Latin iudico. Related to judge, judicial.
Inflected forms:
form: more judicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most judicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking.
pos: adj
examples: Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof [...]
This project has stripped away modern PVCu and aluminium shop fronts to reveal original or 1930s Art Deco work, with judicious repairs and replacements as necessary, plus stonework repairs and the restoration of traditional London Transport signage.
Translations:
pantyhose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English panty
English hose
English pantyhose
From panty + hose.
Inflected forms:
form: pantie hose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pantie-hose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pantihose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: panty hose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: panty-hose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Thin nylon tights worn over the legs, usually tan in color.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
plural
plural-only
examples: The last stall on the left is oversized, big enough for two people. Y.T.’s mom goes in, followed by the proctor, who closes and locks the door. Y.T.’s mom pulls down her panty hose, pulls up her skirt, squats over a pan, pees.
Translations:
bolting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: boltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of bolting or running away.
pos: noun
gloss: A sifting, as of flour or meal.
pos: noun
gloss: A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court.
pos: noun
Derived words: bolting cloth
Translations:
gan
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).
Inflected forms:
form: gans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gawn
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gannin
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: went
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gane
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To go.
pos: verb
tags: North
Northumbria
Yorkshire
examples: The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".
Translations:
lamprey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English laumprei, from Old French lampreie (modern French lamproie), from Medieval Latin lampreda, possibly alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though it is traditionally thought to be a combination of lambō (“to lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of limpet, which derives from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: lampreys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pay-as-you-go
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From pay + as you go (“while one progresses”).
Compound parts: pay
as you go
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A financial policy by which capital projects are financed from current revenue in the operating budget rather than through borrowing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A payment method where the charge of a service is taken automatically, usually in small amounts, after the usage, in contrast of paying before usage. Used especially of mobile phones and transport ticketing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: From January 2, passengers will be able to use contactless pay-as-you-go between London and Reading.
Synonyms: PAYG
Antonyms: contract
season ticket
paper ticket
contract
Translations:
vintner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vyntener, variant of viniter, from Old French vineter, vinetier (“wine-merchant, grape-harvester”), from Medieval Latin vīnētārius (“wine dealer”), from vīnētum (“vineyard”), from vīnum (“wine”).
Inflected forms:
form: vintners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seller of wine.
pos: noun
gloss: A manufacturer of wine.
pos: noun
Translations:
transmogrified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more transmogrified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transmogrified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Altered, transformed, or mutated into a form that is grotesque or amusing.
pos: adj
Translations:
panicked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English panic
English -ed
English panicked
From panic + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more panicked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most panicked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing or in a state of panic.
pos: adj
examples: I really wasn’t panicked. Despite the four feet of aluminum pole dangling like a misplaced tail, I knew I wasn’t attached to some demon, but had slipped the grip of the man, who then raced after me, yelling invectives guaranteed to emphasize his mistake rather than my escape.
Translations:
autocross
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From auto- (“automobile”) + cross(-country).
Affixes: auto-
cross-country
Inflected forms:
form: autocrosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autocrossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autocrossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autocrossed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form of motorsport that tests the skill and speed of a driver over a course marked out with traffic cones
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To take part in this sport.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It may be helpful to join a car club that autocrosses because the club will have organized, periodic events that someone else has already set-up ^([sic]) and coordinated.
Russ wanted to get better and faster, so he autocrossed often.
Translations:
fanfic
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fānāticuslbor.
▲
French fanatiqueinflu.
English fanatic
English fancyinflu.
English fan
English fiction
English fan fiction
English fanfic
Clipping of fan fiction.
Inflected forms:
form: fanfics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fan fic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fan-fic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fanfics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fanficcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fanficced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fanficced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fan fic
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: fan-fic
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fan fiction.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: A work of fan fiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
gloss: To write fan fiction.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I haven't seriously fanficced in years, and I'm aware of what the exercise requires in terms of structure and theme etc.
gloss: To write fan fiction about (something).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: […] in fact, Paramount Legal sent over a memo to Goddenberry pointing out that so many "Vulcan" stories had been "fanficced" that it probably wasn't worth his time to try to come up with anything that he could do safely.
See above on Charlie's Angels. They never seemed to have lives of any sort and weren't interesting to me; they always seemed like soft porn for the guys, but a lot of girls fanwanked and fanficced them into more, so I guess they could qualify.
Synonyms: fanfic
fan fiction
fanfiction
fic
Related words: fic
story
fiction
fan of fiction
fictional character
fictional universe
fanart
fanwank
Derived words: fanficcer
fanficcy
fanficdom
Hanfic
Moffic
Translations:
bouche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bouche (“mouth, victuals”). Doublet of bocca.
Inflected forms:
form: bouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bouch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A slit, notch or opening in the edge of a (physical or heraldic) shield, through which the bearer's lance or sword could be used or in which it could be rested.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
menton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French menton (“chin”). Doublet of mentum.
Inflected forms:
form: mentons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lowest point of the chin / mandibular symphysis.
pos: noun
Translations:
commie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of communist + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Compound parts: communist
-ie
Inflected forms:
form: commies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Hell, I'd rather talk with a commie than ever meet Catherine in a café.
“Jack Kennedy′s one commie,” he said, “and tonight maybe they′ll elect him President, and we′ll all get killed. You know.”
1966 June, Jack Burris, Fiction: Judah′s a Two-Way Street Running Out, Black World: Negro Digest, page 67,
“Why, them dirty commies, of course. They′re the ones startin′ all this fuss anyway. Them cotton-pickin′ niggers wasn′t causin′ no trouble until them Yankee commies started in.”
The commies claim they are helping the blacks.
"I heard Winnie the Pooh was like garlic to a vampire to the Chinese commies," he said. "Popular arts and music, poetry, dancing and singing is a threat to those in power, and I'm really trying to bring back that rock-and-roll rebellious spirit into music, you know."
gloss: Synonym of anticapitalist.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
slang
gloss: Communist.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
slang
Synonyms: commo
Related words: red under the bed
tankie
Derived words: anarcho-commie
commie block
commiecrat
Commiefornia
femicommie
anti-commie
Translations:
tightly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tight
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tightly
From tight + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: tightlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more tightly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: tightliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most tightly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tight manner.
pos: adv
examples: tightly clenched fingers
Clutching my cure / I tightly lock the door / I try to catch my breath again
gloss: Curtly in a way that suggests anger or other intense emotion is being contained.
pos: adv
Translations:
restitution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French restitucion, from Latin restitutio.
Inflected forms:
form: restitutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process of compensation for losses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
He […]restitution to the value makes.
gloss: A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the restitution of an elastic body
The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution.
gloss: That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks.
“Restitution is a very delicate issue,” says Erika Jakubovits, head of restitution for the Jewish community in Vienna.
Last year, a US appeals court upheld the convictions of Holmes and Theranos President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. It also upheld the $452 million in restitution that Holmes and Balwani were ordered to pay to victims.
gloss: The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: reddition
render
rendition
restitution
restoration
return
surrender
Antonyms: taking
Related words: restitute
Derived words: coefficient of restitution
e-restitution
nonrestitution
re-restitution
restitutional
restitutionary
restitutionism
restitutionist
Translations:
hiki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 疋 (hiki).
Inflected forms:
form: hiki
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A copper coin used in Japan in the Sengoku period, equal to 10 mon.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: After enough money was at last found, the imperial family was so happy that in appreciation the shogunal official responsible for the release of the burial money—one thousand hiki (about $5,000)—was granted the coveted right to personally display the imperial crest of chrysanthemum and paulownia.
Sogi once donated one thousand hiki in cash (based on rice prices in 1984, some five thousand dollars) to the court for repairs to the Library of Official Documents (Kammu Bunko).
Five hundred hiki (the cost of five kegs of sake), six loads of charcoal, two baskets of oranges, and various dried foods.
Nakamura was hired that day for the large sum of one thousand hiki.⁷⁹ […] 79. Traditionally, the price of one koku of rice was equivalent to one hiki of silk. In the Edo period one hiki remained more or less the equivalent of ten mon.
Translations:
germane
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: A variant form of german, adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Base: germ(anium)
Affixes: -ane
Inflected forms:
form: more germane
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most germane
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: germain
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: germaine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: germanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.
pos: adj
examples: 1924, W. D. Ross., translator, Aristotle, Metaphysics. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, Book 1, Part 5.
Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry:
Connors was addicted to this racquet and kept using it even after Wilson stopped making it, forfeiting millions in potential endorsement money by doing so. Connors was eccentric (and kind of repulsive) in lots of other ways, too, none of which are germane to this article.
Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. [...] Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
gloss: germanium tetrahydride, GeH₄
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any organic derivative of this compound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
in-compounds
uncountable
Synonyms: germanium tetrahydride
germanomethane
monogermane
Translations:
reverse-engineer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from reverse engineering.
Inflected forms:
form: reverse-engineers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reverse-engineering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reverse-engineered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reverse-engineered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reverse engineer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: reverse-engineers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reverse engineer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To derive or duplicate the design, technical specifications, manufacturing methods, or functionality of an object by studying an existing product, prototype, etc.
pos: verb
examples: 1997, Roy A. Sorensen, "The Metaphysics of Precision and Scientific Language," Noûs, vol. 31, Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives, 11, p. 363,
Each creature was viewed as the artifact of a divine blueprint. The role of the biologist was to reverse engineer God's handiwork.
In theory, there should be no need to reverse-engineer a patented invention to get information about how to make it because the patent specification should inform the relevant technical community of how to make the invention.
gloss: To create or modify an implementation to better conform to a desired goal.
pos: verb
examples: Typically, you complete some design, some implementation, some testing, come up with some good ideas which you implement, and then reverse-engineer your implementation into an improved design.
As a matter of preference, always prefer to reverse engineer a roof plan, even when one already exists, but both methods will be discussed here along with their benefits and drawbacks.
When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense.
gloss: A person who reverse-engineers products.
pos: noun
examples: A reverse-engineer can in theory do a variety of things with the information she obtains.
Related words: reverse engineering
deformulate
work backward
Translations:
dispense
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).
Inflected forms:
form: dispenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dispensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dispensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dispensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dispence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To issue, distribute, or give out.
pos: verb
examples: He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
gloss: To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
pos: verb
examples: to dispense justice
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
gloss: To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
pos: verb
examples: The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
An optician can dispense spectacles.
gloss: To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
pos: verb
examples: After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].
Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.
1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.
She was dispensed from her vows and married Captain von Trapp.
gloss: To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence
His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed
Derived words: dispensability
dispensary
dispensement
dispenser
dispense with
dispensome
misdispense
nanodispense
predispensed
redispense
undispensed
dispensable
Translations:
heartburn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English hertbryne, herte-bren (“lust", also "heartburn”, literally “heart burn”), equivalent to heart + burn. Compare also Middle English herte-brennyng (“anger, bitterness, heartburn”, literally “burning of/in the heart, heart-burning”). Compare also Ancient Greek καρδιαλγία (kardialgía), from καρδία (kardía, “heart”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). From being a burning sensation near the location of the heart in the chest.
Compound parts: heart
burn
Inflected forms:
form: heartburns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heart-burn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: cardiodynia
gloss: annoyance, heartache, or similar feelings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: ”There’s some heartburn about the fact the message is getting stepped on,” said Mark McKinnon, Bush’s campaign media strategist.
America’s policy of containing both the Soviet Union and its Chinese ally did cause some heartburn in Tokyo.
"It boils down to promises made, promises kept," said Mr. White, 53. "And that's really what I have heartburn about."
Back in Thailand, meantime, the CIA felt relatively little heartburn over the congressional rebuff.
Translations:
lungfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lung + fish.
Compound parts: lung
fish
Inflected forms:
form: lungfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lungfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An air-breathing fish, of the class Dipnoi, that have four limblike appendages instead of fins
pos: noun
Translations:
amphibia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin amphibiabor.
English amphibia
Borrowed from Latin amphibia.
Inflected forms:
form: amphibium
pos: noun
tags: archaic
rare
singular
Senses:
gloss: The amphibians.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: On good days the rise was a sunny thicket of alders sheltering deer and foxes, surrounded by marshland which clicked and clooped with waders and amphibia, where pelicans sailed in to land like full-rigged galleons.
Translations:
devastating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more devastating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devastating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing devastation.
pos: adj
examples: Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
“The whole world has a stake in maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The security of commercial shipping lanes and global supply chains depends on it. And so does freedom of navigation worldwide. Make no mistake: conflict in the Taiwan Strait would be devastating.”
Translations:
oblation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oblacioun, from Old French oblacion, from Latin oblātiō (“offering”), from offerō (“to offer, present”). By surface analysis, oblate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: oblations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The offering of worship, thanks etc. to a deity.
pos: noun
examples: And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.
whatever she judged proper for the oblation of the approaching night.
In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.
As she waits for her children in the shade / Demogorgon or demigod the ghost parade / No oblation will bring her back to our place
gloss: A deed or gift offered charitably.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: oblate
oblational
oblatory
offer
Derived words: oblationer
Translations:
cannonade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French canonnade, a modification of Italian cannonata replacing the suffix -ata with equivalent -ade; by surface analysis, cannon + -ade.
Inflected forms:
form: cannonades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cannonades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cannonading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cannonaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cannonaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The firing of artillery for a length of time.
pos: noun
examples: A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town.
gloss: A loud noise like a cannonade; a booming.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Not for a regiment's parade, / Nor evil laws or rulers made, / Blue Walden rolls its cannonade, […]
gloss: To discharge artillery fire upon.
pos: verb
Derived words: cannonader
Translations: