yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
youth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.
Base: young
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: youths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yought
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: youthe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being young.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
Feel awfully about Scott... It was a terrible thing for him to love youth so much that he jumped straight from youth to senility without going through manhood. The minute he felt youth going he was frightened again and thought there was nothing between youth and age.
Her youth and beauty attracted him to her.
gloss: The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Make the most of your youth, it will not last forever.
I made many mistakes in my youth, but learned from them all.
I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
gloss: A young person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There was a group of youths hanging around the parking lot, reading fashion magazines and listening to music.
gloss: A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […]and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
gloss: Young persons, collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The actual brides- and grooms-to-be are not in attendance—many youth would be embarrassed by their parents’ matchmaking efforts, and often do not live in the same city anyway.
Related words: young
Derived words: fountain of youth
hilltop youth
in the flower of one's youth
middle youth
mid youth
yoof
youth academy
youth bulge
youth center
youth centre
youth-centric
youth club
youth court
youth crew
youth crime
youth culture
youth custody centre
youth detention center
youth detention centre
youthful
youth group
youth hostel
youth is wasted on the young
youthly
youth movement
youth-on-age
youth organization
youthwards
youth work
youth worker
youthy
Translations:
intensify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From intense + -ify. Compare French intensifier.
Base: intense
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: intensifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intensifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intensified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intensified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render more intense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to intensify the heat or cold
to intensify colors
to intensify a photographic negative
to intensify animosity
gloss: To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.
Related words: intensification
Derived words: reintensify
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: усилвам се
roman: usilvam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: засилвам се
roman: zasilvam se
lang: Dutch
word: verhevigen
lang: French
word: intensifier
lang: French
word: s'intensifier
lang: Greek
word: εντατικοποιώ
roman: entatikopoió
lang: Greek
word: εντείνω
roman: enteíno
lang: Greek
word: επιτείνω
roman: epiteíno
lang: Irish
word: géaraigh
lang: Portuguese
word: intensificar-se
lang: Spanish
word: arreciar
lang: Swedish
word: intensifieras
lang: Tagalog
word: tumindi
entreaty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entreat
English -y
English entreaty
From entreat + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: entreaties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intreaty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of entreating or beseeching; a strong petition; pressing solicitation; begging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1779, William Ward, An Essay on Grammar as it may be applied to the English Language, New Edition, page 202,
In all commands or entreaties, the ſtate commanded, or entreated, muſt be contingent; i. e. capable of being, or not being, as the command or entreaty expreſſes it.
She gathered many of the stones which I built into the walls of the hut; also, she turned a deaf ear to my entreaties when I begged her to desist.
1964 October, P. F. Strawson, Intention and Convention in Speech Acts, The Philosophical Review, Volume 73, Number 4, page 444,
We can readily imagine circumstances in which an utterance of the words "Don't go" would be correctly described not as a request or an order, but as an entreaty.
The entreaties of a lover and the rejection of the heroine lend charm to the stanza.
When the tears didn't come, she flicked on the desktop terminal and loaded up the query client. As expected, she had answers to every entreaty. Department of Tactical Theology: "The anomaly you describe has no apparent religious or ritual significance." Antimemetics Department: "This subject falls well outside our purview." (She couldn't remember why she'd bothered emailing them, whoever they were.) Medical Department: "The symptoms you describe suggest no known pathology, anomalous or otherwise." Temporal Anomalies Department: "These factors carry no obvious temporal indices." Every end was dead.
gloss: A treatment; reception; entertainment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: entreat
Translations:
amnesia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From modified Latin amnesia, from Ancient Greek ἀμνησία (amnēsía, “forgetfulness”), a noun derivation from μιμνήσκω (mimnḗskō, “to remind, to remember”) prefixed with the alpha privative.
Inflected forms:
form: amnesias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amnesiæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loss of memory; forgetfulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I lay around my Barnard dorm room listening to Nina Simone records and reading his first novel, “Forgetting Elena,” which takes place in a highly mythopoeticized version of Fire Island and nominally concerns a man with amnesia.
They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him
gloss: Forgetfulness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: a state of cultural amnesia
gloss: A potent sativa-dominant strain of marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: She's lighting up some sensis, he's lighting up amnesias / I'm 'bout to get it started, I'm 'bout to get amnesia'd
Related words: amnestic
amnestical
amnestically
amnesty
promnesia
Derived words: amnesiac
amnesic
anterograde amnesia
character amnesia
childhood amnesia
digital amnesia
dissociative amnesia
historical amnesia
infantile amnesia
maternal amnesia
milk of amnesia
momnesia
national amnesia
psychogenic amnesia
retrograde amnesia
Romnesia
transient epileptic amnesia
Translations:
nope
Part of speech: particle
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] in before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.
Inflected forms:
form: nopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: No.
pos: particle
tags: emphatic
informal
often
examples: "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
"No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
“Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"[…]
Nope. Don't know as I do.
gloss: A negative reply, no.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I'll take that as a nope, then.
By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
gloss: An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
Antonyms: yup
yep
yeah
Derived words: nope out
Nopeville
Translations:
laundromat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *lawō
Latin lavo
Latin lavareder.
Latin lavandarium
Latin lavandaria
Old French lavanderiebor.
Middle English lavendrie
English laundry
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *mətós
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.
Classical Latin automatum
New Latin automaticusbor.
English automatic
blend
English laundromat
Blend of laundry + automatic. From Laundromat, (former) trademark (1940s) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation for its washing machines, coined by Westinghouse publicist George Edward Pendray.
Inflected forms:
form: laundromats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A self-service laundry facility with (traditionally) coin-operated (which now may use other per-load payment methods) washing machines, dryers, and sometimes ironing or pressing machines, open to the public for washing clothing and household cloth items.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: In Virginia, gone are the weekly outings to Walmart to stock up on provisions; to El Ranchito, the Mexican convenience store, to buy shell-shaped concha pastries; and to the laundromat to machine wash heavily soiled garments.
gloss: A money laundering operation.
pos: noun
examples: The Russian laundromat was soon nicknamed the Moldovan laundromat, as it centred on transactions between Russia and the small, poor country locked between Ukraine and Romania.
Related words: automat
automatic
laundry
Derived words: laundromatting
Translations:
feudal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French feodal, from Medieval Latin feodalis, from feodum, feudum, fevum (“fief, fee”), from Frankish *fehu (“cattle, owndom, property, fee”), from Proto-Germanic *fehu (“cattle”). By surface analysis, feud (“estate”) + -al. More at fee.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to feudalism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.
Translations:
taper
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Middle English taper, from Old English tapor (“taper, candle, wick of a lamp”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papyrus (“papyrus", used in Mediaeval times to mean "wick of a candle”). If so, it is a doublet of papyrus. Alternatively, of Celtic origin related to Irish tapar (“taper”), Welsh tampr (“a taper, torch”); further compare Sanskrit तपती (tápati, “(it) warms, gives out heat, is hot; (it) heats”). More at tepid. First attested before the 12th c.
Inflected forms:
form: tapers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tapering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tapered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tapered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make thinner or narrower at one end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Though true cylinders without — within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom.
gloss: To become thinner or narrower at one end.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents. But unlike many other supertall towers that are tiered or taper toward the top, 432 Park is rectangular, making it less aerodynamic.
gloss: To diminish gradually.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Current major clinical practice guidelines provide little support for clinicians wishing to help patients discontinue or taper antidepressants in terms of mitigating and managing withdrawal symptoms.
gloss: To tighten monetary policy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Tapered; narrowing to a point.
pos: adj
Synonyms: narrow
Derived words: taper off
Translations:
teleological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English teleology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English teleologic
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 teleological
From teleologic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more teleological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most teleological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to teleology; showing evidence of design or purpose.
pos: adj
examples: It will be seen that this doctrine is optimistic and teleological: the universe and everything in it is developing towards something continually better than what went before.
Do I believe in God? I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.
Translations:
weed
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),
Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
Inflected forms:
form: weeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weeded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weeded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I weeded my flower bed.
If these plants are young, the weeders do not see them; and in this case, when they grow larger, the land must be again weeded. But the small plants, which are not less prejudicial, such as the wild Fitch, the wild Oat, Darnel, Fennel-flower, Knot-grass, Restharrow, Fox-tail, the several sorts of Bindweed, (Convolvulus) and all the small Poppies, remain in the field.
One cool morning last April in Pyongyang, North Korea, I watched a woman squat over a patch of grass along the Daedong River. A large handkerchief covering her head was knotted below her chin, encircling her sunburned and wrinkled face. As a van passed by blaring patriotic hymns from the oversize speakers on its roof, she weeded the riverbank. In North Korea, keeping the neighborhood clean is a civic duty. But she was far from any neighborhood. She was gathering the weeds for food.
gloss: To pilfer the best items from a collection.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
gloss: To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.
Related words: weed out
Translations:
valour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English valour, from Anglo-Norman valour, from Latin valor. Doublet of valure.
Inflected forms:
form: valours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: valor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Individually sustained verve or passion.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
examples: Valor wins the battle, not death!
gloss: Value; worth.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
gloss: Strength of mind in regard to danger; the quality that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness; a feeling of upstanding bravery against adversity.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
gloss: A brave man; a man of valour.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
uncountable
usually
Derived words: discretion is the better part of valour
Translations:
hostility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: hostilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being hostile.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.
The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.
gloss: A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
Antonyms: amity
friendliness
peace
Related words: hostile
Derived words: horizontal hostility
nonhostility
prehostility
Translations:
demonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin daemonizō, from daemon + -izō. Compare Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”). By surface analysis, demon + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: demonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demonized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: demonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: daemonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: daemonize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: dæmonize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To turn into a demon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To describe or represent as evil or diabolic, usually falsely.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.
He calls for a “massive, urgent recruitment effort,” which is a fine idea, but one that’s likely to be futile unless we stop demonizing teachers and start paying them fairly.
It brags “we can replace them”—and gaslights and demonizes those who notice and object to being replaced.
Many people disagree with several things society has normalized, some of which are even demonized. Frustratingly, attaching a stigma to perfectly reasonable things makes people feel attacked when they publicly do them. Here are 18 things that society has unfairly demonized that should be considered normal.
Derived words: dedemonize
demonizable
demonization
demonizer
redemonize
undemonized
Translations:
bootless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bootles, botelees; equivalent to boot + -less.
Base: boot#Etymology_1
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without boots.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
profitless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English profit
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 profitless
From profit + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more profitless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most profitless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not yielding profit
pos: adj
examples: I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve...
Translations:
boots
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: That dress is fierce boots!
Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.
As for Lindsay [Hubbard], it’s like this Courrèges dress was hand dyed to look as excellent on her as a dress could possibly look. Her breasts are sat, her waist snatched, and all the other sorts of things I could possibly say about a girl boss queen who slays boots the house.
[see title]
“Bring your best burns to the main stage and roast your partner down the house boots. The winner of each battle will earn themselves a top placement. While the loser will be in the bottom and possibly up for elimination,” Brad Goreski explained to the contestants.
There’s some people in the world who treat the girls differently based on their track records, which is crazy boots, but now you can clock the tea, clock the track record, clock the win, clock the tiara and… you could never.
Translations:
launderette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Launderette; originally a proprietary name (1940s) of Bendix corporation, from launder + -ette.
Base: launder
Affixes: -ette
Inflected forms:
form: launderettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laundrette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place that has facilities for washing and drying clothes that the public may pay to use.
pos: noun
gloss: A money laundering operation.
pos: noun
examples: The distinction is by no means watertight as any 'money launderette' may become a money launderer – and hence be guilty of a money laundering offence – the moment it knowingly engages in a money laundering operation.
From drug money to terrorist finance: the launderette's many different washing cycles
This is a stage at which the proceeds of illegal activity are introduced into the financial system and therefore it is the most vulnerable stage in the launderette. Perhaps this is why anti-money laundering measures are concerned about “Know Your Customer Principle.
Translations:
manet
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From Latin manet (“he remains”), manent (“they remain”), inflections of maneō.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used in stage directions; literally, he, she or it remains. Compare exit, exeunt.
pos: verb
examples: Exeunt Princess and maidens. Manet Lady Blanche.
Translations:
yep
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yup, nope, welp, and ope. Compare also German jap (“yep”).
Inflected forms:
form: yeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yes.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: Yes.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I'll take that as a yep, then.
Translations:
pertaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pertainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
pos: noun
examples: When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.
Translations:
pertain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pertenen, from Old French partenir, pertenir (modern French appartenir), in turn from Latin pertineō, pertinēre.
Inflected forms:
form: pertains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pertaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pertained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pertained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To belong to or be connected as a part, adjunct, attribute, or accessory.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That spare wheel pertains to this car.
gloss: To relate to, concern, or be relevant to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That question doesn't pertain to the topic, so I'm not going to answer it.
gloss: To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An explanation offered is that every Sabbath Va'ani Tefilati is said in praise of the people of Israel, who, though they eat and drink, read the Torah and pray. However, on Yom Kippur this does not pertain.
gloss: To be appropriate or suitable.
pos: verb
Synonyms: appertain
affect
bear upon
bear on
concern
impact
involve
pertain
refer
regard
relate
touch
Antonyms: be irrelevant
have no business
not concern
Related words: pertinent
pertinence
pertinency
pertinently (adverb}}
Derived words: pertainment
pertainym
unpertaining
Translations:
mansion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: mansions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mansioun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
pos: noun
gloss: A luxurious flat (apartment).
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An apartment building.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
gloss: A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
gloss: An astrological house; a station of the moon.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
pos: noun
tags: Chinese
gloss: An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.
These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.
The many mansions in one east London house of God.
gloss: Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
pos: noun
Related words: maison
maisonette
manor
manse
mansion house
mansion place
mansion stage
menage
menial
Derived words: cinemansion
executive mansion
lunar mansion
mansional
mansioned
mansionette
mansionization
mansionless
mansionlike
mansionry
McMansion
megamansion
minimansion
tract mansion
Translations:
clergyman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clergy
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English clergyman
From clergy + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: clergymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: clergy
I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.
The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
Translations:
ordained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Established by authority.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Admitted to the ministry of the church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.
Derived words: nonordained
self-ordained
unordained
Translations:
ordain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English ordeynen, from Old French ordiner, from Latin ordinare (“to order”), from ordo (“order”). Doublet of ordinate.
Inflected forms:
form: ordains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ordaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ordained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ordained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prearrange unalterably.
pos: verb
examples: What if the Foot, ordain'd the duſt to tread, / Or Hand, to toil, aſpir'd to be the Head? / What if the Head, the Eye, or Ear repin'd / To ſerve mere Engines to the ruling Mind?
gloss: To decree.
pos: verb
examples: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
gloss: To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
pos: verb
gloss: To predestine.
pos: verb
Synonyms: foresay
Related words: ordination
Derived words: coordain
disordain
foreordain
misordain
ordainable
ordainee
ordainer
ordainment
preordain
reordain
unordain
Translations:
decree
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English decre, decree, from Old French decré (French décret), from Latin dēcrētum.
Inflected forms:
form: decrees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decrees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decreeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decreed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decreed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An edict or law.
pos: noun
examples: There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
Poor hand, why quiverest thou at this decree?
gloss: The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
pos: noun
gloss: The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
pos: noun
gloss: A predetermination made by God; an act of providence.
pos: noun
gloss: To command by a decree.
pos: verb
examples: A court decrees a restoration of property.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.
Derived words: consent decree
counterdecree
decree absolute
decree arbitral
decree nisi
decreer
decree time
final decree
imperial decree
postdecree
predecree
Translations:
edict
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Inflected forms:
form: edicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
pos: noun
examples: By this time the edict had gone forth that the railways were to be nationalised on January 1, 1948.
It was made clear in a pre-tournament referees' briefing that such grappling would be taken seriously and punished, so England have every right to ask why this edict was not carried out.
Translations:
proclamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English proclamacion, from Anglo-Norman and Old French proclamacion, from Late Latin proclāmātiō, from the verb Latin prōclāmō.
Inflected forms:
form: proclamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A statement which is proclaimed; formal a public announcement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.
Translations:
formal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.
Base: form
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more formal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most formal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with established forms.
pos: adj
examples: She spoke formal English, without any dialect.
gloss: Official.
pos: adj
examples: I'd like to make a formal complaint.
gloss: Relating to the form or structure of something.
pos: adj
examples: Formal linguistics ignores the vocabulary of languages and focuses solely on their grammar.
THE THREE DOMINANT FORMS IN METALSMITHING […] At present, there are but three basic volumetric forms dominating the work of metalsmiths, the spherical (usually in its most practical form, the domical), the cylindrical, and the cubical. […] The possibilities for further variations on them are all but exhausted, there being little chance to express new and unusual ideas within the framework of such limited choices. As a result, much of twentieth-century metalsmithing has relied on surface enrichment rather than formal development for its originality.
gloss: Relating to formation.
pos: adj
examples: The formal stage is a critical part of any child's development.
gloss: Ceremonial or traditional.
pos: adj
examples: Formal wear must be worn at my wedding!
gloss: Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
pos: adj
examples: He's always very formal, and I wish he'd relax a bit.
gloss: Organized; well-structured and planned.
pos: adj
examples: When they became a formal club the rowers built a small boathouse.
gloss: In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: Despite efforts by limnologists and freshwater biologists to create a formal definition of “pond”, there is still no universal distinction between a “pond” and a “lake”.
Only formal proofs, which derive theorems logically from their given axioms, are considered satisfactory in modern mathematics.
A set of words can be formal cognates only if they can be derived from a common ancestor by regular sound laws.
gloss: Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
pos: adj
examples: Formal series are defined without any reference to convergence.
Antonyms: informal
Related words: form
Derived words: business formal
essive-formal
formal cause
formal charge
formal education
formal equivalence
formalese
formalesque
formal fallacy
formal grammar
formal heresy
formalish
formalism
formalist
formality
formalization
formalize
formal language
formal linguistics
formal logic
formally
formal mathematics
formalness
formal ontology
formal power series
formal science
formal semantics
formal series
formal sociology
formal sum
formal system
formal validity
formal wear
formalwear
hyperformal
microformal
nonformal
non-formal learning
omniformal
overformal
postformal
pseudoformal
semiformal
superformal
ultraformal
unformal
Translations:
outlive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
Base: live
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outlives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outliving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outlived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outlived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.
gloss: To live through or past (a given time).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.
gloss: To surpass in duration; outlast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To live longer; continue to live.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: predecease
Derived words: outliver
Translations:
laksa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay laksa.
Inflected forms:
form: laksas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spicy noodle stew from Indonesia or Malaysia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
boozer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).
Base: booze
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: boozers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: “Tess is a fine figure o′ fun, as I said to myself today when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest,” observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.
But they have only one insurance rate for ordinary men — drinkers and non-drinkers, and they compel the man who doesn′t booze to make up for the extra amount that the boozer should pay.
"You were actually taking that old boozer seriously."
2009 November, Neville Franks, The Lost Boy of the Ozarks, Backpacker, page 82,
Every swig made me more relaxed, and happy, and I was definitely a boozer again, and I wondered why I had ever thought I wasn't a boozer and I took another pull and I was going to clap BC on the back and thank him for being such a good hotel manager, and faithful guide, for being my friend, and then I passed out.
gloss: A public house, pub.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: Zoe’s dad went to the same boozer every day, a flat-roofed pub on the edge of the estate, with the cross of St George hanging above the door and a ferocious-looking Rottweiler tied up outside.
During the week, the players were just as likely to be spotted out together in a local pub such as the Four in Hand. It was even known for them to frequent the Marksman off Carters Green, one of the town’s roughest boozers.
gloss: A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
gloss: A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
examples: 2010 June 8, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2,
Mr. Mututho: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister should assure the people of Vihiga that they will get a water boozer because the sick people are not party to this complication. Could he assure the people that he can send a boozer in his capacity even if he cannot supply power or a standby generator, so that they can have a small well?
Related words: booze
Translations:
deplore
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre (“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain.
Base: plōrāre
Affixes: dē-
Inflected forms:
form: deplores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deploring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deplored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deplored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.
I deplore not having listened to your advice.
gloss: To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I deplore how you treated him at the party.
The UNHCR deplores the recent events in Sudan.
Many people deplore the actions of the corrupt government.
Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.
Well, Minister, in practical terms we have the usual six options. One: do nothing. Two: issue a statement deploring the speech. Three: lodge an official protest. Four: cut off aid. Five: break off diplomatic relations. And six: declare war.
gloss: To regard as hopeless; to give up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored; whereas, in my judgement, they ought both to inquire the skill, and to give the attendances, for the facilitating and assuaging of the pains and agonies of death.
Related words: deplorable
deploration
Derived words: deploredly
deploredness
deplorement
deploringly
undeplored
Translations:
bewail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bewailen, equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + wail.
Base: wail
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bewails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bewailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bewailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bewailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.
pos: verb
examples: […] Though in this city he
Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one,
Which to this hour bewail the injury,
Yet he shall have a noble memory.
And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
[…] when the wind
Blows keenly, it sends forth a creaking sound
(Above the general roar of woods and crags)
Distinctly heard from far--a doleful note!
As if (so Grecian shepherds would have deemed)
The Hamadryad, pent within, bewailed
Some bitter wrong.
About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
Far from bewailing the existence of mysteries-for-humans, we should be extremely grateful for it.
Boxed out of federal governing, Democratic voters have bewailed the impotence of their party’s leaders as the Republican administration has dismantled government agencies, claimed wartime powers to deport immigrants – and, last week, imposed an unprecedented level of tariffs that sparked a rout in global financial markets.
Translations:
lament
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter and its etymon Latin lāmentor (“to wail, weep”), from lāmentum (“wailing, moaning, weeping”); with formative -mentum, from the root *la-, probably ultimately imitative. Also see latrare.
Inflected forms:
form: laments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lamenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lamented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lamented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
pos: noun
gloss: A song expressing grief.
pos: noun
gloss: To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
And they are dangerous because when worn they make their wearer look ridiculous and contemptible to those not enthralled by the same fashion; and when their moment has passed they take up precious closet space, taunting you and making you lament of money that should have been spent on something more longevous.
gloss: To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.
By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.
Synonyms: afterthink
becry
begrieve
bemoan
bemourn
bewail
beweep
condole
deplore
elegize
grieve
grieven
keen
lament
mean
mourn
pine
repent
sigh
sorrow
wail
wayment
Antonyms: cheer up
gladden
Related words: lamentability
lamentable
lamentation
Lamentations
lamenting
be sad
sad
sadden
Derived words: lamentacious
lamentful
lamentless
Translations:
disapproval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English approval
English disapproval
From dis- + approval.
Inflected forms:
form: disapprovals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disapproving; condemnation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.
Antonyms: approval
assent
Translations: