yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ham-fisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ham (“thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat”) + fisted (adjective), probably referring to someone being clumsy as if they have hams at the end of their arms instead of hands.
Compound parts: ham
fisted
Inflected forms:
form: more ham-fisted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ham-fisted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hamfisted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking skill in physical movement with the hands; clumsy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "God damn and blast all you hamfisted yokels!" he was saying. "And you, sir, down there. Take that grin off your face and be more careful, or I'll have you clapped under hatches to sail with us today. Easy, there, easy! Christ, rum at seven guineas an anker isn't meant to be dropped like pig iron!"
gloss: Lacking skill in general; incompetent.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
informal
examples: [Stephen] Harper has a few weeks' grace, during which he and his ham-fisted finance minister, Jim Flaherty, can ponder the error of their ways.
In 1973, Sonia Orwell broke David Bowie's heart by refusing him permission to adapt her late husband [George Orwell]'s final novel into a rock musical. She had rebuffed every request since the hamfisted 1956 movie version starring Edmond O'Brien, and was never likely to make an exception for a glam-rock dandy, but he was sorely aggrieved.
What an utter farce. Just like DfT [the Department for Transport]'s ham-fisted, blundering ticket office closure programme.
Related words: ham radio
Derived words: ham-fistedly
hamfistedly
ham-fistedness
hamfistedness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: несръ́чен
roman: nesrǎ́čen
lang: Dutch
word: lomp
lang: Dutch
word: onbeholpen
lang: Dutch
word: onhandig
lang: Finnish
word: kömpelö
lang: Finnish
word: poropeukalo
lang: French
word: maladroit
lang: German
word: plump
lang: German
word: unbeholfen
lang: Bavarian German
word: påtschert
lang: Hungarian
word: ügyetlen
lang: Norwegian
word: klomsete
lang: Norwegian
word: klønete
lang: Portuguese
word: desengonçado
lang: Russian
word: нело́вкий
roman: nelóvkij
lang: Russian
word: неуклю́жий
roman: neukljúžij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: нѐспретан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nèspretan
lang: Swedish
word: valhänt
accessions
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A collection of laboratory tests performed on a single sample.
pos: noun
Translations:
macrocycle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusbor.
Middle English cicle
English cycle
English macrocycle
From macro- + cycle.
Inflected forms:
form: macrocycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule
pos: noun
gloss: In sports training, an annual plan that works towards peaking for the goal competition of the year.
pos: noun
Related words: calixarene
carcerand
cavitand
crown ether
cryptand
cyclophane
lariat ether
spherand
Derived words: azamacrocycle
Translations:
Hugo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French Hugo, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hugi (“thought, mind, spirit”).
Inflected forms:
form: Hugos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Hugo Award, a statuette given out by the World Science Fiction Society.
pos: noun
examples: Red Mars (1992) won a Nebula and Green Mars (1993) won a Hugo.
Translations:
antitrust
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
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-
English trust
English antitrust
From anti- + trust.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The regulators used antitrust laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.
If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
Translations:
pitch-black
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pitch (“tar”) + black. Compare West Frisian pikswart (literally “pitch-black”), Dutch pikzwart (literally “pitch-black”), German pechschwarz (literally “pitch-black”), Swedish becksvart (literally “pitch-black”), Icelandic biksvartur (literally “pitch-black”).
Base: pitch
Inflected forms:
form: more pitch-black
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pitch-black
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pitchblack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pitch black
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very dark; without light.
pos: adj
Translations:
metalloid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.
Latin metallum
Old French metalbor.
Middle English metal
English metal
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English metalloid
From metal + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: metalloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more metalloid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metalloid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially an elemental semiconductor.
pos: noun
gloss: The metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; applied to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: By some they [metals of the alkalies] were called metalloids; by some their simple nature was objected to
gloss: A nonmetal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of or relating to the metalloids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Characteristic of the metal music genre.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Graham Massey of 808 State turns a Björkian moan into a vibrating siren and powers his strangely metalloid version of "Army Of Me" with it; the Brodsky String Quartet turns "Hyperballad" into a stately 3-D chess game.
It expanded from bleary delay rippling with looped phrases to embrace molten metalloid raunch and blues grit, acoustic guitars and pedal steels.
Translations:
nonmetal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.
Latin metallum
Old French metalbor.
Middle English metal
English metal
English nonmetal
From non- + metal.
Inflected forms:
form: nonmetals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-metal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An element, such as phosphorus or chlorine, that does not have the chemical or physical properties of a metal.
pos: noun
Translations:
avoiding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: avoidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Avoidance.
pos: noun
examples: Two classes of people she had chosen to avoid, having been driven to such avoidings by her aunt's preferences; marquises and such-like, whether wicked or otherwise, she had eschewed, and had eschewed likewise all Low Church tendencies.
Translations:
brooding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more brooding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brooding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: broodings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
pos: adj
examples: A brooding hen can be aggressive.
gloss: Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
pos: adj
examples: You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep.
his brooding good looks and distinct Scottish brogue won him legions of fans worldwide.
gloss: A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
pos: noun
examples: The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings, thick with doubt and fear.
Derived words: broodingly
broodingness
unbrooding
Translations:
brooded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having broods
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intergender
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English intergender
From inter- + gender.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place between people of opposite genders.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: intergender friendship, intergender wrestling
gloss: Having a gender identity midway between male and female.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Their art focuses on people who are non-gendered or intergender.
Synonyms: intergendered
Translations:
covalently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English valent
English covalent
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English covalently
From covalent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more covalently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most covalently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using covalent bonds.
pos: adv
Translations:
airfreight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + freight.
Compound parts: air
freight
Inflected forms:
form: air freight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: air-freight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: airfreights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airfreighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airfreighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airfreighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: air freight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: air-freight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The transportation of freight by air.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The amount charged for such transport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To transport by air.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And I've told you a hundred times, Mac, draft beer is too expensive to airfreight in.
Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.
Translations:
soundproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sound
English -proof
English soundproof
From sound + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more soundproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soundproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: soundproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soundproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soundproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soundproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not allowing sound through.
pos: adj
examples: The contestant was placed in a soundproof booth so he could not receive help from the audience.
The electrical activity of the subject's cerebral cortex was recorded in a state of relative rest, after a 5 min adaptation of the subject to a dark soundproof chamber. The biopotentials were recorded from the electroencephaloscope screen […]
gloss: To make resistant to transmitting sound.
pos: verb
examples: We soundproofed the room so we couldn't hear the road noises; unfortunately we couldn't hear the fire alarm either.
It almost goes without saying that the train is fully soundproofed, with double-glazed windows and highly efficient air-conditioning by the British firm of J. Stone.
Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling.
Translations:
responsive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French responsif, from Late Latin responsivus.
Inflected forms:
form: more responsive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most responsive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Answering, replying or responding
pos: adj
gloss: Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
pos: adj
gloss: Using antiphons; antiphonal.
pos: adj
gloss: Susceptible to the feelings of others.
pos: adj
gloss: Automatically resizing and repositioning elements to fit the available space.
pos: adj
examples: Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.
gloss: Suited to something else; correspondent.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
gloss: Responsible.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: he [the bishop] must be responsive for all his diocese
Antonyms: nonresponsive
unresponsive
Derived words: alloresponsive
bioresponsive
chemoresponsive
corresponsive
ecoresponsive
electroresponsive
hyperresponsive
hyporesponsive
immunoresponsive
irresponsive
isoresponsive
magnetoresponsive
mechanoresponsive
multiresponsive
normoresponsive
osmoresponsive
overresponsive
photoresponsive
radioresponsive
responsive design
responsively
responsiveness
responsive web design
responsivity
responsorial
seroresponsive
thermoresponsive
underresponsive
vasoresponsive
Translations:
polarization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from French polarisation. By surface analysis, polarize + -ation or polar + -ization.
Base: polar
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: polarizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polarisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The production or the condition of polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The subtopologies that we discovered include: a glide-symmetric analog of the quantum spin Hall effect, an hourglass-flow topology (exemplified by our recently-proposed KHgSb material class), and quantized non-Abelian polarizations.
gloss: The production or the condition of polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What frazzled pollsters, surly op-ed pages, snarling cable talkfests and issue-starved candidates for office need is a fresh source of hot-eyed national polarization.
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.
Polarization is tearing at the seams of democracies around the world, from Brazil and India to Poland and Turkey.
gloss: The production or the condition of polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We don’t usually notice polarization because direct sunlight and light from ordinary incandescent and fluorescent bulbs is unpolarized: it contains equal mixtures of horizontally and vertically polarized light.
gloss: The production or the condition of polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: affective partisan polarization
bipolarization
depolarization
eigenpolarization
hyperpolarization
hypopolarization
interstellar polarization
millipolarization
mispolarization
multipolarization
overpolarization
polariton
polarization charge
polarization time
polarization vector
prepolarization
repolarization
spin polarization
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qütbləşmə
lang: Catalan
word: polarització
lang: French
word: polarisation
lang: Galician
word: polarización
lang: German
word: Polarisierung
lang: Greek
word: πόλωση
roman: pólosi
lang: Hindi
word: ध्रुवीकरण
roman: dhruvīkaraṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: polarizáció
lang: Italian
word: polarizzazione
lang: Polish
word: polaryzacja
lang: Portuguese
word: polarização
lang: Russian
word: поляриза́ция
roman: poljarizácija
lang: Spanish
word: polarización
lang: Swedish
word: polarisering
lang: Tagalog
word: sataluktok
strongman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strong
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English strongman
From strong + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: strongmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who performs feats of strength, as in competitions or as an attraction in a circus.
pos: noun
examples: Giovanni Battista Belzoni, the famous Egyptian archeologist, who was a man of gigantic stature, began his public career as a strongman at the Bartholomew Fair, under the management of Gyngell, the conjuror, who dubbed him The Young Hercules.
Opposite him was the Fat Lady, red-faced and laughing. Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy. Further down the table, the Strong Man, an overcoat covering his leopard-skin, talked garrulously.
gloss: A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.
pos: noun
examples: Kazakhstan’s explosion into unrest this week presents a stark warning to the strongman autocrats of the world: Leaving office is perilous.
Since the Cold War’s end, a staggering 70 percent of governments headed by strongmen collapsed after the ruler departed, according to one data set.
Related words: strongwoman
Derived words: strongman game
Translations:
assented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of stocks or bonds: whose holders agree to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
embroidered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more embroidered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most embroidered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Decorated with embroidery; covered in decorative needlework.
pos: adj
examples: The very embroidered arras, which hangs yon pavilion, is worthy to be observed; but the artificers here, who display their curious works in our native metals, deserve high praise.
Surely he has appropriated wome of what should be his wife's jewelry, for in that very embroidered cambric shirt of his sparkle three splendid diamonds set in dark blue enamel.
Luis de Avila and Lope de Soria often mention her in their letters; so for example, Avila: "I came to Correggio, where I had Luncheon. I saw Veronica in bed, with a very ornamental night-cap and a very embroidered coverlet."
gloss: Embellished; elaborate, especially when containing superfluous or fictitious details.
pos: adj
examples: The man of business at his desk, the mechanic in his workshop, the idler on his couch, the man of letters in his study, has but to turn for a brief interval to these Lives, and he will behold, for every period and age, the very embroidered and moving scene that he has been seeking to understand and to sympathise with, in a way, in so far as the effect and the cause are concerned, not unlike that which Shakspeare's historical plays, and Walter Scott's historical romances, produce upon the vivid imagination.
The orchestration is effective and ingenious, and some of the recitative is sustained with a very embroidered accompaniment.
That is not a very embroidered account of an actual occurrence.
Derived words: unembroidered
Translations:
ascending
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ascend
English -ing
English ascending
From ascend + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: ascendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: Please arrange these numbers in an ascending order.
Once though the station the deep-throated exhaust of G.C.R. engines, and particularly the "Directors", could be heard in ascending crescendo as the drivers opened out to take the gradient.
gloss: Rising or increasing to higher levels, values, or degrees. (e.g. of a sequence)
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: We used an ascending sort.
gloss: Leading or sloping upwards.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
gloss: An ascent.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: continual ascendings and descendings
Antonyms: descending
Derived words: ascending cervical artery
ascending chain condition
ascending colon
ascendingly
ascending node
ascending palatine artery
ascending pharyngeal artery
ascendostomy
parascending
subascending
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَصَاعُدِيّ
roman: taṣāʕudiyy
lang: Finnish
word: nouseva
lang: French
word: croissant
lang: Hindi
word: आरोहण
roman: ārohaṇ
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hilkêşayî
lang: Polish
word: rosnący
lang: Romanian
word: crescător
trusting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English trustyng, trostinge, tristynge, equivalent to trust + -ing.
Base: trust
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more trusting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trusting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to believe the claims or statements of others; inclined to confide readily; trustful.
pos: adj
Translations:
irritated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more irritated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irritated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing a feeling of irritation.
pos: adj
examples: She felt irritated by the constant noise.
His irritated tone made the situation worse.
gloss: Inflamed and painful.
pos: adj
examples: irritated skin
Derived words: irritatedly
unirritated
Translations:
proving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English provyng, prevyng, provynge, prevynge, preovyng, prufunge, preofunge, from Old English *prōfung, equivalent to prove + -ing.
Base: prove
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: provings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested.
pos: noun
examples: a book of provings
Translations:
reliquary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French reliquaire (modern French reliquaire), from Late Latin reliquiarium, from rēliquia (“a relic”) (English relic), noun use of reliquus (“abandoned, left behind, relict”), from relinquō (“to relinquish”), from re- (“again”) and linquō (“to leave”), from Proto-Indo-European *leikʷ-.
Inflected forms:
form: reliquaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A container to hold or display religious relics.
pos: noun
examples: “… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.[…]The other piece—the one that concerns us—is known as the Borgia reliquary.”
And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.
gloss: An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A person who owes a balance.
pos: noun
Related words: relic
Derived words: reliquarylike
Translations:
displeased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more displeased
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most displeased
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not pleased or happy with something.
pos: adj
examples: a displeased customer
Translations:
excluded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more excluded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most excluded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Kept out; not permitted to enter or be a part; shunned.
pos: adj
examples: For community development, the racism resulting from the global economic system is all too frequently played out in those communities that are most excluded – inner-city neighbourhoods and public housing estates.
I was feeling very excluded from the group of people I had been mixing with for the past two years .
The figures also show a persistent pattern; black pupils are three and a half times more likely than their white peers to be excluded and boys are more likely to be excluded than girls; children with special needs are likely to be more excluded than others.
Translations:
paved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English paved, ypavyd, equivalent to pave + -ed.
Base: pave
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered in pavement; having a hard surface, as of concrete or asphalt.
pos: adj
gloss: Laid out or made, as intentions, desires, plans, etc.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Synonyms: paven
Derived words: crazy-paved
mispaved
nonpaved
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
the streets are paved with gold
unpaved
Translations:
choosing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: choosings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a choice.
pos: noun
examples: Parents, of course, now have a choice among private schools, but their choosings are not normally supported by public funds.
Translations:
inviting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inviting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inviting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: invitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Alluring; tempting; attractive.
pos: adj
examples: The station has a bright and airy feel and the refurbishment works have provided a modern and inviting station environment for passengers.
gloss: invitation
pos: noun
Translations:
lordship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lordschipe, from Old English hlāfordsċiepe, equivalent to lord + -ship. Cognate with Scots lairdschip. Doublet of lairdship.
Base: lord
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: lordships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being a lord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For example, we know that Alfred did connect land tenure with lordship and that he was particularly interested in questions of military service[…]
Lordship entails both privilege and responsibility. Lords have power over their subjects, but that power is granted them so that they can protect and provide for others.
gloss: Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
capitalized
countable
often
uncountable
examples: May I ask that the order be granted, if your lordship so pleases?
'He's had his bath,' she said. 'He's just had his bath, bless his little lordship's heart.'
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
gloss: A man (sometimes a boy) who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up
pos: noun
tags: countable
humorous
uncountable
gloss: Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What lands and lordships for their owner know / My quondam barber, but his worship now.
[…]for whose ransom he compelled Lord Percy to build the castle of Punnoon, in the lordship of Eaglesham.
gloss: Dominion; power; authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Related words: ladyship
your Grace
Your Honour
your Honor
Translations:
mantle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English mantel, from Old English mæntel, mentel (“sleeveless cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *mantel; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman mantel, both from Latin mantellum (“covering, cloak”) (French manteau), diminutive of mantum (Spanish manto), probably from Gaulish *mantos, *mantalos (“trodden road”), from Proto-Celtic *mantos, *mantlos, from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (“tread, press together; crumble”). Compare Icelandic möttull. Doublet of manteau.
Inflected forms:
form: mantles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mantling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mantled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mantled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness; so their rising senses Begin to chace the ign'rant fumes, that mantle Their clearer reason.
I left them I' th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to th' chins.
All beneath the pinkish sky from the wildfires / Which mantle the horizon line
gloss: To become covered or concealed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […]—that the richest people in the world have the hardest hearts in it, and refuse to help their fellow-creatures, save through the medium of ostentation, and in return for value received?—that the highest and oldest nobility in Europe—the purest blood which ever mantled in the lovely cheek of virgin woman—is regularly exhibited in large bodies, under the protection of British matrons, policemen, and constables, at half-a-crown a head?
[…] and then that coffee! what fragrance it diffused through the room — how the foaming hot cream mantled over it, making discovered country from whose bourne no Master Philip's teeth water, […]
The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
“Yes,” he answered, with bowed head, his face mantling with the flush of shame.
gloss: To climb over or onto something.
pos: verb
gloss: The action of stretching out the wings to hide food.
pos: verb
gloss: The action of stretching a wing and the same side leg out to one side of the body.
pos: verb
Translations:
peristalsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δύναμις περισταλτική (dúnamis peristaltikḗ, “the action of the bowels by which their contents are propelled”), from περιστέλλω (peristéllō, “to wrap around”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to make ready, to prepare”).
Base: στέλλω
Affixes: περι-
Inflected forms:
form: peristalses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rhythmic, wave-like contraction and relaxation of muscles so as to propagate motion, as of food in the digestive tract.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
indispensable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensābilis, corresponding to in- + dispensable.
Base: dispensable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more indispensable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indispensable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indispensables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
pos: adj
examples: An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.
In this paper, I have chosen Khotan, a small oasis-state on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, as the subject for the investigation of this question. The waters of two rivers, the Yurungkash or Baiyu he 白玉河 (White Jade River) and the Karakash or Heiyu he 黑玉河 (Black Jade River), were indispensable for establishing human culture in Khotan.
And my friends in politics, no-one is remotely indispensable and our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader, equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times.
Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.
gloss: Unbendable, that cannot be set aside or ignored.
pos: adj
examples: The law was moral and indispensable.
Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake—not merely conscious, but wide awake.
gloss: Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
pos: noun
gloss: Trousers.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
in-plural
Antonyms: dispensable
Derived words: indispensability
indispensable nation
indispensableness
indispensably
Translations:
decisive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French décisif, equivalent to decide + -ive.
Base: decide
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more decisive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most decisive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
pos: adj
examples: decisive vote
decisive battle
In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages -with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
gloss: Decided; definite; incontrovertible.
pos: adj
examples: decisive victory
[F]abulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: […]
gloss: Marked by promptness and decision, resolute; without hesitation.
pos: adj
examples: decisive action
a decisive person
A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character.
Synonyms: decided
positive
conclusive
Antonyms: indecisive
Related words: decidable
decide
decided
Derived words: decisively
decisiveness
nondecisive
undecisive
Translations:
muffin-warm
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Warm as a freshly baked muffin.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: A thick napped 4 pound muffin-warm blanket that moths will avoid like moth balls for the next five years… it's been mothproof for that long!
The selling point (still mainly theoretical) was that you could put these mice in the microwave and they would come out muffin-warm and smelling like potpourri.
At breakfast the next morning in the muffin-warm, coffee-hot, kazoo-zippy, baby-back-thumping, flame flickering winter kitchen.
Translations:
milko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English milk
English -o
English milko
From milk + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: milkos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A milkman or milkwoman
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
examples: Actually, having been denied the right to employment in my chosen occupation, makin' chemicals, and being now a milko, i can give you the inside information on this story.
In the resulting commotion dogs barked and the milko's horse shied, leaving broken bottles and spilt milk all over Hayes St.
(As a child, I used to love hearing the "clip clop clip clop" of the milko′s horse as he arrived in our street in the morning).
Translations:
dumbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dumb
English -o
English dumbo
From dumb + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: dumbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Darman, to my astonishment, spent the evening telling me what an idiot Ronald Reagan was. Airhead. Dumbo.
Translations:
evict
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English evicten, evycten, borrowed from Latin ēvictus, past participle of ēvincō (“to vanquish completely”). Doublet of evince.
Inflected forms:
form: evicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evicted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: evict a tenant
threat to evict
legally evict
The landlord threatened to evict them for nonpayment.
The protesters were forcibly evicted.
gloss: To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: eject
Related words: evince
Derived words: evictable
evictee
eviction
evictor
renovict
unevicted
Translations:
abies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Abies.
Inflected forms:
form: abies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abietes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree of the genus Abies.
pos: noun
gloss: A tannin made from the barks of firs and spruces.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: French
word: abies
lang: German
word: Fichtengerbstoff
lang: Italian
word: abete
lang: Portuguese
word: ábies
lang: Spanish
word: abeto
droit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French droit. Doublet of direct.
Inflected forms:
form: droits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legal right or entitlement.
pos: noun
Translations:
gyrocopter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From gyro- + -copter.
Inflected forms:
form: gyrocopters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An autogyro, similar to a helicopter.
pos: noun
examples: A gyrocopter’s rotor spins freely due to airflow rather than engine power.
Translations:
elegiac
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegīacus, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós).
Inflected forms:
form: more elegiac
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elegiac
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: elegaic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: elegiacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elegaic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an elegy.
pos: adj
examples: the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
gloss: Expressing sorrow or mourning.
pos: adj
examples: Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?
And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,
gloss: A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
pos: noun
examples: His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs
Derived words: elegiacal
elegiacally
elegiac couplet
elegiac pentameter
unelegiac
Translations:
organometallic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English organo-
English metallic
English organometallic
From organo- + metallic.
Inflected forms:
form: organometallics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to organic compounds having a metal atom directly bonded to a carbon atom
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any organometallic compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
electronegativity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
English negative
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English negativity
English electronegativity
From electro- + negativity.
Inflected forms:
form: electronegativities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons when forming bonds.
pos: noun
Translations:
bleached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bleached
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bleached
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Whitened; made white using bleach
pos: adj
examples: bleached cotton
gloss: Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the hair or skin lightened by bleaching.
pos: adj
examples: An obviously bleached blonde, thick pancake makeup flaking powderily off deep furrowed wrinkles on her face, confronted me.
Derived words: bleached blond
bleached ginger
nonbleached
prebleached
sunbleached
unbleached
Translations:
blotched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blotch
English -ed
English blotched
From blotch + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more blotched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blotched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in blotches (“uneven patches of colour or discolouration”).
pos: adj
examples: The Dutch think no People are so much troubled with the Scurvy as they: But they mistake. There are more blotched Faces in one Town in England, than in the whole Dutch Province [...]
1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the Second,
The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward.
Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
Translations:
blotchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blotch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English blotchy
From blotch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: blotchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blotchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in blotches.
pos: adj
examples: The sunset colors were not sunset. The sun was bright and blinding overhead, surrounded by reddish clouds, glaring down on the fairy city. The sky was—blotchy. It was daylight, but through the clouds bright stars were shining.
Translations:
petrochemical
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā)bor.
Latin petrader.
English petro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin chēmicus
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 chemical
English petrochemical
From petro- + chemical.
Inflected forms:
form: petrochemicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any chemical derived from petroleum.
pos: noun
examples: Another is a Bloomberg project we're participating in that looks beyond petrochemicals.
gloss: Any chemical derived from any of the fossil fuels: petroleum, natural gas, or coal.
pos: noun
examples: As the prices of petroleum, natural gas, and coal fluctuate over the years, the petrochemical industry can to some extent switch feedstocks.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the such compounds, or the industry that produces them.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In 2006, about 6 percent of the world's crude oil production was used in non-energy applications, primarily as a petrochemical feedstock.
Translations:
phenylenediamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: phenylenediamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the three isomeric di-amino-benzenes, used as intermediates in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, plastics etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
radiochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radio-
English chemistry
English radiochemistry
From radio- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The chemistry of radioactive substances.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of radioisotopes to study the kinetics of chemical reactions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Holonym: physical chemistry
Related words: isotopic chemistry
Translations:
radioisotope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
English isotope
English radioisotope
From radio- + isotope.
Inflected forms:
form: radioisotopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radio-isotope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A radioactive isotope of an element.
pos: noun
Translations:
radionuclide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
English nuclide
English radionuclide
From radio- + nuclide.
Inflected forms:
form: radionuclides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radio-nuclide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: radio-nucleide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: radionucleide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a radioactive nuclide
pos: noun
Translations:
nuclide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From nucleus + -ide. Coined by American chemist Truman Kohman in 1947 in an article in the American Journal of Physics, in which he defines nuclide as "a species of atom characterized by the constitution of its nucleus, in particular by the numbers of protons and neutrons in its nucleus."
Base: nucleus
Affixes: -ide
Inflected forms:
form: nuclides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nucleide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An atomic nucleus specified by its atomic number and atomic mass.
pos: noun
Translations: