yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
scalability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scale + -ability or scalable + -ity.
Base: scale
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: scalabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being scalable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
leastwise
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English least
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós
Proto-Germanic *wīsaz
Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz
Proto-West Germanic *-wīs
Old English -wīs
Middle English -wis
English -wise
English leastwise
From least + -wise.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At least.
pos: adv
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
gloss: Minimally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
minimally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English minimal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English minimally
From minimal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a minimal way; to the least extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: minimally invasive surgery
Successful completion of the PFT ensures that all new hire DRO law enforcement officers are at a minimally acceptable level of physical fitness to meet the physical demands of mandatory training and the performance of job duties.
Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily.
Translations:
long-distance
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-distance
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-distance
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Over a great length or distance.
pos: adj
examples: He is a long-distance runner.
In the short to medium term, there appears to be no practical alternative to petroleum-based traction power. An electric long-distance lorry is like a concrete air balloon - its weight in batteries exceeds its carrying capacity.
To better help you in your quest, we asked multiple podiatrists and seasoned long-distance walkers exactly what to look for when selecting the best walking shoes.
gloss: Referring to a nonlocal telephone call; a toll call.
pos: adj
examples: The hotel does not allow for long-distance phone calls.
gloss: Referring to a romantic relationship: between two people with a considerable distance between them.
pos: adj
examples: They are in a long-distance relationship.
Long-distance lovers are often not too sure just what they are feeling. Worse, they are often not too sure what their absent playmates want them to be feeling.
Antonyms: short-distance
Derived words: long distancer
long-distance relationship
Translations:
long-drawn-out
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more long-drawn-out
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most long-drawn-out
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: long-drawn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Protracted, extending for a great period of time.
pos: adj
Translations:
long-lasting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-lasting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-lasting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Persisting or enduring for a long time.
pos: adj
examples: This long-lasting gum keeps its flavor for almost an hour.
Translations:
long-lived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English long-lifed, equivalent to long + life + -ed.
Base: long
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: longer-lived
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-lived
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a long lifespan; surviving for a long period of time.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a radioisotope: having a long half-life.
pos: adj
Synonyms: longevous
Antonyms: short-lived
Derived words: long-livedness
Translations:
long-lost
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: long lost
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been missing or unknown for a long period of time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
Translations:
long-playing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-playing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-playing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had; an LP; generally a 12-inch 33⅓-RPM vinyl record.
pos: adj
examples: Victor Crabbe's headmaster was a little man called Boothby [...] who subscribed to a popular book club and had many long-playing records, who invited people to curry tiffin and said, "Take a pew."
Translations:
long-range
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-range
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-range
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: longrange
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Operating, or capable of operating, over a great distance.
pos: adj
examples: Long-range missiles can shoot down any planes before they can even be seen.
Carroll struck twice - the first a spectacular long-range strike - as Liverpool established a deserved three-goal lead by the interval and kept their own European ambitions alive with a vibrant display.
gloss: Involving a great period of time.
pos: adj
examples: Long-range planning is not my specialty.
Where do you see the group going in the next few years? Do you have any long range plans?
Synonyms: LR
Antonyms: close-range
short-range
Related words: close-range
extended-range
extra-long-range
intermediate-range
long range
medium-range
short-range
Derived words: extra-long-range
LR
Translations:
long-running
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longer-running
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longest-running
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
pos: adj
examples: The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.
It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.
Translations:
long-suffering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more long-suffering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: longer-suffering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most long-suffering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: longest-suffering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
pos: adj
examples: His long-suffering wife may have had to put up with him for many years, but she also benefited when times were good.
The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.
Kramatorsk is a smoky industrial city in Donbass, and a major railway junction. According to Google Travel, I can now reach Kramatorsk by rail from Hertfordshire (where I live) in just... 56 hours and 35 minutes. That highly hypothetical trip would entail 11 train changes. The important thing, however, is that the long-suffering city is again reachable by rail.
gloss: Long endurance or patience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
longways
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English long
English -ways
English longways
From long + -ways.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lengthwise, in the longer direction.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
excavate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: First attested in 1599, from Latin excavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of excavō (“to hollow out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out”) + cavō (“to hollow out, pierce”), from cavus (“cave, hole”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: excavates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excavating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excavated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excavated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: excavates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To uncover (something) by digging.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
pos: noun
Related words: excavation
excavator
Derived words: excavatable
nonexcavated
re-excavate
unexcavated
Translations:
wong
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
Etymology: From the pen name Stanford Wong.
Inflected forms:
form: wongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wonging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wonged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wonged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
pos: verb
Translations:
hidalgo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hidalgo. Doublet of fidalgo.
Inflected forms:
form: hidalgos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hidalgoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title.
pos: noun
examples: The young man seems to entertain but an imperfect appreciation of the respect due from a menial to a Castilian hidalgo.
Translations:
desiccant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin dēsiccans, active present participle of dēsiccō, from dē- (“of; from, away from”) + siccō (“dry up”).
Base: siccō
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: desiccants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more desiccant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most desiccant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A substance (such as calcium oxide or silica gel) that is used as a drying agent because of its high affinity for water.
pos: noun
gloss: Causing dryness.
pos: adj
Translations:
heroics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hero
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English heroics
From hero + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The actions of a hero.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.
The original cottage was said to appear on a well-known painting, dating back to 1863, of the American pirate ship, the Alabama, leaving Table Bay. It was also believed to feature in the story of the heroic Wolraad Woltemade who, in 1773, lost his life and that of his horse after valiantly saving 14 shipwrecked persons. This was said to have taken place within sight and full view of the house. The second respondent called this historical link into question, averring that the house was probably not yet built in 1773 while Woltemade's heroics were believed to have taken place in the vicinity of the Salt River mouth, some 10 km away.
Real keeper Thibaut Courtois performed heroics to save two Erling Haaland headers early in the first half but he was powerless to stop Bernardo Silva's close-range finish after 23 minutes, the Portugal midfielder scoring a looping header for the second eight minutes before half-time.
gloss: Emergency intervention to save a patient's life.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
plural-only
examples: Of if we have an elderly person who is unconscious and not responding, we discuss using heroics with the family, and they often say no heroics.
Her daughters argue that no heroics should be used to prolong her life.
No Heroics. Do not use respirators, ventilators or administer medication other than those medications necessary to prevent infection, provide comfort or alleviate pain.
gloss: Extravagant phrases; bombast.
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
plural-only
Related words: hero
heroic medicine
heroine
heroism
Derived words: antiheroics
superheroics
Translations:
acylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English acyl
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English acylation
From acyl + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: acylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of adding an acyl group to a compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
vinylidene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: vinylidenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any carbene in which the carbenic carbon is attached to another atom with a double bond R₂C=C
pos: noun
Translations:
corb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Latin corbis (“basket”).
Inflected forms:
form: corbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.
I[…] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too
Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain
gloss: a corbel (ornament in a building).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)
pos: noun
Translations:
falsity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Corresponding to false + -ity. From Middle French fausseté, Old French falseté, from Late Latin falsitas, from Latin falsus.
Base: false
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: falsities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The belief that the world is flat is a falsity.
gloss: The characteristic of being untrue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The falsity of that statement is easily proven.
The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
Synonyms: fabrication
falsehood
falseness
fiction
untruth
Antonyms: truth
verity
Derived words: superfalsity
Translations:
tori
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A protective, epidermal thickening derived from the stratum corneum and found in high friction areas (such as the foot sole of a dog).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: While there is a hereditary component to tori, this does not explain all cases. Tori tend to appear more frequently during middle age of life; the torus palatinus is more commonly observed in females, but this is not the case with the torus mandibularis.
Translations:
gulch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier gulsh (“sink in, gush out”), from Middle English gulchen (“to gulp, spew”), probably from the source of gulp. Likely not related to gully (“ravine formed by water”) despite the similarities.
Inflected forms:
form: gulches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gulk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: glutch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
pos: noun
examples: "A crack is progressing up through the Goldminers' apartment. They are most disturbed by the appearance of this gulch in their wall since it undermines their confidence in the structure of the building which as you know my management has taken great care to keep sound and durable."
gloss: An act of gulching or gulping.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A glutton.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: You did not! where was your sight, Œdipus? you walk with hare's eyes, do you? I'll have them glazed, rogue; an you say the word, they shall be glazed for you: come we must have you turn fiddler again, slave, get a base viol at your back, and march in a tawney coat, with one sleeve, to Goose-fair; then you'll know us, you'll see us then, you will, gulch, you will.
You muddy gulche, darst look me in the face while mine eyes sparkle with revengeful fire?
Translations:
membranes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The amniotic sac.
pos: noun
tags: informal
specifically
Translations:
pasties
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: dry mouth; xerostomia
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I had the pasties after smoking all that weed on Friday.
Translations:
buns
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
childish
euphemistic
examples: Here I am freezing my buns off at 9 in the morning, about to jump into ice water and drown.
host (Beck Bennett): Why do you not want a smaller treehouse?
boy: Because it wouldnt be able to fit a flat-screen TV and then the TV would be about this big and you would have to hold the wire and the position you would hold the wire you wouldn't be able to see the TV.
host: That's a pain in the buns.
gloss: Of low quality; bad.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Derived words: space buns
work one's buns off
Translations:
blazes
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hellishly, extremely
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: It gets blazes hot here in the summer.
gloss: Expression of frustration, shock, or both.
pos: intj
Translations:
shreds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A state of great damage.
pos: noun
examples: torn to shreds
Translations:
warranted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Authorized with a warrant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Deserved, necessary, appropriate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Under the circumstances, his outburst was not warranted.
gloss: silver plated (with a guarantee that the silver plating will not wear off)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: unwarranted
Translations:
fashionably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fashionable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fashionably
From fashionable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fashionably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fashionably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fashionable manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.
Translations:
nuggets
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Bring it off in whatever way you like provided it shows nuggets […]
gloss: Synonym of rats (“expressing annoyance”).
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: […] I noticed a strange smell. Burning?! I looked down at my arms and chest. Oh nuggets! I was on fire.
Looking through the items…Landon finds… […] a remote! But it’s for the wrong TV. “Oh, nuggets! Gotta keep looking, I guess.”
“[…] Sometimes when we’ve experienced a big trauma, then…” Oh, nuggets! To Nic, everything was connected to grief. Could this get any worse?
Translations:
flourished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Decorated with flourishes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rattling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rattling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rattling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rattlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lively, quick (speech, pace).
pos: adj
gloss: good, fine.
pos: adj
tags: dated
emphatic
intensifier
examples: a rattling good lunch
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […]
'I'd like nothing better this minute,' said Mr Browne stoutly, 'than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.'
gloss: rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
pos: noun
Derived words: rattlingly
rattlingness
Translations:
shavings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fringe tree (Cionanthus virginicus)
pos: noun
Translations:
interlaced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of gauntleted (“having overlapping parallel rail tracks”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
interlacing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: interlacings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pattern or motion of something that interlaces.
pos: noun
examples: It is beyond us, as we thread the ruined streets: above us, as we stand upon the ruined walls, we follow it through every vista of broken columns, as we wander through the empty court-yards of the houses; and through the garlandings and interlacings of every wanton vine.
Translations:
nymphaea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Latin nymphaea, from Ancient Greek νυμφαῖα (numphaîa), feminine singular form of νυμφαῖος (numphaîos, “sacred to the nymphs”), from νύμφη (númphē, “nymph”).
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from translingual Nymphaea, from the same Latin and Greek.
Inflected forms:
form: nymphaeas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the European white water lily.
pos: noun
examples: Guianerius, cap. 8, tract. 15, would have them used twice a day, and when they come forth of the baths, their backbones to be anointed with oil of almonds, violets, nymphæa, fresh capon-grease, etc.
gloss: Any species of the genus Nymphaea.
pos: noun
Translations:
unearthing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unearthings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something unearthed; a discovery.
pos: noun
examples: This year’s unearthings were the Jesus Lizard, from Chicago, which hasn’t been on the road in 10 years, as well as Suicide, from New York City, and the Feelies, from New Jersey, two bands that have seldom performed in that time.
Translations:
gentian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English from Latin gentiāna, which, according to Pliny the Elder, was named after Gentius (Ancient Greek Γένθιος (Génthios)), the last king of Illyria, who supposedly discovered the plant's medicinal benefits. This has been dismissed as folk etymology but the word may still ultimately be of Illyrian origin, as -an is a common suffix in Illyrian words.
Inflected forms:
form: gentians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.
Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock. How does it get enough light to live?
gloss: Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: fieldwort
Derived words: Alpine gentian
American gentian
Appalachian gentian
autumn gentian
bastard gentian
Bavarian gentian
bigleaf gentian
bladder gentian
blind gentian
blue gentian
bog gentian
Bohemian gentian
bottle gentian
bristly gentian
broadpetal gentian
brown gentian
Caucasian gentian
Charleston gentian
Chiltern gentian
closed gentian
clustered gentian
crested gentian
cross gentian
downy gentian
dune gentian
dwarf gentian
early gentian
Elliott's gentian
European gentian
explorer's gentian
field gentian
five-flowered gentian
fringed gentian
gentamicin
gentian blue
gentianic
gentianine
gentianose
gentian violet
German gentian
giant gentian
greater fringed gentian
great yellow gentian
green gentian
harvestbells gentian
horse gentian
Karawanken gentian
king's scepter gentian
marsh gentian
Mendocino gentian
moss gentian
mountain bog gentian
narrowleaf gentian
Newberry's gentian
New England gentian
pale gentian
Parry's gentian
pinebarren gentian
plain gentian
pleated gentian
prairie gentian
purple gentian
purple-stalked gentian
pygmy gentian
rough gentian
round-leaved gentian
showy gentian
slender gentian
snake gentian
snow gentian
soapwort gentian
spotted gentian
spring gentian
spurred gentian
star gentian
stemless gentian
stiff gentian
striped gentian
swamp gentian
Tienshan gentian
Triglav gentian
trumpet gentian
tufted gentian
tulip gentian
white gentian
whitish gentian
willow gentian
wiregrass gentian
yellow gentian
Translations:
garbled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more garbled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most garbled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled
pos: adj
Translations:
parboil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.
Inflected forms:
form: parboils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parboiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parboiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parboiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
pos: verb
Translations:
second-in-command
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: seconds-in-command
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somebody ranking next below a commander.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone ranking next below the person in charge.
pos: noun
examples: Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.
Synonyms: deputy
lieutenant
Translations:
anthropometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1839, as anthropo- (“human”) + -metry (“measurement”), from French anthropométrie, from anthropo- + -métrie, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), influenced by Latin use.
Base: anthropo
Inflected forms:
form: anthropometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of measuring the human body to ascertain the ranges and averages of dimensions of the human form, for various purposes including physical anthropology, epidemiology, the ergonomics of industrial design, and so on.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stalactite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin stalactites, from Ancient Greek σταλακτός (stalaktós, “dripping; dropping”) + Latin -ītēs (suffix with the sense ‘belonging to’ forming adjectives) (modelled after the names of stones ending in -ites). Σταλακτός (Stalaktós) is derived from σταλάσσειν (stalássein, “to drip; to let (something) drip”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives denoting possibility from verbs).
Inflected forms:
form: stalactites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or another mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that hangs from the roof of a cave.
pos: noun
examples: In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.
There is the Hang Ken cave with its waterfalls spilling into large lagoons, shimmering goldlike mineral deposits and soaring columns created over thousands of years when stalactites hanging from the cave roof met stalagmite formations building from the cave floor.
Translations:
stalagmite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin stalagmitēs, from Ancient Greek στάλαγμα (stálagma, “drop”) or σταλαγμός (stalagmós, “dripping”).
Inflected forms:
form: stalagmites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground of a cave.
pos: noun
examples: In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.
Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.
Translations:
acropolis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀκρόπολις (akrópolis), from ἄκρος (ákros, “topmost”, “tip”, “summit”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”); By surface analysis, acro- + -polis.
Inflected forms:
form: acropolises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acropoleis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: akropolis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis.
pos: noun
examples: The Etruscans, then, appear in general as an industrious people ( φιλότεχνον ἔθνος), of a bold and lofty spirit of enterprise, which was greatly favoured by their priestly aristocratic constitution. Massive walls, mostly of irregular blocks, surround their cities (not merely their acropoleis); the art of protecting the country from inundations by the construction of canals, and outlets from lakes, was very zealously practised by them.
Translations:
alleviation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alleviate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English alleviation
From alleviate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: alleviations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The only light is from a high barred window, and it is not so much light as an alleviation of the murk.
gloss: the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَخْفِيف
roman: taḵfīf
lang: Arabic
word: تَسْكِين
roman: taskīn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 減輕 /减轻
roman: jiǎnqīng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 緩和 /缓和
roman: huǎnhé
lang: French
word: allégement
lang: French
word: soulagement
lang: German
word: Erleichterung
lang: German
word: Linderung
lang: German
word: Milderung
lang: Japanese
word: 軽減
roman: keigen
lang: Japanese
word: 緩和
roman: kanwa
lang: Latin
word: levamentum
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: льгꙑни
roman: lĭgyni
lang: Portuguese
word: alívio
lang: Russian
word: облегче́ние
roman: oblexčénije
lang: Russian
word: смягче́ние
roman: smjaxčénije
lang: Spanish
word: aliviamiento
lang: Swedish
word: lättnad
lang: Ukrainian
word: поле́гшення
roman: poléhšennja
nourished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nourished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nourished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: fed
pos: adj
Translations:
imperiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin im-
English im-
English peril
English imperil
English -ed
English imperiled
From imperil + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: imperilled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: at risk of becoming extinct
pos: adj
examples: The wildlife management plan was focused on helping the reproductive needs of imperiled species.
Translations:
radiotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?
Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.
New Latin therapīabor.
English therapy
English radiotherapy
From radio- + therapy.
Inflected forms:
form: radiotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of radiation therapy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brachytherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short, not far off”) + θεραπεία (therapeía, “attendance, treatment, healing, service”); brachy- + therapy.
Base: therapy
Affixes: brachy-
Inflected forms:
form: brachytherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Radiotherapy using radioactive sources positioned within (or close to) the treatment volume, typically with radiopharmaceuticals as opposed to external-beam sources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
incalculable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English calculable
English incalculable
From in- + calculable.
Inflected forms:
form: more incalculable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incalculable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to calculate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Too much, too vast, or too numerous to enable computation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The loss the National Library suffered from the fire is incalculable.
gloss: Of a person's mood or character, etc.: impossible to predict.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.
Synonyms: countless
incalculable
incomputable
inestimable
noncalculable
uncalculable
uncomputable
unestimable
Antonyms: calculable
calculatable
Related words: incalculability
incalculably
immeasurable
immensurable
unmeasurable
calculate
indescribable
innumerable
Derived words: incalculableness
Translations:
drinking-horn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drinking-horns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drinking-vessel made from the horn of an animal.
pos: noun
examples: In the middle of the room, there stood upon the ground a huge copper vessel half full of sweet mead, and by the side of it, a drinking-horn of pure gold.
He put down his sword and helmet and took the drinking-horn that was served to him, and finished it.
Translations:
wearable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: From wear + -able.
Base: wear
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more wearable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wearable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be worn.
pos: adj
examples: a wearable device
gloss: Clothing that is suitable for wear by ordinary people, or in ordinary circumstances, as opposed to being unusual, uncomfortable, or otherwise difficult to wear.
pos: adj
examples: American designers...provided collection after collection of wearable fashions with a simplicity of silhouette that fitted the criteria of dressing for success.
When Did "Wearable" Become a Dirty Word in Fashion? In a style climate dominated by attention-grabbing influencers, some designers are making the case for clothes that—gasp—people actually want to wear.
Antonyms: unwearable
Derived words: wearable camera
Translations:
muti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́
Zulu úmuthíbor.
English muti
Borrowed from Zulu úmuthí (“shrub, tree, medicine”), from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀tɪ́.
Inflected forms:
form: mutis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Traditional African medicine.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
countable
uncountable
examples: The witchdoctor shop with its muti, its vulture eggs, the skins and hair and nails and horns and unmentionable excretions, its useless whorl of incense; and the Indian owner glaring at one like a dark wooden mask.
Lekota's handing on a plate ammunition against himself, scrapping our genuine African herb medicine, Affirmative Action, that national muti.
Translations:
bombardment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bombard
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English bombardment
From bombard + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: bombardments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Heavy artillery fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An onslaught of criticism etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: bombard
bombarded
Derived words: cobombardment
Late Heavy Bombardment
superbombardment
Translations:
genealogically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English genealogical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English genealogically
From genealogical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Using genealogical methods
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: From a genealogical perspective.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Genetically (by being members of the same linguistic family).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: German and Danish are genealogically related.
Related words: genealogy
Translations:
recheck
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English check
English recheck
From re- + check.
Inflected forms:
form: rechecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rechecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rechecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rechecked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rechecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To check again.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The second strategy consists of continuously rechecking for pending softirqs.
I have now carefully rechecked most of the sources about Rashi supposedly dictating a responsum to his daughter, and I can state definitively that the tradition mentioned in your question is based on a scribal error.
gloss: The act of checking again; reverification.
pos: noun
examples: The article needed a complete recheck.
Translations:
conte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian conte. Doublet of comes, comte, and count.
Inflected forms:
form: contes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian count.
pos: noun
examples: So she led the way through a marble hall, pillared in different colors, rich and rare, with portraits of ancient contes and contessas on the walls, up a magnificent stone stair with a carved balustrade, to a suite indeed, where, at the entrance, Sibby was found very happy at her welcome from Mrs. Mount, who was equally glad to receive a countrywoman.
“Aspirin. It will help you to sleep tonight if you have aches and pains, or cold clammy dreams about dead contes and contessas,” he teased.
The announcement of the game had put Florentine society “in a flurry,” and two thousand spectators—including enough contes and contessas to fill half the palaces of Florence—made the trip beyond the city limits to view the match.
Translations:
hummock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unknown, but probably a diminutive of hump, equivalent to hump + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare hillock.
Base: hump
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: hummocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.
pos: noun
examples: The west edge of their landing area was swarming with…things. Like wolves or dogs, but with long necks, they moved quickly forward, darting from hummock to hummock
gloss: A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
pos: noun
gloss: A fistful.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Related words: hummocked
hummocking
hummocky
Translations:
irrespective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin ir-
English ir-
English respective
English irrespective
From ir- + respective.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Heedless, regardless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That alone, apart from Mr. Wyse’s old-fashioned notions on the subject, made telephoning impossible, for your summons was usually answered by his cook, who instantly began scolding the butcher irrespective and disrespectful of whom you were.
In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
gloss: Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an irrespective judgment
According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God.
gloss: Disrespectful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: His followers are become so wicked and irrespective, as to[…]cast their owne misdeeds upon the broad back of the Prince.
Related words: irregardless
Derived words: irregardless
irrespectively
irrespective of
Translations:
psychopathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -pathic
English psychopathic
From psycho- + -pathic.
Inflected forms:
form: more psychopathic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychopathic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.
pos: adj
examples: A psychopathic killer is on the loose.
[T]he psychopathic temperament, whatever be the intellect with which it finds itself paired, often brings with it ardor and excitability of character.
Translations:
eventuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
phrenology
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Calque of French éventualité, eventual + -ity
Base: eventual
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: eventualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A possible event; something that may happen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Vigil: You are not Prothean. But you are not machine, either. This eventuality was one of many that was anticipated. This is why we sent our warning through the beacons.
England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.
gloss: An individual's propensity to take notice of events, changes, or facts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: eventualize
Translations:
egregiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English egregious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English egregiously
From egregious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more egregiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most egregiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: conspicuously badly (used negatively)
pos: adv
examples: This myopia has has also afflicted the tram sector - most egregiously when Alastair Darling, as transport secretary, cancelled Merseytram, Leeds Supertram, the South Hampshire Rapid Transit scheme, and an extension to Manchester Metrolink (subsequently reversed) in 2004-05.
Translations:
elkhound
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From elk + hound.
Compound parts: elk
hound
Inflected forms:
form: elkhounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Norwegian Elkhound, a breed of dog from Norway for hunting elk (US: moose).
pos: noun
gloss: Any Scandinavian breed of dog bred to hunt elk (US: moose).
pos: noun
examples: Hällefors Elkhound
Swedish Elkhound
Swedish White Elkhound
Synonyms: Norwegian Elkhound
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hirvikoira
thingamabob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of thingumbob: obsolete thingum (from thing) + bob. Earliest citation from 1751, as thingumbobs.
Inflected forms:
form: thingamabobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thingamabobber
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingamybob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingmabob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingumabob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingumbob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingumebob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingummabob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingummybob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thingymabob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thing or person whose actual name is unknown or forgotten.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "The tin thingamabob," insisted Mr. Trigget with slow dignity. "Call it what you will. Its purpose is self-evident. It acts as a dispirator—a distributor, that is to say—"
Translations: