yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
admirably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English admirable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English admirably
From admirable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more admirably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most admirably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way worthy of admiration.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonym: laudably
He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.
Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.
...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.
gloss: To an admirable degree.
pos: adv
examples: They have made admirably great improvements in quality.
Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.
Related words: admire
admiringly
Translations:
admiralty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French amirauté, for an older amiralté (“office of admiral”), from Late Latin admīrālitās. See admiral. Analyzable as admiral + -ty.
Base: admiral
Affixes: -ty
Inflected forms:
form: admiralties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: admiralty law
Derived words: Admiralties
Admiralty
admiralty brass
Admiralty Inlet
Admiralty Island
Admiralty Islands
droit of admiralty
price of admiralty
vice-admiralty
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: merioikeus
lang: Georgian
word: საზღვაო სასამართლო
roman: sazɣvao sasamartlo
lang: Georgian
word: საადმირალო სასამართლო
roman: saadmiralo sasamartlo
lang: Georgian
word: საზღვაო საქმეების იურისდიქცია
roman: sazɣvao sakmeebis iurisdikcia
lang: Indonesian
word: kelaksamanaan
admiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English admiracion, borrowed from Middle French admiration, or directly from Latin admīrātiō, from prefix ad- (“to, towards”) + mīrō (“to look at”) + -ātiō. Compare the verb admire, and US dialectal terms miration and mirate.
Inflected forms:
form: admirations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A positive emotion combining wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful; a feeling of respect for another's skills or attributes, as one might look on a hero or role model.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: admiration of a war hero
They looked at the landscape in admiration.
For in this Instance, Life most exactly resembles the Stage, since it is often the same Person who represents the Villain and the Heroe; and he who engages your Admiration To-day, will probably attract your Contempt To-Morrow.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
You only had my interest before. Now you have my admiration.
Dr. Veraswami had a passionate admiration for the English, which a thousand snubs from Englishmen had not shaken.
[I]n the towns, the storekeepers hated them because they had no money to spend. There is no shorter path to a storekeeper’s contempt, and all his admirations are exactly opposite. The town men, little bankers, hated Okies because there was nothing to gain from them.
Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
gloss: Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Lear. Your name, fair gentlewoman?
Goneril. This admiration, sir, is much o’ th’ savour
Of other your new pranks.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
[…] Admiration seized
All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend,
Wondering;
gloss: Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Now, good Lafeu,
Bring in the admiration; that we with thee
May spend our wonder too, or take off thine
By wondering how thou took’st it.
Derived words: admirational
mark of admiration
mutual admiration society
note of admiration
self-admiration
Translations:
admire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English admyren, borrowed from Middle French admirer, from Latin admīror, from ad + mīror (“wonder at”).
Inflected forms:
form: admires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: admiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: admired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: admired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].
examples rather to be admired than imitated
gloss: To regard with wonder and delight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords,
And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs,
When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe
Theſe are the men that al the world admires,
gloss: To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To estimate or value highly; to hold in high esteem.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to admire a person of high moral worth
to admire a landscape
He'd always been (very) much admired by his colleagues.
I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired. That I wish that I would just die or get fired.
gloss: To be enthusiastic about (doing something); to want or like (to do something). (Sometimes followed by to.)
pos: verb
tags: US
dialectal
rare
examples: I'm not sayin' she's touched the Devil, now, but I'd admire to know what books she reads and why she hides them — she'll not answer me, y' see.
And I'd admire seeing this creek become a sort of stopping place for geese of one sort and another.
“I hope you do. I'd admire seeing a lot of you.” They made camp down at the creek. Will spread her blanket not too far from his. “Well, aren't you a lady's man.” “Why do you say that?”
Related words: admirably
admiratively
mirate
miration
mirative
mirativity
Derived words: admirable
admirate
admiration
admirative
admiredly
admiree
admirer
readmire
unadmired
Translations:
admiring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more admiring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most admiring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: admirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Feeling or showing admiration.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:admiring.
gloss: admiration
pos: noun
examples: What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross […]
We must keep up a constant worship of God in our families, and in our closets; we must be frequent in holy adorings and admirings of God.
Translations:
admirer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English admire
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 admirer
From admire + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: admirers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who admires.
pos: noun
examples: Deven is an enthusiastic admirer of The Beatles.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:admirer.
gloss: One who is romantically attracted to someone.
pos: noun
examples: Although he has a number of admirers, he prefers to remain single.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:admirer.
Derived words: nonadmirer
secret admirer
Translations:
admission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.
Inflected forms:
form: admissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of admitting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
gloss: Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I request admission for two adults.
UK cinema admissions are set to hit their lowest level since records began almost a century ago, with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic wiping almost £1bn from box office sales.
gloss: The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.
Synonyms: admittance
concession
acknowledgment
concurrence
allowance
Derived words: legacy admission
nonadmission
open admission
postadmission
preadmission
readmission
request for admission
Translations:
admitted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more admitted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most admitted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having received admittance
pos: adj
Translations:
admitting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: admittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of admission; an allowing to enter.
pos: noun
examples: Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
Translations:
ado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a wantwit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
Translations:
mezzo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: (music): Clipping of mezzo-soprano
Inflected forms:
form: mezzos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: mezzo-soprano
pos: noun
examples: Emily Golden, a mezzo who was adept in an especially wide range of roles;
gloss: At a middle level or scale, between micro and macro.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: mezzo social work
Translations:
indefinite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin indēfīnītus.
Morphologically in- + definite.
Base: definite
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more indefinite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indefinite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indefinites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
pos: adj
examples: Your account will be suspended for an indefinite period of time.
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects.
gloss: Vague or unclear.
pos: adj
examples: She gave an indefinite answer which nobody really understood.
gloss: Undecided or uncertain.
pos: adj
examples: I'm still indefinite about what I'm going to study at college.
gloss: Being an integral without specified limits.
pos: adj
examples: Don't forget to m the +C when calculating indefinite integrals.
gloss: Designating an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
pos: adj
examples: the indefinite article
gloss: A word or phrase that designates an unspecified or unidentified person or thing or group of persons or things.
pos: noun
Synonyms: vague
Related words: indeterminate
Derived words: indef
indeffed
indefinite adjective
indefinite article
indefinite call sign
indefinite integral
indefinitely
indefiniteness
indefinite pronoun
indefinite verb
indefinity
present indefinite
Translations:
definite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin dēfīnītus, past participle of dēfīniō, whence also English define.
Inflected forms:
form: more definite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most definite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: definites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having distinct limits.
pos: adj
examples: definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval
[…] elements combine in definite proportions […]
gloss: Free from any doubt.
pos: adj
examples: definite knowledge
gloss: Determined; resolved; decided.
pos: adj
examples: […] idiots in this case of favour would
Be wisely definite
gloss: Designating an identified or immediately identifiable person or thing, or group of persons or things
pos: adj
examples: the definite article
gloss: A word or phrase that designates a specified or identified person or entity.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that is defined or determined.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: finite
definite
limited
Antonyms: indefinite
nebulous
vague
Related words: define
definitive
indefinite
certain
distinct
Derived words: definite article
definite clause
definite integral
definitely
definite maybe
definiteness
definite verb
definitize
definitude
nondefinite
positive-definite
quasidefinite
semidefinite
undefinite
Translations:
tripod
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
herpetology
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
zoology
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.
Base: tri
Inflected forms:
form: tripods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tripods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tripoding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tripoded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tripoded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A three-legged stand,mount or organism
pos: noun
examples: Recent cell phones offer tripod attachments to take steady photographs.
gloss: A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
pos: noun
gloss: A man with macrophallism.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I tripodded after my 6-mile run.
gloss: Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: bipod
monopod
trivet
Derived words: tripod grasp
tripodic
Translations:
playwright
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + wright (“builder, craftsman”).
Compound parts: play
wright
Inflected forms:
form: playwrights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
pos: noun
Translations:
heterosexual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From hetero- + -sexual. Earliest citation from 1892, in C.G. Craddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis.
Affixes: hetero-
-sexual
Inflected forms:
form: more heterosexual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heterosexual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heterosexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
pos: adj
examples: Thai charter court rules that only heterosexual marriages are constitutional: Same-sex marriage in Thailand will have to wait, as the Constitutional Court ruled unanimously today (Wednesday) that Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code, defining marriage as being a union between a man and a woman, is constitutional.
gloss: Between two people of different sex.
pos: adj
examples: Early Adolescence. This is the high school period between 14 and 17 years of age. This is a confusing and stressful period for the teenager, because sexual impulses are now quite strong in spite of societal sanctions against heterosexual activity.
On the average, the [bisexual] women’s first heterosexual attraction and experience (at 11.6 and 14.7 years) occurred before their first homosexual attraction and experience (at 16.9 and 21.4 years).
Attempts at eliminating bias against LGBTQ people through education, academically and clinically, often lead to inclusion practices that are “added-on”, i.e., a family therapy course discusses same-sex couples as an addendum lecture at the end of the course, instead of infusing the material throughout the course. Green and Mitchell (2008) ask their readers to imagine authoring an article entitled “Therapy with Heterosexual Couples.”
Mankeeping describes the emotional labor women end up doing in heterosexual relationships. It goes beyond remembering birthdays or coordinating social plans. It means being your partner’s one-man support system.
gloss: Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.
pos: noun
examples: The laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation apply to all people, gay and straight alike. If an antistraight boss starts firing heterosexuals, they're protected.
Synonyms: heterosexual
straggot
breeder
Antonyms: homosexual
Related words: heterosocial
heteroerotic
heterogenital
heterosexual person
Derived words: anti-heterosexual
antiheterosexual
cisheterosexual
heterosexualism
heterosexualist
heterosexuality
heterosexualization
heterosexualize
heterosexually
heterosexualness
metrosexual
monoheterosexual
non-heterosexual
nonheterosexual
pseudoheterosexual
Translations:
nonna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian nonnabor.
English nonna
Borrowed from Italian nonna. Doublet of nun.
Inflected forms:
form: nonnas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandmother, especially one with Italian ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas, or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy.
Translations:
nonno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nana-der.?
Late Latin nonnus
Italian nonnobor.
English nonno
Borrowed from Italian nonno.
Inflected forms:
form: nonnos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandfather, especially one with Italian ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
quattrocento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian quattrocento (“four hundred”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
halve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).
Inflected forms:
form: halves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: halving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: halved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: halved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce to half the original amount.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...].
The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.
gloss: To divide into two halves.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make up half of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
gloss: To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play.
All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match.
Synonyms: dimidiate
Derived words: a problem shared is a problem halved
a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved
a trouble shared is a trouble halved
cross-halving joint
halvable
halve it
Translations:
adorn
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Compound parts: ad-
ōrnō
Inflected forms:
form: adorns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adorning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adorned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adorned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
pos: verb
examples: a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
a character adorned with every Christian grace
A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place; / Truth from his lips prevailed with double ſway, / And fools, who came to ſcoff, remained to pray.
Durable, water-resistant and easy to clean, tiles have adorned Persian mosques, Moorish palaces and the parlors of Dutch burgers.
Translations:
adrift
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
English drift
English adrift
From a- + drift.
Inflected forms:
form: more adrift
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adrift
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more adrift
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adrift
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Floating at random.
pos: adj
examples: So on the sea she shall be set adrift.
gloss: Absent from his watch.
pos: adj
gloss: Behind one's opponents, or below a required threshold in terms of score, number or position.
pos: adj
tags: UK
often
with-of
examples: The team were six points adrift of their rivals.
The Czech Republic in 1994-95, with a pegged nominal exchange rate and nominal deposit rates of 7 percent, was several percentage points adrift of the interest parity condition.
He did well, coming second, but Toyota and Mitsubishi were now neck-and-neck, with the Subaru team 38 points adrift of the leaders.
Boro were left needing snookers after a toothless goalless draw with Dead Men Walking Doncaster left them well adrift and fading in the chase for a Championship play-off place.
Brendan Rodgers's team moved into the top 10 in the Premier League table, but they are nine points adrift of West Ham in fourth place, while Arsenal are sixth.
Treasury could also ask why High Speed 2's finances are so adrift from what was promised. The answers will make for difficult DfT reading, because it can't escape the fact that it has been the government department overseeing rail spending for the past 20 years.
gloss: In a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves.
pos: adv
examples: things wore on till eight or nine o'clock, every thing getting adrift and being smashed, and every one on board jamming themselves up in corners or holding on to beams to prevent their going adrift likewise
Translations:
advanced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Vulgar Latin ab
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Vulgar Latin ante
Vulgar Latin ab ante
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *abanteāre
Old French avancierbor.
Middle English avauncen
English advance
English -ed
English advanced
From advance + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more advanced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: further advanced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther advanced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most advanced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthest advanced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest advanced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At or close to the state of the art.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized.
pos: adj
examples: The option can be found under advanced settings.
I'm taking a course in advanced knitting techniques.
gloss: Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
pos: adj
examples: a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles
The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
gloss: In a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage.
pos: adj
examples: This is an advanced prototype, it already has most of the features the final product will have.
This book is suitable for advanced learners of English.
gloss: Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
pos: adj
gloss: Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
Synonyms: progressive
professional
sophisticated
Related words: cutting edge
groundbreaking
Derived words: advanced age
advanced cryptic
advanced degree
advanced green
advanced higher
advancedly
advanced meat recovery
advancedness
advanced pawn
advanced refreshment
advanced stop line
advanced time
advanced tongue root
advanced traffic management
advanced train control system
nonadvanced
superadvanced
unadvanced
Translations:
advancing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: advancings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
pos: noun
examples: […] who feels, not as even the kindest and the holiest friend on earth can feel towards our patient endurance, our shortcomings, or our slow advancings […]
Translations:
advancement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English avancement, Old French avancement. See advance. Morphologically advance + -ment.
Base: advance
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: advancements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: advancemente
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: advauncement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: advauncemente
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of advancing; promotion to a higher place or dignity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the advancement of learning
Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.
gloss: The state of being advanced
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: How advanced something is
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: advancement campout
institutional advancement
nonadvancement
readvancement
self-advancement
unadvancement
Translations:
advent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
Inflected forms:
form: advents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: advents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adventing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: advented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: advented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
pos: noun
examples: Death's dreadful advent
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side...
Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.
gloss: To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
pos: verb
examples: 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?
The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.
Translations:
adventurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adventure
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 adventurer
From adventure + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: adventurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who enjoys adventures.
pos: noun
examples: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
gloss: A person who seeks a fortune in new and possibly dangerous enterprises.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier of fortune, a speculator.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who tries to advance their social position by somewhat devious means.
pos: noun
gloss: A player of adventure games or text adventures.
pos: noun
examples: Meanwhile, the ranks of adventurers grow, be they manic puzzle-solvers or people like me, who like to look under the Robners' beds just for the hell of it.
It's a challenging game for the inexperienced adventurer, and should even give the hardened pros a bit of a run for their money.
Related words: adventuress
Derived words: adventureress
adventurership
coadventurer
Translations:
adventuress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From adventure (verb) + -ess, after adventurer. Compare earlier governess, sorceress, etc.
Base: adventure#Verb
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: adventuresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adventureress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
pos: noun
examples: The ingenious adventuress, who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems.
gloss: A female varietist.
pos: noun
examples: And even an iconic movie star like Amitabh Bachchan is not embarrassed to state he approves of actress Aishwarya because she is "homely and domesticated" (read: not a sexual adventuress).
Translations:
adventurous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more adventurous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adventurous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
pos: adj
examples: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
gloss: Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
pos: adj
examples: take an adventurous viewpoint
North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA.
Antonyms: shy
nervous
timid
unadventurous
safe
Related words: adventure
adventurer
adventuresome
adventurism
Derived words: adventurously
adventurousness
adventurous sport
inadventurous
nonadventurous
overadventurous
Translations:
advertise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English advertisen, from Anglo-Norman advertir (“to inform”), avertir, Middle French advertir, avertir (“to warn, give notice to”), with the French -iss- infix assimilated to -ise, -ize and probably influenced by the noun advertisement. Compare also advert.
Inflected forms:
form: advertises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: advertising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: advertised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: advertised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: advertize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.
gloss: To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows.
gloss: To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence.
[T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]
[…] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […]
gloss: In gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
pos: verb
examples: The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.
Synonyms: publish
promote
publicise
sell
Derived words: ad
advert
advertisable
advertisee
advertisement
advertiser
advertisey
advertising
it pays to advertise
nonadvertised
outadvertise
overadvertise
preadvertise
readvertise
self-advertise
spamvertise
unadvertised
underadvertisedadvertisable
Translations:
advertising
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English advertise
English -ing
English advertising
From advertise + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: advertisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Communication whose purpose is to influence potential customers about products and services.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating libraries are far more useful than any advertising columns.
[...] the women were presumably going shopping at the department stores growing up along Oxford Street, and the Central's nearness to these stores would make the advertising space in its stations the most expensive on the Underground.
But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
This, in many ways, was the crux of the Generation X conundrum—how (for example) was it possible for a person to reject the illusion of advertising if their only concept of authenticity had been constructed by advertising?
gloss: The industry or profession made up of such communications.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: ad
advert
advertise
advertisement
Derived words: advertecture
advertising agency
advertisingese
advertising mail
antiadvertising
bait advertising
catvertising
counteradvertising
dark advertising
deceptive advertising
experiential advertising
false advertising
femvertising
hunkvertising
hyperadvertising
institutional advertising
malvertising
mapvertising
native advertising
nonadvertising
oddvertising
shockvertising
sky advertising
spamvertising
subvertising
surreptitious advertising
surrogate advertising
two-price advertising
unadvertising
webvertising
Translations:
advisability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English advisable
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English advisability
From advisable + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: advisabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being advisable or prudent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Viggo assumed a cheery offhand manner, but I could see that he was worried, doubtful as to the advisability of leaving me here alone.
gloss: An instance of advisability; a consideration in determining overall advisability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Antonyms: inadvisability
Related words: advisedness
Translations:
advised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more advised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most advised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Considered or thought out; resulting from deliberation.
pos: adj
gloss: Informed, appraised or made aware.
pos: adj
Derived words: advisedly
advisedness
inadvised
misadvised
preadvised
unadvised
Translations:
admittance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From admit + -ance. Sense 5 was coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1887.
Base: admit
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: admittances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: admittaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of admitting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Permission to enter, the power or right of entrance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Actual entrance, reception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The reciprocal of impedance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: admission
access
entrance
initiation
Derived words: acoustic admittance
air admittance vent
coadmittance
immittance
preadmittance
readmittance
transadmittance
Translations:
advocated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been argued in favor of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Afar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Afar qafárbor.
English Afar
Borrowed from Afar qafár.
Inflected forms:
form: Afars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Afar
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Qafar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the people who speak this language and reside in these regions.
pos: noun
examples: [...] ethnic groups, the Afars. The majority of the Somali-speaking Issas, the other main group, do support President Hassan Gouled and his RPP, though the Prime Minister, Barkat Gourad is an Afar himself.
Shortly thereafter he broke with Aref and supported independence. Aref was an Afar, and Gouled came from the Issa ethnic group, which for years had been at odds with the Afars.
Translations:
affable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French affable, from Latin affābilis, from affor (“to address”), from ad + for (“to speak, to talk”). See fable. By surface analysis, af- + fable.
Inflected forms:
form: more affable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; friendly, courteous, sociable.
pos: adj
examples: Furthermore, I may say, that the Sultan was always most affable to me in my interviews with him, even when I had to discuss some missionary questions. In fact, I never saw any traces of the difficulties which Mr. Terrell reported.
[…] He stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backsof the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.
gloss: Mild; benign.
pos: adj
examples: During more affable weather, the four friends congregate outside, sometimes leaning their hickory chairs against a "catapa" tree[…]
Antonyms: inaffable
unaffable
Related words: fable
fabulous
fame
fandango
fatal
fate
fatuous
fay
ineffable
infamous
infamy
infant
infantile
infantry
nefarious
preface
Derived words: affability
affableness
affably
Translations:
affably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English affable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English affably
From affable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more affably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most affably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an affable manner
pos: adv
examples: This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling—our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.
Translations: