yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
yuk
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative, similar to the variant yuck.
Inflected forms:
form: yuks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yuks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yukking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yukked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yukked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An exuberant laugh.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: Something, such as a joke, that causes such a laugh.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The latest yuk from Congress is called the balanced-budget amendment. It could wind up making slumps deeper and recoveries more difficult — and that's no joke.
gloss: To laugh exuberantly.
pos: verb
Translations:
intern
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
Inflected forms:
form: interns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: interns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
pos: noun
gloss: To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
That description was of a camp at the Tanforan Racetrack near San Francisco, one of several centers in California where Japanese and Japanese-American residents (Issei and Nisei) were held before being interned in areas remote from the West Coast.
Cuba could take pride in its health system. It could, that is, if it weren't for the way it treats those who test positive [for HIV], whether sick or not, interning them in an isolation that has no medical justification, that is against all scientific direction and is a frontal assault on all human rights.
gloss: To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
The same day, 354 British and Australian prisoners who had been interned in north Korea arrived by rail at Inch'on after arrangements had been made with the Russian commander at P'yongyang and were embarked for the Philippines.
gloss: To internalize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Strings are automatically interned if they are assigned to a literal string within code.
Derived words: internable
internee
internment
reintern
uninterned
skintern
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: интерни́рам
roman: interníram
lang: Dutch
word: interneren
lang: Finnish
word: internoida
lang: French
word: interner
lang: German
word: internieren
lang: Irish
word: imtheorannaigh
lang: Italian
word: internare
lang: Japanese
word: 抑留する
roman: yokuryū suru
lang: Japanese
word: 拘留する
roman: kōryū suru
lang: Macedonian
word: интерни́ра
roman: interníra
lang: Macedonian
word: за́твора
roman: zátvora
lang: Polish
word: internować
lang: Russian
word: интерни́ровать
roman: intɛrnírovatʹ
lang: Swedish
word: internera
honda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Spanish honda, fonda (“sling”), from Latin funda (“hand-sling”); or from Spanish hondón (“eye of a needle”), from hondo (“bottom; deep, profound”) (from Latin fundus (“bottom, lowest part”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-(m)n-o, from *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”)) + -ón (augmentative suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: hondas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A closed loop or eyelet at one end of a lariat or lasso, through which the other end of the rope is passed to form a much larger loop.
pos: noun
tags: Southwestern
US
gloss: A grommet or other device intended to strengthen or otherwise improve a simple rope honda.
pos: noun
tags: Southwestern
US
Derived words: honda knot
Translations:
facultative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French facultatif. By surface analysis, faculty + -ative.
Inflected forms:
form: more facultative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most facultative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
pos: adj
gloss: Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
pos: adj
examples: But does the penny fare end here, said Mr. Nixon, at a merely facultative stop? Surely it ends rather at the station.
The policy would be a “facultative” policy, whereby the insurers would first have assessed the risk involved in the particular shipment and decided to accept it.
gloss: That grants permission or power to do something.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
pos: adj
examples: facultative feeder
This hypothesis might be supported by the evidence that there are varieties of pathogenic fungi of which parasitism is in varying degrees, between obligate parasitic and facultative parasitic. The facultative parasite, which usually lives as a saprophyte but under some conditions can parasitize on a plant, seems to be a pathogen with the lowest parasitic adaptation.
gloss: At which a given function is positive.
pos: adj
examples: For then it is seen, as before, that it is the points outside the two sheets which are facultative, and not the points between the surface and the touching plane.
Derived words: facultatively
facultativeness
facultativity
nonfacultative
Translations:
isomerase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English isomer
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English isomerase
From isomer + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: isomerases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any enzyme which catalyzes the conversion of one isomeric form of a chemical compound to another.
pos: noun
Translations:
paediatrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Standard spelling of pediatrics.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
plural
plural-only
Translations:
hypochlorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English chlorous
English hypochlorous
From hypo- + chlorous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or derived from chlorine having a valence lower than in chlorous compounds.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This lack of shelf stability is the biggest reason hypochlorous acid sprays never became a staple of the cleaning-products aisle. […] For decades hypochlorous acid lingered in the background, used as a disinfectant in specific industrial and commercial contexts that could justify a pricey, on-site manufacturing process to create products on demand. But COVID accelerated the need for different methods of disinfection that would be safe, effective and easy to use in a wide range of environments.
Translations:
hydrofluoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English fluoric
English hydrofluoric
From hydro- + fluoric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing hydrogen and fluorine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mercuric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From mercury + -ic, partly after French mercurique.
Base: mercury
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or derived from mercury.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Specifically (of a compound), containing mercury with an oxidation number of 2.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Mercurial (of people).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: I was the least mercuric, the most sedentary of the three, and my poor eyesight made me an indifferent athlete, though I fenced well and even got my blue for it.
Related words: mercurous
Derived words: mercurammonium
mercuric acid
mercuric chloride
mercuric nitrate
mercurico-
mercuric oxide
mercuric sulfide
mercuric sulphide
methylmercuric
organomercuric
phenylmercuric
potassio-mercuric
Translations:
phosphoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phosphor
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English phosphoric
From phosphor + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the element phosphorus; containing phosphorus, especially in its higher valency (5).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An old man to whom a few drops of phosphoric ether had been administered experienced repeated and imperious venereal wants.
gloss: Pertaining to a phosphor; phosphorescent.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literary
not-comparable
examples: I refer to the light in the tail of a glow-worm […] first, that it is phosphoric; secondly, that its use is to attract the male insect.
[T]he gulf beneath blended in the darkness, till but one atmosphere seemed both above and below, sometimes illumined by flashes of phosphoric light—meteors that might have suited sea or sky, and, broken by two or three ridges of foam, seen in obscurity, like lines of snow.
Related words: phosphorous
Derived words: difluorophosphoric
glycerophosphoric
hypophosphoric
metaphosphoric
orthophosphoric
paraphosphoric
phosphoric acid
phosphoric chloride
polyphosphoric
pyrophosphoric
sulphophosphoric
Translations:
wimple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wympel, wimpel, from Old English wimpel (“veil, an article of women's dress; a covering for the neck, a cloak, a hood”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (“wimple, scarf, veil”). Cognate with Scots wympill (“wimple”), Dutch wimpel (“streamer, pennant”), German Wimpel (“pennant”), Swedish vimpel (“pennant, banner”), Icelandic vimpill (“hood, cowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: wimples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wimples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wimpling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wimpled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wimpled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
pos: noun
examples: There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.
Even the unprecedented detail of the Urbanist regulations is still not sufficient to enable us to envisage with accuracy the appearance of the wimple or the other items that went to make up the habit.
gloss: A fold or pleat in cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: A ripple, as on the surface of water.
pos: noun
gloss: A curve or bend.
pos: noun
gloss: A flag or streamer.
pos: noun
gloss: To cover with a wimple.
pos: verb
examples: this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy
gloss: To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
pos: verb
examples: IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.
gloss: To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
pos: verb
examples: The wind wimples the surface of water.
[T]hoſe fair Straths that vvater’d are / VVith Tay and Tvveed’s ſmooth Streams, / VVhich gentily and daintily / Eat dovvn the flovvry Braes; / As greatly and quietly / They vvimple to the Seas.
gloss: To flutter.
pos: verb
examples: Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.
She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell
Translations:
whippet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from whip (“to move quickly”) + -et.
Base: whip
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: whippets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog of a certain breed, similar to a small greyhound, originating in Britain and bred for racing.
pos: noun
Translations:
fiddling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fiddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The playing of music on a fiddle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of fidgeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Tweaking; manipulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]
Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
gloss: Of petty or trivial importance; footling
pos: adj
examples: It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.
Translations:
debrief
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English brief
English debrief
From de- + brief.
Inflected forms:
form: debriefs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: debriefing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: debriefed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: debriefed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: debriefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning.
gloss: To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Synonym of debriefing
pos: noun
examples: We had a debrief yesterday.
Family psychologist Susan Gamache said a family debrief of the holidays, once the dust has settled in January, will help make Christmas more manageable next time.
Too often, organizations treat post-project debriefs as operational hygiene: a box to check before heading to the next engagement.
The debrief — based on consultation with government agencies and salmon industry operators — also outlined concerns about worsening environmental volatility and emerging marine disease threats, stating that "business as usual" approaches would not be enough.
Derived words: debriefer
debriefing
undebriefed
Translations:
shuffling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shufflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more shuffling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shuffling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act or motion of one who shuffles.
pos: noun
examples: As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
gloss: The noise created by something moving about.
pos: noun
examples: He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
gloss: Trickery.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
gloss: Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
pos: adj
examples: This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
gloss: Evasive.
pos: adj
examples: a shuffling excuse
Derived words: double-shuffling
exon shuffling
Translations:
camouflaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more camouflaged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most camouflaged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: wearing, in, or treated with, camouflage; disguised
pos: adj
Translations:
glumly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glum
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English glumly
From glum + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a glum manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Robert turned and dawdled glumly through the peace of evening[.]
Translations:
huffily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English huffy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English huffily
From huffy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more huffily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most huffily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a huffy manner.
pos: adv
examples: "Needn't answer if you don't want to," said the man huffily.
Translations:
huffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English huff
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English huffy
From huff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: huffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: huffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Haughty, arrogant.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Puffed up.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: huffy bread
Derived words: huffily
huffiness
huffy-puffy
Translations:
shiva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans.
Inflected forms:
form: shivas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shibah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shiv'ah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shivah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
uncountable
examples: Did you know that some parents sit shiva […] for 30 days if their child is discovered to be gay?
Seymour: Audrey, quick! We've got to do an emergency [flower] arrangement.
[…]
Mr. Mushnik: The Shivas are our most important funereal account. A big, enormous family, they're dropping off like flies!
“Mo Kellman lost his wife ten years ago.” “Does that mean the shiva is over?”
Translations:
biogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + -genic.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: essential for the maintenance of life
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: abiogenic
abiotic
Derived words: biogenically
biogenicity
nonbiogenic
Translations:
object-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more object-oriented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most object-oriented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: OO
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.
pos: adj
Translations:
sheltered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Inflected forms:
form: more sheltered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sheltered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Protected, as from wind or weather.
pos: adj
examples: The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.
"A sunny, sheltered corner," he remarked. "An ideal spot for a deck-chair and a book."
gloss: (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians, often lacking social skills or worldly experience as a result.
pos: adj
Derived words: semisheltered
shelteredness
sheltered workshop
tax-sheltered
unsheltered
Translations:
respected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more respected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most respected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deserving of respect; due special honor or appreciation.
pos: adj
examples: He was a respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.
Translations:
inductive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French inductif, from Late Latin inductivus.
Inflected forms:
form: more inductive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inductive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or arising from inductance.
pos: adj
gloss: Introductory or preparatory.
pos: adj
gloss: Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
pos: adj
examples: A brutish vice, / Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
They may be […] inductive of credibility.
Derived words: adipoinductive
angioinductive
autoinductive
chondroinductive
coinductive
fibrochondroinductive
hyperinductive
hypnoinductive
inductive bias
inductive circuit
inductive coupling
inductive definition
inductive dimension
inductive effect
inductive embarrassment
inductive hypothesis
inductive inference
inductive logic programming
inductively
inductive motors
inductiveness
inductive output tube
inductive reactance
inductive reasoning
inductive set
inductive statistics
inductive voltage divider
inductivism
inductivist
inductivistic
inductivity
meta-inductive
myoinductive
neuroinductive
noninductive
osteoinductive
photoinductive
uninductive
Translations:
autotransformer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trāns-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Latin fōrma
Latin fōrmō
Latin transformo
Old French transformer
Middle French transfourmerbor.
Middle English transformen
English transform
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 transformer
English autotransformer
From auto- + transformer.
Inflected forms:
form: autotransformers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps.
pos: noun
examples: One of the principal features of the ordinary configurations of the transformer [...] is the electrical isolation that exists between the primary and secondary windings. [...] Whenever large transformation ratios are involved, safety demands that ordinary transformers be used. However, in instances where the transformation ratio is close to unity (which minimizes the hazard), a transformer employing a single tapped winding may be used with notable advantages.
[...] This arrangement is called the autotransformer.
Translations:
pre-test
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English test
English pre-test
From pre- + test.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-tests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any test done as practice, before an official test.
pos: noun
Translations:
segregated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more segregated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most segregated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Separated or isolated from others, or from another group.
pos: adj
gloss: Having access restricted to certain groups, or excluding certain groups.
pos: adj
Derived words: cosegregated
hypersegregated
nonsegregated
segregatedness
unsegregated
Translations:
Salish
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Montana Salish séliš (“Salish”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A broad ethnolinguistic indigenous group native to North America, the Salish peoples.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Muriel said that the garden was ancient and had been cultivated by the Salish for generations, but now few people harvested there, which was a pity because the gardens benefited by frequent harvesting.
gloss: A broad ethnolinguistic indigenous group native to North America, the Salish peoples.
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
plural-only
gloss: Synonym of Salishan (“of or relating to the Salish people or their languages”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lang: French
word: salishe
sobre-vest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sobre-vests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A decorative or identifying cover worn over chain mail or other armour by a medieval knight.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
whacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more whacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tired; fatigued.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: After that all-night party, we were all whacked.
gloss: Intoxicated on drugs.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Big Dima said he found it 'very much sexiness' knowing we could hear him getting whacked on speed and fucking Svetlana's rather sparse brains out almost every day.
Derived words: whacked-out
Translations:
wa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.
pos: noun
Translations:
backyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + yard.
Compound parts: back
yard
Inflected forms:
form: backyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back-yard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back yard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
examples: I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement.
gloss: A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
colloquial
examples: The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.
gloss: An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
colloquial
examples: However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.
Related words: court
curtilage
dooryard
garden
lawn
Derived words: backyard cricket
backyarder
in one's backyard, in one's own backyard
not in my backyard
Translations:
congressman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English congress
English -man
English congressman
From congress + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: congressmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male member of congress.
pos: noun
gloss: A male member of the House of Representatives.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: For strained metaphor this has not been equaled since a bloviant congressman began his eulogy upon Senator Vance with the words […]
There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
Two US congressmen on Tuesday made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan as the US races to evacuate as many people as possible from the country in the remaining days of the US military presence there, taking Democratic leadership by surprise and drawing swift criticism.
The committee’s investigation into Gaetz began in 2021 but was put on hold while a separate, yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation into the former congressman was underway.
Related words: congresswoman
senator
Translations:
classroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From class + room.
Compound parts: class
room
Inflected forms:
form: classrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
pos: noun
examples: Secondly, preserved railways are not 24/7 operations. There are closed seasons where they can be turned into open-air classrooms.
Translations:
stinking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).
Base: stink
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more stinking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stinking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a pungent smell.
pos: adj
gloss: Very bad and undesirable.
pos: adj
examples: I have a stinking cold.
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.
gloss: An intensifier, a hypallage.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: We don’t need your stinking sympathy.
“Everyone shut up! Lord ThunderSteel commands it! I am your leader! I have this badge that says so!”
“We don’t need no stinking badges!”
gloss: The emission of a foul smell.
pos: noun
examples: From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
Derived words: butt-stinking
cry stinking fish
stinking acacia
stinking ash
stinking badger
stinking cedar
stinking chamomile
stinking chun
stinking corpse lily
stinking goosefoot
stinking gum
stinking hawksbeard
stinking hellebore
stinking iris
stinking juniper
stinkingly
stinking nanny
stinkingness
stinking nightshade
stinking ninny
stinking rich
stinking sumac
stinking toe
stinking willie
stinking willy
Translations:
psst
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the similar sounds people use to call animals, such as cats.
Inflected forms:
form: pst
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pssst
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pssts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pssting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pssted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pssted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pst
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pssst
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to call animals.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: Used to request silence.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: Used to imply that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Psst, John, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got lots of candy stashed away.
gloss: Imitating a spray.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: To say psst, to get someone's attention or to communicate with them.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: and I was just rounding the fourth-floor landing when Claudia pssted at me
Translations:
paycheck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pay
English check
English paycheck
From pay (“wages or salary”) + check (“means of payment”).
Inflected forms:
form: paychecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pay check
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paycheque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pay cheque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A periodic payment, usually in the form of a paper check, received by an employee from an employer for work performed.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: He was delighted after getting his first paycheck, but subsequently blew it all on the horses.
The teachers are not there to help you. Most oft them are still freelancers and the last thing they want is more competition. They are there because they need a steady paycheck and they hope to score some pussy!
They took my whole paycheck and I know why / 'Cause I got high, 'cause I got high
With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
We're a super sad generation / Killing time and losing our paychecks
Last week, TSA agents missed their first full paychecks. Some employees are still at work, with the promise of back pay when the shutdown ends. But others can't or won't forego paychecks.
Translations:
granddad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grand-
English dad
English granddad
From grand- + dad (“father”).
Inflected forms:
form: granddads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grandad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: grandfather
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Hey! Get out of my way, granddad!
Synonyms: gramps
granddaddy
grandpa
grandfather
pops
Translations:
jeopardize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jeopardy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English jeopardize
From jeopardy + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: jeopardizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jeopardizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jeopardized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jeopardized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jeopardise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: After having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardized.
This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Translations:
sneaky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sneak
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English sneaky
From sneak + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sneakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sneakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sneakies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Elusive; difficult to capture or observe due to constantly outwitting the adversaries.
pos: adj
examples: Catching those thieves will be hard: they're so sneaky!
Be sneaky. Fish frighten easily.
Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
gloss: Dishonest; deceitful.
pos: adj
examples: They played a sneaky trick on us.
A contribution to a wall newspaper of which I was an editor in our sector poked fun at the never-changing menu in the school cafeteria. It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger. One time it would be called hamburger, another time bifshtek, then cutlet, and sneakiest of all, schnitzel—the only difference among them was usually only in their shape or whether bread crumbs had been used.
Irish car bombs were a sneaky drink—they tasted like a chocolate milk shake, and more than once he'd been seduced into drinking several of them. It was only after he stood up that he realized how much of a wallop they packed.
gloss: Any device used for covert surveillance.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] in cooperation with the National Security Agency, installs and maintains "sneakies" throughout the U.S.S.R. and Communist China — but increasingly, denied areas are surveyed more simply.
[…] has used travellers to plant 'sneakies' - small electronic transmitting devices which form part of a surveillance network.
Synonyms: slippery
evasive
dodgy
Related words: sneak
Derived words: sneakily
sneakiness
sneaky beak
sneaky beaky
sneaky-deaky
sneaky fucker strategy
sneaky link
sneaky Pete
sneaky suspicion
Translations:
reschedule
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From re- + schedule.
Base: schedule
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reschedules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rescheduling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rescheduled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rescheduled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-schedule
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To schedule again or at a different time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll have to reschedule next Monday's meeting because of the public holiday.
Network Rail says it has also rescheduled repairs and renewals work to coincide with the closures, including a full bridge replacement at Postwick and track renewals at Lowestoft, Acle and Hassingham, along with additional maintenance to the swing bridges at Reedham and Somerleyton.
Seek so much as a kernel of advice on the internet in 2024 about conflicts in a relationship, a situationship or even an affair, and you may find yourself inundated with recommendations to "stand on business." A Hinge match asks to reschedule your first date with 30 minutes' notice? Stand on business. Your ex continues to hit you up months after the breakup? Stand on business.
gloss: To reclassify; to change the schedule (division into which something is classified) of.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Judge Young had been considering a petition filed to have marijuana rescheduled under federal law.
Moreover, marijuana could only be brought to market if it were rescheduled to acknowledge its “accepted medical use,” according to DEA standards.
Derived words: reschedulable
rescheduler
Translations:
refill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fill
English refill
From re- (“again”) + fill (noun).
Inflected forms:
form: refills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: refills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which serves to refill or replace something.
pos: noun
examples: Today it is $2 for a coffee, with free refills throughout the day.
"Oh, gosh," he groaned, "and I'd have given anything for a refill of that suet! It was the wizardest muck we've had this week."
Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 July, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they could show proof that they had voted.
gloss: That which serves to refill or replace something.
pos: noun
examples: Tank's empty. We need to go for a refill.
gloss: That which serves to refill or replace something.
pos: noun
examples: We're cutting back. No new printers or pens, just refills.
gloss: That which serves to refill or replace something.
pos: noun
gloss: An act or process of refilling.
pos: noun
examples: capillary refill
[…] the modified UHI correlation captures 80 percent of the total data and thus provides a conservative estimate of the heat transfer during UHI refill.
After refill, start engine and observe installed fittings and valve to make certain there are no leaks.
Of course, the most efficient, money-saving option of all is straightforward refill. Ecover launched a redesign of their refill system in health food shops in 2009, which they're hoping to distribute more widely soon.
During refill, the drop generator acts like a simple fluid mechanical oscillator
gloss: To fill up once again.
pos: verb
examples: Can you refill my cup please? I've finished my coffee.
gloss: To repeat a prescription.
pos: verb
Derived words: capillary refill
cap refill
refillability
refillable
refiller
unrefilled
Translations:
relaxing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more relaxing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relaxing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: relaxings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Conducive to relaxation; helping one to relax.
pos: adj
examples: a relaxing piece of music
gloss: The process by which something is relaxed.
pos: noun
examples: relaxings of the muscles
Translations:
legit
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
video-games
Etymology: Clipping of legitimate or legitimately.
Inflected forms:
form: legits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more legit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most legit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more legit
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most legit
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A legitimate; a legitimate actor.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A legitimate child.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Did you see how fast that person was moving? I don't think they're legit.
gloss: Genuine, actual, literal or honest.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: “The Bynar ship went missing on stardate 58934.9.” “Okay, so your intel is legit, but this still feels like a trick.” “No. I'm a changed computer. Just look at me. Do you see the blue light?” “The light is reassuring.”
gloss: Genuinely good and possessing all the required or expected qualities; the real deal.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I checked out her portfolio. She's legit.
If you neglect ex-planet Pluto's orbit, which is inclined 17 degrees from the plane of Earth's orbit, all the legit planet planes (as well as the equator of the Sun) lie within about 7 degrees of one another.
gloss: Cool by virtue of being genuine.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Legitimately; within the law.
pos: adv
tags: informal
gloss: Honestly; truly; seriously.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: He legit thinks he can pass the test on zero sleep.
That legit scared the hell out of me.
Bras don't exactly run cheap. *Insert exhausting, never-ending spiel about the difficulties of being a woman*. But I found us a wireless bra that's moisture-wicking, smooth, stretchy, and has adjustable straps for legit less than 20 bucks.
Derived words: legitly
legitness
Translations:
lang: German
word: legal
lang: German
word: rechtmäßig
survivor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Italic *gʷīwō
Latin vīvō
Latin supervīvereder.
English survive
English -or
English survivor
From survive + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: survivors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surviver
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: survivour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who survives, especially one who survives a traumatic experience.
pos: noun
examples: From this moment on, I choose to live not as a victim, but as a survivor.
Believing that requires trust, and trust is understandably a tough issue for those of us who are survivors.
gloss: A person who is able to endure hardship.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I'm a survivor. We're a dying breed.
gloss: One who knew a specific decedent.
pos: noun
examples: She was from a large family and had many friends, so the funeral was crowded with mourning survivors.
Synonyms: overliver
Derived words: adult survivor
designated survivor
last survivor
non-survivor
nonsurvivor
previvor
sole survivor
surthriver
surthrivor
survivor bias
survivor guilt
survivorship
survivor syndrome
Translations:
trespassing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trespassings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: unauthorized entry to private property
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: