yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
prolapse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin prolapsuslbor.
English prolapse
Learned borrowing from Latin prolapsus.
Inflected forms:
form: prolapses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prolapsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prolapsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prolapsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prolapses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prolapsus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
projectionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English projection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English projectionist
From projection + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: projectionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.
pos: noun
gloss: One who subscribes to the philosophy of projectionism.
pos: noun
Translations:
prohibitory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prohibit
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English prohibitory
From prohibit + -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more prohibitory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prohibitory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That serves to prohibit or forbid
pos: adj
Translations:
prohibitionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prohibition
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English prohibitionist
From prohibition + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: prohibitionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
pos: noun
Translations:
professionalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English professional
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English professionalize
From professional + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: professionalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: professionalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: professionalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: professionalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: professionalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make something professional
pos: verb
gloss: To advance an occupation to the level of a profession.
pos: verb
Antonyms: unprofessionalize
deprofessionalize
Related words: professionalization
Derived words: professionalizer
reprofessionalize
Translations:
unadvisedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unadvised + -ly or un- + advised + -ly.
Base: unadvised
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unadvisedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unadvisedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unadvised manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unaffectedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unaffected
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unaffectedly
From unaffected + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unaffectedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unaffectedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unaffected manner; sincerely and genuinely.
pos: adv
examples: Quite innocent, this prolonged inspection, so unaffectedly rude it was.
2007 Nov. 7. Alfred Hickling review of The Adoption Papers in The Guardian.
Lisa Livingstone as Molly gives the kind of unaffectedly natural performance you would happily watch until the cows come home.
Translations:
unashamedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unashamed
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unashamedly
From unashamed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unashamedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unashamedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unashamed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unassumingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unassuming
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unassumingly
From unassuming + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unassumingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unassumingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unassuming manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unattractively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unattractive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unattractively
From unattractive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unattractively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unattractively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unattractive manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unavoidably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unavoidable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unavoidably
From unavoidable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unavoidably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unavoidably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unavoidable manner.
pos: adv
examples: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
Translations:
uncannily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uncanny
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uncannily
From uncanny + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncannily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uncannily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uncanny manner.
pos: adv
examples: The traveler very easily failed to notice one among the normal bushes and undergrowth, and the moment he was in range the venomous sting would slash out. Even the regular inhabitant of such a district found it difficult to detect a motionless triffid cunningly lurking beside a jungle path. They were uncannily sensitive to any movement near them, and hard to take unawares.
Translations:
uncertainly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.
Base: certainly
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more uncertainly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uncertainly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uncertain manner.
pos: adv
examples: "No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.
I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]
Translations:
uncharitably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uncharitable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uncharitably
From uncharitable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncharitably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uncharitably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uncharitable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
uncomplainingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uncomplaining
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uncomplainingly
From uncomplaining + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncomplainingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uncomplainingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uncomplaining manner.
pos: adv
examples: Then she would walk for hours, and though she had often to do so, Palmer would uncomplainingly draw rein, and slacken the horses' speed to her pace.
Translations:
autodrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From auto- + -drome.
Base: auto
Inflected forms:
form: autodromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circuit used for motor sports events, but not for high-speed racing
pos: noun
Translations:
hypothecate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypotheco, hypothecare. This was in turn derived from Ancient Greek ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē, “pledge”), from the verb ὑποτίθημι (hupotíthēmi, “to pledge as surety”).
Inflected forms:
form: hypothecates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hypothecating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hypothecated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hypothecated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘My husband, Jasper Murdock, provided in his will that no part of his collection might be sold, loaned or hypothecated during my lifetime.’
gloss: To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: The levy needed primary legislation and permission from the Treasury to hypothecate the proceeds back into the new line. It meant that the Greater London Authority could borrow against future income from the levy.
gloss: To designate in advance the specific purpose of expenditure for government revenues (especially taxes).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
examples: "Levying customs duties and excises on necessities also ensured a relatively secure source of revenue. Revenues were generally hypothecated in an attempt to draw support from the public, for example funding an orphanage, gaol, hospital equipment and building works around Sydney." A brief history of Australia's tax system; Sam Reinhardt and Lee Steel; 04 September 2006
Related words: hypothec
hypothecation
Derived words: hypothecable
hypothecatable
hypothecatee
hypothecation
hypothecator
rehypothecate
unhypothecated
Translations:
hypothalamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight mans and closer in size to a womans, and thus they are attracted to men.
Translations:
hypotensive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English tensive
English hypotensive
From hypo- + tensive.
Inflected forms:
form: more hypotensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypotensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypotensives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure).
pos: adj
examples: hypotensive patients
gloss: Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure).
pos: adj
examples: hypotensive medications
Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.
gloss: Any drug that lowers the blood pressure.
pos: noun
examples: a hypotensive agent such as an opioid
gloss: A drug that lowers the blood pressure as its principal intended effect; a drug taken to treat hypertension.
pos: noun
examples: a hypotensive agent such as an ARB or an ACEI
gloss: A person with hypotension.
pos: noun
Antonyms: hypertensive
Derived words: antihypotensive
equihypotensive
nonhypotensive
subhypotensive
supine hypotensive syndrome
Translations:
reflectance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reflect
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English reflectance
From reflect + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: reflectances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ratio of the flux reflected to that incident on a surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hypoplasia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hypo- + -plasia.
Base: hypo
Inflected forms:
form: hypoplasias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Underdevelopment or incomplete development of a tissue or organ, especially when caused by an inadequate or below-normal number of cells.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1995, William M. Thurlbeck, 2. Lung Growth and Development, William M. Thurlbeck, Andrew Churg (editors), 2nd edition, Thieme Medical Publishers, Pathology of the Lung, page 56,
Since the renal system and the lung develop at the same time, there has been repeated speculation that pulmonary hypoplasia and renal anomalies may be linked by a common developmental defect.
2022, Robert A. Foster, Christopher Premanandan, Chapter 19: Male Reproductive System, James F. Zachary (editor), Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, 7th edition, Elsevier, page 1320,
Hypoplasia of the testes is a common condition and DSD.
This complex etiology suggests that individual life histories should be interpreted carefully since enamel hypoplasias could reflect stressors experienced by an individual's parents and individual genetic susceptibility. Additionally, enamel hypoplasias may be more indicative of acute episodes of stress instead of long, chronic periods of stress.
Translations:
habitability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English habitable
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English habitability
From habitable + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: habitabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being habitable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.
The findings shed light on the geological history of Mars and offer valuable insights into how rocky planets across the solar system evolve. In addition, the discovery offers key implications for understanding the habitability of rocky planets, the researchers said.
Translations:
half-dollar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
Proto-Germanic *dalą
Proto-West Germanic *dal
Old High German tal
Middle High German tal
German Tal
German Talerder.
Middle Low German dālerbor.
Dutch dalerbor.
English dollar
English half-dollar
From half- + dollar.
Inflected forms:
form: half-dollars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents.
pos: noun
examples: The Crescent Road sheds had a favourite locomotive - Stanier 4MT tank engine 42626 (known by Bolton locomen as 'two half-dollars') - and the shed authorities quietly arranged for it to be put to one side for a few days, while the ardent schoolboys set to work cleaning it. [This may be inspired by the number 42626 where 26 occurs twice; the half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence - 2s 6d or 2/6.]
Translations:
half-track
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: half-tracks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halftrack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halftrack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks).
pos: noun
gloss: Describing such a vehicle; half-tracked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Sino-Vietnamese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sino-
English Vietnam
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Vietnamese
English Sino-Vietnamese
From Sino- + Vietnamese.
Inflected forms:
form: Sino-Vietnameses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The Chinese-derived elements in the Vietnamese language.
pos: noun
Translations:
proconsul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin prōcōnsul.
Inflected forms:
form: proconsuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.
pos: noun
Translations:
pro-choicer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
English choice
English pro-choice
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 pro-choicer
From pro-choice + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pro-choicers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prochoicer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.
pos: noun
Translations:
mungo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mungos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mungoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
Translations:
disbursal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See disburse.
Inflected forms:
form: disbursals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disbursing money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The amount of money paid for something, especially the amount that may be tax-deductible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: disbursement
Translations:
dogie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown.
Possibly an abbreviation of dough-guts, the pot bellied appearance of a malnourished calf. Possibly the transliteration of the slang word dobie/dobe/doby, pejoratively meaning inferior. Since dogie and dobie in reference to an orphaned calf both appeared in print around the same time (1880-1888), it is possible that dogie is the original and dobie is the transliteration.
Inflected forms:
form: dogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: When she was a child, her father often gave her orphaned calves to look after, and every so often, she would fold the grown ones in with the steers when they were shipped off to Fort Worth. She made enough money off her dogies to make investments in stocks […]
Translations:
dogmatist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dogmatists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stubborn, assertive, opinionated person.
pos: noun
gloss: One who derives philosophical or religious principles from a priori assertion or revelation rather than evidence or experience.
pos: noun
examples: Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future. Some direct mark, by noting which we can be protected immediately and absolutely, now and forever, against all mistake—such has been the darling dream of philosophic dogmatists.
Synonyms: dogmatician
Related words: dogmatic
dogmatism
Translations:
drumbeat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drum + beat.
Compound parts: drum
beat
Inflected forms:
form: drumbeats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The beating of a drum.
pos: noun
gloss: The sound of a beating drum.
pos: noun
examples: This is not the drumbeat of a single drummer leading a charge.
gloss: A repetitive beating sound.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: This music has a groovy drumbeat that makes me dance!
The drumbeat of roadside bombs and suicide attacks continued all over the 2d Brigade, 10th Mountain Division's area of operations.
Rycant stood close enough to catch his words despite the drumbeat of rain on the thick leaves above their heads, but only Rectoria picked up the note of relief.
What does the drumbeat of your heart say?
gloss: A driving force.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Nevertheless, greatness rarely receives public approval, because most people spend their lives goose-stepping to the drumbeat of economic necessity.
On a more scholarly level the drumbeat of need was signalled too: as when the newly appointed headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School, Richard Mulcaster, declared: 'it would be a thing verie praiseworthy ... if som one learned and as laborious a man wold gather all the wordes which we vse in our English tung ... into one dictionarie.'
We can hear the drumbeat of history, right in our own time.
While the partisan wrangling annoyed Clinton, it was the drumbeat of attacks on his character and the constant investigations of his administration that bothered him most of all.
It takes courage to be against the drumbeat of war and especially to become a “shield” against violence.
The drumbeat of warning that advanced AI could kill us all has mostly quieted; the “doomers” have been marginalized, now used by AI’s ruling class as a punch line. Yet even the most upbeat AI leaders are quick to offer kernels of warning.
Translations:
hewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hew
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 hewer
From hew + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hews.
pos: noun
examples: And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.
The Larrakiahs at Port Darwin seem to have identified themselves with the white population, and became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlement.
By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal […]
But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
All three groups were paid less per shift than coal miners. In 1905, for instance, hewers in coal mines received an average 3.79 marks per shift; in zinc and lead, 3.10 marks; in iron, 2.36 marks.
Translations:
highlands
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-West Germanic *hauh
Old English hēah
Middle English heigh
English high
English lands
English highlands
From high + lands.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A high area of land, lands higher than surrounding areas.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: However, between Monrovia (6°20'N/10°46'W) and Buchanan (5°57'N/10°02'W) highlands approach to within 25 km of the coast. East of Buchanan the lowlands reach nearly 100 km inland, in the Cestos Valley, but narrow again to 30 km towards the eastern border.
One of Ethiopia's most popular traditional dances, eskista, which is said to have originated from the lower highlands of Ethiopia's Amhara region, exemplifies the type of multi-functionality that Martin (1967) acknowledges as it is performed in many different settings of the Ethiopian community.
Translations:
holdout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hold outdeverb.
English holdout
Deverbal from hold out.
Inflected forms:
form: holdouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who refuses to give consent to an agreement in the hope of an improved offer; one who holds out; one who clings to a cause that has been mostly abandoned.
pos: noun
examples: If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse.
One of Otto’s first moves after Viserys’ death is to make the lords and ladies of the Red Keep bend the knee to Aegon. The two holdouts are swiftly carted away by the guards, while the third, Rhaenyra’s faithful Lord Caswell (Paul Hickey), reluctantly kneels.
gloss: A device for cheating at card games by covertly holding a card out of play until it is wanted.
pos: noun
examples: He is probably working a vest or sleeve hold-out. Some clumsy or audacious sharpers will go so far as to hold out cards in their lap, or stick them in a "bug" under the table.
Related words: holdover
nail house
Translations:
homiletic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more homiletic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homiletic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a homily, or to homiletics.
pos: adj
gloss: Preachy.
pos: adj
Derived words: homiletically
Translations:
homiletics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητική (homilētikḗ).
Compare ὅμιλος (hómilos, “crowd, throng”), ὁμῑλέω (homīléō, “to be with, to talk”), and ομιλώ (omilṓ, “to talk”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The art of preaching (especially the application of rhetoric in theology).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We will consider first what is common to Rhetoric and Homiletics, then what is special to the latter. Rhetoric is the genus, Homiletics the species.
Thus theology got on its legs, both as a science and as an art, and with it its faithful handmaiden, homiletics.
Translations:
horological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical.
Base: logical
Affixes: horo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.
Translations:
angelical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aungelicale, from Latin angelicus + -al; equivalent to angel + -ical.
Base: angel
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more angelical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most angelical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
pos: adj
examples: O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
She was all angelical gentleness.
"You wouldn't be speaking badly if you said that there was something angelical about the character of Pete Perkins, but one of those angels with a sword," Jones said.
Translations:
rebirthing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
games
gaming
transport
vehicles
video-games
Inflected forms:
form: rebirthings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rebirth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An act of resetting a player character's level to its initial value (i.e., 1) while retaining equipment and/or some skills (a feature that allows a player to try out different classes or builds).
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
gloss: The practice of simulating the birth process by wrapping a child tightly in blankets from which it must struggle to escape, as an intended treatment for attachment disorder.
pos: noun
tags: New-Age
uncountable
usually
gloss: The practice of transferring identifying parts of a wrecked car (registration plates, compliance plate, etc.) onto a stolen car of the same make and model, allowing the stolen car to be sold with the identity of the wreck.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: 2004, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2004 Year Book Australia, Number 86, page 325,
Other investigations include South-East Asian organised crime, money laundering and tax fraud on the Commonwealth, vehicle rebirthing and identity fraud.
They are also involved in cannabis dealing, vehicle theft, car rebirthing, currency counterfeiting and fraud.
New bosses were running things now – the hydro marijuana houses, the standover and the car rebirthing.
gloss: The role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
Related words: identity theft
unbirthing
Translations:
veridical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin veridicus (“truly said”), from verus (“true”) and dīcō (“to say”).
Inflected forms:
form: more veridical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most veridical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: True.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that accurately represents reality.
pos: adj
examples: Few believe that all claimed religious experiences are veridical.
There was great need for empirical research that would build a more veridical description of organizations and management.
Searle himself notes that one way an experience might fail is for it to be a veridical hallucination: you might hallucinate a cat before you, and by accident there might be a cat before you.
Related words: truth
Derived words: veridicality
Translations:
shellacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shellac
English -ed
English shellacked
From shellac + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more shellacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shellacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Coated in shellac.
pos: adj
examples: At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked.
Derived words: unshellacked
Translations:
hollering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hollerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who hollers.
pos: noun
examples: They can have no idea who I am or what I've done, but they leap to and give slapstick chase anyway, their cartoon hollerings — "Stop! Thief" — sounding in my ears as I tear up the avenue[…]
Translations:
beanery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bean
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English beanery
From bean + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: beaneries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inexpensive restaurant or cafe; a bistro.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Do not make the excuse that you cannot get the right foods at the beaneries. The beaneries are going to serve just what the customers demand and when enough of you fellows get to demanding vitalized foods you are going to get them.
I had nothing to lose but the chains, and I hoped to find down the county roads Ma in her beanery and Pap over his barbecue pit, both still serving slow food from the same place they did thirty years ago. Where-you-from-buddy restaurants.
Translations:
overstress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + stress.
Base: stress
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overstresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overstressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overstressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overstressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place excessive emphasis on something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place excessive physical stress on something, especially to such an extent that it deforms or breaks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] the complete frame will withstand a standing and buffing load of 200 tons without overstressing.
gloss: To stress someone excessively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “I think we better not catch him anymore right now,” said the vet. “We don’t want to overstress him.”
Susannah, I’m afraid my husband’s been ill for some time—a heart condition. I don’t want to overstress him.
‘And sir, what about my new schemes of things?’ ‘Try them. No harm if you do it along with regular medication, but don’t overstress her.’
Translations:
prescript
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin praescriptum: compare Old French prescript.
Inflected forms:
form: prescripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate.
pos: noun
examples: By his prescript a sanctuary is framed
Of cedar
gloss: A medical prescription.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Nor did he ever with so much regret submit unto any prescript, as when his physicians, after his great fever that he had in Oxford , required him to eat suppers.
gloss: Directed; prescribed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A Holy place is ſomething, a ſeparate time is ſomething, a preſcript form of words is more, and ſeparate and ſolemn actions are more yet; but all theſe are made common by a common perſon, and therefore without a diſtinction of perſons have not a natural and reaſonable diſtinction and ſolemnity and exterior religion.
Translations:
walkthrough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English walk throughdeverb.
English walkthrough
Deverbal from walk through.
Inflected forms:
form: walkthroughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walkthru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
nonstandard
form: walk-through
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tour of a space, such as a property for sale or rent.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions and choices made along the way.
pos: noun
gloss: A thorough demonstration that explains or illustrates the steps involved in winning the game.
pos: noun
gloss: A financial audit that traces a sample transaction through the system to ensure that it is processed and reported correctly.
pos: noun
gloss: A theatrical or film rehearsal in which the actors move around the stage or set but are not in costume.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: run-through
Related words: pass-through
passthrough
step-through
walk-through
walk through
Translations:
lection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“to read; to gather”). Doublet of lesson.
Inflected forms:
form: lections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.
Related words: lectern
lecture
lector
lesson
Derived words: lectional
Translations:
uncompromisingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uncompromising
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uncompromisingly
From uncompromising + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncompromisingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uncompromisingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uncompromising manner.
pos: adv
examples: But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.
They show that the "B1" 4-6-0s are just as speedy as the Stanier class "5" 4-6-0s of the former L.M.S.R., though like the Staniers they can be uncompromisingly "hard" engines to ride on.
Translations:
unconcernedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unconcerned
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unconcernedly
From unconcerned + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconcernedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconcernedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unconcerned manner.
pos: adv
examples: Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows for the most part feeding unconcernedly, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
Willie flits up, catches another insect, drops unconcernedly to his perch again, runs along the bullock's back in his bounding-jockey act, swallows his meal and announces he's a 'sweet-pretty-little-creature'.
There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
Translations:
unconscionably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unconscionable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unconscionably
From unconscionable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconscionably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconscionably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unconscionable manner.
pos: adv
examples: Unconscionably, they and their outliers in the hard Brexit media have attempted to stifle debate and question those who demand proper scrutiny of the most significant political and economic challenge to Britain in decades.
“[…] 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.
Translations:
unconstitutionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unconstitutional + -ly or un- + constitutionally.
Base: unconstitutional
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unconstitutionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconstitutionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner or to an extent that is unconstitutional.
pos: adv
examples: “Most of [the law] acts as a hammer instead of a scalpel,” Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez wrote, calling it “a blunt tool hinders humorous expression and unconstitutionally stifles the free and unfettered exchange of ideas.”
Translations:
unconventionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unconventional
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unconventionally
From unconventional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconventionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconventionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unconventional manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
knapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English knap
English -er
English knapper
From knap + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: knappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who knaps.
pos: noun
Translations:
underhandedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English underhanded
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English underhandedly
From underhanded + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more underhandedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most underhandedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: under-handedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: underhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: under-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an underhanded manner.
pos: adv
examples: Because that democratic process did not initially support one of Hutchinson's choices of candidates, he points the finger at "leadership" and implies that things were underhandedly rigged from the start.
Translations:
undeservedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From undeserved + -ly or un- + deservedly.
Base: undeserved
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more undeservedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most undeservedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an undeserved manner.
pos: adv
examples: In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery, even when their words seem cruel and harsh.
Translations:
undesirably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English undesirable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English undesirably
From undesirable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more undesirably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most undesirably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an undesirable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unethically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unethical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unethically
From unethical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unethically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unethically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unethical manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
uneventfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uneventful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uneventfully
From uneventful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more uneventfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most uneventfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an uneventful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unfailingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unfailing + -ly or un- + failingly.
Base: unfailing
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unfailingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unfailingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without fail; reliably; always.
pos: adv
examples: While unfailingly courteous to the jury, he could be quite sharp with counsel and witnesses, and rattle his sabre at the press: his first reported words in the case were that any journalist thinking of interviewing a juror 'had better bring a toothbrush'.
Translations:
unfaithfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unfaithful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unfaithfully
From unfaithful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfaithfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unfaithfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unfaithful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unfashionably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unfashionable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unfashionably
From unfashionable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfashionably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unfashionably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unfashionable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
unforgivably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unforgivable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unforgivably
From unforgivable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unforgivably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unforgivably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unforgivable manner.
pos: adv
examples: Mr. Dukakis charged that when it came to advising President Reagan on Iran, Mr. Bush was "disastrously and completely and unforgivably wrong."
The astonished Ken Wharfe came by just in time to witness this bizarre spectacle and in an appropriately policemanly manner rebuked the butler for his 'unforgivably disloyal' and 'deeply unprofessional' behaviour.
Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.
Translations:
ungracefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ungraceful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ungracefully
From ungraceful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ungracefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ungracefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ungraceful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
ungraciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ungracious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ungraciously
From ungracious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ungraciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ungraciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ungracious manner.
pos: adv
examples: They came ungraciously, but after his dark, bodeful hints as to the necessity of their attending service at the grazier's homestead next day, he was invited inside and a place was cleared for him at the table.
Translations:
unhelpfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English helpful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unhelpfully
From un- + helpful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unhelpfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unhelpfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unhelpful manner.
pos: adv
examples: Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated aspects of patristic theology, such as the Emerging Church and paleoorthodoxy.
Translations:
unhesitatingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unhesitating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unhesitatingly
From unhesitating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an unhesitating manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I am city-bred myself, and though at my age I prefer the quiet of the country, yet for a young girl I well know the charm of a city life. Of course, we would all regret the loss of our Patty, who has grown to be a part of our daily life, but, nevertheless, were I to vote on this matter, I should unhesitatingly cast my ballot in favour of New York.
Translations:
knapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or result of a stone being knapped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unhurriedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unhurried
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unhurriedly
From unhurried + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unhurriedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unhurriedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unhurried manner.
pos: adv
Translations: