yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
washing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
stock-market
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English waschynge /wasshynge /weschynge, from Old English *wæsċing /*weasċing (attested in weasċingweġ), from Proto-West Germanic *waskingu. By surface analysis, wash + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Waaskenge (“washing”), West Frisian wasking (“washing”), Dutch wassing (“washing”), German Waschung (“washing”).
Inflected forms:
form: washings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to wash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I then took a piece of dry stone, ground it fine in a mortar, and placed the powder in water, the sand particles sunk rapidly to the bottom, while the clay remained suspended, and by several washings and decantings the sand and clay could be approximately separated ;[…]
gloss: Clothing, bedlinen or soft furnishings that have been, are currently being, or are to be washed; laundry.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
uncountable
examples: My mother used to do the washing on a Monday.
[…] Hazel telling about how she liked a good woodpile, especially when she used to take in washing to earn a little extra. She needed a goodly pile to fuel her washtubs.
gloss: The residue after an ore, etc, has been washed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
examples: The washings have a higher concentration of metal.
gloss: The liquid used to wash an ore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A place where a precious metal found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the gold-washings, or silver-washings
gloss: A thin covering or coat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a washing of silver
gloss: A fraudulent transaction in which the same stock is simultaneously bought and sold for the purpose of manipulating the market.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The covering of a piece with an infusible powder, which prevents it from sticking to its supports, while receiving the glaze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: AI washing
brain-washing
check washing
dirty washing
fat washing
hand-washing
hand washing
open washing
open-washing
participation-washing
power washing
rainbow washing
washing ball
washing bin
washing blue
washing bottle
washing day
washing line
washing machine
washing mitt
washing of feet
washing powder
washing sherry
washing soda
washing-soda
washing stuff
washing tab
washing-up
wave washing
Translations:
washing-up
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of washing dishes etc; dishwashing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: I’ll do the washing-up if you put it all away.
gloss: Of or relating to washing dishes.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: This washing-up liquid is kinder to my hands than that one.
Translations:
catfight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cat + fight. So named because, like cats, scratching is a common defensive tactic among women, as opposed to a fistfight between men.
Compound parts: cat
fight
Inflected forms:
form: catfights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cat fight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fight between cats.
pos: noun
examples: The caterwauling from the catfight in the back yard was awful; I couldn't get to sleep until it was over.
gloss: A fight or bickering, especially between women.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Nancy and Sheila got into a catfight when Nancy's boyfriend cheated on her with Sheila.
Female conflict, seen in this kind of structure, works conveniently—it takes note of aggression in women and sets it against other women. Men are spared. The audience applauds. Everyone loves a catfight.
There was a time when I would get furious and fire off an angry note if someone cast me in a catfight with a woman colleague. I assumed that catfights would fade as women progressed. They seemed so retro.
Related words: dogfight
Translations:
presynaptic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English synaptic
English presynaptic
From pre- + synaptic.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-synaptic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a synapse, of or pertaining to the neuron that releases neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
infraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
law
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: From Middle French infraction, from Latin infractio, from infractum, past participle of infringere, from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).
Inflected forms:
form: infractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A minor offence, petty crime.
pos: noun
examples: Even stealing a pack of gum is an infraction in the eyes of the law.
Pretending a litterbug and a spree killer have committed equivalent infractions doesn’t make people safer.
gloss: A violation; breach.
pos: noun
examples: A team's first infraction could mean a fine of up to $25,000.
gloss: A major violation of rules which leads to a penalty, if detected by the referee.
pos: noun
Related words: infringe
infringement
infarction
Derived words: infractional
neutral-zone infraction
noninfraction
Translations:
suffocate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the 1420s, the verb in 1526; from Middle English suffocat(e) (“deprived of air, suffocated”), borrowed from Latin suffōcātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin suffōcō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from sub- (“under, up to”) + fōx (“throat”, oblique stem in fōc-). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: suffocates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suffocating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suffocated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suffocated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
It is because of freedom, one netizen replied: Like air, you may not realize its importance, but when suffocating, you would know how precious it is.
gloss: To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.
Let not hemp his windpipe suffocate.
gloss: To overwhelm, or be overwhelmed (by a person or issue), as though with oxygen deprivation.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
figuratively
examples: I'm suffocating under this huge workload.
If the trend to private cars continues, the more quickly will the road traffic suffocate itself, [...].
gloss: To destroy; to extinguish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to suffocate fire
Synonyms: smother
Related words: asphyxia
Derived words: smothercate
suffocater
suffocation
suffocative
suffocator
unsuffocate
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: boğmaq
lang: Belarusian
word: душы́ць
roman: dušýcʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: задушы́ць
roman: zadušýcʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: прыдушы́ць
roman: prydušýcʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: удушы́ць
roman: udušýcʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: задуша́вам
roman: zadušávam
lang: Bulgarian
word: задуша́
roman: zadušá
lang: Bulgarian
word: уду́швам
roman: udúšvam
lang: Catalan
word: ofegar
lang: Czech
word: dusit
lang: Czech
word: udusit
lang: Czech
word: zadusit
lang: Danish
word: kvæle
lang: Finnish
word: tukehduttaa
lang: Galician
word: afogar
lang: Galician
word: esganar
lang: German
word: ersticken
lang: Hebrew
word: חנק
lang: Hungarian
word: megfojt
lang: Irish
word: plúch
lang: Lombard
word: sofegar
lang: Lombard
word: stofegar
lang: Polish
word: dusić
lang: Portuguese
word: sufocar
lang: Russian
word: души́ть
roman: dušítʹ
lang: Russian
word: задуши́ть
roman: zadušítʹ
lang: Russian
word: удуши́ть
roman: udušítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: sofocar
lang: Swedish
word: kväva
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوغمق
roman: boğmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: души́ти
roman: dušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: задуши́ти
roman: zadušýty
lang: Ukrainian
word: удуши́ти
roman: udušýty
insufficient
Part of speech: det
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French insufficient, from Latin insufficiens. See also in- + sufficient.
Base: sufficient
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more insufficient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insufficient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An inadequate quantity of; not enough.
pos: det
examples: Insufficient time is available to reflect on the problem.
gloss: A quantity (of something) that is less than is needed.
pos: det
examples: Insufficient of the building remains to determine its age.
gloss: Not sufficient; of a type or kind that does not suffice, that does not satisfy requirements or needs.
pos: adj
examples: an insufficient amount
an insufficient degree
It is a necessary condition but an insufficient one.
gloss: Not sufficient; lacking competent power or ability; unqualified, unequal, unfit.
pos: adj
examples: Brother Coſroe, I find my ſelfe agreeu’d,
Yet inſufficient to expreſſe the ſame:
For it requires a great and thundering ſpeech: […]
Derived words: diploinsufficient
haploinsufficient
immunoinsufficient
insufficiently
principle of insufficient reason
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: недоста́тъчен
roman: nedostátǎčen
stickler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stighteler, stytelere, equivalent to stickle + -er. The judges at Cornish wrestling matches do indeed carry sticks which serve for signalling and as a badge of their office. This practice has evolved from holding swords and then swordsticks.
Base: stickle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sticklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A referee or adjudicator at a fight, wrestling match, duel, etc. who ensures fair play.
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
examples: In ancient time they were wont to employ third persons as sticklers, to see no treachery or disorder were used, and to beare witnes of the combates successe.
Basilius, the judge, appointed sticklers and trumpets whom the others should obey.
Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, / First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise.
gloss: Someone who insistently advocates for something, especially for strict observance of a formal rule.
pos: noun
examples: Lexicographers are sticklers for correct language.
The Tory or High-church were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James II.
"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
For the sticklers, here "final demand" is meant to include inventory investment.
Related words: stickle
Derived words: sticklerish
sticklerism
Translations:
suffocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English suffocation, suffocacioun, from Middle French suffocation, from Latin suffocatio.
Inflected forms:
form: suffocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A child left unattended may die of suffocation.
The moon, directly opposite, flung into the room a long and tremulous line of light, which fell on Guido's face, as he reclined on the pillows which supported his head; he needed the support, for a feeling of suffocation was his constant complaint.
gloss: A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The coroner reported three suffocations last week.
Synonyms: asphyxia
Related words: suffocate
Derived words: suffocation mate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: задушаване
roman: zadušavane
lang: Danish
word: kvælning
lang: Dutch
word: verstikking
lang: Egyptian
word: i-tm-m-W-nDs:Z2
roman: jtmw
lang: French
word: suffocation
lang: German
word: Erstickung
lang: Greek
word: πνιγμονή
roman: pnigmoní
lang: Greek
word: πνίξιμο
roman: pníximo
lang: Greek
word: πνιγμοσύνη
roman: pnigmosýni
lang: Hungarian
word: fulladás
lang: Irish
word: múchadh
lang: Irish
word: plúchadh
lang: Italian
word: soffocazione
lang: Latin
word: suffocatio
lang: Norman
word: suffocâtion
lang: Russian
word: удуше́ние
roman: udušénije
lang: Russian
word: уду́шье
roman: udúšʹje
lang: Swedish
word: kvävning
stunt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Unknown. Compare Middle Low German stunt (“a shoulder grip with which you throw someone on their back”), Middle English stunt (“foolish; stupid”).
Inflected forms:
form: stunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a stunt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To show off; to posture; to flaunt valuables.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt.
I was that interested because I wanted the Z28, but I wasn't going another day with Sterling stunting on me with the Contour.
Translations:
flub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.
Inflected forms:
form: flubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
informal
examples: 1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111,
I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.
A flub can be a slight cinematic slip-up or a major gaffe.
The pressure public speaking puts on a person will occasionally cause these little flubs, so don′t panic when they happen to you.
The worst way to deal with a flub is to panic and make a big deal out of it.
gloss: A fold of fat.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
slang
gloss: To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
informal
transitive
examples: ‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’
‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’
‘What was your line?’
‘I told you I flubbed it!’ he mouthed these words hysterically.
The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed it. And then flubbed it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew that he ‘knew his lines’ and then flubbed them again.
But even after the film ended, Jackie left his audience happy by including outtakes during the end credits — but not outtakes of flubbed lines (as in Cannonball Run) ... outtakes of flubbed stunts (including some painful shots of the bar room brawl and clock-tower fall that go horribly wrong)!
Derived words: flubby
Translations:
Kafkaesque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Kafka
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Italian -escobor.
French -esquebor.
English -esque
English Kafkaesque
From Kafka + -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. Piecewise doublet of Kafkaish.
Base: Kafka
Affixes: -esque
Inflected forms:
form: more Kafkaesque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kafkaesque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
pos: adj
examples: Kafkaesque bureaucracies
In the end, Jesus is not only a Kafkaesque, lonely, holy man, abandoned in his death and despised by his own people, but his teaching is not even considered to be like that of the Jewish Sages.
The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.
Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.
That was the Kafkaesque reality for Chaohu's inhabitants, who went to bed one night and woke up the morning of Aug. 22 to find out that their city no longer existed. For many, their first inkling that something had changed was from the local news.
gloss: Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger.
pos: adj
gloss: In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
pos: adj
Related words: Kafkaian
Kafkatrap
Kafkian
Dickensian
Orwellian
Lynchian
Derived words: Kafkaesquely
Kafkaesqueness
unKafkaesque
Translations:
dishevelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier dishevely, from Old French deschevelé (modern French déchevelé and échevelé), from des- (“dis-”), + chevel (“hair”) (modern French cheveu). See there for more details.
Inflected forms:
form: more dishevelled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dishevelled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disheveled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, with the hair uncombed.
pos: adj
gloss: Disorderly or untidy in appearance.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack utside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
“Wild-eyed and disheveled, King Hrethel roamed every night through his throne room, which was empty and still.”
This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film, in which lightning flashes of wit and insight crackle periodically across a plane of tedium. I sometimes felt I was watching the 100-hour version.
Derived words: dishevelledly
shevelled
undishevelled
Translations:
antacid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
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 *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acidebor.
English acid
English antacid
From anti- + acid.
Inflected forms:
form: antacids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more antacid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antacid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity, especially in the stomach.
pos: noun
examples: Until Tagamet (cimetidine), most major drug companies didn't take tummy troubles terribly seriously. Oh sure, Americans gorped down antacids almost like candy, but most pharmaceutical big wigs probably wrote that off to our penchant for eating junk food on the run.
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
 Cherry-flavored antacids
gloss: Counteracting or neutralizing acidity, especially in the stomach.
pos: adj
Translations:
automagically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English automagical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English automagically
From automagical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more automagically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most automagically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an automagical manner; happening seemingly without effort.
pos: adv
Translations:
grundle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Possibly Utah colloquial from blend of group + bundle.
Compound parts: group
bundle
Inflected forms:
form: grundles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grundles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grundling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grundled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grundled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A big bunch, lots.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: We won't completely explain why this approach works — just trust us and save a grundle of work.
We've got a grundle of push buttons, but nobody has to remember what mode they're in.
The guy's got a grundle of money; everyone's really excited, but one of the investors is a little bit nervous about this guy.
This meant that for all but the richest families, the best sort of woman was one who could bear a grundle of children while working like a plowhorse.
For a grundle of ideas, go visit the website
gloss: To emit a grumble, or a lesser version thereof
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
Translations:
impasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
French im-
French passe
French impassebor.
English impasse
Borrowed from French impasse.
Inflected forms:
form: impasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A road with no exit; a cul-de-sac.
pos: noun
gloss: A deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: “It seems to me the thing's an impasse. French expression,” I explained, “meaning that we're stymied good and proper with no hope of finding a formula.”
"Young man, this town is at a bit of an impasse. If you have any suggestion that might help, now would be the time to voice it."
The agreement, which falls short of the sprawling changes championed by Democrats, is a significant step toward ending a yearslong impasse over gun reform legislation.
Translations:
absent-mindedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English absent-minded
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 absent-mindedness
From absent-minded + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: absent-mindednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic or state of being easily distracted or preoccupied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I don't mean to make mistakes; it's just absent-mindedness.
For six years they had taken care of him and loved him—watched over his outgoings and his incomings and forgiven all his absent-mindednesses.
Translations:
spotlight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spot + light.
Compound parts: spot
light
Inflected forms:
form: spotlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spotlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spotlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spotlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spotlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spotlit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spotlit
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bright, directional light or lamp, especially one used to illuminate the focus or center of attention on a stage.
pos: noun
gloss: The circle of light shed by a spotlight.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The center of attention; the highlight or most important part.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Some people enjoy the spotlight.
gloss: A showcase.
pos: noun
gloss: To illuminate with a spotlight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We spotlight the star, but the supporting cast has all the great lines in this scene.
The first act of Me & Julie presents Mr. Short in a black tie at his piano, beneath a golden arched proscenium, spotlighted on an otherwise dark stage.
gloss: To draw attention to.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The news series served to spotlight corruption.
gloss: Synonym of jacklight (“to use a spotlight in hunting animals”).
pos: verb
Derived words: hog the spotlight
in the spotlight
spotlight effect
spotlighter
spotlighty
under the spotlight
unspotlighted
Translations:
penitence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested circa 13th century, from Middle English penitence, from Old French penitence, from Latin paenitentia (“repentance, penitence”), from paenitēns (“penitent”), present active participle of paeniteō (“regret, repent”). Equivalent to penitent + -ence. Doublet of penance.
Base: penitent
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: penitences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pænitence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being penitent; a feeling of regret or remorse for doing wrong or sinning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me, even with tears of penitence, I cannot, even in memory, dwell on it without a start of horror.
Away, Remorse! / Compunction, hence!. / Go, Moral Force! / Go, Penitence!
Translations:
post-war
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English war
English post-war
From post- + war.
Inflected forms:
form: postwar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
Synonyms: postbellum
Antonyms: pre-war
antebellum
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: паслявае́нны
roman: pasljavajénny
lang: Catalan
word: postguerra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戰後的 /战后的
roman: zhànhòude
lang: Czech
word: poválečný
lang: Dutch
word: naoorlogs
lang: Finnish
word: sodanjälkeinen
lang: French
word: après-guerre
lang: Georgian
word: ომისშემდგომი
roman: omisšemdgomi
lang: German
word: Nachkriegs-
lang: German
word: nachkrieglich
lang: Hindi
word: युद्धोत्तर
roman: yuddhottar
lang: Hungarian
word: háború utáni
lang: Indonesian
word: pascaperang
lang: Indonesian
word: purnayuda
lang: Italian
word: postbellico
lang: Italian
word: dopoguerra
lang: Japanese
word: 戦後の
lang: Latvian
word: pēckara
lang: Polish
word: powojenny
lang: Portuguese
word: pós-bélico
lang: Russian
word: послевое́нный
roman: poslevojénnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: poratni
lang: Slovak
word: povojnový
lang: Swedish
word: efterkrigs-
lang: Tagalog
word: pagka-digma
lang: Ukrainian
word: післявоє́нний
roman: pisljavojénnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: повоє́нний
roman: povojénnyj
pre-war
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English war
English pre-war
From pre- + war.
Inflected forms:
form: prewar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Before a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Before a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Before a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
gloss: Before a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Before a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: antebellum
Antonyms: post-war
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: давае́нны
roman: davajénny
lang: Belarusian
word: перадвае́нны
roman: pjeradvajénny
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戰前 /战前
roman: zhànqián
lang: Czech
word: předválečný
lang: French
word: d'avant-guerre
lang: Georgian
word: ომამდელი
roman: omamdeli
lang: German
word: Vorkriegs-
lang: German
word: vorkrieglich
lang: Hungarian
word: háború előtti
lang: Italian
word: prebellico
lang: Italian
word: antebellico
lang: Latvian
word: pirmskara
lang: Occitan
word: abansguèrra
lang: Occitan
word: prebellic
lang: Occitan
word: antebellic
lang: Polish
word: przedwojenny
lang: Russian
word: довое́нный
roman: dovojénnyj
lang: Russian
word: предвое́нный
roman: predvojénnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: predratni
lang: Slovak
word: predvojnový
lang: Tagalog
word: dipa-digma
lang: Ukrainian
word: довоє́нний
roman: dovojénnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: передвоє́нний
roman: peredvojénnyj
reeducation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Latin ēducātiōder.
English education
English reeducation
From re- + education.
Inflected forms:
form: reeducations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-education
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of educating again or anew so as to rehabilitate or adapt to new situations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Involuntary political indoctrination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
Derived words: reeducation camp
Translations:
slap-back
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerial-freestyle
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
skiing
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more slap-back
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slap-back
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slap-backs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: when bass strings are slapped rather plucked individually.
pos: adj
gloss: a faulty landing, whereby the skier rotates backwards around the knee-joint and hits the snow of the landing slope with their back and head, before rising off the snow back into position with their skis underneath them.
pos: noun
Translations:
setlist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From set + list.
Compound parts: set
list
Inflected forms:
form: setlists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: set list
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A list of the songs to be played by a particular band or musical act for a particular show or tour.
pos: noun
examples: The setlist didn’t stray from what McCartney played at his similarly intimate Santa Barbara Bowl gig last September, though “Flaming Pie” snuck into this concert’s final act, opening the door for a rousing back-to-back-to-back of “Jet,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” and “Get Back.”
Translations:
reject
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
basketball
business
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
Etymology: From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin reiectus, past participle of reicere (“to throw back”), from re- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Old English āweorpan (literally “to throw out”).
Inflected forms:
form: rejects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rejecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rejected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rejected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rejects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To refuse to accept; to forswear.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She even rejected my improved offer.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
gloss: To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
pos: verb
gloss: To refuse a romantic advance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've been rejected three times this week.
It's unexpected / It usually is / When you're rejected / Or you take a hit
gloss: Something that is rejected.
pos: noun
examples: Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
gloss: An unpopular person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: A rejected defective product in a production line.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion […] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.
gloss: A rejected takeoff.
pos: noun
Synonyms: abjure
abnegate
decline
deny
disown
refuse
repudiate
say no
turn down
dismiss
discount
Antonyms: accept
take up
Derived words: bandreject
overreject
rejectability
rejectable
rejectate
rejected landing
rejected takeoff
rejectee
rejecter
rejector
rejectful
rejection
rejectionism
rejectionist
rejective
rejectment
rereject
unreject
initial reject
Translations:
shyster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: US origin, 19th century. The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "of obscure origin," possibly deriving from a historical sense of shy meaning "disreputable", equivalent to shy + -ster. Other sources suggest the word derives from shicer, from the German Scheißer (“incompetent worthless person”), from scheißen (“to defecate”), probably influenced by -ster. Not related to shylock.
Base: shy
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: shysters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scheister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: schyster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shaista
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shiester
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: schiester
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shysters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shystering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shystered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shystered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: schister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: scheister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sheister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: schyster
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shaista
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: shiester
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: schiester
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
pos: noun
examples: True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of […] a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
The network canceled—nonco-operation their legal shysters said. Suing me, for, for ten million clams, damages to sponsors, agencies. Internal Revenue-Uncle Whiskers says I owe them a mint.
I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.
gloss: To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To exploit (someone or something) in this way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
relapse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin relapsus, past participle of relabi (“to slide back, fall back”), from re- (“back”) + labi (“to slip, slide, fall”).
Inflected forms:
form: relapses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relapsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relapsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relapsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: relapses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.
to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism
to relapse into slumber after being disturbed
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
gloss: To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To return to a vice, especially self-harm or alcoholism, failing to maintain abstinence.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
specifically
examples: relapsed after 5 months of being clean
gloss: To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.
pos: verb
examples: You slip your hold and change your side,
Relapsing from a necessary guide.
gloss: The act or situation of relapsing.
pos: noun
examples: a drug relapse
Alas! from what high hope to what relapse / Unlooked for are we fallen!
gloss: An occasion when a person becomes ill again after a period of improvement
pos: noun
gloss: One who has relapsed, or fallen back into error; a backslider.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: remission
Derived words: irrelapsable
relapsable
relapser
nonrelapsed
nonrelapsing
unrelapsingrelapsing fever
nonrelapse
prerelapse
Translations:
self-tapping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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 tapping
English self-tapping
From self- + tapping.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to advance when turned, while creating its own thread.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sabaton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sabatoun, from Medieval Latin sabatum, sabbatum. Compare sabatine and Old Provençal sabato.
Inflected forms:
form: sabatons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sabbaton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A medieval armour covering for the foot, typically made of steel; a flexible armour shoe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
submerge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin submergere, from sub (“under”) + mergere (“to plunge”). By surface analysis, sub- + merge.
Inflected forms:
form: submerges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: submerging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: submerged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: submerged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sink out of sight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The submarine submerged in the water.
gloss: To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.
gloss: To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On the day of RAIL 's site visit, in heavy weather, the scaffolding and decking that engineers stand on were submerged deep under choppy water, with work suspended. "We have to work around the tides," explained Project Director Alan Venables. "The wind pushes the tide up and the waves get larger. That causes some problems with the scaffold."
gloss: To engulf or overwhelm.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
gloss: To drown or suppress.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.
Synonyms: submerse
Related words: submersion
Derived words: resubmerge
submergeable
submergement
submergence
submerger
submergible
Translations:
encryption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English encrypt
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 encryption
From encrypt + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: encryptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a new encryption technique that enables computing on data blindly, without decrypting it.
gloss: A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.
Related words: encrypt
decrypt
Derived words: homomorphic encryption
on-the-fly encryption
reencryption
superencryption
unencryption
Translations:
decryption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Verbal noun of decrypt, from de- + crypt (only attested in compounds, such as cryptogram) from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”).
Inflected forms:
form: decryptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process reversing an encryption; the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
prognosticator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)
▲
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
▲
Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)
▲
Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)
Ancient Greek πρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)
▲
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek προγνωστῐκός (prognōstĭkós)der.
Medieval Latin prognosticus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Medieval Latin prognosticareder.
English prognosticate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English prognosticator
From prognosticate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: prognosticators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses.
pos: noun
examples: Plenty of prognosticators try to forecast the ups and downs of the market.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the starre-gazers, the monethly prognosticators stand vp, and saue thee from these things that shall come vpon thee.
When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
On Long Bets, a website where prognosticators test their mettle by playing for real (or at least proceeds-donated-to-charity) stakes, there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism.
Translations:
pseudoephedrine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der.
Middle English pseudo-
English pseudo-
English ephedra
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English ephedrine
English pseudoephedrine
From pseudo- + ephedrine.
Inflected forms:
form: pseudoephedrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sympathomimetic alkaloid commonly used as a decongestant; a chemical compound, an isomer of ephedrine, with the formula C₁₀H₁₅NO.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
menarche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested 1900, from German Menarche, formed from meno- + -arche.
Affixes: meno-
-arche
Inflected forms:
form: menarches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The onset of menstruation; a girl's first period.
pos: noun
examples: How old is she? Nine? Ten? The menarche is not far off – a hint of a bosom, poor child.
The most potent and indeed dangerous of all menstrual blood was the menarche, the first day's flow of the first menstruation of a virgin girl.
Initiation is imagined, but the initiate is not the young girl in menarche, about to be wed to the moon, but a young man about to become a great hunter.
Translations:
Jackson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Jack + -son.
Base: Jack
Affixes: -son
Inflected forms:
form: Jacksons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jaxon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jaxson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jaxxon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A U.S. 20-dollar banknote USD (from the portrait of President Andrew Jackson on the bill).
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: She looked at me with that familiar desire
Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,
So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
gloss: A member of The Jackson 5.
pos: noun
Translations:
pullover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
gymnastics
hobbies
law-enforcement
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pull overdeverb.
English pullover
Deverbal from pull over.
Inflected forms:
form: pullovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweater that must be put on by pulling it over the head; a sweater without buttons or a zipper in front.
pos: noun
gloss: An exercise performed lying on the back in which the arms are extended behind the head and exertion lifts the weight above the head.
pos: noun
gloss: An exercise in which the gymnast pulls up from a hang lifting the legs up and over the bar thus rolling into a support position.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of a vehicle being pulled over.
pos: noun
examples: I followed my training in the academy regarding vehicle pullovers.
Related words: cardigan
jumper
pushover
sweater
sweatshirt
Derived words: pullovered
pulloverless
pully
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