yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
transshipment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English shipment
English transshipment
From trans- + shipment.
Inflected forms:
form: transshipments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Zero-emission zones and zero-fatality cities have eliminated the last-mile advantages of moving goods by road. The need for transshipment from trucks to vans or cargo bikes at the fringes of the urban core has meant that road has lost the advantage it held over rail for so much of the last 100 years.
gloss: The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments.
Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.
Derived words: transshipment point
Translations:
translatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English translate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English translatable
From translate + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more translatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most translatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being translated into another language.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being transferred from one context or environment to another.
pos: adj
examples: Her political skills were easily translatable to the marketing sector.
Antonyms: untranslatable
Related words: translatability
translatableness
translated
translating
translation
translator
Derived words: intertranslatable
intranslatable
non-translatable
Translations:
translucency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translucent + -ency.
Base: translucent
Affixes: -ency
Inflected forms:
form: translucencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the quality of being translucent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
transship
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
English transship
From trans- + ship.
Inflected forms:
form: transships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transshipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transshipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transshipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tranship
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: trans-ship
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To transfer something from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be transferred from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: transshipment
Translations:
faraday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.
Inflected forms:
form: faradays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately −96,487 coulombs.
pos: noun
Translations:
tet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of tetrahedron or tetrahedral.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Tetrahedral.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
zeroing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: zeroings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result of zeroing
pos: noun
Translations:
Jacobus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Jacobuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A former English gold coin from the Jacobite period.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
mirthlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mirthless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mirthlessly
From mirthless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mirthlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mirthlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a mirthless manner; sadly.
pos: adv
examples: Miriam laughed again, but mirthlessly, to hear him thus mix her up with women in a general way.
And presently he grew conscious that the gods had played a very good practical joke on him, and he laughed at himself mirthlessly.
Translations:
notional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English notion
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 notional
From notion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more notional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most notional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: notionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal
The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.
He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory.
gloss: Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
pos: adj
examples: This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
gloss: Stubborn.
pos: adj
tags: Maine
gloss: Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
pos: adj
gloss: Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
pos: adj
examples: Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.
Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.
gloss: Full of ideas or imaginings.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.
gloss: A fake company used as a front in espionage.
pos: noun
examples: Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.
Derived words: nonnotional
notional amount
notionalist
notionality
notionally
notionalness
Translations:
backpacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.?
Proto-Germanic *baką
Proto-West Germanic *bak
Old English bæc
Middle English bak
English back
English pack
English backpack
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English backpacking
From backpack + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
gloss: Low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: begpacking
bikepacking
flashpacking
Translations:
Sherman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Sense 1: From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent to shear + -man.
Base: shear
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: Shermans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Sherman tank, main Allied battle tank in World War II.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An official refusal to serve in public office or similar; a Shermanesque statement.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: A lot of photographers nominated the printers, who promptly pulled a Sherman. Granted, some printers, typically of the smaller variety or those who had existing departments, answered their party's call. More did not.
Translations:
twinning
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English twin
English -ing
English twinning
From twin + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: twinnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing twins.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of giving birth to twins.
pos: noun
gloss: The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
pos: noun
gloss: The formation of twin crystals.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
pos: noun
gloss: The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
pos: noun
gloss: Producing two offspring from one pregnancy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: crystal twinning
polysynthetic twinning
town twinning
Translations:
constructing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: constructings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of construction.
pos: noun
examples: Only the construction of wood and canvas castles, temples, and the like would require some time: and not as much as might be thought, given both London's fixed structures - such as conduits, and the Cross in Cheapside - upon which and around which structures could be erected, and London's practice in the frequent necessary constructings of such pageants.
Translations:
bursting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bursting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bursting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: burstings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very eager (to do something).
pos: adj
examples: I was bursting to tell him the secret.
gloss: Urgently needing to urinate.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: Can you tell me where the toilets are? I'm bursting.
The kid is bursting to go to the toilet.
gloss: So full (with something) as almost to erupt.
pos: adj
examples: The newly stocked refrigerator is bursting with fresh vegetables.
Her heart was bursting with repressed emotion.
gloss: The act by which something bursts.
pos: noun
examples: the burstings of balloons
The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33 a.m. train from Ruabon to Barmouth on the night of October 6, due to the bursting of the banks of the Shropshire Union Canal near Llangollen, was 2-6-0 No. 6315; the position into which the locomotive fell so completely defied all attempts to re-rail it that it was cut up on the spot.
Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
Synonyms: busting
Derived words: burstingly
nonbursting
outbursting
superbursting
upbursting
Translations:
adapted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more adapted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adapted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.
pos: adj
examples: That movie was an adapted novel.
Translations:
vibrating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That vibrates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unyielding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English yielding
English unyielding
From un- + yielding.
Inflected forms:
form: more unyielding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unyielding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not giving in; not bending; stubborn.
pos: adj
examples: unyielding pressure
unyielding support
I refer rather to the central position the creed of unyiedling will holds in the North.
Translations:
unprotected
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 protected
English unprotected
From un- + protected.
Inflected forms:
form: more unprotected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unprotected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not protected; lacking defence or protection; exposed.
pos: adj
examples: The dread of leaving his daughter deſolate and unprotected in a ſtrange country, had been ſo great, that he had denied himſelf even the few comforts he could have obtained, becauſe he deſired to reſerve the little money he had left to ſend her back to Warſaw, […]
A well-gilt top to a book is a great preventive against damage by dust, while to leave books with rough tops and unprotected is sure to produce stains and dirty margins.
I can't help you a cent. Life's hard enough nowadays for an unprotected male. Let alone a girl.
Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected / From enemies that whisper to the blood; / The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected; / The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.
The level crossings at Stretton and at the point where the A.L.R. crosses the main road south of Stretton are provided with gates; other crossings are unprotected, save for cattle-guards.
Translations:
sporting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more sporting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sporting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sportings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to sports
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He got a job in a sporting goods store.
gloss: Exhibiting sportsmanship.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
gloss: Fair, generous; game.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
gloss: Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
gloss: The act of taking part in a sport.
pos: noun
examples: […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
Derived words: nonsporting
sporting chance
sporting clays
sporting door
sporting girl
sporting goods
sporting house
sporting lady
sportingly
sportingness
sporting woman
unsporting
Translations:
sticking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
pos: noun
examples: Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.
gloss: Coarse, bruised, or damaged meat sold to the makers of sausages, pies, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
in-plural
examples: six ounces of clods and stickings boiled
Related words: antisticking
billsticking
high-sticking
nonsticking
pig-sticking
sticking-place
sticking place
sticking plaster
sticking point
sticking-point
Sticking Tommy
Translations:
sickening
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more sickening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sickening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sickenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing sickness or disgust.
pos: adj
examples: sickening cruelty
sickening toxic fumes
gloss: Amazing, fantastic.
pos: adj
examples: Richard Cranium does sickening stuff (if your budget permits), stones from Charles Brennan and lots of imagination.
Latrice lives every day by her mantra, “It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall down. Get up, look sickening, and make them eat it!” Translation: rise above your downfalls in life, and always look amazing while dismissing the haters.
Back with the seventh season next March 2nd, RuPaul’s Drag Race promises to gather fans and followers in front of the computer to watch the new competition to crown the most sickening queen.
gloss: The act of making somebody sick.
pos: noun
examples: In the Northeast, one porcini look-alike has been implicated in several sickenings. It is Boletus huronensis, and though some guides call it edible, there have been a few cases of people becoming sickened following a meal of this mushroom.
Related words: loathsome
disgusting
abominable
detestable
hateful
Derived words: sickeningly
sickeningness
unsickening
Translations:
devious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1590s, "out of the common or direct way," from Latin devius (“out of the way, remote, off the main road”), from de via, from de (“off”) (see de-) + via (“way, road”). Compare deviate. Originally in the Latin literal sense; the figurative sense of "deceitful" is first recorded 1630s. Related to deviously, deviousness. Figurative senses of the Latin word were "retired, sequestered, wandering in the byways, foolish, inconsistent."
Inflected forms:
form: more devious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cunning or deceiving, not straightforward or honest, not frank.
pos: adj
gloss: Roundabout, circuitous, deviating from the direct or ordinary route.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The wandering Arab never sets his tent
Within her walls; the Shepherd eyes afar
Her evil towers, and devious drives his flock.
Keeping close in to the shore, they discovered, after two hours run, a fresh stream which burst in a cascade from the mountains, and swept its devious course through the jungle, until it poured its tribute into the waters of the Strait.
We went down accordingly into the waste, and began to make our toilsome and devious travel towards the eastern verge.
On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
Derived words: devious lick
deviously
deviousness
undevious
Translations:
fertilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French fertiliser; equivalent to fertile + -ize.
Base: fertile
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: fertilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fertilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fertilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fertilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fertilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
pos: verb
gloss: To make more creative or intellectually productive.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to fertilize one's imagination
He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.
gloss: To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.
pos: verb
Derived words: biofertilize
cross-fertilize
defertilize
fertigation
fertilizable
fertilization
fertilizer
fertilizin
misfertilize
nonfertilized
overfertilize
postfertilized
refertilize
underfertilize
unfertilized
Translations:
detestable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more detestable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most detestable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
pos: adj
examples: detestable person
detestable food
detestable woman
detestable manners
Translations:
cheerfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cherefulnes; equivalent to cheerful + -ness.
Base: cheerful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: cheerfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chearfulness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state of being cheerful; joy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giueth, let him doe it with simplicitie: hee that ruleth, with diligence: hee that sheweth mercy, with cheerefulnesse.
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns - a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms - days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
Translations:
calmness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calm
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English calmness
From calm + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: calmnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being calm; tranquillity; silence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: disturbance
anxietie
anxiety
nervousness
agitation
apprehension
irritation
tension
Translations:
metaphorical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metaphor
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English metaphoric
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 metaphorical
From metaphoric + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more metaphorical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metaphorical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or characterized by a metaphor; figurative; symbolic.
pos: adj
examples: metaphorical answer
metaphorical depiction
metaphorical description
metaphorical question
Translations:
mover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin movēre
Old Northern French moverbor.
Middle English moven
English move
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 mover
From move + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: movers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who or something that moves.
pos: noun
gloss: A dancer.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
pos: noun
examples: I'm getting too old to expect my friends to schlep all my stuff for beer and pizza. I'm hiring movers this time.
gloss: Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
pos: noun
gloss: A product that sells well.
pos: noun
examples: "The Celtic Soul Brothers" (#86, 1983) was a moderate mover of a follow-up.
gloss: A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
Derived words: earthmover
fast mover
first mover
household goods mover
house mover
mover and shaker
needle-mover
needle mover
nonmover
people mover
prime mover
side mover
trashmover
unmoved mover
Translations:
gladness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From glad + -ness.
Base: glad
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: gladnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being glad; joy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
But as time, as time will, drew on, and Watt's period of service on the ground floor approached its term, then this wish and this fear, and so this sorrow and this gladness, like so many other wishes and fears, so many other sorrows and gladnesses, grew duller and duller and gradually ceased to be felt, at all.
Translations:
craving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave + -ing.
Base: crave
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: cravings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong desire; yearning.
pos: noun
examples: [W]e contrived to satisfy the cravings of thirst by suffering the shirts to become saturated, and then wringing them so as to let the grateful fluid trickle into our mouths.
The craving for cuteness is a psychological phenomenon that originally had the purpose of increasing the chances of a baby to survive […]
The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
Translations:
continual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English continuel, from Old French continuel, formed from Latin continuus (“continuous”) with the suffix -el, equivalent to continue + -al.
Base: continue
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: continuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Recurring in steady, rapid succession.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The history of this station is one of continual rebuilding.
gloss: Seemingly continuous; appearing to have no end or interruption.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
gloss: Forming a continuous series.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
Related words: continuance
continuation
continue
continuous
continuum
Derived words: continuality
continually
continualness
Translations:
communal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French communal, from Late Latin commūnālis, from Latin commūnis. Doublet of cominal.
Inflected forms:
form: more communal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most communal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a community or a commune.
pos: adj
gloss: Shared by a community; public.
pos: adj
gloss: Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.
pos: adj
tags: India
examples: communal violence
communal politics
Related words: common
community
Derived words: bicommunal
communal bin
communalect
communalise
communalism
communalistic
communality
communalize
communally
communal shower
ecocommunal
intercommunal
intracommunal
multicommunal
noncommunal
pseudocommunal
uncommunal
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: комунален
roman: komunalen
lang: Bulgarian
word: колективен
roman: kolektiven
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 社區的 /社区的
roman: shèqū de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 社群的
roman: shèqūn de
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 群體的 /群体的
roman: qúntǐ de
lang: Finnish
word: yhteisöllinen
lang: French
word: communautaire
lang: Galician
word: comunitario
lang: German
word: gemeinschaftlich
lang: German
word: kommunal
lang: Hebrew
word: קהילתי
roman: qehilaty
lang: Hebrew
word: קהילתית
roman: qehilatyt
lang: Irish
word: pobalda
lang: Irish
word: pobail
lang: Italian
word: comunitario
lang: Latin
word: commūnālis
lang: Portuguese
word: comunitário
lang: Romanian
word: comunitar
lang: Russian
word: общи́нный
roman: obščínnyj
lang: Russian
word: коммуна́льный
roman: kommunálʹnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: комунални
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: за̏једничкӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: опћедруштвени
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: komunalni
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zȁjedničkī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: općedruštveni
lang: Slovak
word: komunitný
lang: Spanish
word: comunitario
lang: Swedish
word: samhällelig
lang: Telugu
word: సామాజిక
roman: sāmājika
wrongfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wrongfully, wrongfullich; equivalent to wrongful + -ly.
Base: wrongful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wrongfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wrongfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wrongful manner; unjustly.
pos: adv
examples: If you do wrongfully ſeize Herford's right, / call in his Letters Patents that he hath / By his Atturneyes generall, to ſue[…]
There is a clear line of distinction in this matter. An equity judge could not unhang a man who had been wrongfully hanged; but he could set aside a precedent which was manifestly contrary to law and justice.
Wrongfully imprisoned action heroes rarely have the time to wait for an appeal.
Translations:
scalpel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Doublet of scalpellum.
Inflected forms:
form: scalpels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
pos: noun
examples: He feels a tingling behind his ears, anticipating the scalpel and the drill.
gloss: To hit, thrust, or pierce with a scalpel.
pos: verb
Translations:
unproductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
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-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Late Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Late Latin dūcō
Late Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin prōductīvusbor.
English productive
English unproductive
From un- + productive.
Inflected forms:
form: more unproductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unproductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not productive; useless; fruitless.
pos: adj
examples: Juggling is an amusing pastime, but generally unproductive.
gloss: No longer used to produce new words (see examples).
pos: adj
Synonyms: nonproductive
unyieldly
Derived words: unproductive time
unproductively
Translations:
suppression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
human-sciences
military
politics
psychology
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *per-?
Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.
Proto-Italic *pres-
Latin premō
Latin supprimō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin suppressiōbor.
English suppression
Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.
Inflected forms:
form: suppressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or instance of suppressing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
gloss: The state of being suppressed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.
gloss: A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: suppress
repression
Derived words: angiosuppression
cardiosuppression
contrasuppression
cosuppression
fibrosuppression
immunosuppression
inflammosuppression
lymphosuppression
myelosuppression
neurosuppression
nonsuppression
oncosuppression
oversuppression
postsuppressional
presuppression
radiosuppression
resuppression
supersuppression
thrombosuppression
suppressionism
suppressionist
hood suppression system
phenotypic suppression
space suppression
suppression order
voter suppression
Translations:
seasick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English see seke, equivalent to sea + sick.
Compound parts: sea
sick
Inflected forms:
form: more seasick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seasick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from sickness, nausea or dizziness due to the motion of a ship or boat at sea.
pos: adj
examples: People who get seasick easily shouldn't join the navy.
Translations:
footpath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English foot path, footpath; equivalent to foot + path. Compare Saterland Frisian Foutpaad (“footpath”), West Frisian fuotpaad (“footpath”), Dutch voetpad (“footpath”), German Low German Footpadd (“footpath”), German Fußpfad (“footpath”).
Compound parts: foot
path
Inflected forms:
form: footpaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.
pos: noun
examples: I felt refreshed after the short rest, and bade the old man farewell and started for town in company with the scared lad, following the footpath below the Grefsen hill.
gloss: A paved path located at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
Derived words: footpathed
Translations:
supervision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin supervisiō.
Inflected forms:
form: supervisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or instance of supervising.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Under his parents' supervision he drilled the holes in the wood.
gloss: Responsible oversight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Do not attempt this without adequate supervision.
gloss: A tutorial session for an individual student or a small group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: supervise
Derived words: cosupervision
semisupervision
snoopervision
superveillance
supervisionist
telesupervision
Translations:
stealthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stealth
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English stealthy
From stealth + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: stealthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stealthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
pos: adj
examples: stealthy military manoeuvres
Translations:
solicitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French sollicitation, from Latin sollicitātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: solicitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "The instances you have quoted," replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger...
gloss: an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a crime with the specific intent that the person solicited commit the crime
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Related words: applicant
Derived words: antisolicitation
nonsolicitation
resolicitation
Translations:
sleazy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly a corruption of Silesia, through a word meaning Silesian cloth. Silesia was formerly the most important location of Germany’s weaving industry.
Inflected forms:
form: sleazier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sleaziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
pos: adj
examples: Al bought my furniture at ten percent of its value and Jim drove me to a sleazy side-avenue hotel, where I obtained a room at a low rate.
gloss: Raunchy or perverted in nature; tastelessly sexual.
pos: adj
examples: Sleazy, yeah, I like it sleazy / Oh let's get nasty baby / I like it sleazy / I'll take you for a bad ride
Nancy knew it was a sleazy movie because the channel's logo appeared in the lower right corner of the screen. This satellite station only showed sleazy films at this time of the night. Actually its selection of films was trashy at any time, but the after-eleven fare was especially so. […] It's garbage, a step or two removed from pornography.
gloss: Untrustworthy, unethical.
pos: adj
examples: She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.
The Gold Dust was a sleazy place, a clip joint with crooked gambling tables in the back and a fleet of B-girls who would give you a few minutes' vapid conversation and a peek at the tops of their breasts if you bought them a three-dollar drink […]
Their reasons are mainly because they are simply people that I would consider sleazy— sleazy, slimy, shady, whatever term you want to use. The point is that, I am not one of them.
gloss: Thin and flimsy.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Shortly after his return in infirm old age to his native land, a little narrative of his adventures, forlornly published on sleazy gray paper, appeared among the peddlers, written, probably, not by himself, but taken down from his lips by another.
I hesitate to describe Sophy Epstein's dress. You won't like it. In the first place, it was cut too low, front and back, for a shoe clerk in a downtown loft. It was a black dress, near-princess in style, very tight as to fit, very short as to skirt, very sleazy as to material.
She noted with tenderness all the makeshifts: the darned chair-arms, the patent rocker covered with sleazy cretonne, the pasted strips of paper mending the birch-bark napkin-rings labeled "Papa" and "Mama."
Hilma donned her oldest dress, carried pick and shovel to a flower-blown knoll above the creek and there chose a site for the grave. […] Soon the sleazy dress clung to her back with a sweat of toil, and its stretched web undulated to the smooth play of muscles from shoulder to midback.
Derived words: sleaze
sleazily
sleaziness
unsleazy
Translations:
Shinto
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 神道 (Shintō), from Middle Chinese 神道 (MC zyin dawX, “ways of the gods”), ultimately from Old Chinese 神道 (OC *hlin l'uːʔ, “ways [doings] of Heaven [in matters of fortune or fate]”).
Inflected forms:
form: Shintō
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, Shintoism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sedative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sedatif, from Anglo-Norman sedatif, from Medieval Latin sēdātīvus, which itself likely influenced the modern spelling.
Inflected forms:
form: sedatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sedative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sedative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An agent or drug that sedates, having a calming or soothing effect, or inducing sleep.
pos: noun
gloss: Calming, soothing, inducing sleep, tranquilizing
pos: adj
Translations:
danceable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder.
Anglo-Norman dauncerbor.
Middle English dauncen
English dance
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English danceable
From dance + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more danceable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most danceable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: danceables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for dancing.
pos: adj
gloss: Danceworthy.
pos: adj
examples: “Assignment time! Hatchi machi! (gasps) I got conference room cleanup duty. In your face!” “Last time I checked, that was very lame.” (humming) “Why would you dance? That's not a danceable job.”
gloss: A social event with dancing; a ball.
pos: noun
examples: During the months that followed the bazaar, Rhett called whenever he was in town, taking Scarlett riding in his carriage, escorting her to danceables and bazaars and waiting outside the hospital to drive her home.
The Netherwood was billed as "a city hotel in the country." For two decades after its 1878 opening, people arrived from New York by parlor car to spend their vacation on the Netherwood Heights. Croquet, danceables, masquerades, tennis, bowling, midnight suppers, and fancy dress balls were the order of the day for the vacationer.
In the street the rattle of carriages could still be heard, women's voices calling farewells and invitations to future dinners and danceables.
We children were introduced to these musical ensembles very early, and as we grew up, we merely tolerated them in part because their performances were usually sit-down events rather than danceables, and they weren't as hip as the American music.
gloss: A song suitable for dancing to.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The Dynatones' approach is a three-way mix: familiar danceables from the likes of Junior Walker, Sam & Dave and the Rascals; scrupulously selected obscurities from such artists as Z.Z. Hill and Rodger Collins, which underscore the depth of their commitment to the genre; and smart, well crafted originals written by vocalist Chip "C.C" Miller and guitarist Larry Dunn.
A five-piece band playing modern Top 40 danceables, Hot Pursuit is after Tucsonans not content with toe tapping.
Related words: danceability
Derived words: undanceable
Translations:
dasheen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a language of the West Indies. Probably from Antillean Creole dachine or another French creole, from French (chou) de Chine (literally “(cabbage) of China”), as the species originated in China.
Inflected forms:
form: dasheens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Old cocoyam; the edible starchy yellow tuber of the taro plant.
pos: noun
examples: He say tell your people [...] to boil more banana, and roast more yam, fry more potato and dig up more dasheen.
Translations:
dot-commer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dot-com
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 dot-commer
From dot-com + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dot-commers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dotcomer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dotcommer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.
pos: noun
examples: Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]
Translations:
beaner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans", since beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine, and eaten in Boston as Boston baked beans.
Base: bean
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: beaners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican.
pos: noun
tags: US
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.
Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?
I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!
gloss: Any Hispanic or Latino person.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
gloss: A casual term of address, especially used by Mexican Americans.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
slang
sometimes
gloss: A Bostonian; a person from Boston, Massachusetts.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: In Boston the beaners found out what a good show we had when we jumped to Albany. But all the while the Boston press praised and they heeded not until it was too late and then they added their regrets to ours.
Related words: bean-eater
Translations:
flatting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *flataz
Old Norse flatrbor.
Middle English flat
English flat
English -ing
English flatting
From flat + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: flattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of living, with others, in a flat.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
uncountable
usually
gloss: A type of paint that dries with a flat (matt) finish; a coating of such paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Bankart is of opinion that “an important point as regards painters on board ship is to recognize the fact that there is danger of poisoning, whenever quick-drying paints and flattings are being used in inclosed spaces,[…].”
gloss: The process of applying a coating of flatting paint.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A flat part of something, a flattening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: I have been informed, that there are some tribes in whom the posterior part of the head is flattened instead of the front part, and that these depressions and flattings of the head are produced by such artificial pressure.
gloss: The process of becoming flat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The process of causing something to become flat; the process of flattening something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: flatting-mill
Flatting agents reduces gloss by scattering reflected light. The more flatting agent added, the duller the appearance and the greater the loss of film clarity.
Recent chemical advances allow significantly increased control of flatting behavior through the utilization of special acidic-functionality copolymeric additives.
gloss: An instance of a musical note being flatter than intended.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: The bell ropes hang from the outside of the tower, the resultant friction of the ropes over the brick sides producing irresolute sharpings or flattings of the notes.
Leland Smith goes so far as to say, “in tonal music the minor mode has no separate existence, but represents merely a fairly consistently applied group of alterations — flattings — of certain parts of the major mode.”
gloss: A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Nottingham white-lead is the most esteemed for what is called flatting, or dead white.
gloss: The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rollers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations: