yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unpowered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + powered.
Base: powered
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking in power, especially electrical power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not using or requiring power, especially artificial power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unpowered boat; an unpowered glider
The unpowered steering on the early model tandem steer British-built Fodens was almost unbelievable at times.
Antonyms: powered
Translations:
delightfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English delightful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English delightfully
From delightful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more delightfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most delightfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a delightful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
Translations:
installer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English install
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English installer
From install + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: installers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who installs.
pos: noun
examples: In the event industry there are two critical times when safety is often compromised, at bump-in and at bump-out. At bump-in the organizer is usually pressed for time and it is not uncommon for installers to work around the clock. At the end of the show or exhibition, bump-out carries an even higher risk as everyone is exhausted.
gloss: A program that installs software in a computer and prepares it for use.
pos: noun
examples: Because this version of the Windows Installer is aware of the GAC, it has the capability to publish components into it. […] You can manually or programmatically push an assembly into the GAC by using the command-line tool Gacutil.exe.
Slackware does not include a graphical installer. Its package manager does not perform any dependency resolution. This can be jarring for new users, particularly within the last few years, but it also enables a deeper understanding of the system.
Synonyms: setup
set-up
Derived words: coinstaller
offline installer
web installer
Translations:
riva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A rift or cleft.
pos: noun
Translations:
cortical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cortex (“bark”), stem cortic-, + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An adult male skeleton from Wharram Percy showed fine-grained subperiosteal deposits of new bone on multiple skeletal elements, together with fine cortical pitting[…].
gloss: Pertaining to the cortex of a stem or root—the tissue that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: cortex
cortico-
Derived words: adrenocortical
allocortical
amygdalocortical
archicortical
bicortical
cerebellocortical
cerebellothalamocortical
cerebrocortical
cortical alveolus
cortical column
corticalization
cortically
cortical plate
cortical reaction
corticocortical
cytocortical
electrocortical
endocortical
epicortical
exocortical
extracortical
frontocortical
geniculocortical
hippocampocortical
infracortical
intercortical
intracortical
isocortical
juxtacortical
koniocortical
leucocortical
leukocortical
mesocortical
microcortical
midcortical
monocortical
neocortical
neurocortical
noncortical
nucleocortical
occipitocortical
paleocortical
pallidocortical
paracortical
pericortical
posterocortical
precortical
prefrontocortical
retinocortical
spinocortical
striatocortical
subcortical
thalamocortical
transcortical
tricortical
unicortical
visuocortical
Translations:
medulloblastoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: From medulla + blastoma. By surface analysis, medullo- + blastoma.
Inflected forms:
form: medulloblastomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medulloblastomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A malignant type of brain tumour that originates in the cerebellum
pos: noun
Translations:
amelia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia.
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: amelias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The congenital absence of one or more limbs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As already mentioned, limb deficiencies – amelias and meromelias – represent an important group of limb abnormalities.
The newborn examination confirms the diagnosis of amelia and distinguishes it from other limb deficiencies (e.g. terminal transverse defects) and sirenomelia.
2021, Femi Oyebode, Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Cambridge University Press, page 179,
Furthermore, the fact that people with amelia can experience phantom limbs, despite never having had any limbs, points to the existence of neural systems ready to respond to sensory inputs from limbs.
Translations:
blastema
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλάστημα (blástēma, “sprout”).
Inflected forms:
form: blastemas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blastemata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
pos: noun
Translations:
massacring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: massacrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A massacre.
pos: noun
Translations:
compensated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That received compensation (payment)
pos: adj
examples: Some commenters foresaw the possibility that "a handful of very compensated employees could tilt the average high enough to meet the minimum average benefit with little or no contributions to the 'average' employee .
gloss: That has been adjusted to compensate for some circumstances.
pos: adj
examples: But, if my view is correct, the only gold standard which could have survived during the last few years would have been the very compensated gold dollar against which the bankers' report was written.
The equations of motion can be set up for an airplane equipped with a "compensated" autopilot ( one in which the autopilot constants are varied as the airplane parameters vary ) , including the effects of lag in both the autopilot and the commuter .
Derived words: compensated dating
compensated summation
noncompensated
time-compensated gain
uncompensated
Translations:
studiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English studious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English studiousness
From studious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being studious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
studiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English studious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English studiously
From studious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more studiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most studiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a studious manner.
pos: adv
examples: Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections.
Forthwith I mingled with my fellow-men, / And studiously from records of the past, / And from the flowing tide of human being, / Cull’d deepest knowledge of their history
Thus was I then to lose my faithfull preceptress, as did the philosophers of the town the white crow of her profession: for besides that she never ransacked her customers, whose taste too she ever studiously consulted,[…]
His three years there were spent chiefly in the study of music, in the Vaulting-school, in dancing; and in quarrelling, studiously, with the authorities, upon all sorts of subjects.
The divers tongues are not intended to be studiously learnt or dramatically parrotised as some church leaders would want to drag adherents into.
[…] these tributes studiously ignore another aspect of his life: how, throughout his later career, Mr. Rustin repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies.
Translations:
stunningly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stunning
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stunningly
From stunning + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stunningly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stunningly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: So as to stun or amaze.
pos: adv
examples: She was stunningly beautiful. I couldn't take my eyes off her.
a stunningly expensive gift
stunningly awful ideas
Translations:
stylishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stylish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stylishly
From stylish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stylishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stylishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stylish manner.
pos: adv
examples: The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.
Translations:
suggestibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: suggestibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being suggestible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.
In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson noted that some individuals seemed to be more suggestible than others. This approach assumed that suggestibility is a trait and led to the development of a model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986).
Translations:
subconsciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English subconscious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English subconsciously
From subconscious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more subconsciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most subconsciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Below the level of conscious awareness.
pos: adv
examples: Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
Antonyms: consciously
Translations:
Motown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
entertainment
lifestyle
music
poker
Etymology: Blend of motor + town; see Motor City. The poker slang comes from jacks and fives sounding similar to Jackson 5, associated with Motown popular music.
Compound parts: motor
town
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of popular soul music strongly associated with Motown Records.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: They may be a rock band, but their retro style shows a heavy Motown influence.
gloss: A jack and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
cooperatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English operative
English cooperative
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 cooperatively
From cooperative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cooperatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cooperatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: coöperatively
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a cooperative manner; working with others on a task as part of a team.
pos: adv
examples: Google Drive enables users to edit documents and interactive notes cooperatively.
Translations:
collimated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: more collimated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most collimated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.
pos: adj
examples: Low-mass objects have much more collimated flows than high mass sources.
2008 May, A. M. Soderberg, et al., An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova, Accepted draft, page 3,
Wolf-Rayet stars are also argued⁹ to give rise to gamma-ray bursts, a related but rare class of explosions characterized by highly-collimated relativistic jets.
Although the most collimated outflows look very much jet-like at the highest velocities, their behavior is much more classical at lower speeds.
Closing the aperture results in more collimated light, as only light traveling in the right direction can make it through the smaller opening.
Translations:
kiltie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kilties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shoe having a fringed tongue or fringed extra piece that lies over the tongue.
pos: noun
gloss: The fringed tongue of such a shoe.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who wears a kilt.
pos: noun
examples: At one place I had leapt with my pal into a small shell hole, and over to my right was a kiltie engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with a Hun.
Translations:
wolfing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wl̥kʷós?
Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos
Proto-Germanic *wulfaz
Proto-West Germanic *wulf
Old English wulf
Middle English wolf
English wolf
English -ing
English wolfing
From wolf + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hunting of wolves for their skins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
atherectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From ather- + -ectomy.
Base: ather
Inflected forms:
form: atherectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove plaque from an artery.
pos: noun
Translations:
cholecystectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cholecyst
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English cholecystectomy
From cholecyst + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: cholecystectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove the gall bladder.
pos: noun
Translations:
clitoridectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From clitoris + -ectomy.
Base: clitoris
Affixes: -ectomy
Inflected forms:
form: clitoridectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clitorectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision
pos: noun
Translations:
colectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From col- + -ectomy.
Base: col
Inflected forms:
form: colectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove all or part of the large intestine or colon.
pos: noun
examples: I need a partial colectomy, where part of the colon is removed.
Translations:
discectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der.
Latin discusbor.
French disquebor.
English disc
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἐκ- (ek-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω (ektémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή (ektomḗ)der.
English -ectomy
English discectomy
From disc + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: discectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diskectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The surgical procedure to remove all or part of an intervertebral disc; discotomy.
pos: noun
Translations:
sickeningly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sickening
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sickeningly
From sickening + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sickeningly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sickeningly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner to sicken.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
sometimes
examples: The punch was sickeningly sweet; if it had had any more sugar I would have wanted to rinse my mouth with vinegar.
Translations:
mimeo
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Inflected forms:
form: mimeos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mimeoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mimeoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mimeoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make one or more copies using a mimeograph (machine).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
tiddly
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tiddlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiddlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tiddliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic beverage.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: As far as he could tell, except for her evening ‘tiddlies’, two rather hefty drinks taken ‘neat’ without the diluting benefit of water or ice, his mother had very nearly stopped her drinking.
Well, hell, I figured we’d just save that money, get us a few tiddlies at Fat Ernst’s instead.
JC heard him remark, “I need a bit of the tiddly my dear. It’s been a hard day.” Tiddly, hm, must be an English drink?
gloss: Somewhat drunk
pos: adj
Translations:
infringing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infringe
English -ing
English infringing
From infringe + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more infringing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infringing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: violative
pos: adj
examples: …it is infringing to offer abroad a process which either consitutes an infringement…
Plaintiff further alleges that it is not so infringing, that such patent is invalid…
NHL says it's infringing to use the keyword NHL in your app about the NHL.
Translations:
daylily
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From day + lily.
Compound parts: day
lily
Inflected forms:
form: daylilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: day lily
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several perennial plants, of the genus Hemerocallis, that have fleshy roots, grasslike leaves and colourful flowers that bloom for just one day.
pos: noun
Translations:
luteal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English luteum
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 luteal
From luteum + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the corpus luteum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The app suggests foods and exercises for different stages of a woman’s cycle — “lazy girl glutes” and grass-fed butter during the luteal phase — along with workout videos, recipes and emotional guidance.
Translations:
scrolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: scrollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The continuous movement of text or images on a display screen in either a horizontal or vertical direction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Ornamental scrollwork.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Continuous and aimless consumption of content on social media, especially on websites or apps with a scrolling feed, such as Instagram, TikTok, or X.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
examples: But in recent years, I’ve watched that capacity for intense concentration dissolve into infinite scrolling on my phone.
Derived words: doomscrolling
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: desplazamiento
entreating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: entreatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: entreaty
pos: noun
examples: Deal with them with earnest humble entreatings. Let them perceive it is the desire of your hearts to do them good; that you have no other end but their everlasting happiness; […]
Translations:
Thessalonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Thessalonica. Appears as "Tessalonyans" in Tyndale Bible of 1525, but as "Tessalonicensis" in the older Wycliffe translation.
Inflected forms:
form: Thessalonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to, Thessaloniki
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone or something from, or pertaining to, Thessaloniki
pos: noun
Translations:
matchstick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From match + stick.
Compound parts: match
stick
Inflected forms:
form: matchsticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: match stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: match
A piece of wood or cardboard becomes a matchstick once the end has been dipped in a sulfurous compound to turn it into a complete match.
Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.
gloss: Any similarly small and thin piece.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The explosion blew the powder shed to matchsticks.
Related words: matchbook
matchbox
matchcover
Translations:
dispossessed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: homeless
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: impoverished
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: dispossessedness
undispossessed
Translations:
indentured
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indenture
English -ed
English indentured
From indenture + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: indentureds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Subject to an indenture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: indentured servant
indentured labour
As a result, many Black people remained unfairly enslaved and indentured in the so-called free territory. This was not legal slavery (also known as de jure slavery), but slavery in practice (de facto slavery).
gloss: A person who is subject to an indenture.
pos: noun
Translations:
indenture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman endenture, from Old French endenteure, from endenter (“to dent”). The name of the contract derives from the irregular dent-shaped cut (indentation) used to prove the authenticity of the two parts, similar to a chirograph.
Inflected forms:
form: indentures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endenture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: indentures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: indenturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: indentured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: indentured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: endenture
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
pos: noun
examples: And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free.
gloss: A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
pos: noun
gloss: A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: Walking the street very hungry, and not knowing what to do with himself, a crimp's bill was put into his hand, offering immediate entertainment and encouragement to such as would bind themselves to serve in America. He went directly, sign'd the indentures, was put into the ship, and came over, never writing a line to acquaint his friends what was become of him.
It was the critical moment of Oliver’s fate. If the inkstand had been where the old gentleman thought it was, he would have dipped his pen into it, and signed the indentures, and Oliver would have been straightway hurried off.
For the next two years, Ann's position in the family grew to be more and more that of a daughter. If it had not been for the indentures lying serenely in that tall wooden desk, she would almost have forgotten, herself, that she was a bound girl.
gloss: An indentation; a recess.
pos: noun
examples: The narrow windows, flanked by deep indentures into the walls, seemed formed rather to exclude than to admit the cheerful light; and the heavy and gloomy appearance of the thunder-sky added still farther to the obscurity.
gloss: To bind a person under such a contract.
pos: verb
gloss: To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
pos: verb
examples: Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.
Related words: indent
bondslavery
bondslave
bondsman
bondservant
bonded labour
Derived words: indenturedness
indentured servant
indenturee
indenturer
indentureship
nonindentured
reindenture
unindentured
Translations:
epiphytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English epiphyte
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English epiphytic
From epiphyte + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an epiphyte.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: holoepiphytic
Translations:
epiphyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιφύτον (epiphúton, “one [plant] that grows upon another plant”), from ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), via epi- (“above, over”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Base: epi
Affixes: -phyte
Inflected forms:
form: epiphytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit.
pos: noun
examples: It has been suggested to me that these fine plants will not prove cultivable, because they are epiphytes.[…]The probability however is, that they do not require to be treated as epiphytes, and that, like orchids, they will grow better if committed judiciously to the earth.
The nature of the surface of a plant also determines the number and sort of Epiphytes which lodge on it.
gloss: A fungus that grows on a plant but does not feed upon it saprotrophically (an epiphytic fungus). (The science of detecting and studying any such symbiosis as may be involved in this relationship is still developing.)
pos: noun
Derived words: cistern epiphyte
epiphytic
epiphytal
epiphytous
epiphytism
epiphytize
epiphytotic
hemiepiphyte
holoepiphyte
microepiphyte
semiepiphyte
Translations:
cwtch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Welsh cwtsh (“hug, cuddle; little corner, recess”), from Middle English couche. Doublet of couch.
Inflected forms:
form: cwtches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cwtsh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cwtches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cwtching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cwtched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cwtched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cwtsh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cubbyhole or similar hiding place.
pos: noun
tags: Wales
examples: In front of the pavement again stretched a flat patch of rusty ground, a sort of little platform in the side of the hill where the sagging drying-lines stood and a chickens' cwtch built of orange-boxes.
"In better times when the coalman called at our home in William Street he heaved the sacks through the front door and put their contents into the ‘cwtch’ under the stairs, a messy business indeed."
gloss: A hug or cuddle.
pos: noun
tags: Wales
examples: I am expecting the big man to come round the corner and give me a ‘cwtch’ as he has done beside countless rugby fields.
I don’t mind them coming in for a quick cwtch before trudging back off to their own rooms, as long as no conversation is required and it is literally just a five-minute cuddle.
gloss: To hug, cuddle, embrace, or comfort.
pos: verb
tags: Wales
gloss: To crouch or lie (down).
pos: verb
tags: Wales
examples: A family are about to have a meal round the kitchen table, so the dog is told to go and “cwtch” in the corner, out of harm’s way.
Translations:
deselect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
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-
English select
English deselect
From de- + select.
Inflected forms:
form: deselects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deselecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deselected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deselected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To not select; to rule out of selection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ACTION may deselect a Trainee out of a training program for any of the following reasons: (a) Failure to meet training selection standards which includes, but is not limited to, the following conduct: […]
gloss: To reject (an incumbent) as a party's candidate for a forthcoming election.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: One recently deselected Sinn Féin assembly member, Davy Hyland in Newry and Armagh, has already quit the party in protest.
gloss: To remove from an existing selection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Make sure you deselect any files you wish to keep before proceeding with the deletion.
Synonyms: unselect
Antonyms: select
reselect
Related words: deselection
Derived words: deselectable
deselector
Translations:
floor-through
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: floor-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An apartment which covers the entire depth of a building.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-contradictory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English contradictory
English self-contradictory
From self- + contradictory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing multiple claims or ideas that are inherently in disagreement; of something or someone that contradicts itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The statement “We agree to disagree on everything” is self-contradictory.
Antonyms: self-consistent
Translations:
ecclesial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French ecclésial, from Latin ecclēsiālis. By surface analysis, ecclesia + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ecclesiastical.
pos: adj
Translations:
bromeliad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of taxonomic name Bromeliaceae + -ad.
Affixes: -ad
Inflected forms:
form: bromeliads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bromelid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
possibly
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Any of various tropical or subtropical New World herbaceous plants in the family Bromeliaceae: some are air plants (for example, Spanish moss) and some are terrestrial (for example, pineapples).
pos: noun
Translations:
pimiento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish pimiento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingō (“to paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimento.
Inflected forms:
form: pimientos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pimento, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum.
pos: noun
Translations:
pimento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.
Inflected forms:
form: pimentos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pimentoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
pos: noun
examples: In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
gloss: A tropical berry used to make allspice.
pos: noun
gloss: The tree on which it grows.
pos: noun
Derived words: pimento cheese
pimento loaf
Translations:
pursuance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pursue
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English pursuance
From pursue + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: pursuances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [N]o man ought to be offended, that sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.
gloss: A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For some time Pridger had been waiting and watching for the occasion when his employer should be the last man to leave. In pursuance of this scheme it was his custom to announce that he was going and then secrete himself.
gloss: The state of being pursuant; consequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
peduncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Latin pedunculus, from pēs (“foot”, stem: ped-).
Inflected forms:
form: peduncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower/fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: A short stalk at the base of a reproductive structure of a non-flowering plant.
pos: noun
examples: On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
gloss: A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
pos: noun
gloss: In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna or stalk-like structures such as the peduncles of some barnacles.
pos: noun
gloss: In vertebrates, the base of any relatively massive anatomical member connected to the body by a narrower section. Cf. caudal peduncle of fishes.
pos: noun
gloss: A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
pos: noun
Related words: pedicel
peduncular
pedunculate
Derived words: peduncled
Translations:
conscientiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conscientious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English conscientiously
From conscientious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more conscientiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conscientiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conscientious manner; attentively.
pos: adv
examples: STORES and tobacco were running out; it was time for a trip to the township. Also for a conscientiously taken holiday.
Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
Translations:
manifestly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English manifest
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English manifestly
From manifest + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more manifestly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most manifestly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manifest manner; obviously.
pos: adv
examples: Folk lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
Translations:
unmistakably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unmistakable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unmistakably
From unmistakable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an unmistakable manner; unquestionably.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
Translations:
punctually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punctual
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English punctually
From punctual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more punctually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most punctually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a punctual manner; on time.
pos: adv
gloss: Precisely; exactly; minutely.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: To understand that he is not punctually right, nor those from whom he differs absolutely wrong.
Synonyms: promptly
timely
just
slap bang
in time
on time
punctually
Antonyms: prematurely
belatedly
Related words: punctual
Translations:
divinely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English divine
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English divinely
From divine + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more divinely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most divinely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a divine manner.
pos: adv
examples: And od'rous trees in prodigal array, With all the elements divinely calm
1893, John Davidson, “St Valentine’s Eve” in Fleet Street Eclogues, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 20,
And brooding thus on my ephemeral flowers
That smoulder in the wilderness, I thought,
By envy sore distraught,
Of amaranths that burn in lordly bowers,
Of men divinely blessed with leisured hours,
Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.
[…] And many an old philosophy
⁠On Argive heights divinely sang,
⁠And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted questio
Translations:
intelligently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intelligent
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 intelligently
From intelligent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more intelligently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most intelligently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an intelligent manner.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: smartly, cleverly
[…] into the fracas with nonsensical gibberish, pretending to be speaking intelligently in Tigrinya. We had a lot of fun like that. The class also enjoyed learning American phrases. One of their favorites was "Diddly Jack Squat".
Antonyms: stupidly
Translations:
conspicuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conspicuous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English conspicuously
From conspicuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more conspicuously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conspicuously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conspicuous manner; noticeably.
pos: adv
examples: […] and so conspicuously did the excellence of this man appear, in preacing the gospel with courage and resolution, and in confirming his doctrine by the miracles which he wrought, that […]
The bloatings, the bowel distentions, the torments from gas retention, the inability to expel flatus, are all conspicuously absent and if present are so in a mild degree.
Women enjoy being pursued, but men still don’t! They don’t want anything that seems too easy to win. If the woman takes the initiative—at least if she takes it conspicuously—the world will think her aggressive, and unladylike.
(Even a comedy like Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune [1999], which conspicuously lacks a redneck criminal, features a fair-minded, unracist Mississippi sheriff, played by Ned Beatty.)
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been conspicuously absent from national television interviews over the last two weeks, as the White House moves ahead with reopening the economy.
Antonyms: inconspicuously
Translations:
mumbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mumblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which someone mumbles something
pos: noun
examples: The second is the contrast with the inarticulate stumblings, mumblings, evasions and half-truths of our current president.
Translations:
merited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: deserved
pos: adj
examples: It was a merited reward.
Maloney’s moment of magic ensured they did not. For Scotland, who produced the best of what cohesive football there was on the night, it was a merited outcome.
Translations:
commissary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissar.
Inflected forms:
form: commissaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
pos: noun
examples: The base [Fort Meade] has its own post offices, schools, police, and fire departments. Area children, military brats and civilians alike, would flock to the base daily to take golf, tennis, and swimming lessons. Though we lived off base, my mother still used its commissary as our grocery store, to stock up on items in bulk.
gloss: An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
pos: noun
examples: “We tried to provide for you while you were in there. We may not have put as much on your commissary as your in-laws, but what we gave was more to us.”
gloss: A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
pos: noun
gloss: One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
pos: noun
examples: Great Deſtiny the Commiſſary of God;
gloss: An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
pos: noun
examples: It has been already hinted , that a Commissary, in Latin stiled Commisarius, is a Title of Ecclefiaftical Jurisdiction
gloss: An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
pos: noun
gloss: The judge in a commissary court.
pos: noun
gloss: A higher-ranking police officer.
pos: noun
Derived words: commissarial
commissary general
commissaryship
subcommissary
Translations:
circulating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Moving about freely.
pos: adj
examples: He glanced at the slowly circulating guests.
gloss: An institution lending from its collection, especially of books, on condition of membership.
pos: adj
examples: circulating library
Derived words: circulating library
circulating medium
circulating pump
noncirculating
Translations:
consular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English consular, from Latin cōnsulāris.
Inflected forms:
form: consulary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: consulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: consulary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a consul, or the office thereof.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?
gloss: A Roman consul.
pos: noun
examples: And reordring the gouernment therof, for a future security, deuides it into. 5. Prouinces, to be ruled by one vice-gerent; 5. Rectors, 2. Consulars, and 3. Presidents.
CICERO being now reduced to the condition of a private Senator, was to take his place on that venerable bench of Conſulars, who were juſtly reckoned the firſt Citizens of the Republic.
Each year eight praetorians (ex-praetors) and two consulars (ex-consuls) were chosen to govern the traditional senatorial provinces for one year, and there were various posts (e.g., head of the treasury) to be held by praetorians.
Translations: