yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dietary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin diētārium (“book prescribing diet”), from Latin diaeta (“diet”).
Inflected forms:
form: dietaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A regulated diet that excludes or constrains certain types of food, especially for health reasons; also, a book or similar setting out such regulations.
pos: noun
examples: In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.
gloss: A prescribed meal plan setting out how the inhabitants of an institution (such as a prison, hospital etc.) should be fed, and on what foods.
pos: noun
examples: “Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?” “He did, sir,” replied Bumble.
I cannot speak with any confidence of the pre-war dietary of asylum patients, which no doubt differs widely in different asylums.
gloss: Pertaining to a prescribed diet; (generally), relating to what a person or animal eats.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you have any dietary requirements, please inform the kitchen staff.
gloss: Comprising a food source.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
Derived words: dietarily
dietary fiber
dietary fibre
dietary indiscretion
dietary supplement
ethnodietary
nondietary
palaeodietary
paleodietary
predietary
Translations:
mainly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English maynly; equivalent to main + -ly.
Base: main
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly; for the most part.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
If you’re looking for the most breathable mask, Lukovics says, “Cotton is preferable, mainly for absorbing moisture/sweat.” She says multiple layers may be more protective but will also impact breathability.
gloss: Forcefully, vigorously.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Such breadth of ſhoulders as might mainely beare
Olde Atlas burthen, […]
Mainly they all attonce vpon him laid, / And sore beset on euery side around […]
gloss: Of the production of a sound: loudly, powerfully.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: But in the end, mainly crying out, he fell to raling and wringing his master, upbraiding him that he was not a true Philosopher[…].
gloss: To a great degree; very much.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Synonyms: principally
Related words: amain
Translations:
chiefly
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chefly; equivalent to chief + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Base: chief
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more chiefly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chiefly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: chieflier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chiefliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Especially or primarily; above all.
pos: adv
tags: focus
examples: Their relationship is chiefly professional.
This is a term chiefly used by online gamers.
But questions presisted^([sic]), chiefly because of the acknowledged and continuing Federal investigation of Mr. Mandel's wealthy friends, W. Dale Hess and Harry W. Rogers 3d, who have profited from business with the state.
gloss: Mainly or principally; almost entirely.
pos: adv
tags: focus
gloss: Of or relating to a chief.
pos: adj
examples: The maintenance of a perpetual fire came to be associated with chiefly or royal dignity.
Synonyms: particularly
for the most part
largely
Translations:
especially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English especial
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English especially
From especial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more especially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most especially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: esp.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: esp
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: esp
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Internet
form: espc
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Internet
Senses:
gloss: In a special manner; specially.
pos: adv
examples: He got up early especially.
L.N.E.R. class "Y6" 3 ft. 1 in. 0-4-0 steam tram locomotive No. 7133
This locomotive, constructed at the Stratford works of the former Great Eastern Railway in 1897, was one of six which were built between 1883 and 1897 especially to work the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway.
gloss: Particularly; to a greater extent than is normal.
pos: adv
tags: focus
examples: In 1883, the contract came up for renewal, the L.N.W.R. received it, and the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company was set aside. But there was a certain miasma of secrecy about the affair, so that many, especially in Ireland, looked for information and insisted on getting it.
There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.
gloss: Used to place greater emphasis upon someone or something.
pos: adv
tags: focus
examples: Invite them all, especially Molly.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
Related words: especial
special
specialist
specialty
'specially
esp
Translations:
hagfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hag + fish.
Compound parts: hag
fish
Inflected forms:
form: hagfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hagfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hag fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hag-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several primitive eellike fish, of the family Myxinidae, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth, and sometimes used as food or for eelskin leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
specifically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English specific
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English specifically
From specific + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more specifically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most specifically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: especifically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a specific manner, applying to or naming a particular thing or things, expressly, explicitly.
pos: adv
examples: A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
Unless specifically waived by the IRB, all subjects, or their legally authorized representatives, must document that they are consenting to participate in any research project that is approved by the University of North Dakota Institutional Review Board.
Unless a rule or statute specifically states otherwise, a pleading need not be verified or accompanied by an affidavit.
Many laws are directed specifically at child abuse.
This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England. However, the "positive law" mentioned–i.e., a direct law specifically enabling slavery–existed in many British colonies (although not all), since these colonies had a degree of freedom to write their own law apart from that of the home country.
gloss: For a specific purpose or reason.
pos: adv
Synonyms: especially
in especial
in particular
namely
particularly
peculiarly
specially
specifically
to wit
Antonyms: generally
Related words: individually
uniquely
in other words
Derived words: aspecifically
biospecifically
extraspecifically
gender-specifically
heterospecifically
monospecifically
nonspecifically
polyspecifically
subspecifically
transspecifically
unspecifically
Translations:
autarchy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).
Base: ἄρχω
Affixes: αὐτο-
Inflected forms:
form: autarchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition of absolute power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled.
gloss: Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: autarky
autocracy
Derived words: autarch
autarchic
autarchical
autarchically
autarchism
autarchist
Translations:
capacitance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s
Proto-Italic *-āks
Latin -āx
Latin capāx
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin capācitāsder.
Old French capacitebor.
Middle English capacite
English capacity
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English capacitance
From capacity + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: capacitances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An element of an electrical circuit exhibiting capacitance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: capacitation
magnetocapacitance
memcapacitance
pseudocapacitance
transcapacitance
varicap
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kapasitanssi
lang: Finnish
word: kondensaattori
lang: Polish
word: pojemność elektryczna
lang: Russian
word: конденса́тор
roman: kondensátor
propane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From clipping of propionic acid + -ane, from French propionique, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró) + πίων (píōn, “fat”). Analyzable as prop- + -ane, borrowing or calque of German Propan.
Base: -ane
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: propanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₃H₈, a constituent of natural gas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Propane gas is used for cooking and cylinder containers are placed to one side of the underframe, with battery boxes and electrical control boxes at the other side.
gloss: LPG.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: E944 when used as a propellant
Derived words: biopropane
bromochloropropane
bromopropane
chloropropane
cyclopropane
epoxypropane
halopropane
iodopropane
isopropanide
methylpropane
nitropropane
perfluoropropane
phenylpropane
procyclidine
propanediol
propanelike
propanethial
propanocaine
propanoic
propanol
trimethylolpropane
Translations:
pentane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From pent- + -ane.
Base: pent
Inflected forms:
form: pentanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aliphatic hydrocarbon of chemical formula C₅H₁₂; either of the three isomers n-pentane, methylbutane (isopentane), and dimethylpropane (neopentane); volatile liquids under normal conditions.
pos: noun
Translations:
alkyne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alc(ohol)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English alkyl
English -yne
English alkyne
Formed as alkyl + -yne.
Base: alkyl
Affixes: -yne
Inflected forms:
form: alkynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hydrocarbon containing at least one carbon–carbon triple bond.
pos: noun
Translations:
nails
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The four round-topped pedestals outside the Corn Exchange in Bristol on which bargains used to be struck.
pos: noun
Translations:
howzat
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: A reduction (linguistics) of How is that?
Inflected forms:
form: how's that
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: owzat
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: owzthat
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: howzats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: how's that
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: owzat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: owzthat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cry used by members of the fielding team to make an appeal to the umpire.
pos: intj
gloss: An instance of this cry in order to make an appeal to the umpire.
pos: noun
Translations:
trance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English traunce, from Anglo-Norman transe (“fear of coming evil; passage from life to death”), from transir (“to be numb with fear; to die, pass on”), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over”).
Inflected forms:
form: trances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tranced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tranced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: And there I left him tranced.
gloss: To create in or via a trance.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]
What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]
Derived words: trance out
Translations:
hug
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier hugge (“to embrace, clasp with the arms”) (1560), probably representing a conflation of huck (“to crouch, huddle down”) and Old Norse hugga (“to comfort, console”), from hugr (“mind, heart, thought”), from Proto-Germanic *hugiz (“mind, thought, sense”), cognate with Icelandic hugga (“to comfort”), Old English hyġe (“thought”) (whence high (Etymology 2)).
Inflected forms:
form: hugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
pos: noun
gloss: A particular grip in wrestling.
pos: noun
gloss: To crouch; to huddle as with cold.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.
That is why they are so little known and never explored. During the day, when a Chilean cruiser nosed around uncomfortably close, the little sloop would be hugged under the lee of one of the islands, sail lowered and anchor dropped.
bright rocks whose stain of emerald or quartz shaft of shine the starfish hugged beneath the tide .
She put her feet on a rung and hugged down against her knees, making herself even smaller.
Zhai Tingshen stood at the window upstairs, his black eyes staring intently at the figure that was tightly hugged below.
gloss: To cling closely together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
pos: verb
tags: reciprocal
transitive
examples: Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.
gloss: To stay close to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to hug the shore, to hug the coastline
We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay.
gloss: To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names
Synonyms: stick
coll
embrace
Related words: cuddle
huggle
kiss
snuggle
squeeze
Derived words: bear hug
bro hug
bro-hug
bunny-hug
bunny hug
cyberhug
e-hug
hugaholic
hug box
hugbox
hug-box
hug button
hugfest
hugless
hug machine
hug of death
hugsome
man hug
manhug
pouncehug
semihug
side hug
brohug
huggle
huggy
body-hugging
figure-hugging
hug-a-hoodie
huggable
huggee
hugger
huggingly
hug it out
hug-me-tight
hug oneself
overhug
unhug
unhugged
Translations:
Syriac
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Syriacus (“Syrian”), from Ancient Greek Συριακός (Suriakós, “Syrian”, adjective), from Συρία (Suría) [the Greek name for Aram, and probably based on the name Ἀσσυρία (Assuría, “Assyria”)] + -ακός (-akós).
Affixes: -ακός
Inflected forms:
form: Syriacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A speaker of the Syriac language (see above).
pos: noun
gloss: A member of any of the Syriac churches, but especially the Syriac Orthodox Church and Syriac Catholic Church.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being the Syriac language, its speakers, or their culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
swastika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fascism
government
history
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), from सु- (su-, “good, well”) + अस्ति (asti), a verbal abstract of the root of the verb "to be", स्वस्ति (svasti) thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". First attestation in English in 1871, a Sanskritism that replaced the Grecian term gammadion. From 1932 onwards it often referred specifically to the version used by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (also called the "hooked cross", or German Hakenkreuz).
Inflected forms:
form: swastikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, but now mainly seen and used in the West (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This was signed by Dana Da, who added pentacles and pentagrams, and a crux ansata, and half-a-dozen swastikas, and a Triple Tau to his name, just to show that he was all he laid claim to be.
It is clear from archaeological finds that they enjoyed wearing Christian crosses, though they might enliven these with such symbols as the Indian swastika which Buddhists had brought them.
A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed over the weekend, with a swastika and the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials.
Authorities in Connecticut are investigating after swastikas were found drawn on a high school campus in Stamford for the second time since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel earlier this month, the school district said.
gloss: Nazi rule.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
uncountable
examples: "Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!"
“I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”
Synonyms: Black Spider
cross gammadion
gammadion
gammation
hooked cross
sauvastika
sun wheel
tetraskelion
twisted cross
sauwastika
Derived words: half-swastika
Swasticar
swastikaed
swastikalike
swooshtika
zwastika
Translations:
terminator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
literature
mathematics
media
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: * Partly from post-classical Latin terminator (5th century), from Latin terminō; partly from terminate + -or.
* (android that kills humans): After the 1984 film The Terminator.
Base: terminate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: terminators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator.
pos: noun
gloss: A text character or string that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission.
pos: noun
gloss: The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body.
pos: noun
examples: Harriot, looking at the moon, saw the irregular terminator, the highlights and shadows, the mountain ranges and valleys that Galileo had described – and he also convinced himself that he saw Galileo's imaginary crater.
Another view captured by Wiseman shows the Earth divided by night and day. That frontier between light and darkness is known as the terminator.
gloss: A DNA sequence that causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
pos: noun
gloss: An electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
pos: noun
gloss: An intelligent android created to destroy humans.
pos: noun
examples: Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.
Derived words: antiterminator
Bushinator
Governator
sperminator
terminator pig
Translations:
spa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The term is derived from the name of the Belgian town of Spa, where since medieval times illnesses caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking chalybeate (iron-bearing) spring water. In 16ᵗʰ century England the old Roman ideas of medicinal bathing were revived at towns like Bath, and in 1571 William Slingsby who had been to the Belgian town (which he called Spaw) discovered a chalybeate spring in Yorkshire. He built an enclosed well at what became known as Harrogate, the first resort in England for drinking medicinal waters, then in 1596 Dr. Timothy Bright called the resort The English Spaw, beginning the use of the word Spa as a generic description rather than as the place name of the Belgian town. At first this term referred specifically to resorts for water drinking rather than bathing, but this distinction was gradually lost and many spas offer external remedies.
There are various stories about the origin of the name. A Belgian spring of iron-bearing water was called Espa from the Walloon term for "fountain", and was used in 1326 as a cure by an iron master with such success that he founded a health resort that developed into the town, though it has been suggested that this term may be derived from the name of the resort. Some have suggested that the town's name can be ultimately sourced from Latin spargere (“to scatter, sprinkle, or moisten”), though this derivation is problematic.
Inflected forms:
form: spas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A health resort near a mineral spring or hot spring.
pos: noun
gloss: A trendy or fashionable resort.
pos: noun
gloss: A health club.
pos: noun
examples: They went to a spa for a massage.
gloss: A hot tub.
pos: noun
examples: Their bath is fitted with a spa.
gloss: A convenience store.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
Synonyms: health club
resort
Related words: caldarium
pump room
sanatorium
take the waters
wellness hotel
Derived words: Boston Spa
Croft Spa
dental spa
Droitwich Spa
health spa
Leamington Spa
medispa
spa bath
spa cuisine
spagoer
spa-goer
spalike
spa pool
spathroom
spa town
spa water
spool
Woodhall Spa
Translations:
mott
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.
Inflected forms:
form: motts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
pos: noun
tags: Texas
examples: They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little dense, green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.
We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.
Translations:
anticline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From anti- + -cline.
Base: anti
Inflected forms:
form: anticlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.
pos: noun
Translations:
obdurate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the 1450s, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English obdurat(e), borrowed from Latin obdūrātus (“hardened”), perfect passive participle of obdūrō (“to harden”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob- (“against”) + dūrō (“to harden, render hard”), from dūrus (“hard”). Compare durable, endure.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more obdurate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obdurate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stubbornly persistent, generally in wrongdoing; refusing to reform or repent.
pos: adj
examples: […] sometimes the very custom of evil making the heart obdurate against whatsoever instructions to the contrary […]
Art thou obdurate, flintie, hard as ſteele? / Nay more then flint, for ſtone at raine relenteth: […]
[…] round he throws his baleful eyes
That witness'd huge affliction and dismay
Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
But custom maketh blind and obdurate
The loftiest hearts.
Late the next afternoon Tarzan and his Waziri returned with the first load of “belongings,” and when the party saw the ancient ingots of virgin gold they swarmed upon the ape-man with a thousand questions; but he was smilingly obdurate to their appeals—he declined to give them the slightest clew as to the source of his immense treasure.
An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.
What Tharoor dismisses as mere ‘positive by-products’ Lalvani sees as central to the India the British left behind: the botanic gardens, the forest conservancies, the Archaeological Survey of India (brainchild of the otherwise obdurate Curzon) and the free press.
gloss: Physically hardened, toughened.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The past is obdurate for the same reason a turtle's shell is obdurate: because the living flesh inside is tender and defenseless.
gloss: Hardened against feeling; hard-hearted.
pos: adj
examples: I fear the gentleman to whom Miss Amelia's letters were addressed was rather an obdurate critic.
Related words: durable
duration
during
endurance
endure
enduring
Derived words: obduracy
obdurately
obdurateness
unobdurate
Translations:
rubicund
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin rubicundus, from rubere (“to be red”).
Inflected forms:
form: more rubicund
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rubicund
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing a red complexion; ruddy.
pos: adj
examples: He was of a full, rubicund countenance, with a double chin, aquiline nose, and a pleasant twinkling eye.
Translations:
perimeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin perimetros, Ancient Greek περίμετρος (perímetros). Equivalent to peri- + meter.
Base: meter
Affixes: peri-
Inflected forms:
form: perimeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sum of the distance of all the lengths of the sides of an object.
pos: noun
gloss: The length of such a boundary.
pos: noun
gloss: The outer limits of an area.
pos: noun
examples: In 1977, Papa Wemba decided to change the name of his housing tract, in the outskirts of Kinshasa, to Village Molokai,² of which he declared himself traditional chief. Then, within this perimeter, he advocated a clothing style that featured, among its distinctions, a beret, and that went along with a way of walking, talking, and behaving toward others.
gloss: A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for determining the extent and shape of the field of vision.
pos: noun
Synonyms: circumference
Derived words: deperimeterization
isoperimeter
microperimeter
perimeter check
perimeter fence
perimeterless
perimetrically
perimetric
perimetrical
semiperimeter
Translations:
penalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English penal
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 penalize
From penal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: penalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: penalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: penalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: penalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: penalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To subject to a penalty, especially for the infringement of a rule or regulation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Women should not be penalized or forced out of the workplace simply because they become pregnant. UPS, in fact, has come around to that position. It now offers light-duty accommodations to pregnant women who need them.
Ready for another term? Try vindictive protectiveness. In essence, in the name of emotional wellbeing, students can eliminate anything they do not want to think about, read about, or be challenged about. And penalize those who would expose them to it. How? In the name of "offense".
But as Bumble’s head of public policy for the Americas, Mrs. Iheme, 43, has found a cause that synthesizes her past experiences, varied as they are. She is leading an effort across several states to pass legislation that penalizes “cyberflashing.”
In a joint move with several U.S. agencies, the State Department announced that it was penalizing 10 Iranians, including the three men, along with two entities for “conducting malicious cyberacts, including ransomware activity,” according to a statement.
gloss: To impose a handicap on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: penal
penalization
penalty
Derived words: depenalize
overpenalize
penalizable
penalizer
underpenalize
Translations:
frontal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
climatology
medicine
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, from frons (“the forehead, brow, front”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to front + -al; cognate of French frontal. Doublet of frontalis.
Base: frons
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a frontal attack
gloss: Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Parallel to the main axis of the body and at right angles to the sagittal plane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a weather front.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: abfrontal
anterofrontal
bifrontal
centrofrontal
cingulofrontal
dorsofrontal
ethmofrontal
ethmoidofrontal
frontal artery
frontal bone
frontal eminence
frontality
frontalization
frontalize
frontal lobe
frontal lobeless
frontally
frontalmost
frontal nerve
frontal nudity
frontaloccipital
frontal plane
frontal point
frontal process
frontal sinus
frontal suture
frontal wedgie
fronto-
frontofrontal
full-frontal
hyperfrontal
hypofrontal
inferofrontal
interfrontal
intrafrontal
laterofrontal
mediofrontal
mesiofrontal
mesofrontal
midfrontal
midorbitofrontal
multifrontal
nasofrontal
occipitofrontal
orbitofrontal
palpebrofrontal
parafrontal
parietofrontal
posterofrontal
postfrontal
postorbitofrontal
prefrontal
sphenofrontal
striatofrontal
subfrontal
superfrontal
temporofrontal
ventrofrontal
zygomaticofrontal
Translations:
intermingle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English mingle
English intermingle
From inter- + mingle.
Inflected forms:
form: intermingles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intermingling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intermingled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intermingled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mix (things) together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These representative species often meet and interlock; and as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and more frequent, till the one replaces the other. But if we compare these species where they intermingle, they are generally as absolutely distinct from each other in every detail of structure as are specimens taken from the metropolis inhabited by each.
gloss: To become mixed together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At present, passenger and goods traffic intermingle, a factor which complicates operation.
Derived words: intermingledness
intermingledom
intertwingle
intertwingle
unintermingled
Translations:
disrupt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin disruptus, from disrumpo, commonly dirumpo (“to break or burst asunder”), from dis-, di- (“apart, asunder”) + rumpo (“to break”).
Inflected forms:
form: disrupts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disrupting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disrupted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disrupted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To throw into confusion or disorder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.
gloss: To interrupt or impede.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.
The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
In the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic region, where 2°C warming has already occurred since 1950, the loss of coastal sea ice and permafrost is disrupting traditional Inuit hunting routines.
The scientific instruments of the day recorded rapid fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, as powerful electrical currents flowed through the upper atmosphere. Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines.
gloss: To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.
Related words: disruptable
disruptible
disruption
disruptive
Derived words: disruptability
disruptase
disrupter
disruptor
photodisrupt
Translations:
obstruct
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin past participle stem obstruct- (“blocked up”), from verb obstruere, from ob (“against”) + struere (“pile up, build”).
Inflected forms:
form: obstructs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obstructing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obstructed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obstructed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle.
pos: verb
gloss: To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.
pos: verb
examples: They obstructed my progress.
gloss: To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
pos: verb
Synonyms: barricade
block
choke
clog
close off
cumber
forslow
forwork
foul
gunk up
hamper
hinder
impede
interfere
interrupt
intervene
jam
obstruct
obturate
occlude
plug
roadblock
seal
stonewall
thwart
yield
Antonyms: clear
deobstruct
open
unblock
Related words: obstacle
Derived words: deobstruct
disobstruct
obstructed
obstructedly
obstructer
obstructive
obstruct the field
unobstruct
unobstructed
unobstructedly
Translations:
numerous
Part of speech: det
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English numerous from Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerose. Analyzeable as numero- + -ous.
Base: numero-
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more numerous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most numerous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An indefinite large number of.
pos: det
examples: There are numerous definitions of the word 'man'.
There are numerous reasons to refrain.
Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
gloss: Indefinitely large numerically; many.
pos: adj
examples: The reasons to refrain are numerous.
gloss: Consisting of a large number of individuals or parts.
pos: adj
examples: A numerous band of men and maidens escorts him by torchlight.
Synonyms: many
multiple
Antonyms: unnumerous
Derived words: conumerous
equinumerous
numerosity
numerously
numerousness
overnumerous
supernumerous
supranumerous
Translations:
embankment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English bank
English embank
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embankment
From embank + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: embankments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.
pos: noun
examples: The work to be done under these specifications consists in furnishing all materials and erecting a stone embankment, an earth embankment, and a wharf. The stone embankment will contain about 216,000 tons of stone; the earth embankment about 285,000 cubic yards of broken stone, sand, or other suitable material; and the wharf will contain 501,320 feet of timber, and 802 piles, together with the requisite quantity of cast iron mooring bits, wrought iron spikes, bolts, etc.
Sink a trench so the pipe of your water-works will be below ground; have the pump and the mules which work it at such a point and so defended by an epaulement or traverse, or some other defensive embankment, as to shield them.
For thousands of years, societies have stored water, altered river flow, and transformed environments to increase food production or achieve other social or economic goals. The oldest known dam, a small earth embankment structure built about six thousand years ago at Jawa in present-day Jordan, was designed to capture rainfall and increase agricultural production.
Translations:
ricochet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French ricochet, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: ricochets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ricochets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ricocheting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ricochetting
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
participle
present
form: ricocheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ricocheted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ricochetted
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
participle
past
form: ricochetted
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
past
Senses:
gloss: A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
pos: noun
examples: And you've not been hit / By flying lead / You'd better close your eyes / Bow your head / Wait for the ricochet
gloss: To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
pos: verb
examples: Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way.
The truth is that our love / Will ricochet through eternity
Before the interval an Alibade strike ricocheted off the back of Bright after Ifeoma Onumonu’s cutback. Then in added time Uchenna Kanu smacked a header off the top of the bar.
gloss: To operate upon by ricochet firing.
pos: verb
Derived words: ricochetal
Translations:
modification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English modificatioune, from Middle French modification and its etymon Latin modificātiō (“a measuring”), from modificāre (“to limit, control, modify”); see modify. By surface analysis, modify + -ication.
Inflected forms:
form: modifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of assessing and prescribing a payment, penalty, price, valuation, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Wherein his highnes commandement is, that a graue, wiſe, ⁊ ſage man, ſhalbe appointed pꝛeſident, who may haue yͤ ouerſight of theſe boũds, ⁊ be anſwerable therefoꝛe to the biſhop, his coũſell ⁊ ſynode, ⁊ he to be reſpected reaſonably foꝛ his paines, at the modification of ſtipends: […]
Mekle Kindeass 2 b. 1 f. and £3 12s 1d . . . . and whatever augmentation . . be ye lords commissioners . . . . for modificaton of stipends and plantation of kirks . . . .
When the decree of modification is pronounced, the Teind Court, at the same time, remits to the junior Lord Ordinary to prepare a scheme of locality; i. e. an allocation of the modified stipend on the several heritors or others liable therefor; […]
gloss: The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Pleasure is the business of woman's life, according to the present modification of society […]
gloss: The change undergone by a word when used in a construction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: behavior modification officer
Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
gloss: A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications: he got a tan.
gloss: A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Chinese word kòutóu had a modification made to become the English kowtow.
Related words: modify
modifier
Derived words: automodification
biomodification
body modification
Charette modification
demodification
Doebner modification
Furukawa modification
genetic modification
geomodification
glycomodification
hydromodification
hypermodification
hypomodification
micromodification
modification enzyme
nanomodification
overmodification
phosphomodification
photomodification
postmodification
posttranslational modification
post-translational modification
premodification
remodification
thiomodification
undermodification
Translations:
premium
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
business
finance
insurance
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Latin praemium (“prize”).
Inflected forms:
form: praemium
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: præmium
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: premiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: premia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: praemium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: præmium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: High-end; belonging to the market segment between mid-market and luxury.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A prize or award.
pos: noun
gloss: Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
pos: noun
gloss: A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
pos: noun
examples: At first I wrote it off to the simpler protocols of grandparenthood, with its premium on uncomplicated gestures of generosity and love.
gloss: The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
pos: noun
examples: (Of course, if an insured dies during the grace period, the unpaid annual premium or instalment thereof is past due and therefore is deducted from the death benefit.)
Notice that these premia would exist even in a world of risk-neutral lenders if there were identifiable classes of nonrepaying borrowers.
When a process of proverse selection has run its course, a disproportionate number of high-risk insureds will remain in the former classification, which will prompt an increase in the premiums charged in order to cover the higher losses.
gloss: An unusually high value.
pos: noun
gloss: The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
pos: noun
Translations: