yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
liveaboard
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From live + aboard.
Compound parts: live
aboard
Inflected forms:
form: liveaboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a person: living on board a boat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who lives on a boat.
pos: noun
examples: “We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.
This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).
Pat and Kelly′s was the haven for the liveaboard community and had acquired a legendary reputation for a salty ambiance involving a couple of parrots, a raccoon, dogs and independent liveaboards who had little time for established governments.
2008, Zoe Simpson, A Matter of Degree, Fossil-Imprints, UK, page 132,
‘None of the boats around you have liveaboards, do they?’ put in Mum.
gloss: A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.
pos: noun
examples: Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too.
Translations:
butters
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originally a clipping of butterface (“a person with an attractive body but an unattractive face”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ugly.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
Translations:
buttering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
Inflected forms:
form: butterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to butter
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is interesting that the sentences that Davidson uses in his arguments for events are all about genuine flesh and blood events: butterings of toast, explosions of boilers, raisings of arms, kickings of Shem and Sean and the like.
gloss: The action of the verb to butter
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of the verb to butter
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: nosebuttering
tailbuttering
Translations:
jiggly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jig
English -le
English jiggle
English -y
English jiggly
From jiggle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: jigglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jiggliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that jiggles
pos: adj
Translations:
jingly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jingle
English -y
English jingly
From jingle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: jinglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jingliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that jingles, having a jingling sound.
pos: adj
Translations:
jittery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English jitter
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English jittery
From jitter + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: jitterier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jitteriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: nervy, jumpy, on edge
pos: adj
examples: Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.
gloss: Having jitter, or unwanted signal characteristics.
pos: adj
examples: jittery video playback
Derived words: jitterily
jitteriness
overjittery
unjittery
Translations:
rimshot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From rim + shot.
Compound parts: rim
shot
Inflected forms:
form: rimshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rim shot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
pos: noun
gloss: A percussive sting or flourish used to punctuate a joke in a cabaret or vaudeville act.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A shot in which the ball hits the rim of the basket.
pos: noun
Translations:
jinn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Arabic جِنّ (jinn, collective noun) (singular جِنِّيّ (jinniyy)).
Inflected forms:
form: jinns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jinn
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jawan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jinnan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jinnah
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ginn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jinnee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jinni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jhin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jhinn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.
pos: noun
examples: Even the sad jinn within the graven image slept[.]
There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.
Surah 18:50: 'And We told the Angels "prostrate yourselves before Adam". So they all prostrated themselves, except Iblees who was one of the jinn.
The second context in which jinn occurs in the Qur'an is where we find both ins and jinn are mentioned together. Ins is a collective noun signifying humans, recognisable familiar human beings.
Translations:
joblessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English job
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 jobless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English joblessness
From jobless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being jobless or unemployed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The phenomenon or level of unemployment in an economy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession.
Synonyms: unemployment
worklessness
unwork
Translations:
joyfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joyful
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English joyfulness
From joyful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: joyfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being joyful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
joyousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joyous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English joyousness
From joyous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: joyousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being joyous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bright sun, the sweet free air, brought their own joyousness with them; all nature seemed too glad for sorrow.
Translations:
juiciness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English juicy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English juiciness
From juicy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: juicinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being juicy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
jumpiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jumpy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English jumpiness
From jumpy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: jumpinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being jumpy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Several times I thought I saw something, but it was only jumpiness. One of the others raised a hesitant false alarm.
Translations:
justness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English just
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English justness
From just + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: justnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being just; fairness
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
materially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English materialy; equivalent to material + -ly.
Base: material
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more materially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most materially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a material manner; with regard to physical things or characteristics.
pos: adv
examples: Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
gloss: To a significant degree.
pos: adv
examples: In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.
Translations:
exquisitely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exquisite
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English exquisitely
From exquisite + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exquisitely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exquisitely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exquisite manner.
pos: adv
examples: Over the fish-dish — something sole-like, exquisitely seethed in a strange sauce, garnished with roots and fruits of the country — Tommy became sentimental.
She came running through the crowd dodging the cell-phoned heads, exquisitely attired as usual, probably the result of a recent shopping excursion at Fendi’s.
gloss: Exceedingly; in the highest degree.
pos: adv
examples: There was something exquisitely painful in the memories that crowded upon his mind: a thousand of Constance's daily acts of affection rose before him: neyer till this moment had he felt them unrequited; but now they were remembered like a reproach.
They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
Translations:
timidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin timidusder.
Middle French timideder.
English timid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English timidly
From timid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more timidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most timidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a timid manner.
pos: adv
examples: His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs.
Translations:
job-sharing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From job + sharing.
Compound parts: job
sharing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement whereby multiple people are employed on a part-time basis to perform a job normally available to one working full-time, and remuneration is apportioned between them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jokingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joking
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English jokingly
From joking + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more jokingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most jokingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a joking manner.
pos: adv
examples: San Jose, the county seat, is jokingly referred to as “Man Jose” by the locals, and with good reason: In the 22 to 29 age cohort, Santa Clara County has 37,410 never-married, college-grad men versus 27,147 never-married, college-grad women.
Translations:
jovially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From jovial + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives). Jovial is borrowed from French jovial (“jolly, jovial”), from Italian gioviale (“jolly, jovial; (obsolete) born under the influence of the planet Jupiter”), from Latin ioviālis (“relating to the Roman god Jupiter”), from Iuppiter, Iovis (“the Roman god Jove or Jupiter, counterpart of the Greek god Zeus”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to be bright; heaven, sky”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).
Base: jovial
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more jovially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most jovially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Some are of the opinion, that the world was made, to giue a body in lieu of puniſhment, vnto the ſpirits, which through their fault were fallen from the puritie, wherin they were created: The firſt creation having beene incorporeal. And that according as they have more or leſſe elonged themſelves from their ſpirituallitie, ſo they are more or leſſe merilie & Giovially, or rudely and Saturnally incorporated: Whence proceedeth the infinite varietie of ſo much matter created.
gloss: In a jovial (“cheerful and good-humoured”) manner; jollily, merrily.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
examples: The seasoning of a play is the applause. / Now, though the Foxe be punish'd by the lawes, / He, yet, doth hope there is no suffring due, / For any fact, which he hath done 'gainst you; / If there be, sensure him: here he, doubtfull, stands. / If not, fare iouially, and clap your hands.
This enforced solitarinesse takes place, and produceth this effect soonest in such, as haue spent their time Iouially peraduenture in all honest recreations, in all good company, and are vpon a sudden confined, and restrained of their liberty, and barred from their ordinary associats: solitarinesse is very irkesome to such, most tedious, and a sudden cause of great inconvenience.
After they had put their Affairs in a proper Diſpoſition aboard, they went ashore to a little Village for Refreshments, and lived jovially the remaining Part of the Day, at a Tavern, spending three Pistols, and then departed.
Life there was at its usual nocturnal ferment. A few of the men were jovially drunk, a few of them savagely so.
He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion.
Translations:
jubilantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jubilant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English jubilantly
From jubilant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more jubilantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most jubilantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With jubilation or triumph.
pos: adv
examples: The socialist press of the city jubilantly exploited this utterance, scattering it broadcast over San Francisco in tens of thousands of paper dodgers.
Having written jubilantly home to the Secretary of State that his mission had succeeded, he was now faced with the necessity of writing again to confess that this success had been ephemeral.
Translations:
judgmentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English judgment
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English judgmental
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English judgmentally
From judgmental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more judgmentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most judgmentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: judgementally
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a judgmental manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
judicially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-u
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwos
Proto-Italic *jowos
Latin iūs
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱ-s ~ *diḱ-és
Proto-Italic *-diks
Latin iūdex
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin iūdicō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin iūdicium
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin iūdiciālisbor.
English judicial
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English judicially
From judicial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a judicial manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Persons Judicially cited, are ſometimes wont, by a Non-Appearance in Court, to contemn the Judges Authority; and thereby to render themſelves contumacious'
Translations:
judiciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English judicious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English judiciously
From judicious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more judiciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most judiciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a judicious manner.
pos: adv
examples: She knows how to ask questions judiciously: and it is a first requisite to make people feel it is easy to answer you; and, also, that their answer reflects credit on themselves.
“That applies to Tylenol tomorrow the same as it does today, the same as it did yesterday. That is the standard of care: to only use medications when indicated during pregnancy and judiciously,” Dr. DeNicola said.
Translations:
juridically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English juridical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English juridically
From juridical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a juridical manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
justifiably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English justifiable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English justifiably
From justifiable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more justifiably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most justifiably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a justifiable manner; with justification
pos: adv
examples: Another area in which corporations have been catching heat is in the area of environmental pollution, and justifiably so.
Madocks built his model town on land partly reclaimed from the sea, and was justifiably proud of the fact that it stood well below what was still the official high-water mark. Until then, the surrounding area was largely marshland.
Manchester needs more railway capacity. Just how that is provided until the new platforms are built for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, I will leave for the experts, but a do-nothing approach is not going to be helpful and quite justifiably will create more arguments that the North is being ignored.
A number of these projects have, justifiably, been award-winning. Overall, these schemes make a justifiable achievement.
Translations:
penstock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from pen (“an enclosure”) + stock.
Inflected forms:
form: penstocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pentstock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
pos: noun
examples: It amazes him still, this effortless journey powered by the fall of water. Water surging through tunnel and penstock.
gloss: The barrel of a wooden pump.
pos: noun
Translations:
patriation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: English; especially Canadian English. Back-formation from repatriation.
Inflected forms:
form: patriations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of a governmental power from a former mother country to a newly independent one.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
countable
uncountable
examples: The patriation of Canada's constitution from the United Kingdom took place in 1982.
Translations:
polishing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: polishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extract of partially milled rice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
gloss: That makes shiny or smooth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That refines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: apple-polishing
biopolishing
French polishing
polishing-bed
polishing-cask
polishing-mill
polishing-slate
polishing-snake
polishing-tin
rice polishings
Translations:
bevvy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of beverage + -y (diminutive suffix).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bevvies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bevvying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bevvied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bevvied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To get drunk.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
intransitive
slang
examples: Anthony and I bevvied together a few nights, but the truth is I couldn't keep up.
Translations:
spins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: the spins
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
Senses:
gloss: vertigo
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
self-abasement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English abasement
English self-abasement
From self- + abasement.
Inflected forms:
form: self-abasements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The abasement of oneself.
pos: noun
examples: Self-abasement is a state of excessive, unwarranted humility self-inflicted humiliation and degradation.
This self-abasement is a widespread characteristic in Holland. Especially in the company of foreigners the Dutch tend to run their country down. By pretending to be less than they know they are, they prevent being belittled by other people.
Self-abasement is a process whereby through criticizing, blaming, or otherwise derogating the self, the individual seeks to allay anxiety.
Translations:
wobbles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unsteadiness on one's feet, wheels, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: "We thought everything was alright, then when Luke started to walk we noticed he got the wobbles, and they never left, eight months later he was diagnosed with A-T," she said.
gloss: Nervousness which prevents someone from performing properly.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: England had the wobbles at 4 for 109 and a lead of 115.
You'd have to be impressed with the way the right is stuffing up the post-election transition into opposition. It had the wobbles from the start, electing Peter Dutton as its leader and promptly trying to soften his image.
Translations:
wobbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wobblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that wobbles.
pos: noun
Translations:
ebbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
pos: adj
examples: And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.
But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.
They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.
Presided over by a political monster, with two sons waiting in the possible succession who had more than shown their own aptitude for cruelties that most of the good peace marchers will find nearly unthinkable without their being overcome by existential revulsion and fear, a regime that was certainly a continuing threat to those living under it and perceived, quite reasonable, as a potential if not immediate threat beyond its borders, Saddam's regime gave no grounds at all for confidence in the hypotesis of an “ebbed” future level of killing.
My first clear—my first new memory is of waking, slowly, so slowly, with the languor of a fever patient whose crisis is past, in an ebbed, remote lucidity as unfamiliar as the feel of sheets.
There were those still living, said Serik when I got back to the car, who had visited the graves since childhood and had watched as, decade by decade, the water below first withdrew, then further withdrew, until the vessels in their obsolescence were abandoned, circumscribed by a shrinking pond and then, as the water vanished, set down in the dry sediment, canted there as if by an ebbed tide that had failed to come back.
Translations:
ebbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ebbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of something that ebbs.
pos: noun
examples: ebbings and flowings
Translations:
valorize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from valorization.
Inflected forms:
form: valorizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: valorizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: valorized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: valorized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: valorise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: valourise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: valourize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]noting his tendency “to valorise my father and, I'm afraid, to demonise her because of some of the tendencies she had: she was very harsh. That was a faint undertone to my 'idyllic' childhood, I suppose.”
Creating a historical dictionary for a variety of English valorises that variety by linking it to national history and national identity.
You can see it in the way we valorize the C.E.O.s of “unicorn” companies who have expanded their wealth far beyond what could possibly be justified by their individual contributions.
gloss: To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: valorization
Translations:
shepherding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shepherdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The herding of sheep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of one who shepherds or guides.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'd long believed that he was noticing more and more of my subtleties, and was growing ever more conscious of my secret shepherdings. Now he believes me safely out of the way, with all my power stripped.
Translations:
omniverse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From omni- + -verse.
Inflected forms:
form: omniverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The entire set of co-existing universes, multiverses, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
adobo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish adobo, from Old French adober (“equip a horseman”) (perhaps via Catalan), from the same Germanic root as dab, dub. Compare French daube (earlier dobe (1571), adobbe (1598)), Italian dobba (1549), adobbo (1570).
Inflected forms:
form: adobos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Philippine dish in which pork or chicken is slowly cooked in a sauce including soy sauce, vinegar, and crushed garlic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A marinade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1 chipotle chili in adobo sauce
Translations:
adorno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: adornos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clay ornament attached to a piece of pottery, usually at the rim.
pos: noun
examples: Willey (1949:324) suggested that this mound probably dates to late Weeden Island times, though the bird head rim adorno (Luer 1992a:54, Figure Id; Moore 1903:Figure 63) might indicate a Safety Harbor component.
Translations:
jollity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English jolyfte, from Old French joliveté (“gaiety, cheerfulness; amorous passion; life of pleasure”), from jolif. Equivalent to jolly + -ty.
Base: jolly
Affixes: -ty
Inflected forms:
form: jollities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being jolly; jolliness, cheerfulness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But I pitty the flatteries, and ſelfe-applauſes of a careleſſe and impenitent heart: This jollity hath in it much danger, and vvithout ſome change, death.
The Jolly Sandboys was a small road-side inn of pretty ancient date, with a sign, representing three Sandboys increasing their jollity with as many jugs of ale and bags of gold.
The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
gloss: Revelry or festivity; a merry or festive gathering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Across the US, candidates traditionally attend rallies, barbecues and similar jollities in their states and districts.
gloss: Things, remarks, or characteristics which are enjoyable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Add to this picture a jolly, crackling, rollicking fire, going rejoicingly up a great wide chimney,—the outer door and every window being set wide open, and the calico window-curtain flopping and snapping in a good stiff breeze of damp raw air,—and you have an idea of the jollities of a Kentucky tavern.
Translations:
jotting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jottings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brief note or sketch
pos: noun
Translations:
jouster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joust
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English jouster
From joust + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jousters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who jousts.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse used as a mount when jousting.
pos: noun
Translations:
joviality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French jovialitébor.
English joviality
Borrowed from French jovialité.
Inflected forms:
form: jovialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1651, Fulgenzio Micanzio, The Life of the Most Learned Father Paul, Of the Order of the Servie, translator not credited, London: Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot, p. 13,
The Duke […] willingly interposed the pleasures of wit and facetiousnesse with the grave cares of his government, tempering wisely his troubles with Joviality of words and actions […]
I noticed that Mr. Pumblechook in his hospitality appeared to forget that he had made a present of the wine, but took the bottle from Mrs. Joe and had all the credit of handing it about in a gush of joviality.
This remark sobered the father’s joviality, and brought his mind to business.
By the joviality of their insults Babbitt knew that he had been taken back to their hearts, and happily he rose.
Joviality fled from the table, Shekhar studied his cards. Owad frowned at his. His foot was tapping on the concrete floor. More watchers came.
Success on social media tends to instil in the early career academics and postgraduates who achieve it, after merciless encouragement from outreach and impact gurus in HE management, a kind of unwavering, po-faced self-belief in their own genius and thus the vital urgency of their research, the overall effect being a strange mixture of corporate cynicism and uneasy joviality.
Translations:
joyrider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joyride
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English joyrider
From joyride + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: joyriders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who goes on a joyride.
pos: noun
Translations:
always-on
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: continuously connected to the Internet e.g. by broadband
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dial-up
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: dialup
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dial-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dialup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Requiring a telephone number to be dialed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: dial-up networking
In dial-up networking, both your PC and the remote system run network-protocol (called TCP/IP) software. When your PC dials up and sets up a communication path, the network protocols exchange data packets over that dial-up connection.
gloss: A network connection that requires a telephone number to be dialed.
pos: noun
Translations:
bioinformatician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English informatician
English bioinformatician
From bio- + informatician.
Inflected forms:
form: bioinformaticians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of bioinformatics
pos: noun
Translations:
cybersquatting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)bor.
English cybernetic
English cyber-
English squatting
English cybersquatting
From cyber- + squatting.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: Maybe a little broad in your interpretation? Dilution would not have existed in this case if Toeppen were not in the "business" of cybersquatting? The statute does not allow noncommercial use to "dilute", but when a domain name owner suggests money may be taken for the domain name, a problem is created for the DNO, right? This may be a large trap for attorneys advising in this area.
gloss: A form of passing off, often with the intent referred to in the first sense above.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: The day after the issuance of the interlocutory injunction he was interviewed by a StarPhoenix reporter as part of a larger article on "Cybersquatting" as the domain name game has come to be called.
Related words: cybersquatter
Translations:
gastropub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gres-der.
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́ω (grắō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek γᾰστήρ (găstḗr)der.
English gastro-
English pub
English gastropub
From gastro- + pub.
Inflected forms:
form: gastropubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public house that serves high-quality food.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
mini-me
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + me, later popularised by the name of a character in the comedy spy film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).
Base: me
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-mes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is a miniature, but otherwise identical, version of a particular person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: Now Boris Yeltsin Has His Own 'Mini-Me'.
One motive for procreating is to 'reproduce yourself'—to create a 'mini-me'.
The latest in the production line of ruthless royal officials, Edward Belknap was cut from Dudley's cloth, a ‘mini-me’ of the most obnoxious variety.
Translations:
unmistakable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English mistake
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English unmistakable
From un- + mistake + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more unmistakable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unmistakable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unmistakeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
pos: adj
examples: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled anything we have seen on the frostiest of nights in an electrified third-rail area.
And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
Translations:
zorbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zorb
English -ing
English zorbing
From zorb + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sport in which a participant is secured inside a zorb and rolled downhill.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
e-tailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of e- + retailer.
Compound parts: e-
retailer
Inflected forms:
form: e-tailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A company that does business via electronic media, especially via the Internet.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-tailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of e- + retailing.
Compound parts: e-
retailing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The conducting of retail business via electronic media, especially via the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
e-ticket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + ticket.
Base: ticket
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-tickets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A virtual ticket, especially for a flight, that is issued electronically.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-ticketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + ticketing.
Base: ticketing
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The generation, recording and issuing of e-tickets instead of conventional tickets
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
extranet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
English extranet
From extra- + net.
Inflected forms:
form: extranets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A private computer network that uses Internet protocols and can be accessed by authorized individuals via the Internet.
pos: noun
Translations:
leptin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin”) + -in
Inflected forms:
form: leptins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A protein hormone produced in adipose tissue; it plays a role in regulating appetite and metabolism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If we could control leptin, then presumably we could help people to control their weight.
That is because sleep affects two appetite-controlling hormones, leptin and ghrelin.
Translations:
Macarena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Spanish female given name Macarena, which is the title of a well-known song from 1993 by Spanish duo Los del Río.
Inflected forms:
form: Macarenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: macarena
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A particular line dance with a set of simple arm movements and exaggerated hip motion performed to a fast Latin rhythm.
pos: noun
examples: Oh yeah, they were doing the Macarena up and down Saint Peter’s back in twelve ninety-two.
Translations:
bombsight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bomb + sight.
Compound parts: bomb
sight
Inflected forms:
form: bombsights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
pos: noun
Translations:
mobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From mobile, shortened to its first syllable.
Inflected forms:
form: mobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mobile phone.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Translations:
M-theory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Abbreviation of membrane theory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A generalized theory of eleven-dimensional supergravity that attempts to unify the five superstring theories
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
supergravity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English gravity
English supergravity
From super- + gravity.
Inflected forms:
form: supergravities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A field theory combining supersymmetry and general relativity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
supersymmetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From super- + symmetry. In the modern physics sense, coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and American physicist John Strathdee in 1974 as super-symmetry, in a paper in Physics Letters B as a simplification of super-gauge symmetry used by Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino.
Base: symmetry
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supersymmetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theory that attempts to unify the fundamental physical forces and which proposes a physical symmetry between bosons and fermions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We suggest therefore that the expression "super-symmetry" might be more appropriate for the global concept and reserve the word "gauge" for local symmetries.
Supersymmetry is the concept that known particles – such as electrons, quarks and photons – have a heavier and as-yet-undetected "superpartner".
Translations:
eleven-dimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Possessing eleven geometric dimensions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
superstring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From super- + string. In physics sense: Back-formation from superstring theory, which is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory.
Base: string
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superstrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a hypothetical object consisting of a very small one-dimensional string that vibrates in ten (or more) dimensions
pos: noun
gloss: The string (sequence of text characters) that contains a substring.
pos: noun
examples: Given the superstring "cathode", we can extract the substrings "cat", "hod", and "ode".
Translations:
urethral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From urethra + -al. By surface analysis, urethr- + -al.
Base: urethra
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the urethra.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: