yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
inheritance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enheritaunce, inheritaunce, borrowed from Anglo-Norman, Old French enheritaunce, from enheriter. By surface analysis, inherit + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: inheritances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enheritance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enheritaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inheritaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inhæritance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The passing of title to an estate upon death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament, such as the part of an estate (i.e., a portion).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited.
pos: noun
tags: especially
uncountable
examples: The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.
gloss: The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inherit
inheritable
inheritor
inheritress
inheritrix
Derived words: blending inheritance
coinheritance
composition over inheritance
disinheritance
inheritance law
inheritance powder
inheritance tax
misinheritance
noninheritance
particulate inheritance
preheritance
widow inheritance
Translations:
tirade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French tirer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -atader.
Occitan -adader.
French -ade
French tiradebor.
English tirade
Borrowed from French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).
Inflected forms:
form: tirades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tirades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tirading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tiraded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tiraded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, angry or violent speech.
pos: noun
examples: come out with a tirade
release a tirade
a lengthy tirade against one's rivals
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
gloss: A section of verse concerning a single theme.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
pos: verb
examples: Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead […]
Related words: j'accuse
tantrum
Derived words: midtirade
Translations:
miso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 味噌(みそ) (miso).
Inflected forms:
form: misos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thick paste made by fermentation of soybeans with the mold Aspergillus oryzae, used in making soups and sauces.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).
Translations:
sclera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sclera, from Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).
Inflected forms:
form: scleras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sclerae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scleræ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The white of the eye; the tough outer coat of the eye that covers the eyeball except for the cornea.
pos: noun
examples: She'd been back a week and it was clear that college-level track was kicking her ass, the sclera in her normally wide manga-eyes were shot through with blood vessels.
Such pressures explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at.
Translations:
reshuffle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English shuffle
English reshuffle
From re- + shuffle.
Inflected forms:
form: reshuffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reshuffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reshuffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reshuffled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reshuffles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shuffle something again, especially playing cards.
pos: verb
gloss: To reorganize or rearrange something, especially government posts.
pos: verb
examples: The girls are constantly reshuffled into new permutations in order to feed the J-pop market's insatiable demand for fresh looks and faces.
gloss: An instance of reshuffling, a reorganization.
pos: noun
examples: The changeover to almost exclusive electric and diesel working on the London-Ashford-Kent Coast main line at the beginning of the summer timetable naturally initiated a widespread reshuffle of steam motive power, involving some moves of considerable interest.
Danny Higginbotham was the only survivor from the weekend win over Bolton - but the Stoke captain lasted just 10 minutes before being forced off injured. That meant a reshuffle to the visitors' defence who were the busier in a lacklustre first half.
Simpson had also been due to meet new Rail Minister Kevin Foster, but that too had to be cancelled on the day because of a further reshuffle.
Ms. Noem, the homeland security secretary, knew that a reshuffle in Minneapolis was bad news for her. She was, after all, the woman in charge of immigration.
Derived words: reshuffler
Translations:
Lalique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The surname of René Lalique, French designer.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
recreation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: recreations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.
Related words: recreate
Translations:
indifference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French indifférence, from Late Latin indifferentia. By surface analysis, in- + difference.
Inflected forms:
form: indifferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being indifferent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I do not care for them; I would not have them now," cried Lady Penrhyn; "it is only your affection I care for. Do not suppose, for a moment, that I wish for the tables when you do not: oh, no! my only concern was for your indifference. But I am content if you tell me I was mistaken."
gloss: Unbiased impartiality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unemotional apathy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she felt no empathy for the bullied.
I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day.
gloss: A lack of enthusiasm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Unconcerned nonchalance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
gloss: Self-identity defined through the negation of difference, non-difference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I call reason absolute reason, or reason insofar as it is conceived as the total indifference of the subjective and objective."
Related words: same difference
Derived words: defensive indifference
depraved-indifference murder
indifference curve
la belle indifference
liberty of indifference
principle of indifference
unindifference
Translations:
courtyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From court + yard.
Compound parts: court
yard
Inflected forms:
form: courtyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings.
pos: noun
examples: She sat in the courtyard, enjoying the garden.
There comes a fairy in the courtyard, bearing a handful of gifts.
Translations:
cerebellum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum.
Inflected forms:
form: cerebellums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cerebella
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Part of the hindbrain in vertebrates. In humans it lies between the brainstem and the back of the cerebrum and is formed of two lateral lobes and a median lobe. It plays an important role in sensory perception, motor output, balance and posture.
pos: noun
examples: Although the cerebellum occupies just 10 per cent of the cranial cavity, it has more than half the brain’s neurons.
Translations:
condensate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From condense + -ate (noun-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from condensation.
Base: condense
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: condensates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liquid that is the product of condensation of a gas, i.e. of steam.
pos: noun
examples: Do you remember learning about cell diagrams in high school biology? The cell wall, the organelles, the nucleus. The real picture is turning out to be much more complicated, and interesting, than we were taught. Cells are filled with teensy, phase-shifting blobs that often contain protein and RNA, and in the past several years they’ve taken over cellular biology. In our cover story on page 22, science writer Philip Ball dives into the world of these specks, known as biomolecular condensates, which play astounding roles in cellular functioning across all domains of life.
gloss: The product of a condensation reaction.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various condensed quantum states.
pos: noun
Related words: autolysate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
Derived words: anticondensate
biocondensate
biomolecular condensate
Bose-Einstein condensate
fermionic condensate
ghost condensate
noncondensate
polycondensate
quasicondensate
subcondensate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кондензат
roman: kondenzat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 凝聚
roman: níngjù
lang: Dutch
word: condensaat
lang: Finnish
word: kondensaatti
lang: French
word: condensat
lang: German
word: Kondensat
lang: Italian
word: condensato
lang: Kazakh
word: конденсат
roman: kondensat
lang: Latin
word: condēnsātus
lang: Latin
word: condēnsātum
lang: Māori
word: tōtā
lang: Polish
word: kondensat
lang: Polish
word: skroplina
lang: Russian
word: конденса́т
roman: kondensát
lang: Spanish
word: condensado
lang: Tagalog
word: kinintay
assiduously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English assiduous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English assiduously
From assiduous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more assiduously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most assiduously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an assiduous manner; diligently, industriously.
pos: adv
examples: He who had appeared rather assiduously to shun her, whose good opinion she had valued, notwithstanding his seeming indifference to her, had now declared himself, and given proofs of a regard the most unequivocal.
They were all too assiduously engaged to talk to us as we passed.
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm-chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had also emerged some Indian clubs,[…]; and all these articles[…]made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
Her voice caught in her throat and another violent shiver ran through her. Bradly thought she was going to cry and became actively disturbed, holding her with one arm and patting her shoulder assiduously. "Damme, don't think about it, Cora."
No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, which often fell as low as 210 lb.
While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.
2020, Frank Bowman, The role of the chief justice in an impeachment trial, SCOTUSblog (Jan. 10, 2020, 11:18 AM), online
What little precedent we have in such cases suggests that chief justices keep their heads down and, so far as possible, defer assiduously to the will of the Senate majority.
Translations:
steaming
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, steam + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: steamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more steaming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most steaming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The action of steam on something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Steaming is fine for this fabric, as long as you keep the iron moving.
gloss: The method of cooking by immersion in steam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their favorite way to cook clams is steaming.
gloss: The act or process of seafaring under steam power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Steaming was their preferred way to travel until airliners came along.
gloss: The raising of steam by a steam locomotive etc; the maintenance of a head of steam during operation; (metonymic) operation under load.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Two 4-4-0s were steaming through the scenic foothills, giving rides to tourists.
The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
The perfect steaming and beautiful mechanical condition of the Pacific were immediately apparent.
gloss: A form of robbery in which a large gang moves swiftly and violently through a bus or train.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: Giving off steam.
pos: adj
examples: We were served with steaming bowls of soup.
gloss: Extremely hot
pos: adj
gloss: Very angry.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I was steaming when I heard about their betrayal.
gloss: Extremely drunk.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: ‘Will it help or hinder if I tell you I was steaming that evening and remember nothing, full stop?’
Synonyms: enraged
furious
sloshed
wasted
Derived words: slow steaming
smart steaming
steaming up
steaming hot
steamingly
unsteaming
Translations:
blitzed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blitzed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blitzed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drunk; wasted.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Ben's hangovers just make him look more beautiful, in a blitzed, cheekbony way.
"You really don't need to explain. I was surprised, but not bothered. Even as blitzed as I was, I just knew I wasn't supposed to see that. So nothing happened. And I won't tell anybody."
Translations:
sozzled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sozzled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sozzled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: I heard heavy breathing. A cork left its bottle with a pop. A pause. Then a voice remarked: "Gin, blast it! T'hell with gin!" There followed a shattering crash. The voice gave a sozzled chuckle. "Thash th'mirror. Wash good of mirrors anyway?" Another cork popped.
Translations:
totalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more totalled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most totalled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: totaled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Destroyed
pos: adj
examples: Several totalled cars were being picked over for usable parts.
Translations:
annelid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French annélidé, coined by French naturalist Lamarck.
Inflected forms:
form: annelids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various wormlike animals, of the phylum Annelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech.
pos: noun
examples: Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.
The polychaetous annelid species complex of Neanthes acuminata has a widespread distribution, with names depending on geographic location.
gloss: of, or relating to these creatures
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hosting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: hostings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A battle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: bulletproof hosting
self-hosting
web hosting
Translations:
totaled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: totalled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: destroyed
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
Translations:
serrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Past participle of serrate.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Notched or cut like a saw.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That knife has a serrated blade.
The sun-god, Shamash, is shown as a bearded man with rays flaring from his shoulders, cutting his way through the eastern horizon with his characteristic serrated knife.
gloss: Having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Maple leaves have serrated edges.
Synonyms: serrate
Related words: serration
sawback
saw-tooth
sawtooth
saw-toothed
sawtoothed
Derived words: microserrated
nonserrated
serratedly
serratedness
unserrated
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սղոցաձեւ
roman: sġocʻajew
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dırmıqlı
lang: Catalan
word: serrat
lang: Czech
word: zubatý
lang: Danish
word: tandet
lang: Dutch
word: gekarteld
lang: Esperanto
word: denta
lang: Finnish
word: sahalaitainen
lang: French
word: denté
lang: French
word: dentelé
lang: Georgian
word: დაკბილული
roman: daḳbiluli
lang: Georgian
word: კბილოვანი
roman: ḳbilovani
lang: Hawaiian
word: nihoniho
lang: Hungarian
word: recés
lang: Italian
word: seghettato
lang: Italian
word: dentellato
lang: Japanese
word: 鋸歯状
roman: kyoshijō
lang: Malay
word: bergerigi
lang: Māori
word: nihoniho
lang: Māori
word: taratara
lang: Navajo
word: doolghas
lang: Persian
word: دندانهدار
roman: dandâne-dâr
lang: Persian
word: ارهگون
roman: arregun
lang: Portuguese
word: serrado
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nazubljen
lang: Spanish
word: serrado
lang: Spanish
word: aserruchado
lang: Spanish
word: dentado
lang: Turkish
word: dişli
beckon
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bekenen, beknen, becnen, beknien, from Old English bēacnian, bēcnian, bīecnan (“to signal; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *bauknōn, *bauknijan (“to signal”), from *baukn (“signal; beacon”). Cognate with Old Saxon bōknian, Old High German bouhnen, Old Norse bákna. More at beacon.
Inflected forms:
form: beckons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beckoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beckoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beckoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: beckons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: His distant friends, he beckons near.
It beckons you to go away with it.
gloss: To seem attractive and inviting.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: How the gentle wind / Beckons through the leaves / As autumn colors fall
gloss: A sign made without words; a beck.
pos: noun
examples: At the first beckon.
He turn to me, make a beckon with the key in his hand.
gloss: A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
pos: noun
Derived words: beckoner
unbeckoned
Translations:
slattern
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Dating from the 17th century; related to slattering (“slovenly”), from the dialectal verb slatter (“to slop, to spill”).
Inflected forms:
form: slatterns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: One who is uncareful or unconcerned about appearance or surroundings, usually said of a dirty and untidy woman.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 3. Cookery is familiar to her, with the price and quality of provisions; and she is a ready accountant. Her chief view, however, is to serve her mother and lighten her cares. She holds cleanliness and neetness to be indispensable in a woman; and that a slattern is disgusting, especially if beautiful.
A dunce he always was, it is true; for learning cannot be acquired by leaving school and entering at college as a fellow-commoner; but he was now (in his own peculiar manner) as great a dandy as he before had been a slattern, and when he entered his sitting-room to join his two guests, arrived scented and arrayed in fine linen, and perfectly splendid in appearance.
[…] How many times I have heard a woman called a slattern, because she could not keep a house in order, when had she been allowed to write out her sublime thoughts, which were all in another direction, she would have astonished the world with her genius.
AMANDA: I’ve been brought up to believe that it’s beyond the pale, for a man to strike a woman.
ELYOT: A very poor tradition. Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.
AMANDA: You’re an unmitigated cad, and a bully.
ELYOT: And you’re an ill-mannered, bad tempered slattern.
AMANDA (loudly): Slattern indeed.
ELYOT: Yes, slattern, slattern, slattern, and fishwife.
VICTOR: Keep your mouth shut, you swine.
Derived words: slattern away
slatternish
slatternliness
slatternly
slatternness
Translations:
slatternly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slattern
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English slatternly
From slattern + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more slatternly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slatternly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more slatternly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most slatternly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
pos: adj
examples: Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.
The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful rëinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents.
gloss: In the manner of a slattern.
pos: adv
Translations:
shortie
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English short
English -ie
English shortie
From short + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: shorty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Shorter than normal, especially of clothing.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: a shortie gown; a shortie jacket
Translations:
aphoristic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀφορῐστικος (aphorĭstikos), equivalent to aphorist + -ic.
Base: aphorist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more aphoristic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aphoristic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or containing aphorisms, epigrams, or maxims; gnomic.
pos: adj
examples: Over and above all this, the method of the book is aphoristic; and, as might be expected from that method, without a plan; […]
Translations:
groovy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English groove
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English groovy
From groove + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: groovier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grooviest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: groovey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
pos: adj
examples: The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
gloss: Set in one's ways.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.
Translations:
halfback
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: From half + back, in reference to position on the field of play; compare fullback.
In the sense of someone who moves to Florida and then to a more temperate climate, from moving "half way back"
Base: half
Inflected forms:
form: halfbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halfbacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: halfbacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: halfbacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: halfbacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who occupies one of these positions.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who occupies one of these positions.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
gloss: A player who occupies one of these positions.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who occupies one of these positions.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who occupies one of these positions.
pos: noun
gloss: A person from the northern United States who moves to Florida, but then due to the heat or other issues, moves again to a more temperate climate, primarily the Carolinas.
pos: noun
examples: Four years ago, Diane got a small inheritance and they became what Paul Klein calls “halfbacks” — people who moved to Florida from the North and have progressed partly back.
One of my favorite stories of North Carolina’s demographic growth and change is the “halfback.”
“‘Halfbacks’ are snowbirds from Michigan who have tried wintering in Florida but decided to move…half way back.
gloss: To play in the position of halfback.
pos: verb
Derived words: defensive halfback
Translations:
friendliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English freendlynesse, frendlynes, equivalent to friendly + -ness.
Base: friendly
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: friendlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being friendly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face fell; I am sure he would have refunded if he could only have thought of a decent pretext.
To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry with it any permanence of devotion.
Antonyms: hostility
unfriendliness
Translations:
indictment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: 18th-century Latinized respelling of Middle English endytement (“action of accusing”), from Anglo-Norman enditement, from enditer, from Late Latin indictāre, from Latin indictus.
Inflected forms:
form: indictments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endictment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An official formal accusation for a criminal offence, or the process by which it is brought to a jury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But she accomplished the third task — the one that mattered most to her boss — securing a criminal indictment against Mr. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
gloss: The official legal document outlining the charges concerned; bill of indictment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
gloss: An accusation of wrongdoing; a criticism or condemnation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can there be a greater indictment against patriotism than that it will thus brand a man a criminal, throw him into prison, and rob him of the results of fifteen years of faithful service?
I must say Humphrey, these facts are a frightening indictment of bureaucratic sloppiness and self-indulgence.
I have been critical of the RDG in the past for merely being a cypher for government announcements, but the failure of its members to make a stand on this issue and not be complicit in the Government's subterfuge is a shocking indictment of their failure to protect the industry.
gloss: Evidence of failure or poor performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an indictment of his ability to lead
an indictment of his game
a stinging indictment of our prison system
Related words: arraignment
grand jury
plea
pleading
Derived words: nonindictment
postindictment
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обвине́ние
roman: obvinénie
lang: Czech
word: obvinění
lang: Dutch
word: beschuldiging
lang: Finnish
word: syyte
lang: Finnish
word: syytös
lang: German
word: Beschuldigung
lang: Hungarian
word: vád
lang: Hungarian
word: gyanúsítás
lang: Hungarian
word: megvádolás
lang: Hungarian
word: vádolás
lang: Polish
word: oskarżenie
lang: Russian
word: обвине́ние
roman: obvinénije
lang: Slovak
word: obvinenie
lang: Spanish
word: acusación
lang: Swedish
word: anklagelse
indemnity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
law
Etymology: From late Middle English indempnite, from Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitās (“security from damage”), from Latin indemnis (“undamaged”), from in- (“not”) + damnum (“damage”).
Inflected forms:
form: indemnities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Security from damage, loss, or penalty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: insurance, assurance
And all this, it will be said, the Duke of Orleans might have prevented by an effective treaty, securing an act of indemnity.
gloss: An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: liability, responsibility
gloss: Repayment; compensation for loss or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: reparations, recompense, recompensation; see also Thesaurus:compensation
It would have been wise to modify rather than revoke the proclamation. But the Allies went further. Now, for the first time, were heard the words of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.
gloss: The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: indemn
indemnify
assurance
insurance
damage
damages
immunity
Derived words: double indemnity
indemnitee
indemnity costs
letter of indemnity
Translations:
datagram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup.
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti
Proto-Italic *didō
Latin dō
Latin datusnom.
Latin datumbor.
English data
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma)lbor.
English -gram
English datagram
From data + -gram.
Inflected forms:
form: datagrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: datagramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A packet of data passed across a network.
pos: noun
examples: The pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the UDP header contains the source address, the destination address, the protocol, and the UDP length. This information gives protection against misrouted datagrams.
Translations:
magistrate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English magistrat, maiestrat (“magistrate; magistracy”), borrowed from Latin magistrātus. See also -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: magistrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.
pos: noun
examples: In any case, however, I saw that part of her injuries might easily have been redressed, and I urged her often and earnestly to lay her complaint before a magistrate.
gloss: A high official of the state or a municipality in ancient Greece or Rome.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A comparable official in medieval or modern institutions.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Like other civil servants, Ashok Kumar started his career as an Assistant Collector cum Sub-divisional Magistrate.
gloss: A master's degree.
pos: noun
tags: Quebec
Related words: magister
master
mister
Derived words: chief magistrate
committing magistrate
examining magistrate
Glasgow magistrate
magistracy
magistrates' court
magistrateship
magistratic
magistratical
police magistrate
unmagistrate
Translations:
allodial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French allodial, and its source, Latin allōdiālis (“held in freehold”), from allōdium.
Inflected forms:
form: allodials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to land owned by someone absolutely, without any feudal obligations; held without acknowledgement of any superior; allodial title.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
usually
examples: Henry reconciled the Zähringer, whom he had deposed from Carinthia in 1078, by raising their allodial property in the Black Forest to a new duchy 20 years later.
gloss: Anything held allodially.
pos: noun
examples: Charles Theodore, elector Palatine, was generally considered as rightful heir to all the Bavarian territories which were not female fiefs or allodials.
Translations:
encumbrance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English encombraunce, from Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
Inflected forms:
form: encumbrances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encumbrancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encumbranced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encumbranced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incumbrance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To apply an encumbrance to (property, etc.).
pos: verb
Translations:
laying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: layings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is laid (in any sense).
pos: noun
examples: You may get a larger number of eggs within a given time, but the later layings will not give you average good chickens, when you come to hatch such product.
Translations:
phreaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A blend of phone + freak.
Compound parts: phone
freak
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cracking or exploring of a telephone system, e.g., attempting to obtain free calls or to discover special service numbers or other internal technical information.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
favoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more favoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most favoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: favored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: favor’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: favour’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Treated or regarded with partiality.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a certain appearance or physical features.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured
gloss: Wearing a favour.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: a white-favoured footman
Derived words: favouredly
favouredness
hard-favoured
ill-favoured
most favoured nation
unfavoured
well-favoured
Translations:
astigmatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
optics
pathology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From a- (negative prefix) + stem of Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “mark, point”) + -ism. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1846.
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: astigmatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A defect of a lens such that light rays coming from a point do not meet at a focal point so that the image is blurred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disorder of the vision, usually due to a misshapen cornea, such that light does not focus correctly on the retina causing a blurred image.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: astigmia
Related words: stigma
stigmatize
emmetropia
hyperopia
myopia
pointlessness
Derived words: anisoastigmatism
astigmatic
astigmatically
mixed astigmatism
Translations:
gibbous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).
Inflected forms:
form: more gibbous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gibbous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Curved or bulged outward.
pos: adj
examples: In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
gloss: Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
pos: adj
examples: The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.
gloss: Humpbacked.
pos: adj
examples: A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
Synonyms: bulging
convex
crookbacked
humpbacked
protuberant
Derived words: gibbose
gibbosity
gibbously
gibbous moon
gibbousness
subgibbous
waning gibbous
Translations:
hyperopia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hyper- + -opia.
Base: hyper
Inflected forms:
form: hyperopias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
labrador
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Labrador Peninsula in Canada where the breed was developed.
Inflected forms:
form: labradors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Labrador retriever.
pos: noun
Translations:
garner
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.
Inflected forms:
form: garners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garners
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: garnering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: garnered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: garnered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A granary; a store of grain.
pos: noun
examples: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
gloss: An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
pos: noun
examples: Master, I bring from many wanderings,
The gathered garner of my years to thee;
One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs
And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.
gloss: To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.
gloss: To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather.
He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
[…] its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
gloss: To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: To garner support
He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women to increase war production and build our "Arsenal of Democracy."
The AMPTP has disputed that description as a “mischaracterization” of their proposal meant to “garner support for its work stoppage.”
gloss: To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.
For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
Derived words: garner up
ungarnered
Translations:
pussy-cat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pussy-cats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pussycat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pussy cat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pet domestic cat; a pussy.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
informal
gloss: A gentle or soft-hearted person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He looks stern, but he’s just a big pussy-cat really.
gloss: The silky catkin of various willows.
pos: noun
gloss: A sexy woman.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: pussycat bow
Translations:
swat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of squat.
Inflected forms:
form: swats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.
The cat swatted at the feather.
2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)
However, Johnstons luck seems to have run out, as it is hit almost simultaneously by three 18-inch shells and three 6.1-inch shells from Yamato, which has decided to swat' the irritating vessel.
Translations: