yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
townie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-nós?
Proto-Celtic *dūnombor.
Proto-Germanic *tūną
Proto-West Germanic *tūn
Old English tūn
Middle English toun
English town
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
▲
Scots -ieinflu.
English -ie
English townie
From town + -ie (“person associated”).
Inflected forms:
form: townies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: townee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person living in a university area who is not associated with the university.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: Professional gamblers have a cushy racket in college football because old grads and even townies of college localities are sentimental bettors and easy to separate from their money.
School is an ivory tower on the hill; it nestles in the gated groves of academe. It’s residents do not mix with “townies.”
In Spike Lee's movie School Daze you play a townie who's very hostile to the college students from out of town.
gloss: A person who has moved from a town or city to a rural area. Especially, one who is perceived not to have adopted rural ways.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: [Hamlet] was only repeating the phrase of an ordinary English rustic when jeering at a “townie”—whom he suspected of being a gutter-snipe—that “He don’t know a hawk from a hernshaw”.
From being a born-and-bred townie from north London, to a 36-year-old part-time farmer and full-time businessman is no mean achievement.
The term cockney originally meant cock’s egg or misshapen egg such as a young hen might lay, in other words a lily-livered townie as opposed to a strong countryman.
gloss: A person familiar with the town (urbanised centre of a city) and with going out on the town; a street-wise person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A chav.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
gloss: A working-class citizen in a metropolitan area.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person who lives in a city or town, or has an urban outlook.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
informal
examples: Bobby Wick stormed through the tents of his Company, rallying, rebuking, mildly, as is consistent with the Regulations, chaffing the faint-hearted [...] comforting the panic-stricken with rude speech, and more than once tending the dying who had no friends — the men without "townies"[.]
Here I parted with my fellow-townies, whose home shed at Millhouses covers fields where I played as a child.
The modern Aussie is a townie through and through. Australia is the least densely populated country on earth; it is also among the most highly urbanised.
In the 1940′s, a social survey of Victorian country towns found a similar gap between the interests and outlooks of farmers and townies, and an underlying fear on the part of the townsfolk.
In that sense, the townies, not the farmers, were the inheritors of a pioneer capacity for hard work.
Earlier, there would probably have been a grudge match between two townies, or locals.
Antonyms: cocky ()
Related words: small-townie
small townie
towner
barnie
Translations:
verification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French verification (modern French vérification) or its etymon Medieval Latin vērificātiō. By surface analysis, verificate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: verifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of verifying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being verified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Confirmation; authentication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
gloss: A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: verificationism
verify
verism
veritable
verity
Derived words: address verification service
criterion of verification
principle of verification
verification criterion
verification principle
Translations:
ecclesiastical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ecclesiasticall, ecclesiasticalle, from Latin ecclēsiasticus + -al. By surface analysis, ecclesiastic + -al or ecclesiast + -ical.
Base: ecclesiast
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more ecclesiastical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ecclesiastical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ecclesiasticall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the church.
pos: adj
examples: ecclesiastical architecture
Sodomy had always been an ecclesiastical offense. The Statute of 1533 (25 Henry VIII, c. 6) made it a felony; and Pollock and Maitland consider that this "affords an almost sufficient proof that the temporal courts had not punished it, and that no one had been put to death for it, for a very long time past."
Antonyms: antiecclesiastical
nonecclesiastical
nonchurchly
nonecclesiastic
unchurchlike
unchurchly
unecclesiastical
Translations:
obelisk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
entomology
media
microbiology
natural-sciences
publishing
typography
virology
Etymology: From Middle French obelisque, from Latin obeliscus (“obelisk”), from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós, “needle”). Compare obelus.
Inflected forms:
form: obelisks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obelisc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: obelisks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obelisking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obelisked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obelisked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
pos: noun
examples: "The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B.C. It was dug up from the city of Eridu is southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C.
The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a "true obelisk," even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.
gloss: Synonym of obelus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of obelus.
pos: noun
gloss: An RNA structure similar to a viroid, with a rod-like secondary structure, which comprises its own phylogenetic group.
pos: noun
gloss: To adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.
pos: verb
examples: Dragonflies that spend the day in full sun may obelisk to minimize the sunlight striking the body. An obelisking dragonfly looks like it's doing a headstand[…]
Synonyms: aguilla
pylon
stela
Related words: menhir
pillar
Derived words: obeliscal
obeliscoid
obeliskoid
obeliskine
obelisklike
oblin
Translations:
unconformity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From un- + conformity.
Base: conformity
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unconformities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lack of conformity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
nonstandard
uncountable
gloss: A gap in the stratigraphic record at a site, resulting from erosion having outpaced deposition over the interval in question.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: discompliance
disconformity
enormity
inconformity
noncompliance
nonconformance
nonconformity
transgression
uncompliance
unconformity
unconventionality
violation
Antonyms: conformity
Related words: disconformity
nonconformity
nonconform
Derived words: angular unconformity
Translations:
prokaryote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
English karyon
English -ote
English prokaryote
From pro- + karyon + -ote.
Inflected forms:
form: prokaryotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organism whose cell (or cells) are characterized by the absence of a nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles.
pos: noun
gloss: In the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).
pos: noun
Synonyms: prokaryota
Related words: prokaryon
prokaryotic
Derived words: cyanoprokaryote
nanoprokaryote
picoprokaryote
Translations:
promiscuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
Inflected forms:
form: more promiscuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most promiscuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
pos: adj
examples: Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
[T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
gloss: Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
pos: adj
examples: A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
gloss: Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
pos: adj
examples: X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being promiscuous. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.
gloss: The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
pos: adj
Synonyms: abandoned
common
easy
fast
lascivious
lewd
liberal
libidinous
licentious
loose
lustful
lusty
promiscuous
riggish
slack
unchaste
wanton
wappened
Antonyms: celibate
chaste
virginal
Related words: promiscuous man
promiscuous woman
put out
aroused
Derived words: nonpromiscuous
overpromiscuous
promiscuity
promiscuously
promiscuousness
superpromiscuous
unpromiscuous
Translations:
enchantment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English enchauntement, from Old French enchantement.
Inflected forms:
form: enchantments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inchantment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I see now that it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps and thwacks without knowing who gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain.
gloss: Something that enchants; a magical spell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bodin, the medieval demonographer, enumerates various methods of producing anaphrodisiac effects by enchantments.
Synonyms: bewitching
bewitchment
spellcasting
enchanting
enchantment
fascination
ensorcellment
incantation
witchery
witching
Antonyms: unbewitching
Related words: enchant
magic spell
Derived words: disenchantment
neuroenchantment
overenchantment
Translations:
swab
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber ("scrubber, mop, swab")
Inflected forms:
form: swabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
pos: noun
gloss: A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
pos: noun
gloss: A mop, especially on a ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A sailor; a swabby.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.
gloss: A naval officer's epaulet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: swab the deck of a ship
He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
Derived words: cotton swab
fire swab
immunoswab
swabful
swab hitch
swab jockey
Translations:
rutter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch ruter, rutter, variants of ruiter, from Middle French routier (“mercenary soldier”), corresponding to route + ier; see rout.
Inflected forms:
form: rutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horseman or cavalryman, especially a German one, associated with the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Such a regiment of rutters / Never defied men braver
Translations:
phytotherapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φύω (phúō)
Ancient Greek φῠτόν (phŭtón)der.
English phyto-
English therapy
English phytotherapy
From phyto- + therapy.
Inflected forms:
form: phytotherapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of plant extracts for medical purposes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
veracity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās (“truthfulness”), from Latin vērāx (“truthful, speaking truth”), from vērus (“true, real”). See very.
Inflected forms:
form: veracities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Of course if you don't accept Conway's story, it means that you doubt either his veracity or his sanity—one may as well be frank.
gloss: Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Act of being exact and accurate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: veraciousness
veridicality
for more
candor
frankness
honesty
sincereness
sincerity
truthfulness
veracity
Antonyms: cunning
dishonesty
falseness
mendacity
travesty
untruthfulness
Related words: post-truth
honest
truth
Translations:
truthfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English truthful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English truthfulness
From truthful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: truthfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being truthful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.
Antonyms: falseness
untruthfulness
Translations:
truthful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Base: truth
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more truthful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most truthful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Honest, and always telling the truth.
pos: adj
examples: someone's truthful nature
Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts?
gloss: Accurately depicting what is real.
pos: adj
examples: He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.
Antonyms: untruthful
Derived words: mistruthful
nontruthful
overtruthful
to be truthful
truthfully
truthfulness
untruthful
Translations:
marked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed.
Less common disyllabic pronunciation (/ˈmɑː.kɪd/) is likely an analogy derived from markedness (explaining its restriction to sense 2).
Base: mark
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more marked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: markèd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a visible or identifying mark.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a visible or identifying mark.
pos: adj
gloss: Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
The drop in merchandise and mineral receipts again reflects the fall in steel output, most marked in the North-East; […].
There has been a marked shift in viewing habits since the channels’ heyday, with music videos now more commonly consumed on YouTube and social media rather than television.
gloss: Distinguished by a positive feature.
pos: adj
tags: phoneme
examples: "Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".
It is frequently the case that of two units in contrast (and for simplicity we may restrict ourselves to two-term contrasts) one will be positive, or marked, the other being neutral, or unmarked. […] The plural is positively marked by the final s, whereas the singular is unmarked.
gloss: Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
pos: adj
examples: A marked man.
My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter. If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it.
gloss: In police livery, as opposed to unmarked. (of a police vehicle)
pos: adj
Synonyms: distinct
marked
patterned
Antonyms: unmarked
plain
spotless
Derived words: fork-marked lemur
handmarked
markedly
markedness
marked-up
nonmarked
premarked
radiomarked
thumbmarked
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: jellel/jelzéssel ellátott
lang: Hungarian
word: megjelölt
lang: Spanish
word: marcado
natty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Originally slang, perhaps related to natural.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: nattier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nattiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: natties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nattie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Smart and fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “They’d look very natty, arm-in-crook together, and their best clothes on, whether or no, if he’s at all the well-favoured fellow he used to be.”
'One of our witnesses has already had the misfortune to be rather badly run down while cycling, and I've had a natty-looking box of chocolates by post from an "unknown friend" myself,' replied the inspector.
Anyway, while the creepy-video thing is under way there are also some scenes of Pullman looking very natty and East Village in all-black and jamming on his tenor sax in front of a packed dance floor (only in a David Lynch movie would people dance ecstatically to abstract jazz), […]
A natty dresser, especially by congressional standards, Mr. Curtis has turned his penchant for bright socks into an ice-breaker that he says helps constituents feel comfortable in approaching him.
gloss: Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
rehearsal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: rehearsals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After modifications had been effected by the builders, a rehearsal of electric operation was held on September 17. A complete day's timetable was run through and apparently all went well, except for insulator trouble with the overhead wires near Anniesland; a further rehearsal was held on the following Sunday.
gloss: A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
gloss: The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.
Antonyms: nonrehearsal
Derived words: prerehearsal
rehearsal dinner
Translations:
pavilion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
ball-games
cricket
games
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
military
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Inflected forms:
form: pavilions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pavilions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pavilioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pavilioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pavilioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An ornate tent.
pos: noun
gloss: A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
pos: noun
examples: Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
gloss: A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
pos: noun
gloss: The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
pos: noun
gloss: The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
pos: noun
gloss: The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
pos: noun
gloss: A flag, ensign, or banner.
pos: noun
gloss: A flag, ensign, or banner.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
pos: noun
gloss: A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
pos: noun
examples: For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
gloss: To furnish with a pavilion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put inside a pavilion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Related words: papillon
Derived words: pavilionlike
pavilion roof
Translations:
nutritional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nutrition
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English nutritional
From nutrition + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more nutritional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nutritional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.
pos: adj
examples: Maroney said she’s also interested in learning about the complete nutritional makeup of the two Lunchable products to determine if they fully meet the current and proposed NSLP nutritional guidelines.
Translations:
Chazal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sages from the time of the Second Temple and afterward, through the sixth century C.E.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
plural
plural-only
Translations:
intermittent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).
Inflected forms:
form: more intermittent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intermittent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.
pos: adj
examples: The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]
[…] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.
[…] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d
By fits the lunar intermittent ray,
That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps
[…] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]
[…] three scruffy-looking young men with intermittent facial hair and starvation-symptom physiques.
gloss: Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
Related words: inter
inter-
intermit
intermittence
intermittency
Derived words: Charcot intermittent fever
Charcot's intermittent fever
intermittent explosive disorder
intermittent fasting
intermittent lake
intermittently
intermittentness
nonintermittent
unintermittent
Translations:
intermittently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intermittent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English intermittently
From intermittent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Stopping or starting at intervals.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
Translations:
bloodroot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blood + root.
Compound parts: blood
root
Inflected forms:
form: bloodroots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.
Translations:
caster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English caster
From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Base: cast
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: casters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: castor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: casters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: castering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: castered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: castered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: castor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that casts.
pos: noun
examples: a caster of spells
a caster of stones
a caster of bronze statuary
She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
gloss: A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).
pos: noun
examples: Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
gloss: A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
pos: noun
examples: a set of casters
Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
gloss: A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
pos: noun
gloss: The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
pos: noun
examples: In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.
gloss: To act as a caster
pos: verb
Related words: caster angle
caster sugar
Derived words: baitcaster
casterless
figure-caster
linecaster
raycaster
runecaster
spearcaster
spellcaster
surf-caster
surf caster
Translations:
sycamore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”).
In the 16th c. applied to the European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), in the early 19th c. to various plane tree species introduced to North America, perhaps in analogy to their shadiness.
Inflected forms:
form: sycamores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sycomore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
On his dark face were white sycamore patches.
gloss: A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore / Still bear young leaflets half the summer through
gloss: A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: sycophant
Derived words: Arizona sycamore
California sycamore
sycamore lace bug
sycamore maple tree
sycamore tree
Translations:
vaudeville
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French vaudevillebor.
English vaudeville
Borrowed from French vaudeville.
Inflected forms:
form: vaudevilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.
gloss: An entertainment in this style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
examples: “Me, Myself and I,” directed by Emily Mann and engagingly acted by a cast that includes the invaluable Albee veteran Brian Murray, is in the tradition of Mr. Albee’s mid- and late-career works like “The Marriage Play” and “The Play About the Baby”: fragmented philosophical vaudevilles that turn the most fundamental questions of identity into verbal soft-shoes.
Derived words: vaudeville blues
vaudevillian
Translations:
Scott
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Inflected forms:
form: Scotts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Scot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Scottie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Scotty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Scott catalogue of postage stamps.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
incorrect
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- + correct.
Inflected forms:
form: more incorrect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incorrect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incorrects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
pos: adj
examples: He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question.
gloss: Faulty or defective.
pos: adj
examples: The computer crashed due to incorrect programming.
gloss: Inappropriate or improper.
pos: adj
gloss: An item or response that is incorrect.
pos: noun
examples: Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the ... If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or ...
Antonyms: correct
right
proper
Derived words: incorrection
incorrectly
incorrectness
politically incorrect
Translations:
erroneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From late Middle English erroneous, from Middle French erroneux, from Latin erroneus.
Inflected forms:
form: more erroneous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erroneous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing an error; inaccurate.
pos: adj
examples: His answer to the sum was erroneous.
An erroneous early Fox News report about the New Orleans terror attack is warping the political dialogue in the aftermath of the deadly rampage.
gloss: Derived from an error.
pos: adj
examples: His conclusion was erroneous, since it was based on a false assumption.
gloss: Mistaken.
pos: adj
examples: Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant.
gloss: Wandering; erratic.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Deviating from the requirements of the law, but without a lack of legal authority, thus not illegal.
pos: adj
examples: If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously.
Synonyms: errorful
Antonyms: errorless
Related words: errant
erratic
fallacious
Derived words: erroneity
erroneously
erroneousness
nonerroneous
unerroneous
Translations:
correctness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English correct
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English correctness
From correct + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: correctnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Freedom from error.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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: Conformity to the truth or to fact.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Conformity to recognized standards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
gloss: The state of an algorithm that correctly mirrors its specification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: incorrectness
Related words: correctedness
Derived words: conservative correctness
const correctness
hyper-correctness
patriotic correctness
political correctness
politically correctness
pseudocorrectness
Translations:
far-flung
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From far + flung (“thrown”), suggesting something which has been thrown a long distance away from oneself.
Compound parts: far
flung
Inflected forms:
form: more far-flung
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: further-flung
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther-flung
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most far-flung
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthest-flung
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest-flung
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.
pos: adj
examples: God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William.
gloss: Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread.
pos: adj
examples: In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […]
In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue.
gloss: Widely but sparsely distributed.
pos: adj
Derived words: far-flungness
Translations:
Chuvash
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: Chuvashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From, or pertaining to, Chuvashia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone from, or pertaining to Chuvashia.
pos: noun
Translations:
subclass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *klāssis
Latin classisder.
Middle French classebor.
English class
English subclass
From sub- + class.
Inflected forms:
form: subclasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-class
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: subclasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subclassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subclassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subclassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sub-class
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A secondary class within a main class.
pos: noun
examples: 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour" edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to the R-1 Mountain class loco.
These 4-8-2's, of which B&M eventually purchased 18 in various subclasses, could almost haul the tonnage of a T and more than made up for the slight deficiency by raising the maximum speed limit from 45 to 70 miles per hour, thanks to 73-inch drivers.
Goffin is a prose text interspersed with short lists of typical terms exemplifying certain sub-classes of Indian English lexis.
gloss: A rank directly below class.
pos: noun
gloss: An object class derived from another class (its superclass) from which it inherits a base set of properties and methods.
pos: noun
gloss: (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I subclassed the Button class to create a more specialised FancyButton class for my user interface.
gloss: To cause (an object) to act as an instance of a subclass (by creating the desired subclass and instantiating an object of this subclass).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Since Windows knows about these events, your application should be able to know about them as well. In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events.
Synonyms: subset
child class
derived class
heir class
Antonyms: superclass
superset
unsubclass
Derived words: intersubclass
intrasubclass
subclasser
subclassable
unsubclass
Translations:
cybernetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kubernētikós, “good at steering, good pilot”), from κυβερνητική τέχνη (kubernētikḗ tékhnē, “the pilot’s art”), from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός (kubernismós), κυβέρνησις (kubérnēsis, “steering, pilotage, guiding”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”) (which is also ultimately the root of govern). The term first recorded in English in 1948.
Inflected forms:
form: more cybernetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cybernetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in living organisms or machines.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to computers and the Internet.
pos: adj
Derived words: biocybernetic
cyber-
cyber
cyberman
cybernation
cybernetically
cybernetic engineering
cyberneticism
cyberneticist
cybernetician
cyberneticize
cybernetic organism
cybernetics
cyborg
Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology
neurocybernetic
sociocybernetic
Translations:
taxonomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From taxonomy + -ic, after French taxonomique.
Base: taxonomy
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to taxonomy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
Translations:
taxon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Back-formation from taxonomy. By surface analysis, taxo- + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: taxa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taxons
pos: noun
tags: plural
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: A group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms treated as a unit by taxonomists.
pos: noun
Translations:
cybernetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, drive, guide, act as a pilot”) (whence English govern). The term is attested since at least 1948 in the book Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener, influenced by the cognate term and doublet governor, the name of an early control device proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1868. Note also the 1830s French cybernétique (“the art of governing”). Also doublet of Kubernetes.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The theory/science of communication and control in living organisms or machines.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: control theory (not consistently differentiated)
Chasing and fleeing, though, are not just sequences of muscle contractions—they are goal-directed. Chasing may consist of running or climbing or leaping or ambushing, depending on the circumstances, as long as it increases the chances of snagging the prey; fleeing may include hiding or freezing or zigzagging. And that brings up another momentous 20th-century idea, sometimes called cybernetics, feedback, or control. The idea explains how a physical system can appear to be teleological, that is, directed by purposes or goals. All it needs are a way of sensing the state of itself and its environment, a representation of a goal state (what it “wants,” what it’s “trying for”), an ability to compute the difference between the current state and the goal state, and a repertoire of actions that are tagged with their typical effects. If the system is wired so that it triggers actions that typically reduce the difference between the current state and the goal state, it can be said to pursue goals (and when the world is sufficiently predictable, it will attain them). The principle was discovered by natural selection in the form of homeostasis, as when our bodies regulate their temperature by shivering and sweating. When it was discovered by humans, it was engineered into analog systems like thermostats and cruise control and then into digital systems like chess-playing programs and autonomous robots.
gloss: The art/study of governing, controlling automatic processes and communication.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Technology related to computers and the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: cyber
cyber-
cybercafe
cybernetic
cybernetically
cybernetician
cyberneticist
cyberpunk
cyberspace
cyborg
governance
governor
Kubernetes
connectionism
decision theory
information theory
systems science
Derived words: anthropocybernetics
biocybernetics
management cybernetics
neuro cybernetics
neurocybernetics
neuro-cybernetics
quantum cybernetics
second order cybernetics
sociocybernetics
technical cybernetics
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