yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
superfamily
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English family
English superfamily
From super- + family.
Inflected forms:
form: superfamilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A taxonomic category above family and below order (and its subdivisions).
pos: noun
examples: There is no reason to deny a natural sequence or to split off genera only to have to attempt later to re-insert them into the whole by means of subordos and superfamilies.
The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations.
gloss: A large group of related proteins or other molecules.
pos: noun
Derived words: intersuperfamily
Translations:
considering
Part of speech: noun
adv
prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: considerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more considering
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most considering
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consideration.
pos: noun
examples: This respite shook / The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me, / Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble / The region of my breast; which forced such way, / That many mazed considerings did throng / And press'd in with this caution.
gloss: Given the circumstances; all in all; all things considered.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: Your wound doesn't look that bad, considering.
gloss: Taking into account.
pos: prep
examples: Considering the extent of his crimes, he was given a surprisingly short sentence.
Translations:
stig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the eponymous character in the book Stig of the Dump (Clive King, Puffin, 1963, →ISBN.
Inflected forms:
form: stigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: To vape.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
slang
Translations:
subphylum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English phylum
English subphylum
From sub- + phylum.
Inflected forms:
form: subphyla
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subphylums
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A taxonomic category below phylum and above class
pos: noun
Translations:
recumbent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin present participle recumbēns, from recumbō (“to recline”).
Inflected forms:
form: more recumbent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recumbent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: recumbents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lying down.
pos: adj
gloss: Inactive; idle.
pos: adj
gloss: A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
pos: noun
gloss: A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
pos: noun
Synonyms: lying down
recumbent
Related words: resting
spread-eagled
fetal position
take lying down
sleep
Human positions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
accumbent
decumbent
diamond frame
prone
prostrate
supine
Derived words: recumbent bicycle
recumbent stone circle
recumbence
recumbency
recumbently
unrecumbent
Translations:
covering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: From Middle English coverynge, -inge, keverynge, -inge [verbal noun of coveren, keveren (“to cover”)]; or, verbal noun from cover (verb) + -ing.
Base: cover
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: coverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Face covering is also mentioned: "There are some circumstances when wearing a face covering may be marginally beneficial as a precautionary measure. The evidence suggests that wearing a face covering does not protect you, but it may protect others if you are infected but have not yet developed symptoms. [...] If you can, wear a face covering if you need to use public transport."
gloss: Action of the verb to cover.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bedcovering
covering horse
covering index
face covering
floorcovering
head covering
precovering
semicovering
subcovering
undercovering
wall covering
wallcovering
window covering
Translations:
arachnid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē)
Ancient Greek -ῐς (-ĭs)
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ς (-ĭ́s)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs)bor.
Latin -idēsbor.
Middle French -ide
French -ide
French arachnidebor.
English arachnid
From international scientific vocabulary, from French arachnide (1809, Lamarck), from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē, “spider”) with the suffix -id. By surface analysis, arachn- + -id.
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: arachnids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the eight-legged creatures, including spiders, mites, and scorpions, of the class Arachnida.
pos: noun
Translations:
terrific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tres-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti
Proto-Italic *trozeō
Latin terreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *θakos
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Latin terrificusder.
French terrifiqueder.
English terrific
From French terrifique, and its source, Latin terrificus (“terrifying”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”) + -ficus, related to facere (“to make”). By surface analysis, terrify + -ic.
The sense of excellent or amazing is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of terrifying. Compare similar semantic development in sick and wicked.
Inflected forms:
form: more terrific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terrific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: terrifick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Causing terror; terrifying.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: [T]he diſmal ſhrieks of demoniac rage […] rouſed phantoms of horror in her mind, far more terrific than all that dreaming ſuperſtition ever drew.
Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love amid corruption,—ghastly, mocking, and terrific.
He made love in a coach and six, and married in a coach and twelve, and all his horses were milk-white horses with one red spot on the back which he caused to be hidden by the harness. For, the spot would come there, though every horse was milk-white when Captain Murderer bought him. And the spot was young bride's blood. (To this terrific point I am indebted for my first personal experience of a shudder and cold beads on the forehead.)
gloss: Very strong or intense; excessive, tremendous.
pos: adj
examples: The car came round the bend at a terrific speed.
I've got a terrific hangover this morning.
The ſtar tremulous turn'd its thundering poles, and the whole creation reſounded; when, with terrific haſte, Adamida, in obediance to the divine command, flew amidſt overwhelming ſtorms, ruſhing clouds, falling mountains, and ſwelling ſeas.
When the warriors saw this, their cheers were terrific.
From Atlantic to Pacific / Gee, the traffic is terrific.
gloss: Extremely good; excellent, amazing.
pos: adj
examples: I say! She's a terrific tennis player.
Synonyms: brilliant
horrific
Related words: terrible
terrify
terrifying
terror
terrorist
terrorize
Derived words: bonerific
fantasterrific
stonerific
superterrific
terrifically
terrification
terrificness
unterrific
Translations:
personally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English personally, personely, personallich, personaliche, equivalent to personal + -ly.
Base: personal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more personally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most personally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: personly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a personal manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In person.
pos: adv
examples: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
'There's a boy here who wants to speak to Miss Clara personally,' he announced.
gloss: Concerning oneself.
pos: adv
examples: I'm really annoyed with her, personally.
Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Roxton and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
gloss: As a person.
pos: adv
examples: I like you personally, but as a colleague you have yet to do well.
Derived words: fursonally
nonpersonally
personally attack
take personally
Translations:
heavily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hevely, hevyliche, from Old English hefiġlīċe (“heavily; grievously”), equivalent to heavy + -ly.
Base: heavy
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more heavily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heavily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: heauily
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: With a great weight.
pos: adv
examples: heavily burdened
She fell heavily into bed.
He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets;[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
gloss: To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
pos: adv
examples: He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
Your advice still weighs heavily with me.
This problem weighs heavily on my mind.
He drank heavily.
heavily in debt; heavily tattooed
heavily pregnant
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.
gloss: In a manner designed for heavy duty.
pos: adv
examples: heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
gloss: So as to be thick or heavy.
pos: adv
examples: heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms
gloss: In a laboured manner.
pos: adv
examples: he breathed heavily
Derived words: time hangs heavily
unheavily
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: тежко
roman: težko
lang: Catalan
word: pesadament
lang: Catalan
word: feixugament
lang: Czech
word: ztěžka
lang: Esperanto
word: pezege
lang: Estonian
word: tugevalt
lang: Finnish
word: raskaasti
lang: Finnish
word: painavasti
lang: Interlingua
word: pesantemente
lang: Italian
word: pesantemente
lang: Middle English
word: hevyliche
lang: Russian
word: тяжело́
roman: tjaželó
lang: Russian
word: си́льно
roman: sílʹno
lang: Spanish
word: pesadamente
essentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English essential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English essentially
From essential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more essentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most essentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an essential way.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: actually, at bottom, at heart, basically, fundamentally, characteristically, centrally, substantially; see also Thesaurus:fundamentally
The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.
A thin, crunchy lemon and thyme rosti was essentially the pimped-up aesthetic of the Kettle chip. That's OK. I like Kettle chips.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
gloss: In an essential way.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
examples: A: So you're saying, in other words, that he's greedy? B: Essentially, yes, that's what I'm saying.
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ըստ էության
roman: əst ēutʻyan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mahiyyətcə
lang: Catalan
word: en essència
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 本質上 /本质上
roman: běnzhìshàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 基本上
roman: jīběnshàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 大體上 /大体上
roman: dàtǐshang
lang: Danish
word: i sit inderste væsen
lang: Danish
word: i bund og grund
lang: Danish
word: grundlæggende
lang: Dutch
word: essentieel
lang: Esperanto
word: esence
lang: Faroese
word: í botn og grund
lang: Finnish
word: pohjimmiltaan
lang: Finnish
word: sisimmältään
lang: Finnish
word: perimmältään
lang: Finnish
word: periaatteessa
lang: Finnish
word: käytännössä
lang: French
word: essentiellement
lang: French
word: en essence
lang: Middle French
word: en essence
lang: German
word: im Wesentlichen
lang: German
word: im Grunde
lang: German
word: im Kern
lang: German
word: im Grunde genommen
lang: Hungarian
word: lényegében
lang: Italian
word: in essenza
lang: Maltese
word: essenzjalment
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dypest sett
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: i bunn og grunn
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: у сущносци
roman: u suščnosci
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: сущно
roman: suščno
lang: Polish
word: zasadniczo
lang: Polish
word: w gruncie rzeczy
lang: Portuguese
word: em essência
lang: Portuguese
word: essencialmente
lang: Romanian
word: esențial
lang: Romanian
word: în esență
lang: Russian
word: по существу́
roman: po suščestvú
lang: Russian
word: суще́ственно
roman: suščéstvenno
lang: Russian
word: по су́ти
roman: po súti
lang: Russian
word: в су́щности
roman: v súščnosti
lang: Russian
word: есть
roman: jestʹ
lang: Russian
word: суть
roman: sutʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: u biti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: u suštini
lang: Slovak
word: v podstate
lang: Slovak
word: esenciálne
lang: Spanish
word: esencialmente
lang: Spanish
word: en esencia
lang: Swedish
word: i grund och botten
lang: Ukrainian
word: по су́ті
roman: po súti
captured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more captured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most captured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been captured.
pos: adj
Translations:
cockatiel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch kaketielje, possibly a diminutive of kaketoe (“cockatoo”) or derived in Dutch from a diminutive of Portuguese cacatua (“cockatoo”) such as cacatilho or cacatelho. Attested in English since the mid nineteenth century.
Inflected forms:
form: cockatiels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.
pos: noun
examples: The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.
Translations:
cabaret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati
Proto-Iranian *kamarāder.
Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā)bor.
Latin camerader.
Old Northern French cambereteder.
Old French cambre
Picard Old French camberetder.
Middle Dutch cambretder.
Middle French cabaret
French cabaretbor.
English cabaret
Borrowed from French cabaret.
Inflected forms:
form: cabarets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strip club.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
countable
uncountable
Derived words: cabaretist
cabaretistic
dark cabaret
Translations:
shredder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shred
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English shredder
From shred + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: shredders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shreds or tears something.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.
pos: noun
gloss: A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.
pos: noun
Derived words: file shredder
nerve-shredder
paper shredder
Translations:
inductee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English induct
English -ee
English inductee
From induct + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: inductees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, is inducted.
pos: noun
examples: In certain families one can find several “inductees” grouped around one influential “inductor.” I have observed the case of a forever complaining old lady, living with her married daughter, who attracted and shut everybody, mother, father, and two daughters, into the closed circle of their mutual and reciprocal lamentations.
The vertices of the induced graph (called inductees) are a subset of the vertices of the original graph. The induction can be limited to common neighbors in a certain subset of vertices of the original graph, called the subset of inductors. Each inductor induces edges between the inductees.
Amrolia had inducted his son Jamshed together with that person’s wife and two children to stay with him in the flat afore-mentioned. Later on, relations between the inductor and inductees deteriorated.
gloss: One who, or that which, is inducted.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, is inducted.
pos: noun
Translations:
suborder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
business
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English order
English suborder
From sub- + order.
Inflected forms:
form: suborders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suborders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subordering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subordered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subordered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
pos: noun
gloss: A secondary or subsidiary order (purchase request).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of subordering.
pos: noun
gloss: To arrange in a secondary order.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The customers were sorted by name and then subordered by number of purchases.
Translations:
beadle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid + -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.
Base: bid
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: beadles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bedel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bedell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bedral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: bethral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: betherel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
pos: noun
examples: Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The children walking two and two in red and blue and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
The beadle […] generally understood in the neighbourhood to be a ridiculous institution […] The policeman considers him an imbecile civilian, a remnant of the barbarous watchmen times, but gives him admission as something that must be borne with until government shall abolish him.
Yes, yes, begad—of course you go out with him—it’s like the country, you know; everybody goes out with everybody in the Gardens, and there are beadles, you know, and that sort of thing—everybody walks in the Temple Gardens.
His face expressed horror and indignation. Instinct rather than reason came to my help; he was a Beadle; I was a woman.
gloss: An attendant to the minister.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A warrant officer.
pos: noun
Derived words: beadledom
beadlehood
beadleism
beadlery
beadleship
beagle
subbeadle
underbeadle
Translations:
taboo
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777.
The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.
Inflected forms:
form: taboos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tabu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tapu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more taboo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most taboo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tabu
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tapu
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: taboos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tabooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tabooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tabooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tabu
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tapu
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is true indeed that a taboo - in order to be a proper taboo - must not rest in the general mind on argument or reason.
So among the Alfoors of the island of Buru it is taboo to mention the names of parents and parents-in-law, or even to speak of common objects by words which resemble these names in sound.
The sharp differentiation of the sexes in our culture was shaped most probably by monogamy and monosexuality and their tabus.
For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
American society has a double standard when it comes to sexuality. We have a puritanical taboo against talking about sexuality directly, yet we are fine with the sexual images that pervade television and glossy magazines.
Now, we assume that people who check their watches at dinner are probably trying to avoid pulling out their phones, which would be ruder and more disruptive. In other words, mass adoption killed the taboo.
gloss: Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
pos: adj
examples: Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
Sweets and fats are strictly taboo in my home.
gloss: Culturally forbidden.
pos: adj
gloss: To mark as taboo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ban or prohibit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They lunched, but if the subject of Carrados had been tabooed the meal would have been a silent one.
gloss: To avoid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: nontaboo
taboo avoidance
taboo deformation
tabooer
tabooise
tabooish
tabooism
tabooist
tabooistic
tabooless
tabooness
tabooize
tabooification
Translations:
Tatar
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a Turkic language. More at Tatars.
Inflected forms:
form: Tatars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Tatar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tatar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: A person belonging to one of several Turkic ethnic groups identifying as "Tatar" in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
gloss: Of or relating to the people or culture of Tatars.
pos: adj
examples: Tatar customs
Derived words: Tatarstan
Tatary
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: tatar
lang: Armenian
word: թաթար
roman: tʻatʻar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tatar
lang: Bengali
word: তাতার
roman: tatar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韃靼人 /鞑靼人
roman: dádárén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塔塔爾人 /塔塔尔人
roman: tǎtǎ'ěrrén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韃子 /鞑子
roman: dázi
lang: Chuvash
word: тутар
roman: tut̬ar
lang: Czech
word: Tatar
lang: Czech
word: Tatarka
lang: Esperanto
word: tataro
lang: Esperanto
word: tatarino
lang: Estonian
word: tatarlane
lang: Finnish
word: tataari
lang: French
word: Tartare
lang: French
word: Tatar
lang: French
word: Tatare
lang: Georgian
word: თათარი
roman: tatari
lang: German
word: Tatar
lang: German
word: Tatarin
lang: Greek
word: Τάταρος
roman: Tátaros
lang: Hindi
word: तातारी
roman: tātārī
lang: Hindi
word: तातार
roman: tātār
lang: Hungarian
word: tatár
lang: Japanese
word: タタール
roman: tatāru
lang: Japanese
word: 韃靼
roman: dattan
lang: Kalmyk
word: маңһд
roman: mañğd
lang: Kazakh
word: татар
roman: tatar
lang: Kyrgyz
word: татар
roman: tatar
lang: Latvian
word: tatārs
lang: Lithuanian
word: totorius
lang: Macedonian
word: Татар
roman: Tatar
lang: Macedonian
word: Татарка
roman: Tatarka
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨ᠋ᠠᡨ᠋ᠠᡵᠠ
roman: tatara
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᠠᡨᠠᡵ
roman: tatar
lang: Eastern Mari
word: суас
roman: suas
lang: Eastern Mari
word: тадар
roman: tadar
lang: Western Mari
word: суас
roman: suas
lang: Western Mari
word: тадар
roman: tadar
lang: Mingrelian
word: თანთარი
roman: tantari
lang: Mongolian
word: татаар
roman: tataar
lang: Persian
word: تاتار
roman: tâtâr
lang: Polish
word: Tatar
lang: Polish
word: Tatarka
lang: Portuguese
word: tártaro
lang: Portuguese
word: tártara
lang: Romanian
word: tătar
lang: Romanian
word: tătară
lang: Romanian
word: tătăroaică
lang: Russian
word: тата́рин
roman: tatárin
lang: Russian
word: тата́рка
roman: tatárka
lang: Slovak
word: Tatár
lang: Slovak
word: Tatárka
lang: Slovene
word: Tatar
lang: Slovene
word: Tatarka
lang: Tajik
word: тотор
roman: totor
lang: Tatar
word: татар
roman: tatar
lang: Tatar
word: татарлар
roman: tatarlar
lang: Turkish
word: Tatar
lang: Turkmen
word: tatar
lang: Udmurt
word: бигер
roman: biger
lang: Ukrainian
word: тата́рин
roman: tatáryn
lang: Ukrainian
word: тата́рка
roman: tatárka
lang: Uyghur
word: تاتار
roman: tatar
lang: Uzbek
word: tatar
lang: Written Oirat
word: ᡏᠠᡊᡎᠠᡑ
roman: mangɣad
lang: Xibe
word: ᡨᠠᡨᠠᠷ ᠨᡞᠶᠠᠯᠮᠠ
roman: tatar niyalma
lang: Yakut
word: татаар
roman: tataar
sheesh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A euphemism for Jesus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expression of disbelief or exasperation.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
Translations:
copper-bottomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the copper sheathing applied to the bottom of a wooden ship to prevent damage from marine organisms. In literal sense 18th century, in figurative sense attested since at least 1807. The British idiomatic use comes from the fact that with Britain being a major naval power, there was always a ready market for copper in ship construction, making it a reliable commodity to invest in.
Inflected forms:
form: more copper-bottomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most copper-bottomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having lower parts made of or covered by copper.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: According to Robert Hulse, 'It's half worm, half mollusc, and there are more dead men at the bottom of the sea as a result of those things [shipworms] than all the naval battles put together. They're the reason you had copper-bottomed ships'.
gloss: Thoroughly reliable; secure.
pos: adj
tags: UK
idiomatic
examples: The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway.
Related words: copperfasten
coppered
gilt-edged
Translations:
faff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally imitative of wind or puffs of air (see verb senses "to blow in puffs", "to move with a puff of air"). The noun is formed from the verb by conversion.
Inflected forms:
form: faffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: faffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: faffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: faffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: faffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
God it must be a faff having to get nigh-on naked every time your bladder runneth over, and imagine how much worse it must be if you only have a 20-second break to run off stage to the loo.
Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks on said portal.
The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.
The show is a carefully curated manifesto of “social success without faff”.
gloss: A state of confused or frantic activity.
pos: noun
examples: She's in a total faff about tonight's dinner party.
I knew May would be in a faff, and I was right. […] Half an hour later (still with plenty of time because I’d known there would be this fuss) we left with May clad in black.
gloss: A puff of smoke; a gust of wind.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: “Shut t’ door, wilt-tu,” said Widow Goggin sharply; “thou’rt letting in faffs o’ wind. And tak’ thi shawl off.”
gloss: To blow in puffs, blow gently.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
gloss: To move (something) with a puff of air, to blow away.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Time wi’ his scythe hed mawn t’crop on his heead, An’ then fafft it away wi’ his wing.
gloss: To waste time on an unproductive activity.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
intransitive
examples: Stop Faffing And Just Do It
Frontier knows you're going to be spending a lot of time building coasters and faffing with scenery, so it doesn't want you fighting fires constantly.
Derived words: faff about
faffage
faff around
faffer
faffery
faff on
Translations:
objectionable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English objection
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English objectionable
From objection + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more objectionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most objectionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
pos: adj
examples: Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.
The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
We don’t find every use of ALPRs objectionable. For example, we do not generally object to using them to check license plates against lists of stolen cars, for AMBER Alerts, or for toll collection, provided they are deployed and used fairly and subject to proper checks and balances, such as ensuring devices are not disproportionately deployed in low-income communities and communities of color, and that the “hot lists” they are run against are legitimate and up to date.
Antonyms: unobjectionable
Translations:
arousing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more arousing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arousing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing arousal.
pos: adj
examples: I am having very arousing thoughts about my gym trainer when he's in his tight shorts.
Translations:
objectivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English objective
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English objectivity
From objective + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: objectivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being objective, just, unbiased, and not influenced by irrational emotions or personal prejudices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: maintain objectivity
sense of objectivity
The scientist’s objectivity was questioned after the funding controversy.
Good journalism requires strict objectivity.
gloss: The world as it really is; reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: objectiveness
objectivity
Antonyms: subjectivity
Related words: neutrality
independence
measurement
testability
reproducibility
determinism
consistency
fairness
justice
fact
truth
reality
standard
rule
algorithm
criterion
evidence
proof
photograph
photography
objective
impersonal
neutral
factual
independent
testable
verifiable
falsifiable
fair
just
science
mathematics
journalism
scientist
mathematician
judge
journalist
impartial
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 6. Extrinsicality
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 467. Evidence
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 316. Materiality
Derived words: multiobjectivity
nonobjectivity
Translations:
objector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Partly from Latin obiector and partly from object + -or.
Base: object
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: objectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who objects to something.
pos: noun
examples: "It would be amusing, sir, to shut these various objectors up in a room and let them settle it among themselves."
The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises.
Translations:
oblige
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, obliger, from Latin obligō, obligāre, from ob- + ligō. Doublet of obligate, taken straight from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: obliges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obliging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obliged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obliged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your carelessness obliges firmness on my part.
I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
Tho' he was some time awake before me, yet did he not offer to disturb a repose he had given me so much occasion for; but on my first stirring, which was not till past ten o'clock, I was oblig'd to endure one more trial of his manhood.
gloss: To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
The singer obliged(us) with an encore.
In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker.
gloss: To cause somebody to feel indebted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am much obliged to you for your recent help.
Related words: liable
much obliged
noblesse oblige
obligate
obligation
obligatory
obligee
obligor
rely
Derived words: disoblige
misoblige
obligable
obligement
reoblige
Translations:
obliged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See oblige. Compare obligated.
Inflected forms:
form: more obliged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obliged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under an obligation to do something.
pos: adj
examples: All employees are obliged to complete a tax return every year.
gloss: Grateful or indebted because of a favor done.
pos: adj
examples: I'm greatly obliged for your help with this problem.
Derived words: much obliged
obligedly
obligedness
unobliged
Translations:
obliging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obliging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obliging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obligings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happy and ready to do favours for others.
pos: adj
gloss: The imposition of an obligation.
pos: noun
examples: Many were the finings, and excommunications, and the obligings to do penances, that took place at this time.
Translations:
obliteration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obliterate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English obliteration
From obliterate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: obliterations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The total destruction of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This illustration depicts exoplanet Kepler-1658b (left), doomed to eventual obliteration by its aging host star.
Stark before-and-after images reveal the obliteration of Bakhmut [title]
“Everyone knows what happens when you drop 14 30,000-pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.”
gloss: The concealing or covering of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Winter, in coming to the country hereabout, advanced in well-marked stages, wherein might have been successively observed the retreat of the snakes, the transformation of the ferns, the filling of the pools, a rising of fogs, the embrowning by frost, the collapse of the fungi, and an obliteration by snow.
gloss: The cancellation, erasure or deletion of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whitman did censor himself often enough, changing pronouns in some passages, excising others, learning, in short, the "strategies of concealment" forced on him by the nineteenth century. None of these obliterations, however, can excuse the endeavors of literary critics, who have tried to deny the importance of "sexuality" in the poetry by focusing on its "mystical" or its "universal" aspects.
Because he refused to protect his brother's name from obliteration, he acquires a derogatory nickname.
gloss: The cancellation of the function, structure, or both of a vessel or organ; for example, the occlusion of the lumen of a duct, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel, be it solely functional (as when squeezed by nearby mass effect or inflammation) or both structural and functional (as when clogged with thrombus, embolus, or fibrosis).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: obliterate
obliviation
oblivion
Derived words: abliteration
angioobliteration
disobliteration
obliterationism
vasoobliteration
Translations:
obscenity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From obscene + -ity, from Latin obscenitas.
Base: obscene
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: obscenities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is obscene.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Martha wouldn't go into the art museum because, as she put it, "They have obscenities just sitting out, on display!"
gloss: An act of obscene behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Bestiality was outlawed as an obscenity in the strongly conservative community.
gloss: Specifically, an offensive word; a profanity; a dirty word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Eliza couldn't stand her daughter's music; as she saw it, it was just shouted obscenities and a heavy drum beat.
Her mother favored a multiyear project: obscenities carved in intricate and clever juxtapositions, descending every finger, curling in lettered whorls across the palm, fanning in offensive rays across the opisthenar, which is the name for the back of the hand, a word that Leilani knew because she had studied the structure of the human hand in detail, the better to understand her difference.
Next up was the horse-trading. Or, as Brown describes it, consulting with stakeholders. That's how he found out that queca, with one C, is an obscenity in Portuguese.
gloss: Lewdness, indecency, or offensive behaviour or material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The coalition of religious conservatives was campaigning against, in their view, rampant obscenity in the entertainment industry.
Over three and a half decades, "Deep Throat" has been damned by religious groups, decried by feminists, defended by First Amendment advocates, derided by critics and debated by social scientists. It dragged for years through local and federal courts around the country in a welter of obscenity trials in which it was variously banned, unbanned and rebanned.
gloss: The fact of being obscene.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Henia Flint Goodman, a Holocaust survivor,spoke in outrage against the obscenity of anti-abortion literature which compares a woman's free choice to have an abortion with the crimes of the Nazi state.
Derived words: antiobscenity
Translations:
obscurity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English obscurite, obscuryte, from Middle French obscurité and its etymon Latin obscūritās. By surface analysis, obscure + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: obscurities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Darkness; the absence of light.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
uncountable
examples: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
I walked in, and Stroeve followed me. The room was in darkness. I could only see that it was an attic, with a sloping roof; and a faint glimmer, no more than a less profound obscurity, came from a skylight.
gloss: The state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments[…]; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
gloss: The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: fame
clarity
Related words: obscure
Derived words: nonobscurity
security through obscurity
semiobscurity
Translations:
obsolescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin obsolēscēns present participle of obsolēscere.
Inflected forms:
form: obsolescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being obsolete—no longer in use; gone into disuse; disused or neglected.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Apart from this feature the Trichoptera also differ from the typical Neuroptera in the relatively simple, mostly longitudinal neuration of the wings, the absence or obsolescence of the mandibles and the semi-haustellate nature of the rest of the mouth-parts.
One way is to legislate extended warranties on products, so washing machines and refrigerators last for 30 years instead of 10. Another is to ban planned obsolescence, so manufacturers can’t create products that are designed to fail.
gloss: The process of becoming obsolete, outmoded or out of date.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Shared obsolescences can be of some significance when connected with a functional replacement. If two languages replace an earlier word for 'nose' with some other term and also lose the traditional term, this double agreement is of significance for judging the existence of a common historical period.
Synonyms: desuetude
disusage
disuse
inusitation
obsolescence
obsoleteness
obsoletion
superannuation
unuse
Antonyms: employment
nonobsolescence
usage
use
utilisation
Related words: expiration
expiry
lifespan
obsolescent
obsolete
shelf life
neglect
the box they're going to bury it in
Derived words: built-in obsolescence
nonobsolescence
planned obsolescence
programmed obsolescence
Translations: