yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
carbonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
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 carbonize
From carbon + -ize.
Base: carbon
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: carbonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carbonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carbonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carbonized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To turn something to carbon, especially by heating it; to scorch or blacken.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonyms: charcoalize, char
gloss: To react something with carbon.
pos: verb
Related words: pyrolyse
Derived words: carbonizable
carbonization
carbonizer
decarbonization
decarbonize
recarbonize
Translations:
caramelize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English caramel
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 caramelize
From caramel + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: caramelizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caramelizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caramelized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caramelized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: caramelise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: carmelize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To convert (sugar) into caramel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To brown (sugar, or a foodstuff containing sugar) by means of heat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color.
gloss: To undergo this kind of conversion or browning.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: caramelization
caramelizer
uncaramelized
Translations:
stooping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stooping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stooping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stoopings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
pos: adj
gloss: The act of one who stoops.
pos: noun
examples: This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.
Translations:
murmuring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: murmurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound that murmurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the murmurings of trees in the wind
gloss: A complaint against something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
Translations:
verified
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: verifieds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Subject to positive verification.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Only verified cardholders are eligible for the discount.
gloss: A user of the Twitter microblogging service whose identity has been confirmed by Twitter.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Antonyms: unverified
Translations:
chased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pursued.
pos: adj
examples: These two means of observation will enable the chasing vessel to rectify her course and to satisfy herself that she has taken the one which will allow her to reach the chased vessel as speedily as possible — that is to say, at the intersection of their respective courses.
The chased player may go in and out of the circle, the others allowing him to do so by raising their hands and the IT must follow exactly or forfeit the game.
Awareness about the identity of the currently chased caribou is very important for the implementation of the emergent behaviors, mentioned below.
gloss: Embossed or engraved.
pos: adj
examples: Or, taking another instance of a successful copy from the antique, it would be difficult to surpass in beauty of design and execution the wine or spirit bottle which is modelled after an old Flemish original, the effect of the chased design being still further enhanced by curved lines of ribbed glass, faintly touched with gold dus , in harmony with the silver-gilt top.
The chased lozenges have pairs of confronting green triangles set tip-to-tip, and with squares and diminutive triangles, all in purple and green porphyry, in the white marble interspaces.
Besides the plain sculpture imitating natural or conventionalising natural forms, there is the chased and engraved work, and the repoussé work, the production of which is similar in respect of method to that of Europe.
Derived words: unchased
Translations:
adjusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more adjusted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adjusted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
pos: adj
Translations:
presumed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more presumed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most presumed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
pos: adj
Translations:
ordering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: orderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Arrangement in a sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She gave the students' performances a rank ordering.
gloss: The placement of an order for goods or services.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ordering has to be complete at least six weeks before expected delivery to get our best prices.
gloss: The act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: partial ordering relation
strict ordering
subordering
time ordering
total ordering relation
well-ordering
well-quasi-ordering
Translations:
intending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: intendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which one intends something; intention.
pos: noun
examples: Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.
Translations:
tossing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: tossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
pos: noun
examples: Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft.
gloss: The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
pos: noun
examples: If it is necessary buddle the Tin over again , after it is sifted ( which is the best method for cleansing most sorts of Tin , for there may lie a rough waste , that will not come off by tossing and packing ) then buddle it over again
gloss: A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
pos: noun
gloss: Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
vulgar
examples: I can't get this tossing program to work.
Derived words: dwarf tossing
fox tossing
midget tossing
salad tossing
shoe tossing
Translations:
speeding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English speed
English -ing
English speeding
From speed + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: speedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Travelling very fast; moving at speed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.
The NTSB said on Tuesday that the 2022 North Las Vegas crash highlights the need for intelligent speed assistance technology and countermeasures including interlock program for repeat speeding offenders. National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting Tech in Cars, Road track, 15 Nov 2023
gloss: Under the influence of the drug speed; high on amphetamines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bob Dylan composed “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on our floor, and a speeding Edie Sedgwick was said to have set her room on fire while gluing on her thick false eyelashes by candlelight.
gloss: (Instance of) acceleration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings.
gloss: Driving faster than the legal speed limit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was fined $100 for speeding.
Derived words: speedingly
antispeeding
hydrospeeding
speeding ticket
Translations:
sighing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sighynge. By surface analysis, sigh + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: sighings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Accompanied by or uttered with a sigh.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The utterance of a sigh.
pos: noun
examples: the groanings and sighings of the dying man
Translations:
revolving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: revolvings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: moving around a central point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to an account or line of credit where balances and credit roll over from one billing cycle to the next, such as a credit card.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act of something that revolves or turns.
pos: noun
examples: The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.
gloss: The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)
pos: noun
Derived words: nonrevolving
revolving chair
revolving credit
revolving door
revolving loan
revolvingly
revolving nutation
unrevolving
Translations:
sorting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sortings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: verbal noun of sort:
pos: noun
gloss: verbal noun of sort:
pos: noun
gloss: verbal noun of sort:
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: biosorting
cytosorting
edge sorting
horizontal sorting
immunosorting
pancake sorting
protein sorting
ragsorting
serosorting
sorting office
sorting table
waste sorting
woolsorting
Translations:
flooding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: floodings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
gloss: Emotional overwhelm sometimes leading to a primal state of rage or panic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A form of therapy that treats a phobia by suddenly exposing the patient to the object of the phobia, instead of approaching it gradually.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antiflooding
flash flooding
sunny-day flooding
Translations:
battered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bat
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 batter
English -ed
English battered
From batter + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more battered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most battered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered.
pos: adj
examples: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
gloss: Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
pos: adj
examples: While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
There's also a wooden seat running the full length of the building - ideal for stopping to watch the wildlife on the seashore without getting battered by the weather!
gloss: Drunk; inebriated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Coated with batter (noun).
pos: adj
Derived words: nonbattered
overbattered
unbattered
Translations:
tapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: tappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it […]
She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings.
gloss: A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Competitive tappings of a common oil pool can lead only to waste and overproduction, unless rigidly regulated […]
gloss: A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The essential feature is that two adjacent transformer tappings are connected to the load simultaneously, each connection having a self-excited transductor in series; […].
Derived words: hypertapping
wheeltapping
Translations:
blended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a mixture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: blended tea
Translations:
bruised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of debruised.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: or, a cross between four squirrels sejant, gules . . . argent, a lion rampant, gules, bruised with a bendlet, or, Branch. […] On the summit is the quartered shield of Stewart, consisting of 23 coats of arms: […] 2, the same with an escotcheon of pretence, argent, a lion rampant gules, bruised by a staff ragulée in bend, or, Steward; […]
Translations:
excluding
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: to the exclusion of; not including
pos: prep
examples: Our lucky free draw winner will be treated to dinner, bed and breakfast, but the holiday must be taken before December, 1991 (subject to availability and excluding bank holidays).
Translations:
preocular
Part of speech: adj
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 ocular
English preocular
From pre- + ocular.
Inflected forms:
form: preoculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Just in front of the eyes.
pos: adj
examples: the preocular antennae of certain insects
gloss: One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
pos: noun
Translations:
futurity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English future
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English futurity
From future + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: futurities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The future.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Charles's was just an exciting consciousness; and he paced the streets, sometimes roused into disdain of the busy and thoughtless crowd around, but oftener lost in gloomy dreams of that futurity whose depths he was so soon to explore.
Now instead of reversing the levers I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch, into futurity.
gloss: The state of being in the future.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [I]ts meaning is often tentative and fluctuates, but most often it indicates a level of uncertainty or doubt regarding futurity (”likely but not certain“)[.]
gloss: A future event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [A] Scepticiſm, that's the only vvay to Science. But yet this is ſo difficult in the impartial and exact performance, that it may be vvell reckon'd among the bare Poſsibilities, vvhich never commence into a Futurity: It requiring ſuch a free, ſedate, and intent minde, as it may be no vvhere found but among the Platonical Idea's.
[O]n this perhaps, / This peradventure, infamous for lies, / As on a rock of adamant, we build / Our mountain hopes; spin out eternal schemes, / As we the fatal sisters could out-spin, / And, big with life's futurities, expire.
gloss: A race for two-year-old horses, nominated to run when still foals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: futuritial
Translations:
Broadway
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Flashy; showy.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Broadway connectors
Translations:
spitball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From spit + ball.
Compound parts: spit
ball
Inflected forms:
form: spitballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spitballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spitballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spitballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spitballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
pos: noun
gloss: A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
pos: noun
gloss: To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
pos: verb
gloss: To brainstorm ideas.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.
—Yes, Wheeler?
—Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters.
Derived words: spitballer
Translations:
blanking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
broadcasting
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
media
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
television
Inflected forms:
form: blankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something being blanked out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reduction of the brightness of the scanning beam to zero when it needs to be moved without updating the picture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thus during each blanking, a line pattern of charges is read into the horizontal register in parallel.
Derived words: autoblanking
Translations:
blanked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: damned; accursed (from the euphemistic printed form d—d)
pos: adj
tags: dated
euphemistic
not-comparable
gloss: In a state of blankness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She stared at Master Mannix with no expression. Somehow, her blanked face did not even flinch.
Translations:
nomological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nomology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English nomological
From nomology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or expressing general laws that lack logical necessity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
voted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more voted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most voted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been assigned or established by a vote.
pos: adj
Translations:
firefight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + fight.
Compound parts: fire
fight
Inflected forms:
form: firefights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: firefights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: firefighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: firefought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: firefought
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
pos: noun
examples: Military Specialization
Soldier
Soldiers are combat specialists ideal for the front lines of a firefight.
gloss: An intense argument.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
gloss: To engage in a firefight.
pos: verb
examples: His goal: a patch of high ground called Sperwan Ghar, where he and his men firefought a thousand Taliban to take the hill and call in the air strikes critical to turning the tide.
Translations:
filiform
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Latin filum (“thread”), + -iform.
Affixes: -iform
Inflected forms:
form: more filiform
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most filiform
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
pos: adj
gloss: Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
pos: adj
examples: Tiger beetles have filiform antennae.
Translations:
concerted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more concerted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concerted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination.
pos: adj
examples: Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population.
gloss: Having separate parts for voices and instruments.
pos: adj
Derived words: concertedly
concertedness
nonconcerted
preconcerted
unconcerted
Translations:
gunstock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + stock.
Compound parts: gun
stock
Inflected forms:
form: gunstocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gun stock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The handle of a handgun.
pos: noun
gloss: The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
pos: noun
Synonyms: stock
Derived words: bump stock
gunstocker
gunstock war club
Translations:
noh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 能 (nō), from Middle Chinese 能 (nong, “talent, ability”).
Inflected forms:
form: nō
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of classical Japanese music drama.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lume
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for luminous or luminescent.
Inflected forms:
form: lumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A luminescent paint used to make a timepiece's dial readable in the dark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Within the realm of vintage watch restoration there are few sub-specialties as controversial as dial lume.
LumiNova and Super-LumiNova fall into the category of photoluminescent lumes.
Translations:
cere
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From Middle English sere, from Old French cire, from Latin cēra (“wax, cere”), or via Latin cērō (“to smear or coat with wax”).
Inflected forms:
form: ceres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ceres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.
pos: noun
examples: The cere is the fleshy spot just above the beak where the nostrils, or nares, are located. In some species, like the parakeet, the cere is prominent; in others, the cere is covered by feathers. Both the cere and the nares should be clean[…]
gloss: To wax; to cover or close with wax.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a strong twisted Thread cered
Translations:
Tonk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of Tonkinese.
Inflected forms:
form: Tonks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Tonkinese cat.
pos: noun
Translations:
apprenticeship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apprentice
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English apprenticeship
From apprentice + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: apprenticeships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
pos: noun
gloss: The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
pos: noun
examples: There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce.
Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.
Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
Derived words: pre-apprenticeship
Translations:
sixpence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From six + pence.
Compound parts: six
pence
Inflected forms:
form: sixpences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
pos: noun
tags: British
Irish
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Finest apples, sixpence each.
When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
gloss: A former British or Irish coin worth six pennies, first minted in 1551.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
I remember playing card games with my grandfather. Games of memory, not of skill. If I won, he gave me sixpence; if he won, he didn't. We would play until I was bored, or until he ran out of sixpences.
Synonyms: sixpenny bit
tanner
lord
tester
tizzy
hog
pig
sow's baby
Related words: twopence
tuppence
threepence
fourpence
fivepence
eightpence
tenpence
Derived words: look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence
look as if one has lost a shilling and found sixpence
mill-sixpence
on a sixpence
upon a sixpence
Translations:
meline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin mēlīnus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the qualities of or relating to a badger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A meline musteloid carnivorous mammal, usually burrowing, nocturnal, and having a flat stout body, short legs with long-clawed toes, and a long snout.
Translations:
ennoble
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ennoblen, from Old French ennoblir. Equivalent to en- + noble.
Base: noble
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: ennobles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ennobling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ennobled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ennobled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
pos: verb
examples: We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.
There was no shortage of dropped jaws when news came through about the appointment of the recently ennobled Lord Peter Hendy as rail minister. This was certainly a left-field move, taking everyone (perhaps even himself) by surprise.
gloss: To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
pos: verb
gloss: To inarch.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: disennoble
ennobled
ennoblement
ennobler
ennobling
Translations:
ingenuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu.
Inflected forms:
form: more ingenuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ingenuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Naive and trusting.
pos: adj
gloss: Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
pos: adj
examples: "Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?"
"Of course not."
"On your word of honour?"
I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
gloss: Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
pos: adj
examples: The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.
[…] Semitic agitation by stating 'the truth' in terms of facts and figures, the practice of self-criticism represented a well-intended but ingenuous effort to defend Jewry against anti-Semitism.
There was nothing more I dared say. My ingenuous attempts to lie my way out of trouble had only served to get me in deeper and deeper.
gloss: Unable to mask one's feelings.
pos: adj
gloss: Straightforward, candid, open, frank.
pos: adj
examples: [H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.
Antonyms: disingenuous
Related words: ingenue
ingénue
ingenu
ingénu
Derived words: ingenuously
ingenuousness
uningenuous
Translations:
grubby
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grub
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English grubby
From grub + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: grubbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grubbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
pos: adj
examples: He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
gloss: Disreputable, sordid.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I have in mind, in particular, the claim that has echoed through the liberal side of coronavirus-era debates — that the key to sound leadership in a pandemic is just to follow the science, to trust science and scientists, to do what experts suggest instead of letting mere grubby politics determine your response.
gloss: Having grubs in it.
pos: adj
examples: The United States Department of Agriculture states that grubs cost the livestock industry from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 each year. The average devaluation on grubby cattle is from 25 cents to one dollar per cwt.
Derived words: grubbily
grubbiness
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: simple y vulgar
referring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: referrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: refering
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody or something is referred; a reference.
pos: noun
Translations:
irresponsible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin ir-
English ir-
English responsible
English irresponsible
From ir- + responsible.
Inflected forms:
form: more irresponsible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irresponsible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: irresponsibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not responsible; exempt from legal responsibility, not to be held accountable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: They left the crown what, in the eye and estimation of law, it had ever been, perfectly irresponsible.
gloss: Lacking a sense of responsibility; performed or acting as though without responsibility; negligent.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone who is not responsible.
pos: noun
Derived words: irresponsibilism
irresponsibilist
irresponsibility
irresponsibleness
irresponsibly
Translations:
stage-coach
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stage + coach, reflecting the fact that relay of horses was a typical aspect of the operation of the service.
Compound parts: stage
coach
Inflected forms:
form: stage-coaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stagecoach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stage coach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stage-coaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stage-coaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stage-coached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stage-coached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stagecoach
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: stage coach
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse-drawn coach that runs routinely between two destinations to transport passengers and mail.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Meronym: thoroughbrace
gloss: To travel by stage-coach.
pos: verb
Translations:
ranged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ranged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ranged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: whose range can be adjusted
pos: adj
Translations:
swaddle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swathlen (“to bind; swaddle”), from Middle English swathel, swethel, from Old English swaþul, swæþel, sweþel, sweoþol (“swaddling cloth”), equivalent to swathe (“to wrap with fabric”) + -le (agent/instrumental suffix), the word then underwent th-stopping (its voiced th became a d). Cognate with Middle Dutch swadel (“swaddling; bandage”), Old High German swedili (“poultice”), Old English sweþian, besweþian (“to wrap; swaddle”).
Base: swathe
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: swaddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swaddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swaddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swaddled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: swaddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
pos: verb
gloss: To beat; cudgel.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
gloss: Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.
pos: noun
examples: They put me in bed in all my swaddles.
The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.
Related words: swaddling
Derived words: beswaddle
swaddler
unswaddle
Translations:
swaddling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swaþelynge; equivalent to swaddle + -ing.
Base: swaddle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: swaddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of wrapping infants in clothing that restricts movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Clothing of this kind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: swaddling clothes
swaddling hypothesis
Translations:
lithia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “a stone”), apparently because it is found only in minerals; discovered 1817 by Johan August Arfwedson.
Inflected forms:
form: lithias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lithium oxide, Li₂O, used in the manufacture of ceramics and glass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1839, Lithium, entry in The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 14, page 43,
These substances contain from about five to nearly ten per cent. of lithia in combination with silica, from which it is best separated by the following process of Berzelius: […] .
This can be an acute problem with certain glass-ceramics because of the use of large quantities of lithia, in particular, which readily attack the refractories.
The major source of lithia is lepidolite, the most widespread of the lithia-containing minerals with deposits in the United States, Canada, Rhodesia, South Africa, India, China, Russia, Japan and Germany.
Translations:
mistreat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English treat
English mistreat
From mis- + treat.
Inflected forms:
form: mistreats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mistreating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mistreated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mistreated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To administer an incorrect treatment to a patient.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The syphilis that Catapano and other AIDS-syphilis theorists are especially concerned about may develop when repeated treponeme infections are not treated, or, more commonly, are 'mistreated with penicillin.
Related words: mistreatment
maltreat
Derived words: mistreater
Translations:
t-barb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the shape of its body, which may be seen as resembling either the letter T or a spanner/wrench. Compare its Finnish and Swedish names, ristibarbi and korsbarb, literally “cross barb”, referring to its crucifix-like (thus T-like) form.
Inflected forms:
form: t-barbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of spanner barb.
pos: noun
Translations:
shyt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Filter-avoidance spelling of shit.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
neologism
uncountable
examples: how it feels waiting for fine shyt to respond
anneyonghaseyo fine shyt❤️
im fine shyt but like keep treating me like chopped shyt.
Translations:
hydronic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hydro- + -onic.
Base: hydro
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being or relating to a heating system that involves circulating hot water or steam.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mountaineering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mountain
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English mountaineer
English -ing
English mountaineering
From mountaineer + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: mountaineerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sport of climbing mountains.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
electrolytic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English electrolyte
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English electrolytic
From electrolyte + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: electrolytics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to electrolysis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: However, approaching energisation, electrolytic corrosion was discovered between the copper contact wire and aluminium beams in the tunnel. The corrosion was caused by the dissimilar metals. An aluminium contact wire system which prevents electrolytic corrosion was subsequently developed, tested and adopted within a year, and replaced the earlier copper installation.
gloss: Relating to electrolytes
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A battery, capacitor or other similar device
pos: noun
Derived words: electrolytical
electrolytically
electrolytic capacitor
hydroelectrolytic
nonelectrolytic
photoelectrolytic
polyelectrolytic
Translations:
rechargeable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English recharge
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 rechargeable
From recharge + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: rechargable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rechargeables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rechargable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be recharged, especially of a battery that can be recharged from mains electricity via a charger.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A device that may be recharged
pos: noun
Translations:
orotate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English orotic acid
English -ate
English orotate
From orotic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: orotates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of orotic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
pneumonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin pneumonicus and its etymon, the Ancient Greek πνευμονικός (pneumonikós).
Inflected forms:
form: pneumonick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: pneumonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pneumonick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the lungs; pulmonary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to pneumonia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who has pneumonia.
pos: noun
gloss: A medicine to treat lung disease.
pos: noun
Derived words: bronchopneumonic
nonpneumonic
pleuropneumonic
pneumonic device
pneumonic plague
postpneumonic
Translations:
studiedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English studied
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English studiedly
From studied + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more studiedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most studiedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: thoughtfully, knowledgeably, deliberately; with premeditation
pos: adv
examples: McCormack's tone when he answered was studiedly mild.
Translations:
fulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of fullness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the fulness of his belief that such a thing must be, he mentioned its probability to his wife, and the first time of the subject’s occurring to her again, happening to be when Fanny was present, she calmly observed to her, “So, Fanny, you are going to leave us, and live with my sister. How shall you like it?”
On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]
[…] yet in its fulness rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional […]
Translations:
frilly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frill
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English frilly
From frill + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: frillier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frilliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having frills; frilled.
pos: adj
examples: In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.
Ms. Grant was dressed up as Little Bo Peep and had on a huge, frilly skirt that was held out with a hoop at the bottom.
The one she showed me has this frilly white skirt with blue bows on it.
gloss: Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.
pos: adj
Derived words: foofy
frillily
frilliness
frilly lizard
nonfrilly
unfrilly
Translations:
visualization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English visualize
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 visualization
From visualize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: visualizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: visualisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of visualizing, or something visualized.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A visual representation of data.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: data visualization
risk visualization
Translations: