yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
swindle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Back-formation from swindler, from German Schwindler, from German schwindeln, from Middle High German swindeln, swindelen, from Old High German swintilōn, frequentative of the verb swintan, from Proto-West Germanic *swindan (“to diminish”).
See also Modern German schwindeln, Danish svindel and svindle, Dutch zwindelen and zwendelen, Yiddish שווינדל (shvindl), Low German swinneln, Middle English swinden (“to languish, waste away”).
Inflected forms:
form: swindles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swindling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swindled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swindled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: swindles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To defraud.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The two men swindled the company out of $160,000.
Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.
That word is bezzle. It describes the period in which an embezzler has stolen a man's money but the victim does not yet realize he's been swindled.
gloss: To obtain (money or property) by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She swindled more than £200 out of me.
gloss: For a player in a losing position to play a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
pos: verb
gloss: An instance of swindling.
pos: noun
examples: There were men there who had committed merciless robberies, cruel murders, heartless swindles, abominable depravities.
[T]he scandal was the pretty common one of a corrupt agreement between hotel proprietors and a salesman who took and gave secret commissions, so that his business had a monopoly of all the drink sold in the place. It wasn't even an open slavery like an ordinary tied house; it was a swindle at the expense of everybody the manager was supposed to serve.
gloss: Anything that is deceptively not what it appears to be.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance wherein a player in a losing position plays a clever move that provokes an error from the opponent, thus achieving a win or a draw.
pos: noun
Synonyms: scheme
swizz
Derived words: outswindle
swindleable
swindledom
swindler
swindlery
swindlingly
swindle sheet
Translations:
defraud
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder.
Inflected forms:
form: defrauds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defrauding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defrauded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defrauded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: defraude
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
gloss: To deprive.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
She is sinned against, because she is defrauded of her rights ^((i.e. sexual satisfaction)).
Both laughed as they shook hands but Miss Tilehurst felt that she had been defrauded of something that she had looked forward to by Nora's offhand manner, and she was glad that Mr. Carrados took the occasion to rebuke his niece […]
Related words: befraud
defrauder
fraudster
Derived words: undefrauded
Translations:
protasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin protasis, from Ancient Greek πρότασις (prótasis), from προτείνω (proteínō, “put forward, tender, propose”), from πρό (pró) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).
Inflected forms:
form: protases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The first part of a play, in which the setting and characters are introduced.
pos: noun
examples: It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
gloss: A clause that expresses a contingent element in a conditional sentence.
pos: noun
examples: In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "if this weather holds up" is the protasis, and "I will be coming" is the apodosis.
2005 B. P. Bairan: An Introduction to Syllogistic Logic
Every conditional statement is made up of two component statements. The component statement that follows the "if" is called antecedent (or the "implicans" or — rarely — the "protasis"), and the component statement that follows the "then" is the "consequent"(or the "implicate" or — rarely — the "apodosis").
Related words: protatic
catastasis
catastrophe
epitasis
protactic
Translations:
fraudster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fraud
Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā
Old English -estre
Middle English -estere
English -ster
English fraudster
From fraud + -ster.
Inflected forms:
form: fraudsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries out fraud; a swindler.
pos: noun
examples: 2016 Eric Andrew-Gee Why and how Ontarians change their names in the 21st century The Globe and Mail
With a few exceptions, all those changes were published in the Ontario Gazette, a little-read compendium of government business that comes out every week. The province requires this by law, as do most Canadian jurisdictions, nominally to thwart fraudsters and deadbeats.
CPS MerseyCheshire welcomes the jailing of Helen Dove who conned her friend into giving up her job for a dream post that never existed. Kimberley McDonnell lost around £50,000 because of the fraudster.
Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.
Translations:
salacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from Latin salāx, salācis (“provocative, lustful”) + -ious.
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more salacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most salacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Promoting sexual desire or lust.
pos: adj
examples: utterly salacious
gloss: Lascivious, bawdy, obscene, lewd.
pos: adj
examples: salacious gossip
salacious details
The newspaper published a salacious story about the scandal.
He was arrested for distributing salacious material.
Synonyms: ardent
hot
dirty
lubricious
Related words: salacity
Derived words: salaciously
salaciousness
unsalacious
Translations:
dux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, duce, and duke.
Inflected forms:
form: duxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Hong-Kong
New-Zealand
Scotland
examples: […]on the motion of Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost, unanimously resolved, July 27, 1814, “that there be annually presented by the town of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the Greek class, taught by the rector of the High School, a gold medal of the same value [five guineas] as that annually presented to the dux of the Latin class.”
He finished the year dux of Form III with an average 90 per cent over eight subjects. The school did not award end-of-year marks in fourth and fifth forms, but Evans’ report for those years shows he passed all subjects in both years and was again dux in Form V.
This school was where my father had been dux in his senior year in 1937 just as his father had been dux at the Rockhampton Grammar School²⁷ before the turn of the 19th century.
Quite a few who became national athletic champions were also duxes or top academic pupils at their schools.
gloss: A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
pos: noun
Related words: duke
dux bellorum
doge
Translations:
tib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Abbreviation of tibia.
Inflected forms:
form: tibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tibia.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
entrap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French entrapper, entraper, from Old French entraper, antraper (“catch in a trap”), equivalent to en- + trap. Compare Middle English bitrappen, from Old English betræppan (“to catch in a trap, entrap”), from the same West Germanic source (see Modern English betrap).
Base: trap
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: entraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To catch in a trap or snare.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then noble ſouldiers to intrap these theeues […]
We haue our Cammels laden al with gold:
Which you that be but common ſouldiers,
Shall fling in euery corner of the field:
And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp,
You […] Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues.
He goes home to complain to his father, and the two of them decide on a plan to entrap Enkidu.
gloss: To lure (someone), either into a dangerous situation, or into performing an illegal act.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: betrap
ensnare
Derived words: entrapment
entrappingly
nonentrapped
unentrapped
Translations:
pyrophosphate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: pyrophosphates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
entrain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
neurobiology
neurology
neuroscience
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French entrainer (modern French entraîner /entrainer), from en- + trainer (“to pull, drag”).
Inflected forms:
form: entrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entrained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To draw (something) along as a current does.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: water entrained by steam
gloss: To suspend (small particles) in the current of a fluid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed.
gloss: To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To become trained or conditioned in (a pattern of brain behavior).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity.
Hence, interestingly, a speaker (VR) might disentrain in no-frequency but entrain in the frequency of a particular discourse function; we also have a speaker with the opposite pattern (DF).
gloss: To draw, induce, or bring about.
pos: verb
tags: literary
rare
transitive
examples: Thou muſt doe well, / Faith true obtaine: / Wit none repell, / Friend déere entraine.
That infancie looketh forward, and age backward; was it not that which lanus his double viſage ſignifide? yeares entraine me if they pleaſe; but backward.
It is not the gawdy luſtre of the Purple, but the inward vertue of the Perſon, that proclaims Greatneſs; having alwayes obſerved you to entrain Humility and Integrity for your Retainers.
The Stomach (like an Aged Maid, / Shrunk up, for want of human aid) / The Common Debt of Nature paid, / And with it’s Deſtiny entrain’d their Fate.
I was my own boss and I had my own hours, but unlike other bosses I entrained only my own ruin, my own bankruptcy.
If the world survives, this war will surely be taught as a textbook case of a colossal military blunder entrained by deceit and self-deception.
Derived words: disentrain
entrainable
entrainer
entrainment
photoentrain
reentrain
reentrained
unentrained
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: unášet
lang: Spanish
word: trajinar
lang: Spanish
word: arrastrar
mulching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mulch
English -ing
English mulching
From mulch + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: mulchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used for applying a mulch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This mulching mower can easily be converted to a bagging mower.
gloss: Used as a mulch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Compost is generally the best mulching material for the home garden.
gloss: The act of preparing/applying a mulch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Proper mulching in summer months keeps the soil cooler.
Derived words: mulching mower
Translations:
jawbone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English jawe bone, a partial calque of earlier Middle English chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chawle boon, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.
Compound parts: jaw
bone
Inflected forms:
form: jawbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaw bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaw-bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chawe bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaw-bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chawbone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: jawbones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jawboning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jawboned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jawboned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jaw bone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jaw-bone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chawe bone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chaw-bone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chawbone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 14 ¶ And when he came vnto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, & his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new iawbone of an asse, and put foorth his hand, and tooke it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
16 And Samson said, With the iawbone of an asse, heapes vpon heapes, with the iaw of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
17 And it came to passe when he had made an end of speaking, that hee cast away the iaw bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.
gloss: Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
singular
gloss: Credit.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
uncountable
examples: We have a few persons whose pockets are to let—men who have more complaints than dollars—individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit), and are always to be found at saloons; a class of men who, when they are here, wish themselves yonder, and when yonder, wish themselves back.
gloss: To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: “We got a winner. He stole her glasses and she couldn't see. Boring.” (crowd jeering) “Give me my glasses back.” “I'm gonna give your glasses to your master.” “Lot of jawboning going on.” “Okay? Here you go. It was nice meeting you, okay?” “...a little less hot air, but I present to you our new familiar champion, this guy right here. Never caught his name, never caught his name.”
gloss: (especially of regulatory agencies) To try to persuade (someone) through implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter regulatory control.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: jawboneist
jawboner
jawbonist
jawboning
Translations:
maxilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From Middle English, from Latin māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”), diminutive of māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”).
Inflected forms:
form: maxillae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maxillæ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: maxillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of jaw.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of jaw.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food.
pos: noun
Derived words: endomaxilla
hemimaxilla
intermaxilla
maxillar
maxillary
maxillate
maxillectomy
maxilliferous
maxilliform
maxillo-
maxill-
premaxilla
septomaxilla
submaxilla
supermaxilla
supramaxilla
Translations:
breastbone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.
Compound parts: breast
bone
Inflected forms:
form: breastbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breast bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.
pos: noun
examples: He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.
Translations:
sternum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
arachnology
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sternum, related to Old English steorn (“forehead”), German Stirn (“forehead”).
Inflected forms:
form: sterna
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sternums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The breastbone, consisting of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process.
pos: noun
examples: The neckline fell into a V, showing the bone of his sternum.
gloss: The sclerotized ventral plate of spiders, between the coxae, marking the floor of the cephalothorax.
pos: noun
Related words: bone
Derived words: coxosternum
entosternum
episternum
furcasternum
hyosternum
hyposternum
mesosternum
metasternum
omosternum
pentasternum
presternum
prosternum
sternal
sternebra
sternectomy
tetrasternum
tritosternum
xiphisternum
Translations:
calcaneus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin calcāneus (“heel”), rare form of calx (“heel”).
Inflected forms:
form: calcanei
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calcanea
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calcaneum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone.
pos: noun
Translations:
commiserate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the above adjective, see at -ate for more.
Inflected forms:
form: commiserates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commiserating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commiserated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commiserated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves.
Lord Meersbrook had remarked the same woman a day or two before, peering into the area, as if looking for some of the servants, yet neither venturing to ring nor knock; he concluded she was there for no good, but the self-commiserating tone in which she spoke, together with her Irish accent, now caught his ear;...
gloss: To sympathize; condole.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: immiserate
immiseration
misery
Derived words: commiserating
commiseratingly
commiseration
commiserative
commiserator
dot-commiserate
uncommiserated
uncommiserating
Translations:
japonisme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French japonisme.
Inflected forms:
form: japonismes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Japonisme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
foi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
French foibor.
English foi
Borrowed from French foi.
Inflected forms:
form: fois
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A depiction of a handshake.
pos: noun
Translations:
planar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “level”), equivalent to plane + -ar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Base: plane
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: more planar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most planar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a plane.
pos: adj
examples: A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.
gloss: Flat, two-dimensional.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
pos: adj
examples: A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar.
gloss: Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
pos: adj
Related words: plane
planate
Derived words: antiplanar
biplanar
complanar
coplanar
curviplanar
diplanar
echoplanar
equiplanar
exoplanar
extraplanar
halfplanar
hyperplanar
interplanar
intraplanar
microplanar
monoplanar
multiplanar
nonplanar
outerplanar
periplanar
plabic
planar defect
planar graph
planar induction
planarisation
planarity
planarization
planarize
planarly
quadriplanar
quasiplanar
synplanar
triplanar
uniplanar
Translations:
complementary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
Base: complement
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more complementary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complementary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: complementaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
pos: adj
examples: I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study.
The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures.
Using the terminology we introduced earlier, we might then say that black and white squares are in complementary distribution on a chessboard. By this we mean two things: firstly, black squares and white squares occupy different positions on the board: and secondly, the black and white squares complement each other in the sense that the black squares together with the white squares comprise the total set of 64 squares found on the board (i.e. there is no square on the board which is not either black or white).
gloss: Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
pos: adj
gloss: A complementary colour.
pos: noun
gloss: One skilled in compliments.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive
gloss: An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
pos: noun
Related words: complemental
Derived words: complementariness
complementary allophone
complementary angle
complementary angles
complementary antonym
complementary colour
color
complementary distribution
complementary DNA
complementary function
complementary good
complementary medicine
complementary nondeterministic polynomial
complementary region
complementary studies
intercomplementary
Translations:
coccyx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin coccyx, from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.
Inflected forms:
form: coccyges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: He lands on the concrete path and bounces on his coccyx, which cracks the base of his spine.
An actor herself, McAlpine was hands-on, demonstrating “how you penetrate” on screen: “If you can move your coccyx, just arch your back slightly, it looks fantastic,” she says happily. “Those orgy scenes were amazing.”
Translations:
tailbone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tail + bone.
Compound parts: tail
bone
Inflected forms:
form: tailbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
geomancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English geomancie, from Medieval Latin geomantia from late Ancient Greek γεωμαντεία (geōmanteía). Equivalent to geo- + -mancy.
Affixes: geo-
-mancy
Inflected forms:
form: geomancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geomancie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Early
Modern
Senses:
gloss: A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come...
The Arabian Geomancy, said to have been first practised by Almadul, was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produced, and the noises or thunderings heard; its foundation was the dogma of Aristotle, that "the moving of the heaven is everlasting, and is the beginning and cause of all inferior movings."
In geomancy, the enquirer himself was asked to stab the earth at random with a pointed stick. The soothsayer then read the dots.
The fountain or the well represents a point where invisible energies flow into a society; in geomancy these would be known as "power points." Where these energies are, elementals or genii loci or nature spirits congregate.
gloss: feng shui; Chinese geomancy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: geomancy [...] The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth [...] or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other.
There was [...] a striking similarity between Mesopotamian and Chinese thinking - if not method - in the concept of feng-shui, the Chinese system of geomancy, or divination by topographical features.
You realize we all live in our surroundings, and you start to look at your surroundings through Feng Shui and geomancy, and try to see, if we understand ourselves and others, how can we make our surroundings as good as they can be for us and the others.
Related words: Chinese geomancy
geomance
geomancer
geomant
geomantic
geomantically
Translations:
pelvis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pēlvis (“basin”), from Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: pelvises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pelves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs in hominids.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: hip bone, os coxae; sacrum; coccyx
gloss: The pelvic region of the human body.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Elvis was swinging his pelvis around and the ladies were swooning.
gloss: A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: infundibulum, choana, cornu
renal pelvis
Related words: pelvic
bone
coccyx
hip
hipbone
ilium
innominate bone
ischium
os coxae
pubis
sacrum
Derived words: acanthopelvis
diaphragma pelvis
hemipelvis
midpelvis
pelvitis
rachitic pelvis
renal pelvis
Translations:
centripetal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin centripetālis coined by Sir Isaac Newton, from Latin centrum (“center”) + petō (“to seek, aim”) + -al. Analysable as centri- + -petal.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Directed or moving towards a centre.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was a centripetal time, with me at the centre, everything gravitating towards me.
gloss: Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: centrifugal
Derived words: centripetal acceleration
centripetal force
centripetalism
centripetally
subcentripetal
Translations:
coccygeal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coccyx
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English coccygeal
From coccyx + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the coccyx
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pyruvate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pyruvic acid
English -ate
English pyruvate
From pyruvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: pyruvates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of pyruvic acid.
pos: noun
examples: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
Translations:
beetroot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From beet + root.
Compound parts: beet
root
Inflected forms:
form: beetroots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beet root
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beet-root
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beetroots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beetrooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beetrooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beetrooted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: beet root
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: beet-root
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
New-Zealand
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To turn a bright red or purple color.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: He straightened up as a spring, beetrooted to the root of his pale hair, and answered wildly, "Ki-Ki-Kan!" I backed prudently towards the door, still keeping that indulgent but firm expression no one sees on the face of warders in lunatic asylums.
Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry.
Derived words: beetrootish
beetroot juice
beetroot red
beetrooty
red as a beetroot
Translations:
deoxyribose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor.
English oxy-
English deoxy-
English ribose
English deoxyribose
From deoxy- + ribose.
Inflected forms:
form: deoxyriboses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: desoxyribose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tp's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tp'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tp'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tp'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tp'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tp'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.
pos: verb
Translations:
confession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
media
Etymology: From Middle English confessioun, from Old French confession, from Latin cōnfessiō, cōnfessiōnem (“confession, acknowledgment, creed or avowal of one's faith”). Displaced native Old English andetnes. Doublet of confessio.
Morphologically confess + -ion.
Sense 6 is a calque of 告白 (kokuhaku).
Base: confess
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: confessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: confessione
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Without the real murderer's confession, an innocent person could be jailed.
With a crafty madness keeps aloof, / When we would bring him on to some confession / Of his true state.
If you’re looking for juicier confessions – that is, admissions of the kinds of sins unearthed on detective shows or reality TV – then you’ll want to look elsewhere. My sinning life is rather uneventful.
That all changed last month when 37-year-old Peralta borrowed a phone, called police and made a blunt confession to a crime he says he committed nearly 15 years ago, according to an arrest affidavit.
gloss: A formal document providing such an admission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He forced me to sign a confession!
Both the basic idea of confession, and the techniques devised by Yezhov for extracting them, however, were to receive significant employment in Asia in the 1950s. The Chinese accused the Americans of waging bacteriological warfare in Korea. The evidence they produced consisted of feathers, insects, clams, rats, and other things riddled with germs and allegedly dropped from American planes. Such evidence was not, on the face of it, very convincing - though even this was accepted by one type of Westerner. To fortify their case, the Chinese resorted to confessions, extracted from American pilots.
gloss: The disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now also termed the sacrament of reconciliation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I went to confession and now I feel much better about what I had done.
Hauing diſpleaſ'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, / To make confeſſion, and to be abſolu'd.
gloss: Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
gloss: A formula in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of professing one's love.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
countable
uncountable
Related words: confess
Derived words: Aaron's confession
anticonfession
confessional
confession booth
confession box
confessionless
every accusation is a confession
nonconfession
Translations:
flawless
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’).
Base: flaw
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more flawless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flawless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flawlesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flawlessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flawlessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flawlessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Without flaws, defects, or shortcomings; perfect.
pos: adj
examples: The pianist’s performance this evening was flawless.
[W]hen I write of Sacred ſubjects, I had rather a Book of mine ſhould reſemble the Moon, which, though ſhe be but Small, leſs Elevated, and full of Imperfections, lends yet an Uſeful Light to Men, and produces here and there a Motion that obeys a Heavenly Influence; than a Star of the Firſt Magnitude, which though more High, more Vaſt, and more Flawleſs, ſhines only bright enough to make it Self Conſpicuous.
Dr. Peyton, a principal physician, and rich in all the attributes that go to constitute high and flawless character, did all that educated judgment and trained skill could do for Henry; but, as the newspapers had said in the beginning, his hurts were past help.
Not a single cloud mars the flawless azure; / Not a shadow moves o'er the moveless crops; [...]
Then he carefully examined the trunk, going over it with a magnifying glass. He found it intact: the steel bands were flawless; the whole trunk was compact into unity.
I'm confident our military is ready to fulfill this mission today. Our troops continue to execute complex and dangerous missions far from home with flawless precision, as we've just seen in the Persian Gulf. Our challenge is to retain the ability to do this as we carry out our entire defense strategy.
City's victory was secured in first-half injury time when Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet made a hash of his attempt to keep out Alvaro Negredo's chip, ensuring Manuel Pellegrini's side kept their flawless home league record.
gloss: To win a fight against (a player) without losing health.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I got flawlessed again. I'm so bad at this game.
Antonyms: defective
faulty
flawed
Translations:
hot-button
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hot button
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hotbutton
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a hot-button issue
The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention.
It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete.
This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska.
Her platform was AIDS awareness—a big deal for an organization whose representatives usually embraced less hot-button causes.
We’re only a few months into the Congress, and there are plenty of opportunities for bigger gulfs to appear; partisans agree on most things most of the time because most votes aren’t on hot-button issues.
The MAGA masses are growing disillusioned with Justice Department officials who are failing to deliver damning information on a laundry list of hot-button issues — especially Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.
Translations:
pitiful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Inflected forms:
form: pitifuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pitifullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pitifull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
pos: adj
examples: Scotland has a pitiful climate.
gloss: Eliciting contempt.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an amount or number: very small.
pos: adj
examples: A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
gloss: Feeling pity; merciful.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
Synonyms: compassionate
pathetic
pathetisad
piteous
pitiable
pitiful
pitisome
poor
rueful
ruthful
snivelly
sorry-ass
Antonyms: nonpathetic
un-pathetic
unpiteous
unpitiable
unrueful
Related words: pitiable
pity
pitying
regretful
Derived words: pitifulness
unpitiful
Translations:
underpaid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English paid
English underpaid
From under- + paid.
Inflected forms:
form: more underpaid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most underpaid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Getting too little financial compensation for one's work.
pos: adj
examples: I am underpaid and overworked.
The accusation that he lives like the “rat” he is, cutting down wages by his underpaid labor, he throws back in the teeth of the trades unions with the counter-charge that they are the first cause of his attitude to the labor question.
Terry Gourvish, the lead author if the authorised commercial history of BR, described the new BTC structure thus: "The conclusion must be that the combination of a few undynamic railwaymen, underpaid full-timers (Commission and General Staff) and poorly-paid part-time businessmen was not a very potent managerial cocktail."
Antonyms: overpaid
Translations:
tactless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tact
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tactless
From tact + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more tactless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tactless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
pos: adj
examples: It was tactless of you not to attend your sister's wedding.
Antonyms: tactful
Translations:
dimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Italic *mētis
Latin mētior
Latin dīmētior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dīmēnsiōder.
English dimension
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dimensional
From dimension + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more dimensional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dimensional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to dimensions.
pos: adj
gloss: Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: There is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable
gloss: Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: What is the meaning of an n-dimensional space when n is greater than three, and what purposes can it serve?
gloss: Pertaining to dimensional lumber: having a standardized, nominal width and depth, which may differ from the actual width and depth.
pos: adj
examples: dimensional boards, dimensional sizes, dimensional wood
Derived words: codimensional
co-dimensional
dimensional analysis
dimensionalization
dimensionalisation
dimensionalize
dimensionalise
dimensional lumber
dimensionally
dimensional shingle
dimensional stability
dimensional stone
eleven-dimensional (11-dimensional)
equidimensional
extradimensional
extra-dimensional
finite-dimensional
five-dimensional (5-dimensional)
four-dimensional (4-dimensional)
heterodimensional
higher-dimensional
hyperdimensional
hyper-dimensional
infinite-dimensional
interdimensional
inter-dimensional
intradimensional
intra-dimensional
microdimensional
monodimensional
multidimensional
multi-dimensional
n-dimensional
nondimensional
non-dimensional
omnidimensional
omni-dimensional
one-dimensional (1-dimensional)
otherdimensional
other-dimensional
overdimensional
over-dimensional
pandimensional
pan-dimensional
pluridimensional
polydimensional
poly-dimensional
subdimensional
sub-dimensional
three-dimensional (3-dimensional)
top-dimensional
transdimensional
trans-dimensional
tridim
trimensional
two-dimensional (2-dimensional)
two dimensional bilayer ice I
zero-dimensional (0-dimensional)
Translations:
commune
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.
Inflected forms:
form: communes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: communes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: communing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: communed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: communed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths in commune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations.
gloss: A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The commonalty; the common people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: For days of happy commune dead.
gloss: A self-governing city or league of citizens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.
gloss: To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
pos: verb
examples: I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
gloss: To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
gloss: To receive the communion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds […]
Derived words: communer
communise
communize
excommune
house-commune
intercommune
people's commune
urban-rural commune
Translations: