yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
magnanimous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”). Displaced native Old English miċelmōd (literally “big-minded”).
Inflected forms:
form: more magnanimous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most magnanimous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Noble and generous in spirit.
pos: adj
examples: She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]
First, our friendship began at that early time when alone it is unalloyed and sincere; secondly"—and here, in spite of her vivacity, Marie's voice trembled—"you are associated with the only being in the world I ever really loved; and thirdly, I have behaved exceedingly ill to you, and, consequently, feel it quite magnanimous not to hate you, which is the established rule on such occasions.
doolittle [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen.
I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
Translations:
consanguineous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin consanguineus (with English -ous), from con- (“together”) + sanguineus (“of or pertaining to blood”), from sanguis (“blood”). Equivalent to con- + sanguineous.
Base: sanguineous
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: consanguinous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Am not I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
2002, B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary consanguineous marriage," Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225,
Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.
Translations:
tidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tide + -al. Probably a hybrid formation within English. Alternatively it might be from an unattested British Medieval Latin *tīdālis, derived from rare tīda, from Old English tīd. The usual Latin word for “tidal” is aestuālis.
Base: tide
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to tides.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Since then, the length of an Earth day has slowed to its present 24 hours due to the fact that the moon's gravitational pull "steals" some of energy Earth uses to spin, in addition to causing tidal friction, according to the Institute.
Translations:
besom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English besme, beseme, from Old English besma, besema (“besom, broom, rod”), from Proto-West Germanic *besmō (“broom”).
Inflected forms:
form: besoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beesom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A broom made from a bundle of twigs tied onto a shaft.
pos: noun
examples: As a kid I went to the Russian Bath with my own father. … Down in the cellar men moaned on the steam-softened planks while they were massaged abrasively with oak-leaf besoms lathered in pickle buckets.
At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
gloss: A troublesome woman.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
derogatory
examples: "Eh, but she was a besom, if a' tales be true !"
Janet's eyes began to look dim, and I had to frown at her very hard; then I had to turn my frown on Jean ... and Janet, the besom, took advantage of my divided attention.
Uncle Angus went on about the behavior of the car. "She's a besom, a proper besom, her and her gears. She'll be the death of me yet one of these days."
"She's a besom but no' bad at times, like now," Agnes said as she bit into a dough-ring.
gloss: Any cleansing or purifying agent.
pos: noun
examples: "The march of an army through a conquered country supposing it to be a highly civilized one, is a besom of destruction, whose havoc, moral and material, it would take at least a century to recover."
Derived words: besomer
besom-head
besomlike
besom pocket
witch's besom
Translations:
graffito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)bor.
Italian graffire
Italian graffitobor.
English graffito
Borrowed from Italian graffito.
Inflected forms:
form: graffiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An informal inscription, as by a worker or vandal.
pos: noun
gloss: A single instance of graffiti in the art/vandalism sense.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: One officer got out to inspect the graffito.
Synonyms: graffitus
Translations:
dynasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).
Inflected forms:
form: dynasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.
pos: noun
examples: Habsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty
A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.
Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
gloss: A family considered over time, with its ancestors and descendants
pos: noun
examples: To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.
gloss: The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty.
pos: noun
examples: During the Ming dynasty, China was ruled by the Zhu family.
gloss: A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.
pos: noun
Derived words: dynastic
dynastical
dynastically
Han dynasty
Ming dynasty
Qing dynasty
Satavahana dynasty
Song dynasty
subdynasty
Sui dynasty
Tang dynasty
Yuan dynasty
Translations:
maven
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish מבֿין (meyvn, “connoisseur, expert, know-it-all”), from Hebrew מֵבִין (mevín, “one who understands, connoisseur, expert”), from הֵבִין (hevín, “to understand”). The word is said to have been popularized by its use in an advertising campaign for Vita Herring launched in the United States in 1964, which had a character called the “beloved [herring] maven” promoting the product.
Inflected forms:
form: mavens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mavin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mayven
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mayvin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.
Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.
The goal for any media company is to be a maven—and therefore highly adept at using multiple channels of social media communication well.
Translations:
evident
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English evident, from Old French evident, from Latin ēvidēns (“visible, apparent, clear, plain”) (compare Late Latin ēvideor (“to appear plainly”)), from ē (“out”) + videō (“see”), present participle vidēns, deponent videor (“to appear, seem”). Displaced native Old English sweotol.
Inflected forms:
form: more evident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obviously true by simple observation.
pos: adj
examples: It was evident she was angry, after she slammed the door.
The full extent of her injuries did not become evident until they tried to move her.
Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
Translations:
oenophile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oeno-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s
Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor.
Latin -philalbor.
English -phile
English oenophile
From oeno- + -phile.
Inflected forms:
form: oenophiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enophile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: œnophile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has a fondness or appreciation for wine.
pos: noun
examples: The oenophile had a large wine cellar stocked with bottles from around the world.
With this kind of experience and depth in the wine cellar, the servers can offer exotic flights and other temptations for oenophiles that few Orange County restaurants can equal.
Wines can be described with words like cigar box and “pencil lead,” or flinty or with hints of sandalwood — oenophiles can veer into what many might deem pretentiousness pretty quick.
Translations:
bemoan
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bemenen, bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan (“to bemoan, bewail, lament”); equivalent to be- (“about, concerning”) + moan. Alteration of vowel from Middle to Modern English due to analogy with moan.
Base: moan
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bemoans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bemoaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bemoaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bemoaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To moan or complain about (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.
The losse of this erle was greatly bemoned by men of al degrees, for he was liberal, gentle, humble, and curteous to eche one […]
[…] after deliberately marrying General Shaw with no warmer feeling than respect for his character and establishment, [she] was constantly, though quietly, bemoaning her hard lot in being united to one whom she could not love.
“I am sure you are better off without Mr. Hogg,” Helena would say often when Georgina bemoaned her husband’s desertion.
"Directoritis strikes again!" bemoans Dan Sullivan, who believes that the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]
He’d have told that horrible sister of his that more coloureds had just turned up. How many is it now? they’d have said to each other. Fifty? Sixty? ‘You’ll have to speak to her, Cyril,’ she’d have told him, before bemoaning how respectable this street was before they came.
gloss: To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
transitive
examples: Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death?
Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son?
Sure you take mee not to be made of flesh, or if so, yet not to be sensible that thinke me able to beare these burthens without bemoning my selfe.
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. […] It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom: it bemoaned him with bitter pity […]
[…]So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?"; and he replied saying, "Seek ye deliverance of the Most High from the strait into which we have fallen and bemoan yourselves and take leave of one another; for know that the wind hath gotten the mastery of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world."
“He is come to the town in order to marry a hapless maiden. The lady must be bemoaned.”
Derived words: bemoanable
bemoaner
bemoaning
bemoaningly
forebemoaned
unbemoaned
Translations:
ridley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: ridleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the marine turtles of the genus Lepidochelys, found in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
pos: noun
Translations:
effusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin effūsīvus, 1660s.
Inflected forms:
form: more effusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).
pos: adj
examples: effusive praise
All week I’ve found myself doing everything I can to distance myself in the crew’s eyes from the bovine herd I’m part of, to somehow unimplicate myself: I eschew cameras and sunglasses and pastel Caribbeanwear; I make a big deal of carrying my own cafeteria tray and am effusive in my thanks for the slightest service.
While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.
[US president Donald] Trump has developed a warm relationship with [NATO Secretary-General Mark] Rutte, who courted the president at last June’s NATO summit with effusive flattery and commitments to boosting European members’ “fair share” of alliance spending.
gloss: Pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: wash'd with the effusive wave
gloss: Extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava.
pos: adj
Related words: effusion
Derived words: effusively
effusiveness
effusivity
overeffusive
uneffusive
Translations:
toenail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toe + nail.
Compound parts: toe
nail
Inflected forms:
form: toenails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toe nail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toe-nail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toenails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toenailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toenailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toenailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: toe nail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: toe-nail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe.
pos: noun
examples: toenail clippings
gloss: To fasten two pieces of lumber together by applying nails or screws into both boards at an angle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
impurity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From impure + -ity. From Middle French impurité, from Latin impuritas.
Base: impure
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: impurities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.
gloss: A component or additive that renders something else impure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
gloss: A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity.
Translations:
cloister
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.
Inflected forms:
form: cloisters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cloistre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cloisters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cloistering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cloistered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cloistered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cloistre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
pos: noun
gloss: The monastic life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: To become a Roman Catholic religious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.
gloss: To protect or isolate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unique condo cloistered on top of hill.
Related words: claustrum
claustral
claustrophobia
claustration
abbey
hermitage
monastery
nunnery
Derived words: cloisterer
cloisteress
cloisterism
cloisterless
cloisterlike
cloisterly
cloister vault
cloistral
cloistress
encloister
incloister
cloistered
uncloister
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: покри́та арка́да
roman: pokríta arkáda
lang: Catalan
word: claustre
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 迴廊 /回廊
roman: huíláng
lang: Dutch
word: kloostergang
lang: Dutch
word: kruisgang
lang: Esperanto
word: klostro
lang: French
word: cloître
lang: Galician
word: claustro
lang: Galician
word: caustra
lang: German
word: Kreuzgang
lang: German
word: Chrüüzgang
lang: Greek
word: περιστύλιο
roman: peristýlio
lang: Hungarian
word: kerengő
lang: Italian
word: chiostro
lang: Japanese
word: 回廊
roman: kairō
lang: Polish
word: krużganek
lang: Portuguese
word: claustro
lang: Romanian
word: claustru
lang: Romanian
word: arcadă
lang: Russian
word: клуа́тр
roman: kluátr
lang: Russian
word: кры́тая галере́я
roman: krýtaja galeréja
lang: Russian
word: кры́тая арка́да
roman: krýtaja arkáda
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: клаустар
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: klaustar
lang: Spanish
word: claustro
lang: Swedish
word: korsgång
lang: Turkish
word: kemer avlu
lang: Ukrainian
word: клуа́тр
roman: kluátr
lang: Spanish
word: enclaustrar
lang: Spanish
word: enceldar
cuttlefish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cuttle + fish.
Compound parts: cuttle
fish
Inflected forms:
form: cuttlefishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuttlefish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any squid-like cephalopods (marine mollusks) of the order Sepiida that have eight arms, two retractable tentacles, and a calcareous internal shell, and can eject a dark ink when threatened.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cuttle-fish, spiced oysters, sea hedge-hogs, and lobsters were among the ingredients of love-potions that reputed thaumaturgist Apuleius [...] was accused of have prepared in order to win the love of a widow.
Fossilised ink sacs are more conclusively known from the extinct “soft-bodied” Coleoidea cephalopods in groups Belemitida (including belemnites with bullet-like internal skeletons commonly found as fossils) and Phragmoteuthida as well as from squid, octopus and cuttlefish fossils.
Translations:
audible
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).
Inflected forms:
form: more audible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most audible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: audibles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: audibling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: audibled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: audibled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: audibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be heard.
pos: adj
examples: "Now, look here, Jim Hawkins," he said, in a steady whisper, that was no more than audible […]
gloss: To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The quarterback audibled after seeing the defensive formation.
gloss: The act of or an instance of changing the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
pos: noun
examples: The audible changed the play to a run.
Antonyms: inaudible
quiet
silent
soundless
Translations:
affluence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French affluence, from Latin affluentia.
Only relation to antonym indigence is common Latinate suffix; affluence only acquired sense of wealth in 16th century English and French, while indigentia meant “poverty” or “lack” in Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: affluences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abundant flow or supply.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An abundance of wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His affluence was surpassed by no man.
gloss: A moderate level of wealth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They had achieved affluence, but aspired to true wealth.
gloss: An influx.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: richdom
Antonyms: indigence
Related words: affluent
Derived words: affluence of incohol
affluenza
nonaffluence
superaffluence
Translations:
banish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English banishen, from Old French baniss-, extended stem of banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”), of Germanic origin and Old English bannan, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“curse, forbid”). Compare French bannir. Doublet of ban.
Inflected forms:
form: banishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world […].
Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
gloss: To expel, especially from the mind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to banish fear; to banish a qualm
[…]St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
Related words: banishment
Derived words: banishable
banishee
banisher
rebanish
unbanish
Translations:
blaspheme
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English blasfemen, blasphemen, from Old French blasfemer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blame.
Inflected forms:
form: blasphemes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blaspheming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blasphemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blasphemed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
Thus from the holy Warres are we return'd, / To ſlumber in the Summer of ſoft peace, / Since thoſe proud enemies that late blaſpheamd / And ſpit their furies in the face of Heaven, / Are now laid low in duſt.
Mrs. Murphy: Don't you blaspheme in here!
gloss: To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So Dagon ſhall be magnifi'd, and God, / Beſides whom is no God, compar'd with Idols, / Diſglorifi'd, blaſphem'd, and had in ſcorn […]
How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name?
gloss: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
Those who from our labours heap their board, / Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.
Related words: blasphemer
blasphemingly
blasphemous
blasphemously
blasphemy
Derived words: blaspheme-vine
unblasphemed
Translations:
binding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
chemistry
computing
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English byndynge; equivalent to bind + -ing.
Base: bind
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more binding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most binding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Imposing stipulations or requirements that must be honoured.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: This contract is a legally binding agreement.
A sworn statement (i.e., "made under oath)"is legally binding.
gloss: Having the effect of counteracting diarrhea.
pos: adj
examples: Bananas and white bread are sometimes considered binding.
gloss: An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
pos: noun
gloss: The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
pos: noun
gloss: A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
pos: noun
gloss: The association of a named item with an element of a program.
pos: noun
gloss: The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.
pos: noun
examples: The Python binding is automatically generated.
gloss: The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
pos: noun
Antonyms: non-binding
Derived words: binding agent
bindingless
bindingly
bindingness
binding number
binding problem
bookbinding
cobinding
egg binding
FNBP1
footbinding
head binding
immunobinding
legally binding
make the cheese more binding
nonbinding
phosphobinding
radiobinding
spellbinding
time binding
time-binding
binding tape
Roxburghe binding
Translations:
attire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
monarchy
nobility
politics
textiles
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).
The noun is from Middle English atir, from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: attires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: attires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was wearing his formal attire.
gloss: The single horn of a goat, deer or stag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The latter sign, however, may have some heraldic significance, as Larwood and Hotten mention a London token of 1666 on which a horseshoe is represented within a pair of antlers or deer's attires.
gloss: To clothe or adorn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.
He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.
Related words: regalia
Derived words: attirement
disattire
reattire
unattire
Translations:
locus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locuslbor.
English locus
Learned borrowing from Latin locus. Doublet of lieu.
Inflected forms:
form: loci
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: locuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
pos: noun
examples: The cafeteria was the locus of activity.
gloss: The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
pos: noun
examples: A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius.
gloss: A fixed position on a string of DNA or RNA, especially a chromosome, that may be occupied by one or more genes.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: subband < band < region < replicon
Meronyms: sublocus; gene, cistron; pseudogene
gloss: A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Related words: local
locality
localization
localize
locant
locate
location
locator
locoregional
locus amoenus
Derived words: eigenlocus
epilocus
homeolocus
interlocus
intralocus
locus classicus
locus coeruleus
locus of control
locus poenitentiae
locus standi
method of loci
minilocus
multilocus
sublocus
superlocus
translocus
vanishing locus
variable tandem repeat locus
zero locus
Translations:
noble
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
chemistry
food
geometry
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
oenology
physical-sciences
sciences
wine
Etymology: From Middle English noble, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”).
False cognate of Arabic نبيل (nabīl). Displaced native Middle English athel, from Old English æþele.
Inflected forms:
form: nobles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nobler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more noble
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: noblest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most noble
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
pos: noun
examples: This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
gloss: A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
gloss: Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
pos: adj
examples: He made a noble effort.
He is a noble man who would never put his family in jeopardy.
Korben, I realize you must be pretty mad at me. But I want you to know that I am fighting for a noble cause. / Yes, you're trying to save the world. I remember.
Wouldn't it be nobler by far to fight the good fight with all the weapons available: a firm bass voice, a wagging finger, the Bible?
gloss: Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
pos: adj
examples: a noble edifice
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
pos: adj
examples: noble blood; a noble personage
gloss: Of an element, unreactive.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to a class of grape cultivars traditionally considered most favorable for winemaking, usually encompassing the six: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon blanc, Chardonnay, and Riesling.
pos: adj
gloss: Both isohedral and isogonal.
pos: adj
Related words: danseur noble
honorable
Derived words: half-noble
noble gas
nobleman
angel-noble
antinoble
ennoble
nobility
noble art
noble birth
noble-born
noblebright
noble chafer
noble eightfold path
noble experiment
noble fir
noble hops
noble lie
noble metal
noble-minded
nobleness
noble rot
noble savage
noblewoman
nobly
nonnoble
rose noble
unnoble
unnobled
Translations:
wrapped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spotify Wrapped, launched in 2016, which popularised the concept.
Inflected forms:
form: wrappeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wrapped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A feature on a website or online service that includes a summary of a user's activity on the service during a given year, created by logging the user's personal data.
pos: noun
examples: Our wrappeds this year are so similar.
Why does YouTube have a wrapped now?
Translations:
fluently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fluently
From fluent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fluently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fluently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fluent manner, as expressing oneself easily, especially in a foreign language.
pos: adv
examples: He lived in Mexico, so he is able to speak Spanish fluently.
gloss: In a fluent manner, as having graceful movements.
pos: adv
gloss: In a fluent manner, as literally flowing.
pos: adv
examples: When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
Translations:
tireless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tire
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tireless
From tire (“to become sleepy or weary”) + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless Bent and Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
Synonyms: inexhaustible
indefatigable
tireless
unflagging
unweariable
unwearying
Antonyms: exhaustible
defatigable
weariable
wearying
Related words: fatigue
fatigued
tire
indomitable
relentless
Translations:
blurred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blur
English -ed
English blurred
From blur + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more blurred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blurred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Out of focus; partially obscured; smudged.
pos: adj
examples: blurred image
blurred video
blurred margins
Translations:
disgusting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, disgust + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: disgustinger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more disgusting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: disgustingest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most disgusting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
pos: adj
examples: a disgusting waste of money
The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
But it is much more sensible and much more fun and much more disgusting to assume that the English Leather woman is really saying "All my men wear English leather or nothing at all.".
One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air.
Translations:
flexibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“to bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Base: flexible
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: flexibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Researchers have developed a new gel they say is as durable as metal, has the flexibility of jello, and could revolutionize how our bodies heal and age.
Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies.
gloss: The quality of having options.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
For millions of people like Poteat, pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities have made health care much more accessible. […] “What the flexibility of telehealth allows during Covid was to shift gears extraordinarily rapidly,” said Dr. Shawn Ryan, a regional director of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Related words: flex
Derived words: flexicurity
heteroflexibility
homoflexibility
hyperflexibility
labour market flexibility
low temperature flexibility
neuroflexibility
semiflexibility
ultraflexibility
waxy flexibility
Translations:
comforting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more comforting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comforting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comfortings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.
pos: adj
examples: Your comforting words help ease my mind.
It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.
gloss: The act of giving comfort.
pos: noun
examples: Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]
Antonyms: alarming
Translations:
dreaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dreaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dreaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing fear, dread, or terror.
pos: adj
examples: I have got the dreaded flu.
Young and old a dreaded lot/In knots our rivals tied.
gloss: Having or wearing dreadlocks.
pos: adj
Derived words: dreaded diamond
dreadedness
undreaded
Translations:
rigging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English riggyng, ryggyng, riggynge, equivalent to rig + -ing.
Base: rig
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: riggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dress; tackle; especially (nautical), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a sailing vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The moon was full and shone down on us through the masts and rigging of an old fishing wreck, which had been grounded just off the beach where we were sitting.
For a time the apostis glowed like a forge; gradually it dimmed and went out, and our ship resumed a more conventional position, though the wind still screamed in the rigging and the clouds scudded under us like flecks of foam in a mill race.
gloss: Similar supporting material used for construction work, or in film, theater, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]or even, daring, spent the night up some pole in a lineman's tent like caterpillars, swung among a web of telephone wires, living in the very copper rigging and secular miracle of communication, untroubled by the dumb voltages flickering their miles, the night long, in the thousands of unheard messages.
gloss: The shiplike mechanical components and weaponry attached to a shipgirl.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
countable
uncountable
examples: Max Factory presents a figma of Nagato Kai-II from "Kantai Collection -KanColle-"! Her rigging has been carefully recreated in figma form, featuring loads of articulation to create perfect poses!
gloss: A system of rods, levers etc. that operate a brake, notably on rail vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A hand parking brake operated from the adjacent cab is connected by rigging to the inner pair of wheels.
Derived words: bid rigging
election-rigging
jury rigging
rigging monkey
Translations:
meddle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English medlen, from Anglo-Norman medler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin misceō (“to mix”).
Inflected forms:
form: meddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meddled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: medle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly.
pos: verb
examples: […] why ſhouldeſt thou meddle to thy hurt,[…]?
[…] the Civil Lawyers […] have medled in a matter, that belongs not to them;[…].
There is much to dislike about the proposed constitution, which will keep elected governments beholden to a senate nominated by the junta and to a suite of meddling committees.
gloss: To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: […]ſtuddy to be quyet / and to medle with youre owne buſynes[…].
The Pythagoreans who, as Ariſtotle ſays, were the firſt among the Greeks, that meddled with Mathematics, divided them into four Parts, of which, two were Pure and Primary, namely Arithmetic and Geometry; and the other two Mixed and Secondary, as Muſic and Spheres, i. e. Aſtronomy.
gloss: To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: [H]e cutt a lock of all their heare, / Which medling with their blood & earth, he threw / Into the graue,[…].
gloss: To have sex.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
regional
examples: But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour
Take a Rammes head that neuer medled with an Ewe, cut off at a blow, and the hornes onely taken away, boyle it well skinne and wooll together,[…].
Derived words: meddle and make
meddlement
meddler
meddlesome
overmeddle
Translations:
reign
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”).
Inflected forms:
form: reigns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raygne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reigned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: raygne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The exercise of sovereign power.
pos: noun
examples: England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
gloss: The period during which a monarch rules.
pos: noun
examples: The reign of Victoria was a long one.
gloss: The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
pos: noun
examples: And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain
gloss: To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He reigned in an autocratic manner.
Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
gloss: To reign over (a country)
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
rare
transitive
examples: The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
gloss: To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
pos: verb
gloss: To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
pos: verb
examples: Silence reigned.
Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.
Derived words: in the reign of Queen Dick
reign of terror
Reign of Terror
coreign
outreign
reigner
reign supreme
rereign
Translations:
ponder
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderāre (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
Inflected forms:
form: ponders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pondering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pondered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pondered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ponders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To wonder, think of deeply.
pos: verb
gloss: To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.
pos: verb
examples: I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
Ponder the path of thy feet.
[A]lthough thou beeſt blameleſs and unſpotted as to thy outvvard Life and Converſation, ſo that none can ſay, black is thine Eye, as to any groſs Sin; yet knovv, that God pondereth thy Heart, and ranſacketh every Corner of thy Soul, and obſerves the Motions of thoſe very Luſts that vvar vvithin thee, and prevail againſt thee.
gloss: To weigh.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: A period of deep thought.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
Synonyms: cogitate
deliberate
afterthink
agitate
bethink
call to mind
chew
chew over
chew the cud
consider
contemplate
introspect
mull
mull over
muse
overthink
ponder
meditate
quander
reflect
rethink
reconsider
revolve
ruminate
second-guess
think
think over
Related words: ponderment
pondersome
preponder
preponderance
preponderant
preponderate
consideration
Derived words: beponder
ponderable
ponderance
ponderize
reponder
unpondered
Translations:
cuddly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cuddle
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cuddly
From cuddle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: cuddlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cuddliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for cuddling; designed to be cuddled.
pos: adj
examples: a cuddly teddy bear
gloss: Fond of or prone to cuddling.
pos: adj
examples: My girlfriend is very cuddly.
Synonyms: cuddlesome
Derived words: cuddliness
cuddly toy
cuddly-wuddly
Translations: