yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
desensitize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
media
medicine
photography
printing
psychiatry
psychology
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From de- (“not, do the opposite of, undo”) + sensitize. First attested in the 1900s.
Base: sensitize
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: desensitizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: desensitizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: desensitized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: desensitized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: desensitise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Working in an Operating Room desensitized me to the sight of blood.
[…] child pornography is often used by pedophiles and child sexual abusers to stimulate and whet their own sexual appetites, and as a model for sexual acting out with children; such use of child pornography can desensitize the viewer to the pathology of sexual abuse or exploitation of children, so that it can become acceptable to and even preferred by the viewer;[…]
gloss: To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To reduce or eliminate the sensitivity of (someone) or in (something); to become insensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: desensitization
desensitizer
desensitizing
nondesensitizing
Translations:
stencil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Likely a nominalization of Middle English stencellen (“to garnish with bright hues”), borrowed from Middle French estinceller (“to glisten”), from Old French estenceler (“to spark”), from Old French estencele (“spark”), from Vulgar Latin *stincilla, from metathesis of Latin scintilla (“spark”).
The verb is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: stencils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stencils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stenciling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: stencilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: stenciled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: stenciled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: stencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: stencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A thin sheet, either perforated or using some other technique, with which a pattern may be produced upon a surface; a utensil that contains a perforated sheet.
pos: noun
examples: You do not necessarily need to have a stencil brush to paint over a stencil.
gloss: A pattern produced using such a utensil.
pos: noun
examples: In 2013 a damaged stencil of a rat and an image of a girl hugging a bomb were painted over on the walls of a Fitzroy church by the building owner’s father-in-law, who tried to help out by painting the building while house sitting. He did not know the significance of the stencils.
gloss: A two-ply master sheet for use with a mimeograph.
pos: noun
gloss: To print with a stencil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Stencilled letters were used for words and phrases, as well as for captions for some of his stencil “prints,” print being used in the sense of a multicolor woodcut.
Related words: pochoir
Derived words: microstencil
nanostencil
stencil art
stencil buffer
stencil duplicator
stencilmaker
stencilmaking
stencil work
Translations:
insensitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English sensitive
English insensitive
From in- + sensitive.
Inflected forms:
form: more insensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions, sentiments, or concerns of other people; inconsiderate or incompassionate.
pos: adj
gloss: Not expressing normal physical feeling.
pos: adj
examples: It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
gloss: Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic.
pos: adj
examples: 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive.
Derived words: case-insensitive
insensitively
insensitiveness
insensitivity
mechanoinsensitive
photoinsensitive
radioinsensitive
Translations:
sid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from sidiki or sidiqi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: sadiki
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
versatility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English versatile
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English versatility
From versatile + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: versatilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.
We broke up our tests into three categories — performance, durability and versatility — so we could compare the different features of each jacket against the others directly.
Translations:
vocalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōx
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin vōcālisbor.
Middle English vocal
English vocal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English vocalize
From vocal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: vocalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vocalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vocalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vocalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vocalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To express with the voice, to utter.
pos: verb
examples: Following the modern spirit, the real poems of the present, ever solidifying and expanding into the future, must vocalize the vastness and splendor and reality with which scientism has invested man and the universe,[…]
gloss: To produce noises or calls from the throat.
pos: verb
examples: We could hear the monkeys vocalizing, though we could not see them.
gloss: To sing without using words.
pos: verb
gloss: To turn a consonant into a vowel.
pos: verb
examples: In Hong Kong English, /l/ may be vocalized at the end of a syllable.
gloss: To make a sound voiced rather than voiceless.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew)
pos: verb
Synonyms: outspeak
Derived words: vocalization
Translations:
viability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English viable
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English viability
From viable + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: viabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1904, Hugo DeVries, Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
Ordinarily these altered organs are sterile, but in some instances a very small quantity of seed is produced, and when testing their viability I succeeded in raising a few plants from them.
1980, Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address
In making its grants the Endowment will increase its emphasis on techniques which stimulate support for the humanities from non-Federal sources, in order to reinforce our tradition of private philanthropy in this field, and to insure and expand the financial, viability of our cultural institutions and life.
Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.
Translations:
Saracen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin Saracenus, from Ancient Greek Σαρακηνός (Sarakēnós) - *Saraka[?] + -ινος. The source of the Greek has long been debated.
* In the 17th-19th centuries, the most widely accepted theory derived it from Arabic شَرْقِيِّين (šarqiyyin, “easterners”), as the Sarakenoi lived to the east of most Semitic peoples of the time.
* Some authors in the 15th-17th centuries derived it from Arabic سَارِقُون (sāriqūn, “plunderers”) (as mentioned in Wikipedia Saracen).
* In the 4th century CE, some authors (e.g. Eusebius) connected it (likely by folk etymology) to the biblical Sarah, claiming that the progeny of Hagar had chosen that name to imitate the nobler roots of Israelites. This might be the source of the pejorative use of the term, and its wide currency.
* Two theories based on place-names point at Saraka in Arabia, or Sarakēnē in Arabia Petrea. The latter, apparently in Sinai, may be related to the Bedouin tribe Sawārke/Sawārika. According to this theory, this was the first Arabic group with whom the Greek writers from Alexandria would have sustained contacts, and it served as a type that was later generalized to all Arabic groups.
Inflected forms:
form: Saracens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.
pos: noun
gloss: A Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: We pretend to be Christians, and, from the superior Light we enjoy, ought to exceed Heathens, Turks, Saracens, Moors, Negroes, and Indians, in the Knowledge and Practice of what is right.
gloss: A pirate in the Mediterranean.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: Saracenic
sarsen
sarsenet
Derived words: Saracenism
Saracenlike
Translations:
inducing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inducing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inducing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That induces; inductive.
pos: adj
gloss: That induces; inductive.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: anxiety-inducing, nausea-inducing, sleep-inducing
Derived words: autoinducing
inducingly
noninducing
osteoinducing
Translations:
lang: Italian
word: provocante
lang: Italian
word: incitante
lang: Spanish
word: induciente
aesthetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin aesthēticusder.
German Ästhetikder.
New Latin aesthēticusbor.
French esthétiqueder.
English aesthetic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English aesthetically
From aesthetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more aesthetically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aesthetically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: æsthetically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: esthetically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an aesthetic manner; with a pleasing sensory effect.
pos: adv
examples: Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
According to TikTok, where the trend has more than 30 million views, girl dinner is akin to an aesthetically pleasing Lunchable: an artfully arranged pile of snacks that, when consumed in high enough volume, constitutes a meal.[…]”
Translations:
florid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin flōreō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin flōridus
French floride
English florid
From French floride (“flourishing”), from Latin floridus (“flowery, blooming”). Doublet of Florida.
Inflected forms:
form: more florid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most florid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy.
pos: adj
gloss: Elaborately ornate; flowery.
pos: adj
gloss: In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state.
pos: adj
examples: florid psychosis
His visions of their plans and his imminent detention were so florid that the reality, wherein he was unharmed and simply sitting in the cab of the RS-80 and continuing his slow work on the road, was far less plausible.
gloss: Flourishing; in the bloom of health.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Mean while Peregrine guessing the good fortune of his friend, and allured by the attractions of the maid, who was a cleanly florid girl, employed his address to such effectual purpose, that she yielded to his efforts; and he was as happy as such a conquest could make him.
Derived words: floridity
floridly
floridness
overflorid
unflorid
Translations:
sain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sainen, seinen, senen, sinen, signen, from Old English sēnian, seġnian, from Proto-Germanic *segnōną (“to mark with a cross, bless”), from Latin signō, from signum. Cognate with Dutch zegenen (“to bless”), German segnen (“to bless”), Irish séan (“sign, omen”) and Scottish Gaelic seun (“a charm”).
Inflected forms:
form: sains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Saining is the grand protection against them; a Shetlander always sains himself when passing by their hills.
gloss: To make the sign of the cross.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bless, to keep from evil influence.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Sain usǃ Sain us, oh Godǃ.
Far from my speech stands he who sains and saves.
The child was sained then. Fir candles were lighted and whirled round the bed in which mother and infant lay.
Derived words: unsained
Translations:
narrowboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From narrow + boat.
Compound parts: narrow
boat
Inflected forms:
form: narrowboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narrow boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A barge used on the narrow canals of England.
pos: noun
Translations:
shamisen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Japanese 三味線 (shamisen).
Inflected forms:
form: shamisens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shamisen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: samisen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: syamisen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
pos: noun
Translations:
sanjak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish سنجاق (sancâk, “subdivision of a vilayet”, literally “flag, banner”), from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”).
Inflected forms:
form: sanjaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zanzack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sanjac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sancak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
pos: noun
examples: This lymphatic monster had once blocked the distinguished pharynx of Lord Blatherard Osmo, who at the time occupied the Novy Pazar desk at the Foreign Office, an obscure penance for the previous century of British policy on the Eastern Question, for on this obscure sanjak had once hinged the entire fate of Europe.
gloss: Synonym of sanjakbey: the officer supervising a sanjak.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: ... the Duke ... enforced all the whole Armie to retire to the Campe, with the losse of five or six thousand, with the Bashaw of Buda, and foure or five Zanzacks, with divers other great Commanders, two hundred Prisoners, and nine peeces of Ordnance.
Synonyms: district
prefecture
county
sanjakship
sanjakate
mutasarrifate
mutasarriflik
Related words: sanjakbey
Derived words: sanjakry
sanjakship
sanjakate
Translations:
sawney
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (fool, idiot): From Sawney, a Scots variant of the personal name Sandy.
Inflected forms:
form: sawneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sawney
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sawney
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A fool, an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Bacon.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Tyrrell, another boy, confirmed their testimony, and said, on one occasion, when they had stolen a heart, liver, and lights, the prisoner said, "go out, one or two of you, and see if you can get a bit of sawney!" (meaning a bit of bacon).
If a boy comes to the house on a night without money or sawney, or something to sell to the lodgers, a handkerchief or something of that kind, he is not admitted, but told very plainly, ‘Go thieve it, then.’
A man came in as she spoke, and drawing a large piece of bacon from his pocket, flung it down upon the counter.
'How much d'ye want for it?' said the lodging-house keeper, weighing it with his eyes.
'Sixpence.'
'Sixpence for a bit of sawney! (thieved bacon). We can't give more than fourpence in this shop, my buffer.'
gloss: foolish, stupid
pos: adj
Translations:
electrified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Powered by electricity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The electrified route to Corby will be served by the 21x4-car fleet of Class 360s cascaded from Greater Anglia, operating a half-hourly service under the EMR Electrics brand.
Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
Antonyms: non-electrified
nonelectrified
unelectrified
Translations:
enantioselective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos
Proto-Hellenic *antíos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ος (ăntĭ́os)
Ancient Greek ἐνᾰντῐ́ος (enăntĭ́os)der.
English enantio-
English selective
English enantioselective
From enantio- + selective.
Inflected forms:
form: more enantioselective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enantioselective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers
pos: adj
examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
In combination with the two complementary methods that have been developed for asymmetric vinylcarbenoid cyclopropanations, the chemistry is applicable to the enantioselective synthesis of a wide variety of acyclic, cyclic, and polycyclic systems.
Translations:
anatase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French anatase, from Ancient Greek ἀνάτασις (anátasis, “extending, extension”), named for the length of its crystals.
Inflected forms:
form: anatases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blue or brown mineral, a form of titanium dioxide, used as a pigment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
porta-potty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of portable + potty, from the commercial name Porta Potti. Equivalent to porta- (“portable”) + potty.
Base: potty
Affixes: porta-
Inflected forms:
form: porta-potties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portable toilet, (in UK, particularly) a chemical toilet comprising only the fixture rather than an entire enclosure.
pos: noun
examples: So let’s talk about infrastructure tonight, and let’s begin with dams, because dams are amazing. They’re the most powerful device we have for holding back liquid aside from the idea of using a porta-potty. “I’ll wait. I’ll just wait forever. I cannot go in there.”
Translations:
isoelectronic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῐ̓́σος (ĭ́sos)lbor.
English iso-
English electronic
English isoelectronic
From iso- + electronic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the same electronic configuration, although consisting of different elements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ammonia borane is isoelectronic with ethane.
Translations:
majoritarianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English majority
English -arian
English majoritarian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English majoritarianism
From majoritarian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: majoritarianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of democracy in which decisions are made by a simple majority of some organized group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: countermajoritarianism
Translations:
irreparably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English irreparable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English irreparably
From irreparable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more irreparably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most irreparably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Such that it cannot be repaired.
pos: adv
examples: The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
Translations:
irreparable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French irréparable, from Old French, from Latin irreparabilis, equivalent to ir- + reparable.
Base: reparable
Affixes: ir-
Inflected forms:
form: more irreparable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irreparable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified; unrepairable.
pos: adj
examples: It was impoſſible that the queen of France [Marie Antoinette] ſhould not be deeply affected by a conteſt, which ſo cloſely involved her neareſt and deareſt connections, and threatened ſo immediate and perhaps irreparable a breach of the harmony and friendſhip ſubſiſting between them.
“Florida has struck an unholy bargain with the Trump administration,” one speaker said. “People are not getting food, hygiene, or medical care. These conditions are substandard and cause irreparable harm.”
Translations:
impaled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pinned to something by piercing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unweathered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English weathered
English unweathered
From un- + weathered.
Inflected forms:
form: more unweathered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unweathered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not weathered or seasoned
pos: adj
Translations:
undeviating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English deviating
English undeviating
From un- + deviating.
Inflected forms:
form: more undeviating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undeviating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That does not deviate, veer or turn aside; unswerving.
pos: adj
gloss: That does not change; steady.
pos: adj
examples: And she had a yet harder lesson to learn—that nothing can supply the place of strong, undeviating principle.
Translations:
honed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more honed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most honed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made sharp.
pos: adj
gloss: Made more accurate or precise.
pos: adj
Derived words: honed dace
unhoned
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: geslepen
lang: Dutch
word: verfijnd
lang: German
word: fein geschliffen
lang: German
word: gehont
lang: Romanian
word: fin șlefuit
lang: Turkish
word: bilenmiş
lang: Turkish
word: honlanmış
lang: Turkish
word: kılağılanmış
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: مسنون
roman: mesnun
pretence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pretences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pretense
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: prætence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of pretense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
commendable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English commendable, from Middle French commendable, from Latin commendabilis, from commendare (“to commend, intrust to”), from com- + mandare (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”).
Inflected forms:
form: more commendable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most commendable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of commendation; deserving praise; admirable, creditable, or meritorious.
pos: adj
examples: Thanks, i' faith; for silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
Gareth Southgate's side had performed with commendable maturity to control Poland and a hostile crowd giving thunderous backing to their team – but it all changed one minute into four minutes of stoppage time.
Translations:
fervid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *ferwejō
Proto-Italic *ferweō
Latin ferveō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin fervidusbor.
English fervid
Borrowed from Latin fervidus, from ferveō. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + id.
Inflected forms:
form: more fervid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fervider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fervid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fervidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intensely hot; radiating with energy.
pos: adj
examples: Four years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city.
gloss: lively, spirited, or frenzied due to being ardent, passionate, and zealous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Related words: fervent
fever
fervor
perfervid
Derived words: fervidity
fervidly
fervidness
fervid plagodis
unfervid
Translations:
steepled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more steepled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most steepled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having a steeple
pos: adj
examples: The same steepled towns dangle from the sea's horizon, the Brueghel faces of our electorate are as pink with zeal as they were those three decades ago.
gloss: formed into the shape of a steeple
pos: adj
Antonyms: steepleless
Related words: steeple
steepleless
Translations:
raptly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rapt
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English raptly
From rapt + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more raptly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most raptly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a rapt manner
pos: adv
Translations:
phantasmagorical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phantasmagoria + -ical.
Base: phantasmagoria
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more phantasmagorical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phantasmagorical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of phantasmagoric.
pos: adj
examples: Accordingly, Hawthorne selects the Brook Farm episode (or a reflection of it) as affording his drama "a theatre, a little removed from the highway of ordinary travel, where the creatures of his brain may play their phantasmagorical antics, without exposing them to too close a comparison with the actual events of real lives."
"In my youth," he went on after a pause, "I found myself, quite fortuitously, involved in a series of the most phantasmagorical amorous intrigues.[…]"
Translations:
Greco-Roman
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Greco-
English Roman
English Greco-Roman
From Greco- + Roman.
Inflected forms:
form: more Greco-Roman
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Greco-Roman
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Graeco-Roman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Greek or Roman culture.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: In the beginning and height of the Greco-Roman civilization, everyone was expected to have courage, because it was deemed to be the First Virtue above all others.
gloss: Describing Greco-Roman wrestling, a form of wrestling where fighters may only attack above the waist.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
come-around
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: come-arounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any shot that curls around another rock.
pos: noun
Translations:
gripper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
computing
curling
engineering
games
graphical-user-interface
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
sciences
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grip
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English gripper
From grip + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: grippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who or thing which grips something.
pos: noun
examples: In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]
gloss: A cover on a handle that makes it easier to grip.
pos: noun
gloss: A rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice.
pos: noun
gloss: A ticket collector.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
pos: noun
examples: To move the options bar from its default location at the top of the screen to a new location, click the gripper on the option bar's left edge and drag it to its new location.
gloss: A foot.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
examples: Put those grippers away!
Derived words: fin gripper
microgripper
nanogripper
Translations:
curly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
English curl
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English curly
From curl + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: curlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: curliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: curlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having curls.
pos: adj
gloss: Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)
pos: adj
gloss: Complicated and difficult; knotty.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
examples: Often, the job will throw you a curly problem that will cause the unprepared to fail, so it is best to prepare an investigative plan before starting work.
gloss: a person or animal with curly hair.
pos: noun
Derived words: becurtovirus
curlicue
curlily
curliness
curly apostrophe
curly brace
curly bracket
curly cuh
curly endive
curly fries
curly fry
curlyhaired
curlyhead
curly kale
curly mesquite
curly quote
curly top
curly wig
noncurly
uncurly
Translations:
banished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wasting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing a waste, or wasting away; causing pronounced loss of body mass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Gradual deterioration or wasting away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: muscular wastings
gloss: The act by which something is laid waste; destruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: candle-wasting
cerebral salt-wasting syndrome
chronic wasting disease
mass wasting
seastar wasting disease
sea-star wasting disease
sea star wasting disease
starfish wasting disease
wasting investment
wasting palsy
wasting sickness
Translations:
springing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
law
Inflected forms:
form: springings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to spring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A set of springs in a vehicle, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Bolsterless trailer bogies have been used, incorporating in the construction laminated springs mounted on the axle boxes, and steel helical springs with auxiliary rubbers, thus maintaining the high standard of springing of the swing bolster bogies.
In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
gloss: The spring of an arch: the lowest part of an arch on both sides.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings. After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.
gloss: That springs or spring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: That takes effect only after the incapacity of the grantor or some other definite future act or circumstance.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Derived words: springing line
springing cow
offspringing
springing convertible
springing durable power of attorney
springing executory interest
springingly
springing mydriasis
springing use
springing warrant
unspringing
Translations:
longue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From lunge.
Inflected forms:
form: longues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of mackinaw trout.
pos: noun
Translations:
adjudicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adiūdicō, adiūdicātus, from ad + iūdicō (“to judge”). Doublet of adjudge.
Inflected forms:
form: adjudicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjudicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjudicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjudicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: From the twelfth century Shetland had been administered directly by the Norwegian crown through the 'foud', rather than forming part of the patrimony of a great aristocratic estate. The foud appointed 'underfouds' and the Shetlands evolved their own elected officers, a 'lawman' and parish 'lawrightmen', who adjudicated and negotiated the collection of customary taxes and fines on behalf of the local population.
Blinded to the outcomes of HPV testing, samples were thereafter evaluated by cytoscreeners using FocalPoint GS Imaging System (BD), and abnormal findings were adjudicated by pathologists.
In North Carolina, provisional ballots are adjudicated to determine whether the voter was eligible to cast the ballot.
The general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, who enforces federal labor law by prosecuting violations, said her office would soon file a brief in a case before the labor board, which adjudicates such questions, asking the board to reverse its precedent on the meetings.
The Union Home Ministry has constituted four tribunals […] to adjudicate whether or not there are sufficient grounds for declaring several Jammu and Kashmir-based groups as banned organisations […]
A report for the city's finance and corporate services committee recommends the city implement an administrative penalty system for adjudicating parking and camera-based offences, with municipally appointed screening and hearing officers adjudicating ticket disputes instead of the provincial court system.
gloss: To act as a judge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: A Court of Arbitration, constituted by the World Bank in The Hague, has brushed aside New Delhi’s objections and concluded that it has the competence to adjudicate on Pakistan’s objection to the Kishenganga and Ralte hydroelectric projects of India.
gloss: To seize or convey as security.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: adjudge
adjudicate
arbitrate
deem
doom
hear
judge
rule on
settle
try
Related words: abjudicate
adjudge
decide
Derived words: adjudication
adjudicative
adjudicator
adjudicatory
readjudicate
unadjudicated
Translations:
scombroid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκόμβρος (skómbros, “tuna, mackerel”) + -oid.
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: scombroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to mackerel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ‘Here then,’ the kindly scombroid face scanning Eventyr, quick as a fire-control dish antenna and even less mercy […]
gloss: Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A form of food poisoning caused by spoiled fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
intron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From intragenic region.
Inflected forms:
form: introns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.
pos: noun
examples: It is a medium-sized gene, then, interrupted by five longish introns.
Translations:
scrimshaw
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: The origin of the verb is unknown, but it has possibly been influenced by the surname Scrimshaw. Various etymologies have been proposed (for example, that it derives from scrimshank (“(Britain, military slang) to be idle, to shirk duty”)), but the Oxford English Dictionary does not consider any of them convincing. Following the surname theory, Etymonline ultimately derives the word probably from Old French escremisseor (“fencing-master”).
The noun is probably derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: scrimshaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrimshawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrimshawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrimshawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrimshaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a handicraft of scrimshaw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
countable
examples: Rooney got his skull exposed, doggone it
Soon he's gonna get scrimshaw carved on it
gloss: The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
uncountable
Derived words: scrimshawed
scrimshawer
scrimshawing
Translations:
inulin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inula
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English inulin
From inula + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: inulins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polysaccharide found in the roots and tubers of certain plants, especially the Compositae (for example, sunchokes); it is mostly a polymer of fructose.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Meronym: fructose
Translations:
downer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English downer
From down + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: downers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A negative drug trip.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Normally those pills give me a boost, but last night they gave me a downer.
gloss: Any drug that has depressant qualities.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Eye Girl is very moody. She is always zooted up on some really foul combination of uppers and downers and Rollerblading. Her bouts of Rollerblading seem to coincide with fights with Eye Guy.
Say, for example, a person starts with the use of a downer that reduces any anxiety and produces a sense of relaxation. When their energy levels drop, they take a stimulant in order to continue participating in the party or another event. This creates a cycle that could lead to significant drug use and drastically increases the risk of overdose or death. It is critical to know which drugs are uppers and downers to avoid this combination.
gloss: Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: You don't really need to know me. I'm kind of a downer.
Geffen had never understood why such a downer of a film was being released over the holidays.
gloss: A livestock animal that has collapsed.
pos: noun
examples: The ten-dollar bill was for eating money and the prod pole to be used when the train stopped for water in getting "downers" back on their feet.
In 1993, Farm Sanctuary produced undercover footage of downers being lifted by forklift at Hallmark, prompting introduction of a California downer cattle law the next year. Either management provided instructions to get the downers moving or was asleep at the wheel and let employees run wild — in either case, it's an indictment of management.
The two plants where I saw great reductions in downers have reduced, but not eliminated Paylean use.
gloss: A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work.
pos: noun
examples: In the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, a strike may be a downer or a stoppage as defined by the Department.
Cowley experienced a rash of 'downers' — short, sharp, unofficial strikes.
Synonyms: killjoy
spoilsport
Related words: Debbie Downer
Far-Downer
sit-downer
Translations:
couture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: Ellipsis of haute couture, ultimately from French couture.
Inflected forms:
form: coutures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of high-end, custom-made clothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was the branding of these products, rather than the couture itself, that would become the foundation of the industry, generating huge global sales by the last quarter of the century.
Anyway, there are only a few hundred clients in the world who regularly buy couture, including Middle Eastern royalty and American businesswomen.
Translations:
darts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰórh₃-eh₂
Proto-Germanic *darō
Proto-Germanic *-ōþuz
Proto-Germanic *darōþuz
Frankish *darōþubor.
Medieval Latin dardus
Old French dartbor.
Middle English dart
English dart
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English darts
From dart + -s (pluralia tantum).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game or sport in which darts are thrown at a board, and points are scored depending on where the darts land.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rawhide
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From raw + hide.
Compound parts: raw
hide
Inflected forms:
form: rawhides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rawhides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rawhiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rawhided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rawhided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Untanned hide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This throw was fair; the white cow came to earth again; and before it could rise Santa had made the lasso fast around a post of the corral with a swift and simple knot, and had leaped upon the cow again with the rawhide hobbles.
gloss: A whip made from twisted untanned leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beat with a rawhide whip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: rawhider
Translations: