yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
relay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sports
Etymology: From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: relays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: relays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A new set of hounds.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A new set of anything.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Bank-notes fluttered down and lay about in all directions, relays of sovereigns rolled away like so much dross, […]
gloss: A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
pos: noun
gloss: A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
pos: noun
gloss: A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
pos: noun
gloss: An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
pos: noun
gloss: To pass on or transfer (information).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The CCTV cameras relay what's going on to the headquarters.
Can you relay this message to John?
gloss: To release a new set of hounds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
Derived words: Indian relay
mail relay
radio relay
reed relay
relay cylinder
relay race
relay room
relay station
relay strike
spam relay
Swedish relay
time-delay relay
misrelay
nanorelay
phosphorelay
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смяна
roman: smjana
lang: Māori
word: tānga
lang: Galician
word: remudas
lang: Hungarian
word: váltó
lang: Hungarian
word: váltóverseny
lang: Hungarian
word: staféta
lang: Hungarian
word: váltóúszás
lang: Polish
word: sztafeta
bortz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bort
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Diamond of inferior quality, commonly used for drill tips; abrasive diamond powder; bort.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1906 September, X-Rays and a Diamond Thief, Popular Mechanics, page 932,
It is also noticeable that the black diamond, No. 20, a dull and lusterless substance, is as transparent to the X-rays as the brilliants, while the diamond bortz, No. 6, is much less transparent than either, though more so than the imitation, No 19.
These main categories of industrial diamonds, gem stones, bortz, and carbonados, are further subdivided into smaller classes. For instance, particularly fine bortz of a round form composed of crystals radiating from a common center are known as ballas.
A large part of the production of the Belgian Congo is crushing bortz.
Translations:
mousy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *múHs
Proto-Germanic *mūs
Proto-West Germanic *mūs
Old English mūs
Middle English mous
English mouse
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English mousy
From mouse + -y (forms adjectives from nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: mousier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mousiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mousey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a mouse.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: mouselike, murine
gloss: Resembling a mouse.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a mouse.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a mouse.
pos: adj
examples: It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
gloss: Abounding in or infested with mice.
pos: adj
Derived words: mousily
mousiness
mousy brown
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: мышы́ны
roman: myšýny
lang: Bulgarian
word: ми́ши
roman: míši
lang: Czech
word: myší
lang: German
word: mausgrau
lang: Polish
word: mysi
lang: Russian
word: мыши́ный
roman: myšínyj
lang: Slovak
word: myšací
lang: Ukrainian
word: ми́шачий
roman: mýšačyj
holler
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.
Inflected forms:
form: hollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hollar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hollers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hollering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hollered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hollered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hollar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A yell, shout.
pos: noun
examples: I heard a holler from over the fence.
Listen! Listen to the holler!
If I write a book, it will be called "Life and How To Live It."
gloss: Any communication to get somebody's attention.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: If you need anything, just give me a holler.
gloss: A field holler.
pos: noun
gloss: To yell or shout.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.
“Immigrants are welcome here,” the crowd hollered. “Refugees belong here.”
gloss: To call out one or more words.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To complain, to gripe.
pos: verb
Synonyms: hollering
cry
outcry
howl
hurl
scream
shout
Derived words: a hoot and a holler
a hit dog will holler
holler at
holler back
holler copper
holleration
hollerer
Translations:
anglicisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anglicise
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English anglicisation
From anglicise + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: anglicisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anglicisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anglicization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Anglicization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English. Usually applied to language or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dublin, the name of the capital of Ireland, is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Dubh Linn.
Translations:
linn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).
Inflected forms:
form: linns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lynn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Wales
examples: What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
"For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn,
"And it's up to the meadow ridge—"
"Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
And the roaring of the linn.
Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!
Translations:
osteoarthritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁
Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der.
English osteo-
English arthritis
English osteoarthritis
From osteo- + arthritis.
Inflected forms:
form: osteoarthritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: osteoarthritises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For example, among the papers directed at arthropathies, all the population studies in the bibliometric survey relied on macroscopy alone[…]. These were principally studies of osteoarthritis[…], for which there are standard diagnostic protocols based on macroscopic changes[…].
Translations:
commanding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more commanding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most commanding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: commandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
pos: adj
examples: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
gloss: Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.
pos: adj
examples: a commanding structure
a man with a commanding presence
Her colleagues say that [Dalia] Stasevska is eager to challenge the status quo both in the artistic realm and in life. Claire Chase, a prominent flutist and educator, described her as a “supernova,” praising her collaborative and commanding style.
Pierre Boulez, one of the most commanding musicians of the past century, must have been asked countless times, before his death in 2016, what he thought his legacy might be.
gloss: Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)
pos: adj
examples: 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury
On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.
gloss: The act of giving a command.
pos: noun
examples: God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.
Translations:
inescapable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English escape
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English escapable
English inescapable
From in- + escapable.
Inflected forms:
form: more inescapable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inescapable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inescapeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable.
pos: adj
examples: The Rugby flyover, too, is now an inescapable feature of the West Coast main line landscape.
Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
Later, the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CNN that Ukraine could not join Nato immediately as it was “an inescapable fact” that the treaty’s mutual defence clause would mean allies would be obliged to enter a direct war with Russia.
Translations:
poisoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more poisoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poisoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.
pos: adj
examples: The snake left its poisoned prey to die.
gloss: Containing poison; poisonous.
pos: adj
examples: The hunters began to fire their poisoned darts.
gloss: Having a strongly negative effect; harmful.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: This is a poisoned work environment.
Derived words: nonpoisoned
poisoned chalice
poisoned compliment
poisoned pawn
unpoisoned
Translations:
circumscribe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, circum- + scribe.
Inflected forms:
form: circumscribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circumscribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circumscribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circumscribed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To draw a line around; to encircle.
pos: verb
gloss: To limit narrowly; to restrict.
pos: verb
examples: "Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own," returned Henrietta. "It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honours of her eyes.' I often tell her her beauty is quite wasted upon her."
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
gloss: To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
pos: verb
Related words: circumscribed
circumscript
circumscription
Derived words: circumscribability
circumscribable
circumscriber
Translations:
telephony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
French -phone
French téléphonebor.
English telephone
English -y
English telephony
From telephone + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: telephonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The study and application of telephone technology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: ciphony
IP telephony
phototelephony
radio telephony
radiotelephony
videotelephony
wireless telephony
Translations:
supply-side
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more supply-side
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supply-side
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Regarding or promoting the supply side of the economy.
pos: adj
examples: Coordinate term: demand-side
Brown told her that she sounded very supply-side, but what about that memo to Muskie, which had recently surfaced, denouncing supply-siders as a “right-wing claque”?
While the George W. Bush tax cuts were supply-side in principle, a look at the provisions doesn’t support the progressive argument that they favored the rich at the expense of the poor.
Born out of a history of highly supply-side interventions, these programs lacked targeting and analysis of the local relevant determinants of malnutrition, and did not have a cost-eff ective impact on malnutrition […]
Translations:
supply-sider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English supply-side
English -er
English supply-sider
From supply-side + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: supply-siders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an economist, student or follower of supply-side economics
pos: noun
Translations:
bludge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bludgerbf.
English bludge
Back-formation from bludger.
Inflected forms:
form: bludges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bludging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bludged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bludged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of bludging.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
uncountable
examples: A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.
gloss: Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
uncountable
examples: Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge, sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.
‘Seriously, you′ve got sheep at school?’ I said.
‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it′s a big bludge, like drama.’
gloss: To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
obsolete
slang
gloss: To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.
One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
gloss: To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”
Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.
I mean, school′s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.
gloss: To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates.
Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging.
Related words: bludger
Translations:
trojan
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Trojan horse.
Inflected forms:
form: trojans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trojans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trojaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trojaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trojaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.
pos: noun
gloss: Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To infect (a system) with a trojan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
rootkit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From root + kit.
Compound parts: root
kit
Inflected forms:
form: rootkits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: root kit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rootkits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rootkitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rootkitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rootkitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: root kit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
pos: noun
gloss: To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard.
If not, your system might have been rootkitted.
Translations:
trestle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau), from Latin trānstellum, diminutive of trānstrum.
Inflected forms:
form: trestles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
pos: noun
gloss: A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
pos: noun
examples: He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.
gloss: A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A trestle bridge.
pos: noun
Derived words: saw-trestle
trestle bed
trestle board
trestleboard
trestled
trestle table
trestletree
trestle tree
trestlewise
trestlework
trestling
Translations:
lumbago
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Late Latin lumbāgō (“backache of the lumbar region”), from Late Latin lumbus (“lumbar”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“loins”)) + -āgō (suffix forming nouns describing objects, animals, and plants).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: lumbagos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lumbagos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lumbagoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lumbagoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lumbagoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
uncountable
examples: Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. [...] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances.
gloss: An episode of such backache.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
countable
gloss: To affect (someone) with lumbago.
pos: verb
tags: also
attributive
transitive
Related words: lumbaginous
pain
Translations:
backbreaking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + breaking.
Compound parts: back
breaking
Inflected forms:
form: more backbreaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most backbreaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: back-breaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of work, very physically tiring.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.
Ahead [...] each woman is stooped beneath a backbreaking load of firewood.
Translations:
lessor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
property
Etymology: From Middle English lessour, from Anglo-Norman lessour.
Inflected forms:
form: lessors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lessour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The owner of property that is leased; the landlord to a lease.
pos: noun
Translations:
slippery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slipperie, an extended form ( + -y) of Middle English slipper, sliper (“slippery”), from Old English slipor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slipraz (“smooth, slippery”), equivalent to slip + -er. Compare also Middle English slibbri, slubbri (“slippery”) borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German slibberich (“slippery”). Cognate with German schlüpfrig (“slippery”), Danish slibrig (“slippery”), Swedish slipprig (“slippery”).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slipperier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more slippery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slipperiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most slippery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Oily substances render things slippery.
The screeching of brakes, the monotonous blare of motor horns, the clip-clip of shoes on slippery pavements, the rustling of wet mackintoshes were all part of the great metropolis.
gloss: Evasive; difficult to pin down.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: a slippery person
a slippery promise
gloss: Liable to slip; not standing firm.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, / The love that leaned on them, as slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
gloss: Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
pos: adj
examples: He looking down
With scorn or pity on the slippery state
Of kings, will tread upon the neck of fate.
gloss: Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess –
Synonyms: glibbery
glidder
gliddery
greasy
lubric
lubricious
lubricous
slabbery
slape
slick
slidder
sliddery
slidey
slidy
slimy
slithery
slippery
slippery as an eel
slippy
Antonyms: adhesive
nonslippery
nonslip
Related words: slip
Derived words: nonslippery
slipperily
slipperiness
slippery as an eel
slippery dick
slippery dip
slippery elm
slippery jack
slippery nipple
Slippery Sam
slippery sequence
slippery slide
slippery slope
sloppery
unslippery
Translations:
phenology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pheno-
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English phenology
From pheno- + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: phænology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
suppress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
human-sciences
law
medicine
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
war
Etymology: From Latin suppressus, perfect passive participle of supprimō (“press down or under”), from sub (“under”) + premō (“press”).
Inflected forms:
form: suppresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suppressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suppressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suppressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.
pos: verb
examples: Political dissent was brutally suppressed.
gloss: To restrain or repress, such as laughter or an expression.
pos: verb
examples: I struggled to suppress my smile.
gloss: To exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind.
pos: verb
examples: He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
gloss: To prevent publication.
pos: verb
examples: The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
gloss: To stop a flow or stream.
pos: verb
examples: The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.
gloss: To forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
pos: verb
gloss: To stop or prevent the enemy from executing unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
pos: verb
gloss: To hold in place, to keep low.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: cosuppress
desuppress
immunosuppress
myelosuppress
resuppress
suppressable
suppressant
suppressible
suppression
suppressive
suppressogenic
suppressor
suppressory
unsuppress
Translations:
granular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire.
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: more granular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most granular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains.
pos: adj
examples: a granular substance
gloss: Grainy.
pos: adj
examples: It has a granular structure
This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture...
gloss: Refined or precise.
pos: adj
examples: This should allow for a more granular degree of control
Synonyms: granulous
corpuscular
globular
grainy
granular
granulary
granuliform
granulose
particulate
Antonyms: fluidic
gaseous
nondusty
nongrainy
nongranular
nonparticulate
nonpowdery
unfloury
ungrainy
ungritty
unmealy
unpowdery
Related words: coarse-grained
fine-grained
grain
granulate
granulation
granule
crumbly
insubstantial
coarse
fine
Derived words: agranular
dysgranular
equigranular
extragranular
fibrogranular
granular cell tumor
granular cheese
granularisation
granularise
granularity
granularization
granularize
granularly
hypergranular
infragranular
intergranular
intragranular
juxtagranular
macrogranular
mesogranular
microgranular
monogranular
multigranular
nanogranular
nongranular
perigranular
polygranular
pregranular
reticulogranular
semigranular
subgranular
supergranular
supragranular
transgranular
Translations:
weaning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: weanings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
openness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
education
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
systems-theory
Etymology: From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).
Base: open
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: opennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Francis riled conservative cardinals with his compassion for migrants and refugees, openness towards LGBTQ+ Catholics and demands for action on the climate crisis.
gloss: The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Lack of secrecy; candour, transparency.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: "Instead of openness, there was the cunning tactics of cover-up and a complete failure by General De Chastelain to deal with the vital numerics of decommissioning," said Ian Paisley, 79, the Protestant preacher who heads the Democratic Unionists, Northern Ireland's largest party.
gloss: The degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: avoimuus
lang: Greek
word: ανοικτότητα
roman: anoiktótita
malpractice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel-?
Proto-Italic *malos
Latin malus
Latin maleder.
Old French mal-
English mal-
English practice
English malpractice
From mal- + practice.
Inflected forms:
form: malpractices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.
A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.
“It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist.
Translations:
swirling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swirlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: that swirls
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.
gloss: A pattern or motion that swirls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kapo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kapo, see there for further etymology. Doublet of corporal and capo.
Inflected forms:
form: kapos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was given food and privileges in return for supervising other prisoners doing forced labor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A Jewish person perceived as enabling or assisting harm to the larger Jewish community by collaborating or allying with antisemites.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
vulgar
Translations:
koro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Possibly from Makasar garring koro' (lit. koro illness, "shrinking of the toilet", Matthes 1859), Buginese, or Malay. See "Koro § Etymology and geographical background" at Wikipedia for a full discussion.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A delusional syndrome found in Malay and southern Chinese populations, characterized by a belief that the subject's penis will retract into the abdomen and cause death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unemotional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
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 emotional
English unemotional
From un- + emotional.
Inflected forms:
form: more unemotional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unemotional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing little or no feeling.
pos: adj
examples: an unemotional person
gloss: Reasoned and objective, involving reason or intellect rather than feelings.
pos: adj
examples: On a side note, I would like to also point out that when Mike was asked about what to do about a losing position, he replied that the trader must analyze the situation and make an unemotional decision.
Translations:
self-control
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English control
English self-control
From self- + control.
Inflected forms:
form: self-controls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: self control
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: selfcontrol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: self-controls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-controlling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-controlled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-controlled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: self control
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: selfcontrol
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The ability to control one's desires and impulses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonym: willpower
A review of addiction research, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, suggests mindful meditation strengthens self-control in smokers, even among those smokers who haven’t set an intention to quit.
gloss: To control oneself or itself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Translations:
arrows
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Short darts feathered at the ends.
pos: noun
Translations:
happily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English happily, happyly, happyliche, happylyche, equivalent to happy + -ly.
Base: happy
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more happily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: happilier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
rare
form: most happily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: happiliest
pos: adv
tags: rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.
pos: adv
examples: This time next month I’ll be happily fishing at the beach.
And thus I have given the first part of a life of fortune and adventure, a life of Providence's chequer-work, and of a variety which the world will seldom be able to shew the like of: beginning foolishly, but closing much more happily than any part of it ever gave me leave so much as to hope for.
Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive.
gloss: By good chance; fortunately, successfully.
pos: adv
examples: Watt wore, on his feet, a boot, brown in colour, and a shoe, happily of a brownish colour also.
gloss: With good will; in all happiness; willingly.
pos: adv
examples: I will happily help you look for your lost wallet.
gloss: By chance; perhaps.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: And who knoweth whether a thousand yeares hence a third opinion will rise, which happily shall overthrow these two precedents?
Synonyms: blessedly
bubblingly
chearfully
cheerfully
cheerily
cheerly
eudaemonically
eupeptically
gaily
gayly
genially
gladly
happily
joyfully
joyously
lightheartedly
merrily
mirthfully
Antonyms: sadly
Related words: happiness
happy
gladden
Derived words: happily ever after
Translations:
heartily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hertely, herteliche, heorteliche, from Old English ġeheortlīċe (“whole-heartedly, vigorously”), equivalent to hearty + -ly.
Base: hearty
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more heartily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most heartily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a hearty manner.
pos: adv
examples: eat heartily
greet someone heartily
Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.
Translations:
struggling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more struggling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most struggling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: strugglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The act of one who struggles.
pos: noun
examples: All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.
Translations:
cenacle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cenacle, from Old French cenacle (modern French cénacle), from Latin cēnāculum (“dining room”).
Inflected forms:
form: cenacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place).
pos: noun
examples: With Mary in the cenacle waiting for the Holy Spirit In the Acts of the Apostles after listing the names of the eleven apostles, Luke continued with these words, so precious to Christians: […]
gloss: A small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love.
Translations:
passively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English passive
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English passively
From passive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a passive manner; without conscious or self-directed action.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.
Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.
For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
gloss: In an acquiescent manner; resignedly or submissively.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.
They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.
gloss: In the passive voice; having a passive construction.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Statements phrased in an active voice, with a few outcome-oriented goals, improve school performance more than those stated passively with either multiple goals or goals focused on processes or behaviors.
Related words: passive
passiveness
passivisation
passivization
passivise
passivize
passivity
Translations:
taphonomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek θᾰ́πτω (thắptō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos)der.
Proto-Indo-European *nem-der.
Proto-Indo-European *németi
Proto-Hellenic *némō
Ancient Greek νέμω (némō)
▲
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Latin -nomialbor.
French -nomiebor.
▲
Latin -nomialbor.
English -nomy
English taphonomy
From tapho- (from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”)) + -nomy.
Base: tapho
Inflected forms:
form: taphonomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the fate of the remains of organisms after they die, especially the study of fossilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These characteristics are also applicable in forensic taphonomy. In contrast to our approach here, Buikstra and Ubelaker place "premortem and perimortem fractures, wounds, and abrasions" (p. 106) in the chapter on paleopathology, thus separating perimortem trauma from taphonomy.
Whilst there is some credit in distinguishing between taphonomies for thick-shelled forms and thin-shelled forms in shallower facies, these forms occur in both phacopids and homalonotids.
Some cases may have an innocent explanation based in taphonomy, the processes by which bodies are preserved over long spans of time.
Translations:
testate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin testātus (“testified”), perfect passive participle of testor (“to be witness, testify, attest; to make a will”), from testis (“witness”).
Inflected forms:
form: testates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: having left a legally valid last will and testament (of one who has died).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: one who has left a valid will and testament
pos: noun
Translations:
hookah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani حقہ / हुक़्क़ा (huqqā) and, in turn, derived from Arabic حُقَّة (ḥuqqa, “pot, jar”), from حُقّ (ḥuqq, “cavity, hollow”).
Inflected forms:
form: hookahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hooka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hooker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: houka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hukka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hukkah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: huqqa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: huqqah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.
pos: noun
examples: In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.
The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.
But Dubai is resilient, at least when it comes to partying. “Everyone just went back to their hookah and food a minute later,” said Babayan.
gloss: A tankless surface air compressor pump and umbilical piping system that supplies air to a diving mask.
pos: noun
Derived words: hookah air compressor
hookah air pump
hookah-burdar
hookah compressor
hookah dive
hookah dive compressor
hookah dive pump
hookah diving
hookah pump
Translations: