yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
expend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.
Inflected forms:
form: expends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: expendest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: expendedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: expends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expendeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: expend
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: expending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To consume, exhaust (some resource).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If my death might make this island happy […]
I would expend it with all willingness.
So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.
To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
Translations:
prosopography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: prosopo- + -graphy; from the Latin prosōpographia (“description of a person’s appearance; description of an individual’s life”), from the Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face, person”) + -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā, “writing, drawing”). See also prosopon.
Base: prosopo
Inflected forms:
form: prosopographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A study of the individuals in a group of people within a specific context and their relationships.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since it would be a daunting task to subject the entire profession to audit, he chose to pursue the prosopography of the manageable subset of financial economists who had presented themselves as "faceless" representatives of the orthodox economics discipline, either through the Squam Lake Group (covered above) or the Pew Economic Policy Group Financial Reform Project.
Translations:
dipsomaniac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dipso- + -maniac.
Base: dipso
Inflected forms:
form: dipsomaniacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
pos: noun
examples: The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
The Spaniards are nice, but, of course, most of them are terribly poor, the ones who aren’t are impossible, I don’t like the tourists, mainly English and American dipsomaniacs, paid, my dear, by their families to stay away.
gloss: A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dipso
drunkard
lush
sot
Antonyms: abstainer
teetotaler
Related words: dipsomania
dipsomaniacal
Translations:
snakebite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of snake + bite.
Inflected forms:
form: snakebites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snake bite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snake-bite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The bite of a snake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Mohamed's father said his son was a studious young man with a passion for soccer. "He was someone that we all thought would go very far," he said. Mohamed was the third member of his family to suffer a fatal snakebite within 12 months.
For Tim Friede, who's now the director of herpetology at Centivax, it's about helping the people impacted by venomous snakebites worldwide. When he heard that his antibodies had helped create this new antivenom cocktail, he says he was happy.
The majority of snakebites occur on the hands, feet and ankles. […] Most modern over-the-counter snakebite kits consist of a suction device for drawing out venom from the bite wound.
gloss: A drink made by mixing hard cider and lager.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We agreed to go down to the bar and get a snakebite together, […]
gloss: Either of a pair of lip piercings below the lower lip, resembling the fangs of a snake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Ellie recently got a navel piercing and snakebites.
Related words: snakebite and black
Derived words: snakebite and black
snakey B
Translations:
helpmeet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Univerbation of part of a phrase in Genesis 2:18 in the King James Version: “an helpe meet” for Adam (i.e. a helper suitable for him) (help + meet).
Compound parts: help
meet
Inflected forms:
form: helpmeets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A helpful partner, particularly a spouse.
pos: noun
examples: [on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended.
When he went to Deborah and told her that the Lord had led him to ask her to be his wife, his holy helpmeet, she looked at him for a moment in what seemed to be speechless terror.
Translations:
snappish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Dutch snappen
Dutch snappenbor.
Low German snappenbor.
English snap
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English snappish
From snap + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more snappish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most snappish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Likely to snap or bite.
pos: adj
examples: A snappish cur
She came to us snappish and suspicious, but when she found what sort of place ours was, it all went off by degrees; […]
gloss: Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
pos: adj
examples: The past fortnight had been one of sullenness, cold black looks, short snappish words, and those ingenious contradictions which sometimes vary the halcyon calm of domestic felicity.
She heard her own voice, snappish and rude, and pressed a hand to her head.
Even though the woman didn't work closely with Barsade, so palpable was her complaining and snappish temperament that it had infected everyone who worked around her.
There was something underneath her snappish belligerence that made him feel protective and tolerant.
Derived words: snappishly
snappishness
Translations:
deformity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English deformite, from Middle French deformite, from Latin dēfōrmitās (“deformity, ugliness”), from dēfōrmis (“deformed, ugly”) + -itās, from dē + fōrma (“shape, form”).
Inflected forms:
form: deformities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deformitie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The state of being deformed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: congenital deformity
severe deformity
gloss: An ugly or misshapen feature or characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: physical deformity
The accident left him with a slight facial deformity.
She worked with children born with limb deformities.
Derived words: antideformity
boutonniere deformity
Madelung's deformity
swan neck deformity
trapdoor deformity
Translations:
curvature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes.
Inflected forms:
form: curvatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shape of something curved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
In the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
gloss: The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expressed as the ratio of angle turned to distance traveled, is the intrinsic quantity that mathematicians call curvature.
gloss: The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anticurvature
center of curvature
centre of curvature
curvaton
Darwinian curvature
Gauss curvature
Gaussian curvature
isocurvature
microcurvature
miscurvature
radius of curvature
retrocurvature
Sachs' curvature
Sachs's curvature
supercurvature
Translations:
meager
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mathematics
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Middle English megre, from Anglo-Norman megre, Old French maigre, from Latin macer, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Akin, through the Indo-European root, to Old English mæġer (“meager, lean”), West Frisian meager (“meager”), Dutch mager (“meager”), German mager, Icelandic magr whence the Icelandic magur,
Norwegian Bokmål mager and Danish mager. Doublet of maigre.
Inflected forms:
form: meagerer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: meagerest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: meagre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: meagers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meagering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meagered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meagered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: meagre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Having little flesh; lean; thin.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
common
gloss: Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
common
examples: A meager piece of cake in one bite.
The street outside my window furnishes meager entertainment.
...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...
Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...
Making the run from Taipei to Panchiao every day to sell the gold-colored paper, he scraped together a meager livelihood.
gloss: Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
common
gloss: Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
common
gloss: To make lean.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
common
transitive
Derived words: comeager
meagerly
meagerness
nonmeager
Translations:
cryopreservation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cryo- + preservation, from Ancient Greek κρύος (krúos, “icy cold, chill, frost”).
Base: preservation
Affixes: cryo-
Inflected forms:
form: cryopreservations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the preservation of biological tissue at cryogenic temperatures, typically at -80°C (dry ice temperature) or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
astuteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English astute
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 astuteness
From astute + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: astutenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being astute.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
And this arose not so much from his greater virtue, nor even his superior style, but from his astuteness in understanding that his frame is best served by custom tailoring.
Translations:
immensely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immense
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immensely
From immense + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more immensely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most immensely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Greatly; hugely; extremely; vastly; to a great extent.
pos: adv
examples: I enjoyed the party immensely.
This question is immensely difficult.
Then, too, he was always ready to constitute himself a hostile army or a band of marauding Indians on the shortest possible notice: in brief, a distinctly able man, with talents, so far as we could judge, immensely above the majority.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Translations:
harps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The side of a coin that bears an image of the Irish harp.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Derived words: heads or harps
Translations:
gerontology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Indo-European *ǵérh₂onts
Proto-Hellenic *géronts
Ancient Greek γέροντος (gérontos)der.
English geronto-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English gerontology
From geronto- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: gerontologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the elderly, and of the aging process itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The branch of science that deals with the problems of aged people. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the elderly. Gerontology covers the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: biogerontology
gerontechnology
gerontological
gerontologist
psychogerontology
sociogerontology
Translations:
geriatrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) (see γέρων (gérōn)) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”); coined in English in 1909 by Ignatz L. Nascher in the New York Medical Journal on the model of pediatrics; correct formation would be gerontiatrics. Compare gerontology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
astraddle
Part of speech: adv
prep
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English straddle
English astraddle
From a- + straddle.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a straddling position; astride.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Charioteer rides afore, a-ſtraddle on the Beam that makes the Yoke for the Oxen, which is covered with Scarlet, and finely carved underneath […]
A faint string of smoke was rising from a cigarette-tray—a number of Vanity Fair sat astraddle on the table.
She climbed his body and wrapped her legs around him and they made love there, man standing, woman astraddle, in the stone odor of demolition.
gloss: In a straddling position on.
pos: prep
examples: […] see that your men reload their muskets the meanwhile, ready for any old woman we may see riding through the air astraddle a broomstick.
The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse.
He spies a group of Irish officers astraddle the road, conferring on horseback.
Translations:
Baptist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Baptists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Baptist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Baptist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
pos: adj
examples: One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
Translations:
farsighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From far + sighted.
Compound parts: far
sighted
Inflected forms:
form: more farsighted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most farsighted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: far-sighted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to focus with one's eyes on near objects; presbyopic.
pos: adj
gloss: Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.
pos: adj
Derived words: farsightedly
farsightedness
Translations:
farsightedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English farsighted
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 farsightedness
From farsighted + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: far-sightedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being unable to focus on near objects; presbyopia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The quality of being considerate regarding events that may occur in the future.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: longsightedness (1,2)
Antonyms: myopia
shortsightedness (1,2)
Translations:
baptist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English baptist, baptiste, borrowed from Old French baptiste, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).
Inflected forms:
form: baptists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who baptizes.
pos: noun
Translations:
iconology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: iconologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of icons in art or art history.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
contrasting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English contrast
English -ing
English contrasting
From contrast + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more contrasting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contrasting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Set in opposition; markedly different.
pos: adj
examples: George W. Bush and John Kerry had contrasting debating styles.
Antonyms: identical
Translations:
dextran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: dextrans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A biopolymer of glucose produced by enzymes of certain bacteria; used as a substitute for blood plasma, and as a stationary phase in chromatography.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dextrin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: dextrins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dextrine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pennyroyal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Apparently an alteration (after penny) of Anglo-Norman puliol royal, from Latin pūlegium.
Inflected forms:
form: pennyroyals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: penny royal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.
pos: noun
examples: Dioscorides says that Pennyroyal makes thin, tough phlegm, warms the coldness of any part whereto it is applied, and digests raw or corrupt matter.
I'm on warm milk and laxatives / Cherry-flavored antacids / Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea / Distill the life that's inside of me / Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea / I'm anemic royalty
gloss: A traditional old well-known song, especially a spiritual folksong.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Offenbach and the old college airs, song and dance tunes and pennyroyals, formed the staples for the introduction of hits on manners and times.
The singing in the schoolhouse was more like that of one of the old-fashioned, large Yankee families gathered round the hearthstone and singing "pennyroyals" Sunday nights.
The sort of tune […] variously denominated "gospel song", "spiritual song", "pennyroyal",
However, three or four of the old "pennyroyals" seem to have stood the test of time.
Asking his subscribers to send him "old pennyroyal tunes" and "popular airs," he received many contributions from unknown personages, such as "a Shermantown friend," a "Mr. A. V. Parker," a "Mr. R. H. Williams" of Westmoreland, and a "Brother Robbins."
Related words: American pennyroyal
American false pennyroyal
savin
tansy
Derived words: bastard pennyroyal
hart's pennyroyal
Translations:
horehound
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English horehoune, from Old English hārhūne, hārehūne.
Inflected forms:
form: horehounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hairhound
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hoarhound
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any plant of the genus Ballota.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: marrubium
Derived words: black horehound
common horehound
white horehound
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: malrubí
lang: Finnish
word: hurtanminttu
lang: Latin
word: marrubium
lang: Polish
word: szanta
lang: Swedish
word: kransborre
trapezohedron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
crystallography
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From trapezium + -hedron, with trapezium used in the US sense of a convex irregular quadrilateral.
Affixes: -hedron
Inflected forms:
form: trapezohedra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trapezohedrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of polyhedra that have kite-shaped faces and are dual polyhedra of antiprisms.
pos: noun
examples: The general form is called the tetragonal trapezohedron. In this case also there are both left- (Fig. 97) and right-handed (Fig. 98) forms.
This trapezohedron, or antidiamond, is composed of ten quadrilaterals. In each quadrilateral, three of the angles are 108° and one is 36°.
gloss: A deltoidal icositetrahedron.
pos: noun
examples: A trapezohedron has 24 equal faces, each a four-sided figure or trapezium. Unlike the forms already described, which are always the same, there are several different trapezohedrons, all having the same number of faces but differing in the angles between the faces.
Derived words: twelve-faced trapezohedron
Translations:
vitrification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin *vitrificātio (“glassification”), from *vitrificāre (“to glassify”), from vitrum (“glass”) + -ificāre (“-ify”). Cf. French vitrification, Spanish vitrificación, Italian vitrificazione.
Inflected forms:
form: vitrifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vitrifaction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Turning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At this point overfiring begins, as is shown particularly by the volume curve, which indicates decided bloating, so that at 1450°C the clay has about the same volume it had at 1050°C before vitrification took place.
gloss: An instance of such conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: crystallization
Related words: vitrify
vitrifacture
vitreous
petrification
Translations:
hydride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English hydride
From hydro- + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: hydrides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A compound of hydrogen with a more electropositive element.
pos: noun
Translations:
decaffeinated
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + caffeine + -ated or de- + caffeinated.
Base: de
Inflected forms:
form: decaffeinateds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From which caffeine has been removed (e.g. decaffeinated coffee).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A drink from which caffeine has been removed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nowadays, Folgers and Tasters Choice Instant decaffeinateds both sell better than Sanka.
Antonyms: caffeinated
Translations:
nicotine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Nicot
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
French -in
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -am
Old French -e
French -e
French -ine
French nicotinebor.
English nicotine
Borrowed from French nicotine, equivalent to Nicot + -ine, named after Jean Nicot (1530–1604), the French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561. The etymology of the surname itself is unclear.
Base: Nicot
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: nicotin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An alkaloid (C₁₀H₁₄N₂), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She is addicted to nicotine.
The nicotine in tobacco has been held to produce anaphrodisiac effects, in spite of such literary commendation as J.M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine.
The website calls a vote for Alyona a vote against "beauties who do not look natural and who cannot be distinguished from each other" and rails against the "imposed standards" of 90-60-90 vital statistics, and "cigarettes with out nicotine and coffee without caffeine".
gloss: Tobacco or cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: He's got nicotine stains on his fingers.
Derived words: antinicotine
conicotine
denicotinized
isonicotine
niceverine
-nicline
nicotiana
nicotinal
nicotinamide
nicotine alkaloid
nicotinean
nicotined
nicotine gum
nicotineless
nicotinelike
nicotine patch
nicotine polacrilex
nicotine pouch
nicotinergic
nicotine stomatitis
nicotini
nicotinian
nicotinic
nicotinism
nicotinist
nicotinize
nicotinoid
nornicotine
Translations:
atropine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Atropa
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English atropine
From Latin Atropa (“genus of deadly nightshade”) + English -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: atropines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: atropia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An alkaloid extracted from the plant deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) and other sources, such as the seeds of the thorn-apple. Though overdoses would be fatal it is used as a drug in medicine for its paralytic effects (e.g. in surgery to relax muscles, in dentistry to dry the mouth, in ophthalmology to dilate the pupils).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
airfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From air + field.
Compound parts: air
field
Inflected forms:
form: airfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An open field designated for the taking off and landing of aircraft, but which, unlike an airport, does not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.
pos: noun
examples: Taiwanese war planes are parked on a highway during an annual exercise to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on Taiwan's airfields in Changhua in southern Taiwan.
The US Air Force plans to bring the Pacific island airfield that launched the atomic bombings of Japan back into commission as it tries to broaden its basing options in the event of any hostilities with China, the service’s top officer in the Pacific says.
Translations:
Sundays
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On Sunday; each Sunday.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
graveyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).
Base: grave
Inflected forms:
form: graveyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
pos: noun
gloss: A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles.
gloss: A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead.
If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember.
When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard.
gloss: A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch
Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation.
gloss: Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Derived words: aircraft graveyard
automobile graveyard
elephants' graveyard
flies' graveyard
ghost in the graveyard
graveyard chompers
graveyard cough
graveyard market
graveyard-minded
graveyard of empires
Graveyard of Empires
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Graveyard of the Pacific
graveyard orbit
graveyard poet
graveyard poetry
graveyard shift
graveyard slot
graveyard spiral
graveyard stew
graveyard test
graveyard tour
graveyard watch
graveyardy
whistle past the graveyard
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: kirkegård
lang: Dutch
word: kerkhof
lang: Finnish
word: hautausmaa
lang: Greek
word: νεκροταφείο
roman: nekrotafeío
lang: Polish
word: cmentarz
lang: Russian
word: кла́дбище
roman: kládbišče
lang: Spanish
word: cementerio
groundwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-der.
Proto-Germanic *grunduz
Old English grund
Middle English ground
English ground
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English groundwater
From ground + water.
Inflected forms:
form: groundwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ground water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which indicates that the local groundwaters are comparatively basic.
Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.
Translations:
overbear
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English overberen; equivalent to over- + bear.
Base: bear
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overbears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overbearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overbore
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overborne
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To carry over.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To push through by physical weight or strength; to overwhelm, overcome.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I attacked first and they were overborne, / Glad to apologize and even suing / Pardon for what they'd never thought of doing.
gloss: To prevail over; to dominate, overpower; to oppress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It often fals, in course of common life, / That right long time is overborne of wrong […].
gloss: To produce an overabundance of fruit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: overbearance
overbearer
overbearing
Translations:
betake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bitaken, equivalent to be- + take. Cognate with Danish betage (“to take, deprive, cut off”), Swedish beta (“to take, deprive, cut off”).
Base: take
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: betakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: betaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: betook
pos: verb
tags: past
form: betaken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To seize; lay hold of; take.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
gloss: To take oneself to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
pos: verb
tags: literary
reflexive
examples: One morning as I lay in my bed, a ſtrong motion vvas ſuddenly glanced into my thoughts of going to London; I aroſe and betook me to the vvay, […]
The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them.
On the slightest loss they betook themselves to treaty and submission; upon the least appearance in their favour they were as ready to resume their arms, without any regard to their former engagements;—a conduct, which demonstrates, that our British ancestors had no regular polity with a standing coercive power.
This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.
[…] the shepherds of Desvres were seen at a distance betaking themselves to the insufficient shelter of the turfen hovels dotted upon the cote to afford them a retreat from the vicissitudes of the atmosphere.
I was glad of my arrival for I was wearied with the way, and yellow of face for weakness and want; but my plight was pitiable and I knew not whither to betake me.
[H]he mechanically rose, and sleepily wondering what could be in the wind, betook himself to the designated place […]
Accordingly, Mitchell and his fireman, apparently without removing the engine from the up line, set to work and disconnected the motion on the defective side, after which Fireman Richardson, who probably had done the lion's share of the work, betook himself to the refreshment room and had a cup of coffee.
gloss: To commit to a specified action.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
reflexive
gloss: To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To take oneself.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
often
poetic
examples: Then do no further goe, no further stray, / But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake, / Th'ill to preuent, that life ensewen may. / For what hath life, that may it loued make, / And giues not rather cause it to forsake?
Synonyms: wend
Translations:
resistant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From French résistant; equivalent to resist + -ant.
Base: resist
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: resistants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more resistant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resistant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
pos: noun
gloss: A thing which resists.
pos: noun
gloss: Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
pos: adj
gloss: Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
[…] suggests the dauerlarva is resistant because of non-feeding and a more resistant cuticle. Examination of the dauerlarva cuticle by thin sectioning and electron micro[…]
gloss: Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.
pos: adj
Related words: robust
Derived words: acid-resistant
antiresistant
atheroresistant
bioresistant
chemoresistant
coresistant
corticoresistant
crossresistant
cryoresistant
exoresistant
famine resistant
fire-resistant
gastro-resistant
gastroresistant
heat resistant
heat-resistant
heteroresistant
homoresistant
hyperresistant
immunoresistant
magnetoresistant
monoresistant
multi-resistant
multiresistant
nonresistant
osmoresistant
oxidoresistant
panresistant
pentaresistant
pharmacoresistant
phosphoresistant
photoresistant
piezoresistant
polyresistant
quantum-resistant
radioresistant
resistantly
resistant materials
seroresistant
superresistant
thermoresistant
thromboresistant
unresistant
water-resistant
Translations:
dishonor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French deshonor, equivalent to dis- + honor.
Base: honor
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: dishonors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dishonour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: dishonors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dishonoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dishonored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dishonored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dishonour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: American standard spelling of dishonour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This prince bare alwaies in the field a greene shield, whereof he tooke his surname, and of him some forraine authors affirme, that he made an attempt to bring the whole realme of France vnder his subiection, which he performed, because his father susteined some dishonor and losse in his last voiage into that countrie.
Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.
gloss: American standard spelling of dishonour.
pos: verb
examples: It was while he was performing the duties of the store that he acquired the soubriquet "Honest Abe"--a characterization that he never dishonored, and an abbreviation that he never outgrew.
The three lured him to their home to kill him for dishonoring their family by filing a paternity suit in family court.
The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore criticism of its decision to air a right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama that dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims in order to serve a cheap, callous political agenda two months before the election.
Translations:
dishonour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French deshonor, equivalent to dis- + honour.
Base: honour
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: dishonours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dishonor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: dishonours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dishonouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dishonoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dishonoured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dishonor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Shame or disgrace.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: You have brought dishonour upon the family.
That which were a dishonour to God the Son, were a dishonour to God the holy Ghost.
gloss: Lack of honour or integrity.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: You have dishonoured the family.
Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
gloss: To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: disworshipping and dishonouring God
gloss: To violate or rape.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: “My men, the schooner coming up on our weather quarter is a Portuguese pirate. His character is known; he scuttles all the ships he boards, dishonours the women, and murders the crew.”
Derived words: dishonourer
Translations:
dishearten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱérd
Proto-Germanic *hertô
Proto-West Germanic *hertā
Old English heorte
Middle English herte
English heart
English -en
English hearten
English dishearten
From dis- + hearten.
Inflected forms:
form: disheartens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disheartening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disheartened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disheartened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The repeated failures began to dishearten the team.
Do not let criticism dishearten you.
As the storm darkens around him, his spirit grows more bright and serene. That which appals and disheartens others only animates him.
Translations:
disgusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disgusted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disgusted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Filled with disgust.
pos: adj
examples: The sight of the squirming mass of maggots left me disgusted.
I'm disgusted by her egocentric behaviour.
Translations:
spoils
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Gentle gales, / Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense / Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole / Those balmy spoils.
When the Japanese armies captured Pingrang on 15th September, they discovered that 35 good field guns were left behind, together with hundreds of magazine rifles and hundreds more of breechloaders. The amount of ammunition captured was also enormous.⁴⁷ If the spoils were already so substantial, the quantity of effective weapons the Chinese possessed in Pingrang was certainly impressive.
Mr Big threw a bundle each to his two trusty henchmen, Fingers and Thumbs. “There’s your share,” said the boss. The two men looked happy enough with their spoils.
gloss: Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: dredging spoils
gloss: Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: To the victor belong the spoils.
Related words: manubial
patronage
bribe
Derived words: racial spoils
spoilsman
spoilsmonger
spoils of war
spoils system
to the victor go the spoils
Translations:
gutsy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English guts
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gutsy
From guts + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gutsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gutsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by courage, determination or boldness in the face of difficulties or danger; having guts.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: From the gut; deep and often coarse.
pos: adj
examples: Album release show for Cline's "S*&%ferbrains! Vol One Chapter 9." The singer and guitarist has a gutsy voice, both rustic and soulful lending itself well to country, punk, bluegrass, soul and rock.
Related words: blood-and-gutsy
Derived words: gutsily
gutsiness
Translations: