yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
disjunctive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
grammar
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
logic
mathematics
music
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English disjunctief, disjunctyf, from Middle French disjunctif and Latin disjunctīvus (“placed in opposition”).
Inflected forms:
form: more disjunctive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disjunctive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disjunctives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not connected; separated.
pos: adj
examples: That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
gloss: Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
pos: adj
examples: The words "but" and "or" are disjunctive conjunctions.
gloss: Tending to disjoin; separating.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
pos: adj
examples: […] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
gloss: Of or related to a disjunction.
pos: adj
examples: An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.
gloss: A disjunction.
pos: noun
examples: L. H. Atwater
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
gloss: A disjunct.
pos: noun
Antonyms: conjunctive
Derived words: canonical disjunctive normal form
disjunctively
disjunctiveness
disjunctive normal form
disjunctive syllogism
disjunctivism
disjunctivist
disjunctivitis
nondisjunctive
Translations:
engaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Busy or employed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?
gloss: Greatly interested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
gloss: attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: in contact and in operation
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: being attacked or attacking
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
Related words: engage
engagement
Derived words: engaged column
engagedly
engagedness
engaged time
engaged tone
nonengaged
otherwise engaged
semiengaged
underengaged
unengaged
Translations:
bitts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English, probably of Low German or North Germanic origin, and the English form a corruption or contraction, from Old Norse biti, probably ultimately from a variant of Proto-Germanic *bitiz. Compare Swedish beting and Danish beding.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A frame composed of two strong oak timbers (bitt-heads) fixed vertically in the fore part of a ship, bolted to the deck beams to which are secured the cables when the ship rides to anchor
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
necrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From necro- + -logy.
Base: necro
Inflected forms:
form: necrologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Voltaire and Rousseau died in 1778, d'Alembert in 1783, and Diderot in 1784, while leading salonnières Mesdames du Deffand and d'Épinay passed away in 1780 and 1783. Beneath this sombre necrology, important shifts were occurring in the workings of the public sphere and in the sites in which opinion was constructed.
2006 Marc Fisher; We Loved That Airline To Death; Washington Post
The fare structure is one reason Independence Air has joined a necrology of low-cost carriers that stretches over four decades.
gloss: A notice of death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hershel Weinshenk-Tausik in Prague, who 1655 wrote a necrology on the chazzan Lippman Popper
gloss: The study of death or the dead.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: necrological
Translations:
funerary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin fūnerārius, from Latin funus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a funeral.
pos: adj
examples: The team says it has uncovered Bronze Age burnt mounds which heated water from the River Cole, Iron Age houses and funerary remains, plus evidence of Roman salt processing.
Translations:
impunity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French impunité, from Latin impunitas, from impunis (“without punishment”).
Inflected forms:
form: impunities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exemption from punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Maternus, a private ſoldier, of a daring boldneſs above his ſtation,[…] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceleſs cities of Gaul and Spain.
I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.
[...] and the rebuilding of Birmingham New Street with its Taurus Bar ("where one for the road - the railroad - can be taken with impunity").
If Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could order his troops into his neighbor with impunity, surely China’s President Xi Jinping might finally decide to recover Taiwan, the island province that has remained staunchly independent ever since Mao Zedong’s Red Army finished his conquest of the mainland in 1949.
It said that Russian troops were massing at the border and preparing strikes on Ukraine with impunity.
Related words: impunitive
punishment
punition
punitive
punitively
Translations:
brahmin
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French bramine, from obsolete Portuguese bramine, from Sanskrit ब्राह्मण (brā́hmaṇa); modern French brahmane, Portuguese brâmane are readjusted after Sanskrit. Doublet of Brahmana.
Inflected forms:
form: brahmins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Brahmin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brahman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Bramin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Brahmin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: brahman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Bramin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Hindu priestly caste, one of the four varnas or social groups based on occupation in ancient Hindu society.
pos: noun
gloss: One who has realized or attempts to realize Brahman, i.e. God or supreme knowledge.
pos: noun
gloss: A scholar, teacher, priest, intellectual, researcher, scientist, knowledge-seeker, or knowledge worker.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a social and cultural elite, especially in the New England region of the USA.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
US
capitalized
especially
examples: Branching from the root of it all was New England Society. The original Nelson [W. Aldrich] became remembered as a patrician, a Brahmin.
In Iran-Contra, the independent counsel investigating the scandal, Lawrence Walsh, was a deadly serious Brahmin lawyer with a sterling Republican pedigree; he nevertheless faced withering criticism from members of his own party, just as special counsel Robert Mueller has as he investigates Trump and his circle.
gloss: A learned person of refined taste and mild manners.
pos: noun
gloss: Scholarly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Boston Brahmin
Brahmanism
brahminess
brahminical
Daivadnya brahmin
Translations:
graduated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
economics
government
natural-sciences
ornithology
sciences
taxation
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a university degree; having completed training.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Marked with graduations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Arranged by grade, level, or degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
gloss: Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In steps.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Derived words: graduated cylinder
nongraduated
ungraduated
Translations:
menopause
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French méno-
Ancient Greek παύω (paúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis)der.
Latin pausabor.
French -pause
French ménopause
English menopause
From French ménopause, from Latin menopausis, from Ancient Greek μήν (mḗn, “month”) + παῦσις (paûsis, “pause”). Equivalent to meno- + -pause.
Base: meno
Inflected forms:
form: menopauses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The period in a woman's life when menstruation becomes irregular and less frequent before eventually stopping altogether, usually accompanied by a range of unpleasant symptoms; the period spanning perimenopause up to postmenopause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The encounter soured Thomas's relationship with Jessa, who had founded the mobile payments company, with the chief executive eventually attributing the 51-year-old's behavior to the menopause, an employment tribunal was told.
The council is proposing to include guidance to magistrates and judges to consider the impact of the menopause on the behaviour of women typically aged between 45 and 55.[…]Earlier this year an employment tribunal took account of a woman’s menopause symptoms in her claim of discrimination by her employers. Maria Rooney, 52, claimed her anxiety and depression from the menopause meant she took extended periods of sick leave leading to her resignation.
gloss: The final menstrual period of a woman after which ovulation no longer occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: estropause
femopause
Antonyms: menarche
Derived words: femopause
henopause
male menopause
manopause
menopausal
menopaused
menopausing
menoporsche
menopot
penopause
perimenopause
philosopause
premenopause
pseudomenopause
Translations:
campout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From camp + out, from the phrasal verb.
Compound parts: camp
out
Inflected forms:
form: campouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gathering or event at which people sleep outdoors or camp.
pos: noun
examples: The Degree of Three Years' Service may be conferred on any one who has been a member of a Woodcraft Tribe for three years, never missing a tribal campout in that time, attending half of the tribal meetings at other times, and having a clear record for law and order.
Circle the words that would be good to use in a story titled "The Scariest Campout Ever!"
Even if you have a whole week of vacation and not just a short weekend, for your first campout with small children you are better off planning a trip of only one or two nights until you get the hang of camping.
Translations:
misbehave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English misbehaven, equivalent to mis- + behave.
Base: behave
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: misbehaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misbehaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misbehaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misbehaved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: He doesn't mean to misbehave; he just doesn't know better.
Translations:
dort
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dort (found in compound cankerdort), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: dorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become pettish; sulk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
wo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of who.
Inflected forms:
form: whoa
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A falconer's call to a hawk.
pos: intj
gloss: A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
pos: intj
Translations:
dilute
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
stock-market
Etymology: From Latin dīlūtus, from dīluere (“to wash away, dissolve, cause to melt, dilute”), from dī-, dis- (“away, apart”) + luere (“to wash”). See lave, and compare deluge.
Inflected forms:
form: dilutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diluting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diluted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diluted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more dilute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dilute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dilutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mix their watery store / With the chyle's current, and dilute it more.
gloss: To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For if these Colours be diluted and weakened by the Mixture of any adventitious light, the distance between the places of the Paper will not be so great.
“Stay a little.”
“Not another second: language and discussion dilute thought; I will say no more.”
It's healthy to have people in the military who would perhaps rather be somewhere else; they can dilute the more gung-ho military types.
Courts have repeatedly struck down Republican-drawn maps on the grounds that they constitute illegal racial gerrymanders designed to dilute the electoral power of Black voters, who overwhelmingly cast Democratic ballots.
gloss: To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It dilutes easily.
gloss: Having a low concentration.
pos: adj
examples: Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.
gloss: Weak; reduced in strength by dilution; diluted.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an animal: having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
pos: adj
examples: a dilute calico
a cat with a dilute tortoiseshell coat
gloss: An animal having a lighter-coloured coat than is usual.
pos: noun
examples: On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.
Related words: diluent
dilutable
dilutant
dilution
dilutory
diluvium
Derived words: dilutee
diluteness
diluter
dilutive
haemodiluting
overdilute
predilute
semidilute
underdilute
undilute
dilute Russell's viper venom time
Translations:
solvent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From French solvent, from Latin solventem, accusative singular of solvens, present participle of solvō. By surface analysis, solv(e) + -ent.
Inflected forms:
form: solvents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fluid that dissolves a solid, liquid, or gaseous solute, resulting in a solution.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: solution
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
gloss: That which resolves.
pos: noun
examples: It explains. And explanation is the true solvent of mystery.
gloss: Able to pay all debts as they become due, and having no more liabilities than assets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: above water, in the black
gloss: Having the power of dissolving; causing solution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
Related words: acidic
Derived words: antisolvent
biosolvent
cash solvent
cosolvent
cryosolvent
desolventizing
nonsolvent
plumbosolvent
protosolvent
solvency
solvent abuse
solvent abuser
solvent extraction
solventless
solvently
solventogenesis
solventogenic
solventproof
Stoddard solvent
unisolvent
universal solvent
Translations:
watered-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adjectivized past participle of water down.
Inflected forms:
form: more watered-down
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most watered-down
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: watered down
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Containing extra water.
pos: adj
examples: Nobody likes watered-down scotch.
gloss: Weakened or simplified.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: They teach a watered-down calculus class for non-majors.
Translations:
about-turn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From the imperative phrase used in the military.
Inflected forms:
form: about-turns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: about turn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: about-turns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: about-turning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: about-turned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: about-turned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: about turn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A turn of 180 degrees, typically in a military formation .
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Total reversal of opinion or attitude .
pos: noun
examples: A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
When Francis visited Chile in 2018, he dismissed the protesters and accused them of “calumny” in the full gaze of the world’s press. It caused the head of the Vatican’s own sex abuse commission to rebuke his boss publicly. Back in Rome, Francis responded by dispatching an envoy to look into the case. When his report came back siding with the protesters, Francis did a swift about-turn and described what he said on his visit to Chile as “the lowest moment” of his papacy.
gloss: To turn 180 degrees, typically in a military formation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
contraband
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish contrabanda (modern spelling contrabando), from Italian contrabando (modern spelling contrabbando), from contra (“against”) + bando (“ban”), and reinforced by French contrebande.
Inflected forms:
form: contrabands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more contraband
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contraband
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
historical
usually
examples: While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty.
gloss: Prohibited from being traded.
pos: adj
examples: … when the seizure is made in connection with a violation involving a contraband article covered by section 1 (b) (1) of the said Act; …
The exclusion of mandatory payment of moieties for seizures of contraband controlled substances is accomplished through Section 17 of the bill, …
4. Contraband goods may be seized if found in a river before they are landed or offered for sale.
Derived words: contrabander
contrabandism
contrabandist
contraband of war
noncontraband
Translations:
prohibit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prohibiten, from Latin prohibeō (“to fend off, prevent, prohibit”) (through past participle prohibitus).
Inflected forms:
form: prohibits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prohibiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prohibited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prohibited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The restaurant prohibits smoking on the patio.
I was prohibited to come.
Crossing the border without permission is prohibited.
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
Like the previous rules, the new guidance doesn’t prohibit membership in an extremist organization, but officials said it makes it very difficult to participate. […] For years, the Defense Department relied on a nebulous definition of extremist activity that listed it among a wide array of prohibited behavior. […] “It’s threading a very fine needle when we’re engaging in prohibiting conduct that may be protected by the First Amendment,” said one official. “There’s always going to be this balancing that goes on.”
The Foreign Assistance Act bars assistance to any country that “prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.”
Antonyms: admit
allow
approve
authorize
consent
let
permit
ratify
sanction
suffer
tolerate
warrant
Translations:
prohibition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman and Old French prohibicion, from Latin prohibitiō. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: prohibitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By its terms, the Twenty-Second Amendment bars only the election of two-term Presidents, and this prohibition would not prevent someone who had twice been elected President from succeeding to the office after having been elected or appointed Vice President. Broader language providing that no such person "shall be chosen or serve as President . . . or be eligible to hold the office" was rejected in favor of the Twenty-Second Amendment’s ban merely on election. (Amdt22.1 Overview of Twenty-Second Amendment, Presidential Term Limits, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation)
But the prohibition on active advocacy and participation left a wide margin of allowable activity and was open to interpretation.
Appeals courts, including the 5th Circuit, have in the past upheld the federal ban in question. But more recently, some courts have shown hostility towards gun prohibitions aimed at 18- to 20-year-olds.
gloss: A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: First, some persons might consider my advocacy of prohibition rather odd for a congressman coming from the state which produces the finest bourbon whiskey in the world. While this is true, it is also true that prior to the Eighteenth Amendment a large majority of the counties of Kentucky had voted against the sale of liquor under what was known as the county unit plan. Since repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment a substantial majority of Kentucky counties have voted under local option to outlaw liquor. My stand on the question, first in voting for the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment, and later for an amendment to appeal it, was a matter of principle and not of expediency.
gloss: A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: forbode
Antonyms: permission
Related words: prohibit
prohibitionary
Derived words: antiprohibition
nonprohibition
prohibitional
prohibitionism
prohibitionist
prohibitionistic
reprohibition
writ of prohibition
Translations:
blow-by
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: blow-bys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
by-blow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English by-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *blēaną
Proto-West Germanic *blāan
Old English blāwan
Middle English blowen
English blow
English by-blow
From by- + blow.
Inflected forms:
form: by-blows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: byblow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bye-blow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort.
pos: noun
examples: Either commander took speedy advantage of it—Hopton to make a swift diversion into Sussex and capture Arundel Castle (which was but a by-blow, for in a few weeks he had lost it again).
As a by-blow in the course of his relentless campaigns against Louis, Willem gained the three thrones of Britain in 1699 – but what a by-blow this proved!
gloss: An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: ‘Nay,’ said the landlady, ‘if I thought he was a gentleman's son, thof he was a bye-blow, I should behave to him in another guess manner; for many of these bye-blows come to be great men, and, as my poor first husband used to say, never affront any customer that's a gentleman.’
c. 1892, Herman Melville, "Billy Budd, Foretopman" (novella), in Herman Melville: Selected Tales and Poems, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (1950), p. 298,
Yes, Billy was a foundling, a presumable bye-blow, and, evidently, no ignoble one.
The best hope has been that friends and family would talk, a hope partly realized in this discreet but perceptive memoir by his illegitimate daughter. . . . Little Mary was a by-blow and an inconvenience.
Translations:
blow-by-blow
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably suggesting a detailed description of a fight or boxing match, where blow means a hit or a landed punch.
Inflected forms:
form: blow-by-blows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Detailing every action or occurrence completely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He gave a blow-by-blow account of the entire trip.
In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
gloss: An account, description, or commentary including every detail of the action or event.
pos: noun
examples: The media published a blow-by-blow of the trial as it happened.
Translations:
highchair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-West Germanic *hauh
Old English hēah
Middle English heigh
English high
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.?
Proto-Hellenic *kətá
Ancient Greek κατά (katá)
Proto-Indo-European *sed-der.
Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂
Proto-Hellenic *hédrā
Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra)
Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor.
Latin cathedrader.
Old French chaierebor.
Middle English chayere
English chair
English highchair
From high + chair.
Inflected forms:
form: highchairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: high chair
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An elevated chair, often including a built-in tray, used for feeding babies and toddlers.
pos: noun
Translations:
interloper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + loper (“runner, rover”), as in landloper (“vagrant”) (from lope (“to leap, to jump”) (originally dialectal)). Originally spelt enterloper and used in specific sense, “unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies”, later general sense of “self-interested intruder” from 1630s.
Base: loper
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interlopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.
pos: noun
examples: They disliked the interloper, and forced him to leave.
In a button-up plaid shirt with an unwieldly suitcase, he is an interloper from another world – one whose first social faux pas is to make his way slowly through the various gates and arrive at the imposing front door on foot, rather than wait to be picked up from the train station by a servant.
gloss: An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: interlope
lope
backseat driver
busybody
buttinsky
encroacher
gatecrasher
kibitzer
marplot
meddler
nosy parker
peeping tom
persona non grata
Translations:
irksome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English irkesome, irksum, equivalent to irk + -some, or perhaps continuing (in altered form) from Old English weorcsum (“painful, hurtful”).
Base: irk
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more irksome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irksome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition
pos: adj
examples: He has this irksome habit of racing up to red lights, so he has to brake heavily.
The young Spaniard had been in many situations of greater difficulty, but in none more irksome.
But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.
Like the irksome climate-change satire Don’t Look Up, directed by Succession executive producer Adam McKay, the exaggerated hijinks of Mountainhead reveal a deep self-assurance of its politics that border on smug.
Translations:
carr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.
Inflected forms:
form: carrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
pos: noun
examples: The marsh lands or ‘carrs’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
The old tales told of these noble animals sighted padding across clodded fields or circling shrinking copses. Stalking the choking carrs.
gloss: In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)
pos: noun
Derived words: alder carr
Batley Carr
carrland
Translations:
nitpick
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From nit + pick, originally referring to literally removing invisibly tiny louse eggs by hand.
Compound parts: nit
pick
Inflected forms:
form: nitpicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nitpicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nitpicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nitpicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Someone will invariably nitpick about any spelling error posted to the forums.
But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.
gloss: To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
I nitpicked his hair.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
Related words: nitpicker
nit-picking
nitpickish
nitpicky
quibble
split hairs
Derived words: Britpick
nitpickery
nutpick
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: fluekneppe
lang: Dutch
word: vlooien
lang: Finnish
word: nyppiä loisia
lang: Finnish
word: saivarrella
lang: French
word: chercher les poux
lang: German
word: lausen
lang: Japanese
word: シラミを取る
roman: shirami o toru
lang: Macedonian
word: пошти
roman: pošti
lang: Portuguese
word: catar piolho
lang: Romanian
word: păduchea
lang: Romanian
word: despăduchea
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: биштати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бискати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bištati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: biskati
punt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Old English punt, from Latin pontō (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”); readopted from Middle Low German punte (“ferry boat”) or Middle Dutch ponte (“ferry boat”) of the same origin.
Inflected forms:
form: punts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: punts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: punting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: punted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: punted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: pontoon
gloss: To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
pos: verb
gloss: Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
pos: verb
Derived words: punter
Translations:
gurdwara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Punjabi ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ (gurduārā), ਗੁਰਦਵਾਰਾ (gurdavārā).
Inflected forms:
form: gurdwaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gurudwara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Sikh place of worship.
pos: noun
Translations:
cyanamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: cyanamides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chemical compound, NH₂CN; a white crystalline solid, soluble in water, having many commercial applications including fertilizer
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any derivative of this compound in which one or more hydrogen atoms are replaced by an alkyl or aryl group
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: cyanimide
Derived words: calcium cyanamide
Translations:
cyanate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyanic acid
English -ate
English cyanate
From cyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: cyanates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cyanates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cyanating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cyanated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cyanated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of cyanic acid.
pos: noun
gloss: To treat or react with cyanide.
pos: verb
Translations:
cyanidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyanide
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English cyanidation
From cyanide + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: cyanidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process
pos: noun
Translations:
cyanine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyan
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English cyanine
From cyan + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: cyanines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a family of synthetic polymethine blue dyes used in photography etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
cyanogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From cyano- + -gen; compare French cyanogène. So called because it produced blue dyes.
Base: cyano
Inflected forms:
form: cyanogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pseudohalogen (CN)₂; a colorless, poisonous gas used as a rocket propellant, an insecticide and in chemical warfare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The radical -CN.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bromocyan
bromocyanogen
cyanogen bromide
cyanogen chloride
ferricyanogen
ferrocyanogen
hexacyanogen
paracyanogen
Translations:
cyanosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From cyano- + -osis.
Base: cyano
Inflected forms:
form: cyanoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cyanotype
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cyano- + -type.
Base: cyano
Inflected forms:
form: cyanotypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An early photographic process employing paper sensitized with a cyanide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A photographic print produced by means of this process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: blueprint
cyanograph
cyanographic
cyanography
Translations:
mainframe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From main + frame.
Compound parts: main
frame
Inflected forms:
form: mainframes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: main frame
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer chassis that hosts and interconnects modules that perform various tasks.
pos: noun
gloss: The main frame of a vehicle etc., more commonly main frame.
pos: noun
Derived words: mainframed
mainframelike
mainframer
micromainframe
minimainframe
nonmainframe
Translations:
supermarket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: American English, super- + market, 1933.
Base: market
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supermarkets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large self-service store that sells groceries and, usually, medications, household goods, and/or clothing.
pos: noun
examples: I went to the supermarket to buy some food.
Cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite Zero sent to cafes and restaurants are being withdrawn as well as 6x250ml Appletiser multipacks sent to UK supermarkets.
gloss: A chain of such stores.
pos: noun
gloss: A one-stop shop; a place offering a range of products or services.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: If you know what you want by filtering down the 1,600 or so trusts to a short list and then studying the information on each via online sources, then you can buy your trust and get all or nearly all of the commission back into your bank account via an Internet investment supermarket. Here, you select your fund, decide whether you want it as an Individual Savings Account (ISA), and pay for it with a credit card.
Almina grew up in the age of the internet and the infinite supermarket of pornography it provides.
Derived words: antisupermarket
nonsupermarket
social supermarket
superette
supermarketeer
supermarketer
supermarketing
supermarketlike
Translations:
demote
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
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-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin prōmoveō
Latin prōmōtusbor.
English (pro)mote
English demote
From de- (“down”) + promote (“advance in rank/status (ending abstracted)”).
Base: promote
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: demotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower the rank or status of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: James was demoted from branch manager to assistant manager due to his poor discipline.
In 1036, shortly after arriving at Yi-ling, Ou-yang Hsiu sent a lengthy letter to his friend, Yin Shu, who had been demoted at the same time as Ou-yang Hsiu and sent to Ying-chou (modern Chung-hsiang, Hupeh).
gloss: To relegate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: demotee
demoter
undemoted
Translations:
groceries
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grocery
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Senses:
gloss: Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies; the commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery store.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: She carried a sack of groceries in from her car and placed it on the kitchen table.
Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
Translations:
grocery
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.
Base: grocer
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: groceries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: groceries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grocerying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: groceried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: groceried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
gloss: A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
pos: noun
examples: 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
gloss: To go grocery shopping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.
The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley
I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.
Sample usage: "If you're going grocerying, pick up some GMO — you know, Goat's Milk, Organic. But it has to be non-GMO GMO."
gloss: To furnish with groceries.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love
Related words: greengrocer
grocer
groceries
Derived words: greengrocery
grocerant
grocery bag
grocery cart
grocery getter
grocery haul
grocery list
groceryman
grocery paper
grocery shrink ray
I'm looking for a grocery store
is there a grocery store nearby
nongrocery
salvage grocery
Translations:
grocer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French grossier (“wholesaler”). Compare gross.
Inflected forms:
form: grocers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who retails groceries (foodstuffs and household items) from a grocery.
pos: noun
examples: “Cadiz isn't going to become the garbage dump capital of the world,” said Patrick Erbacher, a grocer who is vice president of the Cadiz Jaycees.
Control will never again be gained for toleration will become extinct. A husband quarrelling with his wife will not think twice or regret his spent bullet. Hungry children will not spare the grocer.
Remorse in all forms will be removed from human thoughts and actions.Freedom will only be available through revolution or death. This system of a down is unavoidable as life on this planet becomes unnecessary.
gloss: A retail store that sells groceries, a grocery store.
pos: noun
Related words: grocery
Derived words: greengrocer
grocerdom
groceress
grocerly
grocer's
grocer's itch
Translations:
greengrocer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From green + grocer.
Compound parts: green
grocer
Inflected forms:
form: greengrocers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
gloss: A relatively small shop selling fresh vegetables and fruit.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
gloss: A common green cicada, Cyclochila australasiae, of eastern Australia.
pos: noun
Derived words: greengroceress
greengrocer's
greengrocer's apostrophe
greengrocery
greengrocing
Translations:
whomever
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English whomever; equivalent to whom + ever.
Compound parts: whom
ever
Inflected forms:
form: of whoever
pos: pron
tags: objective
form: whomsoever
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Whatever person or persons (as object of verb or preposition).
pos: pron
tags: formal
examples: The letter is addressed to whomever it may concern.
I'll marry whomever I want.
To impose his will on whomever he sees comfortably settled.
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
Translations: