yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
resin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῥητῑ́νη (rhētī́nē)bor.
Latin rēsīnader.
Old French résinebor.
Middle English resyn
English resin
From Middle English resyn, resyne, from Old French résine, from Latin resīna. Doublet of rosin.
Inflected forms:
form: resins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rosin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: resins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rosin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pine trees produce a sticky resin.
But those who attack violists shouldn't throw resin. Once the ergonomic viola catches on what instrument will be immune?
gloss: Any synthetic compound of similar properties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The artist used synthetic resin in her sculptures.
gloss: To apply resin to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rosin
Derived words: acaroid resin
acrylic resin
azuresin
epoxy resin
fossil resin
glucoresin
glycoresin
gum resin
Highgate resin
historesin
ion exchange resin
melamine resin
nonresin
oleoresin
phenol formaldehyde resin
phenolic resin
polyresin
polyvinyl resin
resinaceous
resin acid
resinate
resin bee
resiner
resinic
resinicolous
resiniferous
resinification
resiniform
resinify
resinise
resinite
resinization
resinize
resinless
resinlike
resino-electric
resin of copper
resinography
resinoid
resinosis
resinous
resinously
resiny
resorcin
resorcinol
thermoplastic resin
Translations:
good-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From good + looking. Compare Dutch goeduitziend (“good-looking”), German gutaussehend (“good-looking”).
Compound parts: good
looking
Inflected forms:
form: more good-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: better-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most good-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: best-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodlooking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: good looking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Physically attractive (of a person).
pos: adj
examples: The princesses were, it is true, sufficiently good-looking, yet neither their persons nor their garments had that appearance of freshness and cleanliness without which no other charms can be contemplated with pleasure. Everything had a dingy and faded appearance, very disagreeable and unroyal to a European eye.
When one of us sees a good-looking guy, we nudge the other one and smile. One guy had the most gorgeous face I had ever seen. Every time we go to the mall we look around for 'that guy' just in case.
Translations:
polycyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English polycyclic
From poly- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: polycyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Involving more than one cycle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two or more rings of atoms in the molecule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the members of a series, such as a calyx or corolla, in several circles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A polycyclic compound.
pos: noun
Derived words: macropolycyclic
nonpolycyclic
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
Translations:
monocyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English monocyclic
From mono- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: monocyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a single cycle of development or activity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a single ring of atoms in the molecule; such as benzene or cyclopropane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any monocyclic compound.
pos: noun
Related words: bicyclic
tricyclic
polycyclic
Translations:
bicyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English bicyclic
From bi- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: bicyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having two cycles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having two rings of atoms in the molecule; the rings may be fused, as in naphthalene, or separate, as in biphenyl.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] substitution of a carboxylate would be expected to destabilize the dritterionic mesomer that contributes to the singlet valence bond description as the benzyne geometry becomes more bicyclic.
These geometries are almost reversed in the triplets. The 1,3-borazyne (III) shows more bicyclic character than the corresponding m-benzyne
On the basis of a comparison of calculated and measured IR data, the 2 B 2 state could undoubtedly be discarded in favor of a more bicyclic geometry
gloss: A bicyclic compound.
pos: noun
tags: physical
Related words: azabicyclic
monocyclic
tricyclic
polycyclic
Derived words: macrobicyclic
oxabicyclic
Translations:
straight-acting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more straight-acting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most straight-acting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the appearance, mannerisms, etc., of a stereotypical heterosexual of the same gender rather than those stereotypically associated with gay men or lesbians.
pos: adj
Translations:
tricyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-der.
English tri-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English tricyclic
From tri- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: tricyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having three rings of atoms in the molecule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a tricyclic antidepressant
Anthracene is tricyclic.
gloss: Of a flower: composed of three whorls or organs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any tricyclic compound.
pos: noun
Related words: monocyclic
bicyclic
polycyclic
Derived words: nontricyclic
triciribine
Translations:
one-to-one
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more one-to-one
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most one-to-one
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: one-to-ones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Matching each member of one set with exactly one member of another set.
pos: adj
examples: There is a one-to-one relationship between days with large cash shortages and his workdays.
gloss: Involving direct communication between two people.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: a one-to-one discussion
a one-to-one teaching session
gloss: Injective, being an injection: having the property that no two elements of the domain are mapped to the same image.
pos: adj
gloss: A personal relationship between two people.
pos: noun
gloss: A direct match or equivalent.
pos: noun
examples: And though [Jesse] Armstrong[…] continues his avoidance of easy one-to-ones, there’s more than a whiff of Elon Musk to Venis […].
Related words: face-to-face
man-to-man
peer-to-peer
Translations:
fist-fuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fist-fucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fist-fucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fist-fucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fist-fucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fist-fucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sexual practice in which a (fisted) hand is inserted and moved in or around the vagina or rectum.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: To insert and remove and move a (fisted) hand in someone's vagina or rectum.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: HIV could be transmitted if a person with a cut on their hand fistfucked their partner and caused bleeding in their rectum or vagina.
Translations:
irenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰρηνικός (eirēnikós, “characterized by peace, peaceful”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). Εἰρηνικός (Eirēnikós) is derived from εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) (possibly from εἴρω (eírō, “to fasten together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“(verb) to bind, tie together; (noun) thread”)), or εἴρω (eírō, “to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”))) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Inflected forms:
form: more irenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eirenic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.
pos: adj
examples: Plato and the Athenians must have felt almost as uncomfortable with Xenophon's irenic intervention as one feels at times in an argument when—just as the point in dispute, precisely by being brought to a head, begins to be interesting—a helpful third party kindly takes it upon himself to reconcile the disputants, to take the whole matter back to a triviality
The idea that the Jews of the region are not genetically distinct from other peoples of the area should be an irenic insight.
The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism.
The current comity between the United States and China, which have little in common except a river of manufactured goods in one direction and dollars in the other, is a recent reminder of the irenic effects of trade.
Translations:
quasi
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin quasi (“as if”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So in summation gentlemen. What you have before you is a troop transport that can't carry troops, a reconnaissance vehicle that's too conspicuous to do reconnaissance, and a quasi tank that has less armor than a snowblower, god has enough ammo to take out half of D.C.
The presiding officer of the assembly does not appoint a chairman of the quasi committee, but remains in the chair himself throughout its proceedings.
In a quasi experiment, the likelihood of a viewer of short video abandoning earlier than a similar viewer of a long video exceeded the likelihood that the opposite happens by 11.5%.
Translations:
quango
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
Etymology: From the initial letters (the first two letters for the first word) of quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization. Coined by American president of the Carnegie Foundation Alan Pifer in 1967.
Inflected forms:
form: quangos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: QUANGO
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
often
examples: The strongest link to the State, however, occurs with quangos, (quasi-NGOs), and the many umbrella groups that also thrive on State support. Many of the new parties realized after their Sturm und Drang years that they still needed regular contacts with the 'civil' world and that their civilian support base had been seriously eroded.
Various state committees and quangos had had stands; government and opposition ministers had attended.
Translations:
impotence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French impotence, from Latin impotentia.
Inflected forms:
form: impotences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: impotency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Powerlessness; incapacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: weakness, helplessness
O impotence of mind, in body ſtrong!
gloss: Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: impotent
Derived words: monetary impotence
Translations:
promote
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chemistry
chess
computing
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
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 promote
From Latin prōmōtus, perfect passive participle of prōmoveō (“move forward, advance”).
Inflected forms:
form: promotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: promoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: promoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: promoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He promoted his clerk to office manager.
gloss: To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
gloss: To encourage, urge or incite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.
gloss: To elevate to a higher league.
pos: verb
tags: passive
regional
examples: At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
gloss: To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
gloss: To move on to a subsequent stage of education.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
intransitive
examples: At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
gloss: To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to promote an int to a long
Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.
Derived words: co-promote
copromote
cross-promote
depromote
mispromote
oncopromoting
overpromote
promotability
promotable
promoteability
promotee
promotement
promoter
promote to customer
promote to Glory
promotingly
promotive
promotor
repromote
self-promote
underpromote
Translations:
forma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin fōrma. Doublet of form.
Inflected forms:
form: formae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: formæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: formas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of form (“the component of a thing that determines its kind”).
pos: noun
Translations:
congress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin congress(um), the past participle of congredior (“to go, come together”), itself from con- + gradior (“to go, step”). The verb is from the noun.
Compare typologically coven, convent, convention, omitting several steps, from con- + veniō, Russian сход (sxod), схо́дка (sxódka), akin to сходи́ться (sxodítʹsja), ходи́ть (xodítʹ). Also compare Czech sjezd, Russian съезд (sʺjezd), akin to съезжа́ться (sʺjezžátʹsja), е́здить (jézditʹ). Also compare conference.
Inflected forms:
form: congresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: congresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: congressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: congressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: congressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
often
uncountable
examples: Republicans have their own high stakes in November. Losing control of Congress, they say, could mean a highly politicized impeachment of their president.
gloss: An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: federation, confederation
the National Congress of American Indians
gloss: Coitus: sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Welsh ponies, I learn from a man who has had much experience with these animals, habitually produce erections and emissions in their stalls; they do not bring their hind quarters up during this process, and they close their eyes, which does not take place when they have congress with mares.
Not three weeks before this he was run out of Fort Smith Arkansas for having congress with a goat. Yes lady, that is what I said. Goat.
gloss: A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: After some little repast, he went to see Democritus […]. The multitude stood gazing round about to see the congress.
gloss: A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
examples: […] the council hall stank like a congress of baboons.
2013, Dick Hrebik, Walter Goes to War—WWII, Rolling Meadows, IL: Windy City Publishers, Chapter 7, p. 133,
Saw a congress of baboons of all sizes making their way to a mountaintop to spend the night on the rocks and trees there.
gloss: To assemble together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To meet in a congress.
pos: verb
Related words: congregation
conjugal
conjugation
Derived words: congresscritter
congressfolk
congressfolks
congress gaiter
congress shoe
congress grass
congressional
congressionally
congressive
congressjerk
congressman
Congress Party
congressperson
congresswoman
marital congress
sexual congress
suspended congress
uncongressed
Translations:
rem
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Shortening of remaining.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Remaining.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Knit 1 row. Dec 1 st at each end of next row and at each end of every foll alt row until 2 sts rem.
Translations:
merry
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English myrie, merie, mery, from Old English myrġe, myriġe (“pleasing, agreeable; pleasant, sweet, delightful; melodious”), from Proto-West Germanic *murgī (“short, slow, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *murguz (“short, slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short”). Cognate with Scots mery, mirry (“merry”), Middle Dutch mergelijc (“pleasant, agreeable, joyful”), Norwegian dialectal myrjel (“small object, figurine”), Latin brevis (“short, small, narrow, shallow”), Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”). Doublet of brief.
Inflected forms:
form: merrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: merriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: merie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: merrie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mery
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: merries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Jolly and full of high spirits; happy.
pos: adj
examples: We had a very merry Christmas.
I am neuer merry when I heare ſweet muſique.
I felt comforted by the song of the redbreast, and I thought I felt less lonely and deserted as long as I heard the merry notes of the thrush.
gloss: Festive and full of fun and laughter.
pos: adj
examples: Everyone was merry at the party.
If I have the chance, I will make our worshipful Sheriff pay right well for that which he hath done to me. Maybe I may bring him some time into Sherwood Forest and have him to a right merry feast with us.
gloss: Brisk.
pos: adj
examples: The play moved along at a merry pace.
The car moved at a merry clip.
gloss: Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
pos: adj
examples: a merry jest
There eke my feeble barke a while may ſtay, / Till mery wynd and weather call her thence away.
gloss: Drunk; tipsy.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.
gloss: An English wild cherry.
pos: noun
Related words: mirth
Derived words: be on one's merry way
continue on one's merry way
go on one's merry way
like merry hell
make merry
Mary-marry-merry merger
merrily
merriment
merriness
Merriweather
merry-andrew
merry as a cricket
merry as a grig
merrybell
merry chase
merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
merry cocker
merry company
merry dance
merry dancers
merrydom
merry-go-around
merry-go-down
merry-go-round
merry-go-sorry
merry-go-whirl
Merry Hill
Merry Lees
merrymaker
merry-maker
merry-making
merrymaking
merryman
merrymeeting
merry-meeting
merry men
merrythought
merry-totter
merry widow
merry Xmas
overmerry
play merry havoc with
play merry hell with
Translations:
soften
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English softenen, softnen, equivalent to soft + -en.
Base: soft
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: softens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: softening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: softened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: softened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something soft or softer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
gloss: To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
gloss: To make less harsh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
I have recently reclad the south-west facing side of my single-storey cottage […]. I now want to plant some climbers of more manageable proportions to soften the building.
gloss: To become soft or softer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The butter softened as it warmed up.
gloss: To become or make (a consonant) more lenis, to lenite.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To palatalize.
pos: verb
Synonyms: emolliate
mollify
soften
tenderize
Antonyms: harden
Related words: mollify
neshen
softness
soft
Derived words: nonsoftening
oversoften
presoften
resoften
softenable
softener
softeningly
soften someone's cough
soften the blow
soften the ground
soften up
soften up the ground
unsoftenable
unsoftened
unsoftening
Translations:
misdeal
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English deal
English misdeal
From mis- + deal.
Inflected forms:
form: misdeals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misdealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misdealt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misdealt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: misdeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To deal or distribute wrongly.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Bill, you have misdealt two hands of poker already.
gloss: Incorrect dealing or distribution.
pos: noun
examples: Now, Bill, that was your third misdeal.
Translations:
reasonable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English resonable, from Old French resnable, from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis, from ratiō. By surface analysis, reason + -able. Doublet of rationable.
Inflected forms:
form: more reasonable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reasonable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the faculty of reason; rational, reasoning.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The wiſdome and underſtanding of this Beaſt [the beaver], vvill almoſt conclude him a reaſonable creature: […]
gloss: Just; fair; agreeable to reason.
pos: adj
examples: The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows […]
gloss: Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.
pos: adj
examples: a reasonable demand, amount, or price
gloss: Not expensive; fairly priced.
pos: adj
examples: $20 a bottle is very reasonable for a good wine at a restaurant.
Say, would you happen to know a good place for lunch in the downtown area? ... The Radisson ... Oh yah? ... Is it reasonable?
The 3a Pro is an extremely reasonable $ 559, and the regular 3a is an even more extremely reasonable $ 379.
gloss: Satisfactory.
pos: adj
examples: The builders did a reasonable job, given the short notice.
Derived words: beyond a reasonable doubt
beyond reasonable doubt
nonreasonable
reasonability
reasonable doubt
reasonableness
reasonable person
reasonable time
reasonably
semireasonable
Translations:
gunfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis
Proto-Germanic *gunþiz
Old Norse gunnr
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís
Proto-Germanic *hildiz
Old Norse hildr
Old Norse Gunnhildrder.
Middle English gunne
English gun
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English gunfire
From gun + fire.
Inflected forms:
form: gunfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.
Sergeant, direct your gunfire toward that copse of trees.
When sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.
gloss: The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.
gloss: The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Art. 33. All Plying boats, with the exception of two which are to be weekly appoin[t]ed by the Chief Commissary of Police and Harbour Master, and at gunfire in the evening to be placed in a tier alongside of the Quay or at a place to be pointed out by these Officers and fastened by a claim and a padlock, the key of which is to be kept by the Porter on duty or by the Police Guard who is to release them at gunfire in the morning.
The grand event on the 14th was the shooting for the second stage for the Queen's prize. This commenced punctually at gunfire in the morning : the men being divided into four squads at the long ranges on the north side of the common.
I had just awoke at gun-fire (5 A.M.), when suddenly the thatch began to rustle and shake as if an army of cats were galloping over it, and immediately afterwards my bed shook too, so that for an instant I imagined myself back in New Guinea, in my fragile house, which shook when an old cock went to roost on the ridge; but remembering that I was now on a solid earthen floor, I said to myself, "Why, it's an earthquake," and lay still in the pleasing expectation of another shock; but none came, and this was the only earthquake I ever felt in Ternate.
gloss: Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.
Related words: gunnery
gunpowder
gunshot
gunshy
Translations:
fagot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.
Inflected forms:
form: fagots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fagoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fagoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fagoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He vvas too vvarm on Picking-vvork to dvvell, / But Faggotted his Notions as they fell, / And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all vvas vvell.
Translations:
foxhound
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fox + hound.
Compound parts: fox
hound
Inflected forms:
form: foxhounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several medium-sized breeds of dog developed for hunting.
pos: noun
Translations:
shrewd
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew.
The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.
Base: shrew
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: shrewder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shrewdest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shrewde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
pos: adj
gloss: Artful, tricky or cunning.
pos: adj
gloss: streetwise, street-smart.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Willie is very aware of this fact and lets Johnny Attell know that there is a fly in the ointment, and Johnny, who is a very shrewd article, has his chauffeur drive him to Bradford Street so he can change the kid's mind.
gloss: Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
pos: adj
examples: 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: Nigh accurate.
pos: adj
examples: a shrewd guess
gloss: Severe, intense, hard.
pos: adj
examples: a shrewd blow, or assault
gloss: Sharp, snithy, piercing.
pos: adj
examples: a shrewd wind
gloss: Bad, evil, threatening.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Portia:
There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,
That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek:
Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]
gloss: Portending, boding.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: They were wont to please the Fairies, that they might doe them no shrewd turnes, by sweeping clean the Hearth and setting by it […]
gloss: Abusive, shrewish.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Scolding, satirical, sharp.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
Derived words: shrewdie
shrewdish
shrewdity
shrewdly
shrewdness
shrewdy
ultrashrewd
unshrewd
Translations:
crewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a crew; manned; piloted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
piscine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin piscinus or from Latin piscis (“fish”) + -ine.
Base: piscis
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fish; ichthyic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the ancient Middle East certain cults had piscine deities, or deities with fish attributes of various kinds.
2009, David Quammen, Where the Salmon Rule, National Geographic (August 2009), page 40,
At age four he caught his first fish and was evermore fascinated by things piscine; […]
Translations:
piping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
business
cooking
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
natural-sciences
sewing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: pipings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sound of musical pipes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
gloss: An act of making music or noise with pipes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the piping of a house
gloss: An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Icing extruded from a piping bag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: propagation by cuttings
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: High-pitched.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
The princess had made occasional wartime radio broadcasts, her piping, stilted voice, speaking in cut-glass tones to the children of the empire, but it was at the time of her 21st birthday in 1947 that she made perhaps the most significant radio address of her career, at the end of a royal tour of South Africa, laying out the guidelines that would govern her throughout her reign:
Related words: pipelaying
pipetting
Derived words: pied-piping
piping bellbird
piping plover
piping shrike
piping times
piping times of peace
Translations:
cisco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).
Inflected forms:
form: ciscos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ciscoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.
pos: noun
Translations:
severe
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin severus (“severe, serious, grave in demeanor”).
Inflected forms:
form: severer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more severe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: severest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most severe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very bad or intense.
pos: adj
examples: In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
gloss: Strict or harsh.
pos: adj
examples: a severe taskmaster
gloss: Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
pos: adj
examples: a severe old maiden aunt
severe clothing
Derived words: nonsevere
oversevere
semisevere
severe acute respiratory syndrome
severe clear
severe combined immunodeficiency
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
severe gale
severely
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
severeness
severe tea
severity
supersevere
ultrasevere
unsevere
Translations:
brutal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Medieval Latin brutalis (“savage, stupid”), from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid”).
Inflected forms:
form: more brutal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brutal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
pos: adj
examples: The game was brutal, but after a bloodbath he finally won.
What began as a zeitgeisty outlaw romp in the Uncool Britannia of the 1990s is now reborn as a scabrous and brutal black comedy about middle-aged male disappointment and fear of death.
gloss: Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
pos: adj
gloss: Harsh; unrelenting.
pos: adj
gloss: Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
pos: adj
gloss: In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
pos: adj
examples: brutal honesty
Related words: brutality
brutally
brute
brutish
Derived words: brutalisation
brutalise
brutalism
Brutalism
Brutalist
brutalist
brutalitarian
brutalize
brutalness
nonbrutal
overbrutal
Translations:
slightly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slight
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English slightly
From slight + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more slightly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most slightly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slenderly; delicately.
pos: adv
examples: He was slightly built, but tall.
gloss: To a small extent or degree.
pos: adv
examples: He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.
And while that number is expected to shift back slightly into positive territory over this decade, fewer children today establishes an unmistakable implication for tomorrow: fewer adults available as consumers, workers and taxpayers.
Synonyms: a bit
a little
a little bit
a mite
a smidgen
a smidgeon
a tad
a touch
a trifle
barely
closely
faintly
hardly
imperceptibly
just
kinda
kinda sorta
kind of
low-key
marginally
mildly
modestly
nearly
only just
scarcely
slightly
somewhat
sorta
sorta kinda
sort of
Antonyms: almost
mostly
very
Related words: miserably
wretchedly
degree
extent
modicum
Derived words: slightily
slightly-enriched uranium
Translations:
mordent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian mordente. Doublet of mordant.
Inflected forms:
form: mordents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornament consisting of a single rapid alternation between a given pitch and another pitch either a whole step or half step immediately above or below it.
pos: noun
Translations:
oriel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English oriel, from Old French oriol (“gallery, corridor”), Late Latin oriolum (“portico, hall”), probably from Latin aureolus (“gilded”), applied to an apartment decorated with gilding. See oriole. Or a diminutive of Latin os (“mouth”).
Inflected forms:
form: oriels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large polygonal recess in a building, such as a bay window, forming a protrusion on the outer wall.
pos: noun
examples: The middle window of the oriel before her, just caught and reflected back the crimson light and colour. The ground below looked bright and warm compared with the shade around.
The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.
gloss: A small apartment next to a hall, used for dining.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: orielled
Translations:
lactate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Inflected forms:
form: lactates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lactating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lactated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lactated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To secrete or produce milk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or derived from milk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: lactic fermentation
In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]
Related words: lactate
lactation
Derived words: acetolactic
alactic
heterolactic
homolactic
lactic acid
lactic acidosis
lacticaemia
lactimide
lactyl
lactylate
lactylic
paralactic acid
polylactic
sarcolactic acid
Translations:
soluble
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English soluble, from Old French soluble, from Late Latin solūbilis, from Latin solvere (“to loosen”) + -bilis. Piecewise doublet of solvable.
Affixes: -bilis
Inflected forms:
form: more soluble
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soluble
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be dissolved.
pos: adj
examples: Sugar is soluble in water.
The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
gloss: Able to be solved or explained.
pos: adj
examples: That mystery should be easily soluble.
Related words: insoluble
solute
Derived words: acetosoluble
fat-soluble
gastrosoluble
hydrosoluble
intersoluble
liposoluble
nonsoluble
solubility
solubilize
soluble glass
soluble insulin
solubleness
solubles
solubly
unsoluble
water-soluble
Translations:
syrupy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English syrup
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English syrupy
From syrup + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: syrupier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: syrupiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sirupy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having the taste or consistency of syrup.
pos: adj
gloss: With syrup.
pos: adj
examples: Who doesn’t like crisp, hot, buttery-and-syrupy waffles?
Cherry dropped into a chair and stared with lip-curling distate at the platter of sausages and their syrupy pancakes on the plates about her.
Beth stabs her fork into a mound of syrupy waffles.
gloss: Overly sweet.
pos: adj
gloss: Overly sentimental.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Related words: cough-syrupy
maple-syrupy
Derived words: syrupily
syrupiness
Translations:
naturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English naturally, naturaly, naturely, naturaliche, natureliche, equivalent to natural + -ly.
Base: natural
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more naturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most naturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a natural manner.
pos: adv
examples: Although he was unused to the situation, he tried to act naturally.
Ying Ying, a panda at a Hong Kong theme park, has given birth to twins that were conceived naturally, a cause for celebration for conservationists rooting for the survival of this vulnerable and low-libido species.
gloss: Inherently or by nature.
pos: adv
examples: Boys are naturally aggressive.
gloss: Surely or without any doubt.
pos: adv
examples: I shall naturally protest at that decision.
Would you like a glass of champagne, sir? - Naturally!
Synonyms: innately
intrinsically
Related words: of course
Derived words: natch
nonnaturally
unnaturally
Translations:
oxidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French oxydation, equivalent to oxide + -ation. See oxidate.
Base: oxide
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: oxidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The combination of a substance with oxygen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
As a demonstration, we first establish the correctness of the Jacobian matrices for kinetic models of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, and isopentanol oxidation, then demonstrate the performance achievable on CPUs and GPUs using pyJac via matrix evaluation timing comparisons..
gloss: A reaction in which the atoms of an element lose electrons and the oxidation state of the element increases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: oxidisation
oxidization
Antonyms: reduction
deoxidation
deoxy
Related words: oxidate
oxidative
oxide
oxidise
Derived words: ammoxidation
antioxidation
autooxidation
autoxidation
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
beta-oxidation
bio-oxidation
biooxidation
cooxidation
disoxidation
electrooxidation
glycoxidation
hyperoxidation
Lindgren oxidation
Moffatt oxidation
Oppenauer oxidation
overoxidation
oxidational
oxidation number
oxidation-reduction
Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
photooxidation
Pinnick oxidation
preoxidation
pre-oxidation
reoxidation
sesquioxidation
superoxidation
Swern oxidation
Translations: