yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
persistent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin persistentem, present participle of persistō (“continue steadfastly”). By surface analysis, persist + -ent.
Inflected forms:
form: more persistent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most persistent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
pos: adj
examples: She has had a persistent cough for weeks.
The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
gloss: Insistently repetitive.
pos: adj
examples: There was a persistent knocking on the door.
gloss: Indefinitely continuous.
pos: adj
examples: There have been persistent rumours for years.
Although many individuals seek meaningful social connection, they face persistent barriers to sustaining relationships, including communication difficulties, social rejection, loneliness, and limited social opportunities (Elmose, 2019; Mendelson et al., 2016; Sosnowy et al., 2019). The gap between social motivation and real-life opportunities for social interaction may contribute to persistent social isolation in this population.
gloss: Lasting past maturity without falling off.
pos: adj
examples: Pine cones have persistent scales.
The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
gloss: Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
pos: adj
examples: Once written to a disk file, the data becomes persistent: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
gloss: Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
pos: adj
gloss: non-transient.
pos: adj
Related words: persist
persistence
persistency
persistently
Derived words: antipersistent
biopersistent
hyperpersistent
impersistent
non-null persistent
nonpersistent
null persistent
persistent adrenarche syndrome
persistent cloaca
persistent cookie
persistent cross-site scripting
persistent depressive disorder
persistent genital arousal disorder
persistent organic pollutant
persistent sexual arousal syndrome
persistent truncus arteriosus
persistent vegetative state
semipersistent
Translations:
bummer
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Bummlerbor.
English bummer
Borrowed from German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”).
Inflected forms:
form: bummers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: “If I get away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.
gloss: A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
pos: noun
gloss: Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
Derived words: bum
Translations:
perpetual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English perpetuel, from Old French perpetuel, from Latin perpetuālis (“universal”), from perpetuus, from petō.
Inflected forms:
form: perpetuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: perpetual copyright
gloss: Continuing; uninterrupted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "And yet," returned Francesca, "the secret of Arden's sufferings seems to have been in himself. From earliest youth he indulged in vain contrasts and repinings, and even his very love was selfish and cruel. Think how much happiness he lost by his perpetual exaggerations!"
There are perpetual requests for changes as new payloads and new demands and modifications are suggested by the users.
gloss: Flowering throughout the growing season.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.
The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.
Related words: perpetuate
Derived words: a contented mind is a perpetual feast
hybrid perpetual
nonperpetual
perpetual beta
perpetual bond
perpetual canon
perpetual curate
perpetual futures
perpetual inventory
perpetualism
perpetualist
perpetuality
perpetual license
perpetually
perpetual motion
perpetual motion machine
perpetual motion machine of the first kind
perpetual motion machine of the second kind
perpetualness
perpetual pill
perpetual revolution
perpetual stew
semiperpetual
unperpetual
Translations:
illiterate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1425–1475, in Middle English; from Middle English illiterat(e) (“uneducated, ignorant of Latin”), borrowed from Latin illīterātus, illitterātus (“unlearned, ignorant”), itself from in- (“un-”) + līterātus, litterātus (“furnished with letters”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from lītera, littera (“letter, character”). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more illiterate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illiterate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: illitterate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: illiterates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: illitterate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Unable to read and write.
pos: adj
examples: About half of the population in Ethiopia is illiterate.
If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.
Not always does this ruse succeed however. The railways have undertaken publicity warning passengers about it, and have made a big difference in the appearance of long distance and short distance tickets, so that the most illiterate person can see the distinction. Some of these swindlers have been caught.
gloss: Having less than an expected standard of familiarity with language and literature, or having little formal education.
pos: adj
examples: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
He's illiterate […] Seriously, how did he get into RI?
gloss: Not conforming to prescribed standards of speech or writing.
pos: adj
examples: Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.
gloss: Ignorant in a specified way or about a specified subject.
pos: adj
examples: technologically illiterate, economically illiterate, emotionally illiterate
gloss: An illiterate person, one either not able to read and write or not knowing how.
pos: noun
examples: We might also provide education plus reading and writing services to adult illiterates.
gloss: A person ignorant about a given subject. (The relevant subject is usually named as a noun adjunct.)
pos: noun
examples: Their government is run by business illiterates.
Sometimes a mathematical illiterate is called an innumerate.
Synonyms: analphabetic
ignorant
uncharactered
unlettered
analphabet
Antonyms: literate
Related words: innumerate
numerate
Derived words: computer illiterate
e-illiterate
illiteracy
illiterately
illiterateness
nonilliterate
Translations:
preach
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prechen, from Old French prëechier, precchier (Modern French prêcher), from Latin praedicō (“to proclaim, announce”, literally “to fore-assign, pre-dedicate”). Doublet of predicate.
The Latin word is also the source of Old English predician (“to preach”), Saterland Frisian preetje (“to preach”), West Frisian preekje (“to preach”), Dutch preken (“to preach”), German Low German preken (“to preach”), German predigen (“to preach”), Danish prædike (“to preach”), Swedish predika (“to preach”), Icelandic prédika (“to preach”), Norwegian Nynorsk preika (“to preach”).
Inflected forms:
form: preaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: praught
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: praught
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
Senses:
gloss: To give a sermon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Our pastor can preach very well.
One saint’s day in mid-term a certain newly-appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
gloss: To proclaim by public discourse; to utter in a sermon or a formal religious harangue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Spirit of the Lord God is vpon me, therefore hathe the Lord anointed me: he hathe ſent me to preache good tidings vnto the poore,[…]
gloss: To advise or recommend earnestly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My Mʳ preaches patience to him,[…]
gloss: To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Spirits of the Dead, / Quitting their mortal mansion, enter not, / As falsely ye are preached, their final seat / Of bliss, or bale;[…]
gloss: To give advice in an offensive or obtrusive manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Used to express strong agreement (as if encouraging somebody to continue speaking).
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: – If you can't do the time, don't do the crime! – Preach!
Related words: praught
Derived words: counterpreach
mispreach
nonpreaching
outpreach
overpreach
practice what one preaches
practise what one preaches
preachable
preach down
preachee
preacher
preachify
preaching band
preaching cross
preaching friar
preachingly
preach in the desert
preachman
preachment
preach to deaf ears
preach to the choir
preach to the congregation
preach to the converted
preach up
preach water and drink wine
preachy
unpreach
unpreached
Translations:
postmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English post
English master
English postmaster
From post + master.
Inflected forms:
form: postmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The head of a post office.
pos: noun
examples: With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue.
gloss: The administrator of an electronic mail system.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: Postmaster General
postmastership
subpostmaster
Translations:
colleague
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French collegue, from Latin collēga (“a partner in office”), from com- (“with”) + lēgō (“to send on an embassy”), from lēx (“law”).
Inflected forms:
form: colleagues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colleagues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: colleaguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colleagued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colleagued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
pos: noun
examples: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.[…]Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.
gloss: To unite or associate with another or with others.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Young Fortinbras,
Holding a weak supposal of our worth
...Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,
...hath not failed to pester us with message
Importing the surrender of those lands
Lost by his father. - Hamlet (Act I, Scene 2)
Translations:
enlightened
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enlightened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enlightened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: enlightened
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Educated or informed.
pos: adj
gloss: Made aware of something.
pos: adj
gloss: Freed from illusion.
pos: adj
examples: Yet in the worst, there is still a divine spark of Universal consciousness buried deep within them, and in the best people, except for the enlightened ones, there is still the seed of selfishness.
gloss: Extraordinarily wise; having an exceedingly great wisdom.
pos: adj
examples: An enlightened mind does not need external authority.
Such were the sources of an opulence which we must do Raleigh the credit to say was expended not on debauchery or display, but in the most enlightened efforts to extend tlie field of English commercial enterprise beyond the Atlantic.
Many of the differences between nations are settled by discussion, and we hear little of them. Some are settled by arbitration, to the avoidance of many wars. But international arbitration of aggravated disputes is not much to be relied upon except between the most enlightened nations having predominant moral sense.
These men lived through the Arctic cold of the glacial climate and hunted wild beasts, many of which are now extinct. They doubtless represented the most enlightened people of the earth at that time and had taken long strides in advance of their more primitive forebears. They had acquired a fair degree of skill in making stone implements, and, most important of all, they had come into a mastery of fire, as is shown by the hearths left in their cave abodes. Their flints were beautifully fashioned in a distinctive style. We know, too, that this was a reverent race in whom had already been implanted the belief in immortality; for they buried their dead with much ceremony, providing them with ornaments and implements and an abundance of food, as though for a long journey.
gloss: Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism
pos: noun
Derived words: enlightened absolutism
enlightened centrism
enlightened despotism
enlightenedly
enlightenedness
enlightened self-interest
misenlightened
unenlightened
Translations:
amelioration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English amelioracioun, from Middle French amelioracion and probably partly ameliorate + -ion.
Base: ameliorate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: ameliorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: melioration
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act of making better.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
gloss: An improvement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: pre-amelioration
post-amelioration
Translations:
analysand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English analyse
English -and
English analysand
From analyse + -and.
Inflected forms:
form: analysands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who undergoes psychoanalysis; one who is analysed.
pos: noun
Translations:
anaplastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anaplasty
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English anaplastic
From anaplasty + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, a tumor that shows little histogenetic differentiation. It implies that a tumor is high grade and likely to behave in an aggressive fashion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to plastic surgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: anaplasia
anaplasma
anaplasmataceae
anaplastology
Derived words: anaplastic astrocytoma
anaplastic carcinoma
antianaplastic
nonanaplastic
Translations:
hamsa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חַמְסָה (khámsa), from Arabic خَمْسَة (ḵamsa, “five”), used among Jews of Arabic origin for the fingers on the hand.
Inflected forms:
form: hamsas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: khamsah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khamsa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chamsa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Hand of Fatima.
pos: noun
examples: Reverence for the amulets cuts across religious boundaries. Jews come for Kabbalistic bracelets, glass hamsas or strings of ceramic pomegranates.
Variously associated with qualities ranging from warding off evil to promoting fertility, the open hand of the hamsa is thought to have originated in Mesopotamia and is recognized the world over.
Translations:
apolitical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + political.
Base: political
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more apolitical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apolitical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: apoliticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having no interest or involvement in politics.
pos: adj
examples: The Queen is an apolitical figure.
gloss: Having no political relevance or function.
pos: adj
examples: The PM's visit to the school was entirely apolitical.
gloss: Politically neutral, unbiased, nonaligned and free from party politics.
pos: adj
examples: My colleagues and I come to this task with open minds, we are apolitical and independent of any political party.
What, exactly, the criteria for this designation will be remains unclear but the ultimate aim, some analysts suspect, is to purge officers deemed insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump – a litmus test, they warn, that’s incompatible with an apolitical military.
But like so much in the Trump administration, what was once considered apolitical is now labeled political.
gloss: A person with no involvement or no interest in politics.
pos: noun
gloss: An unbiased candidate or voter, free of a party platform.
pos: noun
gloss: A neutral or uncommitted person.
pos: noun
Derived words: apoliticality
Translations:
armature
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French armature, from Latin armātūra (“armour”). Doublet of armor and armure.
Inflected forms:
form: armatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armatures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: armaturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: armatured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: armatured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
pos: noun
gloss: Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
pos: noun
gloss: The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
pos: noun
gloss: The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
pos: noun
gloss: The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporting framework in a sculpture.
pos: noun
gloss: A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
pos: noun
gloss: A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
pos: noun
gloss: Any apparatus for defence.
pos: noun
gloss: The frame of a pair of glasses.
pos: noun
examples: It can take pictures or video from a front-facing camera, controlled by a voice command or a swipe on the right-hand armature, and is designed to display at-a-glance information on its screen which is visible only to the user.
gloss: To provide with an armature (any sense).
pos: verb
examples: T. S. Eliot had his legion of followers: the immaculate minor poet armaturing in exquisite technique a mildewed softness, and living a reminiscent universe which never existed.
"Armaturing to the larger size was just another challenge we had to face," comments Bruce.
This essentially implies that a wide overhang and waterproof foundations are needed, and the material itself is treated by compaction, alloying or armaturing.
Alonzo knew instantly how to armature his horse figures, by using some self-fashioned wires, to capture the real-life motion of his stallions. Armaturing is a skill that takes some artists years to master.
Good telling of happenings—fact or fiction—has talents in the tale. Beginning and end must strive to armature these.
Derived words: armatureless
disarmature
Translations:
sermon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.
Inflected forms:
form: sermons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sarmon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
pos: noun
examples: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
gloss: A lengthy speech of reproval.
pos: noun
Derived words: action sermon
hedge sermon
postsermon
presermon
sermoneer
sermonesque
sermonet
sermonette
sermonic
sermonical
sermonise
sermonish
sermonist
sermonistic
sermonize
sermonless
sermonlike
sermonolatry
sermon-proof
sermonwise
Translations:
arm-twisting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From arm + twisting.
Compound parts: arm
twisting
Inflected forms:
form: arm-twistings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arm twisting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The use of personal pressure to persuade
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of political pressure to gain support
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kovistelu
lang: French
word: pressions directes
lang: Japanese
word: 鮴押し
roman: gorioshi
undergrowth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + growth. Cognate with West Frisian ûndergroei (“undergrowth”).
Base: growth
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: undergrowths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: tangled undergrowth
clear the undergrowth
The hikers pushed through thick undergrowth.
The forest floor was covered with dense undergrowth.
Translations:
backhander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
racquet-sports
sports
surfing
Etymology: From backhand + -er (patient suffix) or -er (agent noun suffix).
Base: backhand
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: backhanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glass of wine given out of turn, the bottle having been handed backwards.
pos: noun
gloss: A blow with the back of the hand.
pos: noun
gloss: A bribe, a secret payment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A shot played backhand, a backhand stroke.
pos: noun
gloss: A player who plays a backhand shot.
pos: noun
examples: She's a terrific backhander.
gloss: A surfer who approaches a swell with the wave behind them ("on their backhand") rather than facing the wave ("on their forehand").
pos: noun
examples: The morning brought an increased swell; long, perfect, down-the-line, 6-8' freight trains — a forehander's dream and a backhander's nightmare
Translations:
insist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin īnsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.
Compare typologically from the same PIE root Bulgarian настоявам (nastojavam), Russian наста́ивать (nastáivatʹ).
Inflected forms:
form: insists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: insisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: insisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: insisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hold up a claim emphatically.
pos: verb
examples: The defendant insisted on his innocence.
I insist that my secretary dresses nicely.
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
gloss: To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
examples: The Prime Minister insisted on his Chancellor's resignation.
The Prime Minister insisted that his Chancellor resign.
I insist that my secretary dress nicely.
I know I promised to pay you back tomorrow, but it's not very convenient for me. Can we put it off to Friday? —I'm afraid I have to insist on what we agreed.
And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications. "There is a case for a buffer zone, but the problem is that land is at such a premium it is difficult to insist on a large distance between houses and railway lines," she said.
gloss: To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.
Translations:
biometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + -metry.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: biometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The measurement of biological data.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: The analysis of biological statistics; biostatistics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The application of biostatistics to security; biometrics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: biometric
Translations:
bobby-dazzler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bobby + dazzler. Unknown. Originated in 19th century in the dialects of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Compound parts: bobby
dazzler
Inflected forms:
form: bobby-dazzlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bobby dazzler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bobbydazzler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An attractive or excellent thing or person.
pos: noun
tags: Australian
British
informal
examples: Suddenly she appeared in the inner doorway rather shyly. She had got a new cotton blouse on. Paul jumped up and went forward.
"Oh, my stars!" he exclaimed. "What a bobby-dazzler!"
She sniffed in a little haughty way, and put her head up.
"It's not a bobby-dazzler at all!" she replied. "It's very quiet."
Translations:
breadbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braudą
Proto-West Germanic *braud
Old English brēad
Middle English bred
English bread
English box
English breadbox
From bread + box.
Inflected forms:
form: breadboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bread box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bread-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh.
pos: noun
gloss: A Commodore 64 computer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: We had a computer at school, a Commodore 64. The thing had hardly any memory, not even one thousandth of an mp3-player kids use nowadays. To load a game you had to insert a cassette which transmitted a code by means of an endless series of beeps to a brown case we called "the bread box".
That's why he gave him a Commodore 64 in 1983. […] Nick […] had converted his cupboards so that the shelf in which the bread box was located could be pulled out a little. So the head was nicely in line with the TV.
Translations:
commend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English commenden, from Old French comender, from Latin commendō (“commend, entrust to, commit, recommend”), from com- + mandō (“to commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand”) + dō (“to put”). Doublet of command.
Inflected forms:
form: commends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To congratulate or reward.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.
gloss: To praise or acclaim.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The new law has little to commend it: it even worsens the legal certainty of the nation.
1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xliiij, leaf 242v
Thenne Quene Gueneuer commended hym and soo dyd alle other good knyghtes made moche of hym excepte sire Gawayns bretheren /
"Then Queen Guenever commended him, and so did all other good knights make much of him, except Sir Gawaine’s brethren."
Segrais on this Subject of a Heroe's ſhedding Tears, obſerves that Hiſtorians commend Alexander for weeping, when he read the mighty Actions of Achilles.
gloss: To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After being imprisoned, I had to commend my kids to my mom's safekeeping.
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
gloss: To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and goodwill; give regards from
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Commend me to my brother.
gloss: To recommend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Among the objects of knowledge, two especially […] commend themselves to our contemplation.
I commend vnto you Phebe our sister, which is a seruant of the Church which is at Cenchrea:
gloss: To adorn; to set off.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
Related words: commendable
commendation
commendatory
recommend
suggest
consider
approval
Derived words: commendability
commender
commendingly
commendment
discommend
overcommend
uncommended
Translations:
bajillion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: See -illion.
Affixes: -illion
Inflected forms:
form: bajillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unspecified, absurdly large number (of).
pos: noun
tags: excessive
slang
examples: However, I have a bajillion cherry tomatoes. Is it worth it to try to make spaghetti sauce from them, or will it take 10 bajillion cherry tomatoes to make any quantity of sauce?
I’m glad Oasis are back together—a bajillion people singing “Wonderwall” live will be transcendent—but, I dunno, I’m sort of hoping for a bit of drama between the bros?
Translations:
jillion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: See -illion.
Affixes: -illion
Inflected forms:
form: jillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unspecified large number (of).
pos: noun
tags: excessive
slang
examples: I know this has been asked a jillion times, but news server displays only one days^([sic]) worth of posts..
“One jillion dollars!”
Translations:
kajillion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: See -illion; possibly influenced by kaiju (“giant monster”).
Affixes: -illion
Inflected forms:
form: kajillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kijillion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unspecified large number (of).
pos: noun
tags: excessive
slang
examples: I have now put 7 dragons on them, complete with a kajillion tiny scales ... I'm permanently cross-eyed from drawing a kajillion little scales ... and KNOTWORK ... there is a kajillion little lines crossing over and under and over and under . ...
Translations:
bazillion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: 1939. Variation of zillion. See -illion.
Affixes: -illion
Inflected forms:
form: bazillions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unspecified large number (of).
pos: noun
tags: excessive
slang
examples: I second the need for a bazillion dollars. 'twould be nice. :-)
I wouldn't sleep with him in a bazillion years, but I'm not scared of him.
I have a bazillion of these kernel messages showing up in my logs...
Translations:
flamen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin flāmen (“ancient Roman priest devoted exclusively to one deity”).
Inflected forms:
form: flamens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flamin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
Translations:
apophysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόφυσις (apóphusis, “offshoot”), from ἀπό (apó) + φύω (phúō, “to bring forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to exist, to grow”). Equivalent to apo- + -physis.
Base: apo
Inflected forms:
form: apophyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone.
pos: noun
examples: Every bone in the real duck had its representative in the automaton, and its wings were anatomically exact. Every cavity, apophysis, and curvature was imitated, and each bone executed its proper movements.
In the male each palpal tibia shows a long narrow apophysis on the outerside.
gloss: The external part of a cone scale.
pos: noun
gloss: A branch of a dike or vein.
pos: noun
examples: Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses; …
Derived words: apophyseal
apophysitis
basapophysis
diapophysis
hemapophysis
hypapophysis
hyperapophysis
metapophysis
neurapophysis
parapophysis
pleurapophysis
synapophysis
zygapophysis
zygopophysis
Translations:
cantonment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cantonnement.
Inflected forms:
form: cantonments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Temporary military living quarters.
pos: noun
examples: On the Umballa platform waited a detachment of officers discussing the latest news from the stricken cantonment, and it was here that Bobby learned the real condition of the Tail Twisters.
gloss: A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters.
pos: noun
examples: The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides.
gloss: A permanent military station.
pos: noun
tags: India
Pakistan
Translations:
spoofed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Parodied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: unspoofed
Translations:
abiotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1874. From a- + biotic, the first element from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) and the second from Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikós, “of life”), from βίος (bíos, “life”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós).
Base: biotic
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: abiotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: nonbiological, nonbiologic
gloss: Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any such material
pos: noun
Related words: abiogenesis
abiogenetic
abiogenic
abiosis
antibiosis
antibiotic
gnotobiotic
xenobiotic
Derived words: abiotically
Translations:
flatten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *flataz
Old Norse flatrbor.
Middle English flat
English flat
English -en
English flatten
From flat + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: flattens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flattening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flattened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flattened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something flat or flatter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
Attempting to block the police van's path, protesters periodically surrounded the vehicle and eventually flattened one of its tires.
gloss: To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hob-house Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
gloss: To knock down or lay low.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.
gloss: To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Prices have flattened out.
gloss: To be knocked down or laid low.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lower by a semitone.
pos: verb
gloss: To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
pos: verb
gloss: To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: flattenability
flattenable
flatten down
flattened rice
flattener
flatten out
flatten the curve
overflatten
unflatten
Translations:
morganatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin morganāticus, from the Medieval Latin phrase mātrimōnium ad morganāticum, from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (“morning gift”) (whence Old English morgenġiefu).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designating a marriage (or the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank, often having various legal repercussions (typically that such a wife has no claim on the husband's possessions or title). It was not an aspect of English law, but was common in other royal houses, especially in Germany.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Francis Ferdinand's marriage was a morganatic alliance, and in consequence of a declaration which he made when contracting it, his children do not inherit his rights to the Austrian crown.
we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of the night. (The former morganatic spouse of Bloom is hastily removed in the Black Maria.)
Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife.
Louis's association with the pious widow, Madame de Maintenon (with whom he contracted a morganatic marriage in 1684) had led to a new tone of piety, even prudery, at court.
This will not be a morganatic marriage—one where titles are not passed to any children—the prince and Mrs Parker Bowles being beyond the usual age of procreation and so unlikely to have new heirs to complicate matters.
After her death, he arranged a morganatic marriage with Anna in 1757, which made him even more vulnerable to charges of sexual impropriety.
Translations:
unaltered
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 altered
English unaltered
From un- + altered.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Remaining in its initial state; not changed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "A first love is not easily extinguished, Mr. Allanson," said she. "You may guess from my appearance, that I have been fortunate in life; but, for all that, my first love for you has continued the same, unaltered and unchanged, and you must forgive the little freedoms I used to-day to try your affections, and the effects my appearance would have on you."
Pat found subject and scene of his wooing unaltered, but all his specious blandishments could not induce the matured matron of 'Gi' Away Nothin' 'All' to join fortunes, though his perseverance would have delighted Bruce's spider.
But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
The new yearbooks at Wall Township High School in Wall, New Jersey – with the original, unaltered photos – will be available for students to pick up in about two weeks, Cheryl Dyer, the superintendent of Wall Township schools, said in a letter to students and parents.
Antonyms: altered
changed
Translations:
psychosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From psych- + -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psúkhōsis, “animation, principle of life”).
Affixes: psycho-
-osis
Inflected forms:
form: psychoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
Translations:
ozone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Ozon, coined 1840 by Christian Friedrich Schönbein, from Ancient Greek ὄζον (ózon), neuter participle of ὄζω (ózō, “I smell”), in reference to its pungent odour.
The “fresh air” sense is from an erroneous former belief that seaweed contains and releases ozone.
Inflected forms:
form: ozones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ozones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ozoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ozoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ozoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Lightning flashed again, the thunder came a second later. It rained harder. The smell of ozone was strong. You could feel the charge in the air.
gloss: Fresh air, especially that breathed at the seaside and smelling of seaweed.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: A patent obtained in England, and specified far from clearly, for obtaining ozone by boiling seaweed,†† may be mentioned as a curiosity, and also the credulity with which ozone-baths, prepared in this manner, find a ready sale, in spite of, or perhaps rather on account of, their high price.
To Ramsgate baths she sped, in quest / Of seaweed and ozone ; / For seaweed and ozone were best, / They said, to give her tone.
It's got the lot: fresh sea air, ozone, seaweed. You could cut the air with a knife.
gloss: To treat with ozone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whenever it exists, as it usually does, even where the tide water freshens at the ebb, it seems to have a purifying tendency, probably by ozoning the superincumbent atmosphere.
I worked nonstop to make the house safe. Periodically I ozoned the first-floor bathroom, but it still made us sick.
Derived words: acetozone
antiozonant
antiozone
anti-ozone
antozone
bozone
iodozone
nonozone
ozonate
ozonation
ozonator
ozone bath
ozone-friendly
ozone hole
ozone layer
ozonelike
ozone-like
ozone paper
ozone resistance
ozone shield
ozone sickness
ozonesonde
ozone therapy
ozoney
ozonic
ozonide
ozoniferous
ozonification
ozonify
ozonisation
ozonise
ozoniser
ozonization
ozonize
ozonizer
ozonolysis
ozonometer
ozonometry
ozonosphere
ozonous
Translations:
hassock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English hassoc (“coarse grass”), of uncertain origin.
Base: hās
Affixes: -oc
Inflected forms:
form: hassocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dense clump of grass or vegetation; a tussock.
pos: noun
gloss: A cushion used primarily in churches for kneeling on while praying.
pos: noun
examples: At the next service he found a flower on his hassock and a highly suggestive Catholic bookmarker tucked into his hymn-book.
gloss: A thick cushion used as a seat; an ottoman or pouffe.
pos: noun
Derived words: hassocked
hassocky
Translations: