yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
jong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tibetan རྫོང (rdzong, “fortress, castle; province, district”).
Inflected forms:
form: jongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dzong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Tibetan building which makes up a prefecture; typically a monastery or fortress.
pos: noun
examples: The rock on which the jong stands must at one time have been lapped by the waters of the lake, but at the present time the Yam-dok tso has retreated so far, that a quashy stretch of vivid green quagmire spreads between the road and the shore.
When they had gone I went for a solitary ride, rounding the Jong and striking out into the country through a subsidiary village.
However, the Tibetans refused to negotiate – except on the British side of the frontier – and withdrew into their fortress, or jong.
The origin of the Tibetan dzong is not known although there is evidence of Chinese and Mongol influences in the style of their military architecture.
Translations:
druk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: druks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of spherical Czech glass bead used in crafting.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: They come in such varied styles and colors, you can fashion anything, from beaded eggs tightly cocooned in strands of glittering rocailles to snowflakes that artfully blend tiny tri-cut beads with bugle beads and druks.
Translations:
exemption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French exemption, from Latin exemptiō, from eximō, equivalent to exempt + -ion.
Base: exempt
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: exemptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of exempting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being exempt; immunity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The legislation also tightens the share of unused exemptions states can carry over from year to year. […] Lots of people who are in compliance with the new rules – either because they already work or meet exemption criteria – could lose their assistance because of red tape, said Dottie Rosenbaum, the center’s director of federal SNAP policy.
gloss: A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Freedom from a defect or weakness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: dispensation
free pass
get out of jail free card
immunity
Derived words: exemptional
nonexemption
tax exemption
therapeutic use exemption
Translations:
noot
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: nothing
pos: pron
tags: Geordie
Translations:
epidural
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Hellenic *epí
Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)der.
English epi-
English dura
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dural
English epidural
From epi- + dural.
Inflected forms:
form: more epidural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most epidural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: epidurals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated on or outside the dura mater.
pos: adj
tags: relational
gloss: Of or pertaining to the space immediately outside the dura mater.
pos: adj
tags: relational
examples: Epidural anesthesia is commonly used for pain relief during childbirth.
gloss: An injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth.
pos: noun
examples: For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream. Until the baby went back to back and they very nicely pointed out that the epidural doesn’t deal with that pain.
During my third birth, the epidural provided a welcome numbing sensation on one side of my abdomen, but I still had sharp, intense pain on the other. […] I’ve talked to dozens of mom friends over the years. Most say their epidural was like a magic wand that eliminated their pain in minutes. Some recalled napping or watching a movie through most of labor.
Derived words: epidurally
epiduro-
nonepidural
postepidural
Translations:
comitatus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin comitatus, from comes (“companion”). Doublet of county, from Anglo-Norman/Old French.
Inflected forms:
form: comitatuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comitati
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comitatus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A county, shire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: posse comitatus
Translations:
annulment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
law
Etymology: Recorded since the 15th century (sense destruction); from Middle English anullement, partly from annullen (from Middle French annuller, from Latin annūllāre, from ad (“to”) + nūllus (“not any, nothing”) + verbal ending -āre) + -ment (“means to”) (from Latin -mentum) and partly from Middle French annullement. By surface analysis, annul + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: annulments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of annulling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: marriage annulment
grant an annulment
petition for annulment
The marriage was declared void by an official annulment.
They sought an annulment instead of a divorce.
gloss: The state of having been annulled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A legal (notably judicial) declaration that a marriage is invalid; the procedure leading to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Total destruction.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Derived words: disannulment
nonannulment
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 宣告無效 /宣告无效
roman: xuāngào wúxiào
lang: Dutch
word: ontbinding
lang: Dutch
word: nietigverklaring (van een huwelijk)
lang: Finnish
word: avioliiton mitätöinti
lang: French
word: annulation
lang: German
word: Nichtigerklärung
lang: Hungarian
word: felbontás
lang: Hungarian
word: érvénytelenítés
lang: Portuguese
word: anulação
lang: Spanish
word: anulación
contumely
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French contumelie, from Latin contumēlia (“insult”), perhaps from com- + tumeō (“swell”).
Inflected forms:
form: contumelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, / The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely, [...]
Think of the insults, wrongs, and contumelies, / Ye bear from your proud lords—that your hard toil / Manures their fertile fields—you plow the earth, / You sow the corn, you reap the ripen'd harvest,— / They riot on the produce!— [...]
She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.
Every one who has ever tried to set the affairs of his neighbors straight for them must be aware that those who pursue this course lay themselves open not only to ingratitude, but to positive contumely.
Even the comfort of the bottle might conceivably fail him in this supreme crisis. At such an age nothing but a halter could cure the pangs of an unquenchable passion. And, besides, there was the wild exasperation aroused by the unjust aspersions and the contumely of the house, with the maddening impossibility to account for that mysterious thrashing, added to these simple and bitter sorrows.
What scorn, what contumely, would be his!
If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.
ignoring the outcry, Harvey Warrender continued heatedly, 'If this government had been guilty of a breach of law, we would deserve the contumely of the House.'
I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood.
Translations:
economically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
manner
religion
theology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English economic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English economical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English economically
From economical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more economically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most economically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: œconomically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: In an economical manner; not wastefully; not extravagantly.
pos: adv
gloss: From the perspective of economics or an economy.
pos: adv
examples: Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
More than 40% of Dominicans are economically vulnerable and are at risk of falling into poverty due to climate-related impacts and economic crises, according to the World Bank.
gloss: According to divine economy.
pos: adv
Derived words: agroeconomically
economically motivated adulteration
politicoeconomically
socioeconomically
Translations:
autobiographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From autobiography + -ical or auto- + biographical.
Base: autobiography
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more autobiographical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autobiographical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: autobiographic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
pos: adj
examples: The 2006 graphic novel, an autobiographical work about Bechdel coming to terms with her homosexuality as her funeral-director father remains closeted, was selected as a summer reading book for the Duke Class of 2019.
Translations:
economical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English economic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English economical
From economic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more economical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most economical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: economicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: œconomicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: œconomical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Careful with money so as not to spend too much; prudent; thrifty.
pos: adj
examples: He was an economical person by nature.
gloss: Saving money or resources.
pos: adj
examples: The new, eco-friendly bicycle was an economical purchase.
Regular freight trains between Abergavenny and Merthyr were withdrawn on November 24, 1954, because it was found both practicable and more economical to send this traffic by less severely-graded routes.
The whole [resignalling] scheme has proved more economical than the construction of a new Clyde bridge.
gloss: Relating to economy in any other sense.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: In economical science, value and the power of producing value are taken into consideration.
By Use, then, in the sense given it by the Say-Hermann school, we have to think of an objective useful element which proceeds from goods, and acquires independent economical existence as well as independent economical value.
Doctor in Economical Sciences.
Economical function usually has anti-crisis orientation and forms stable economical development of the state.
gloss: Having a low economy rate.
pos: adj
Related words: economic
Derived words: agroeconomical
bioeconomical
economically
economicalness
economical with the truth
geoeconomical
noneconomical
pharmacoeconomical
socio-political-economical
uneconomical
uneconomicalness
Translations:
cromlech
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *krumbos
Proto-Brythonic *krum
Middle Welsh crwm
Welsh crom
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥keh₂der.
Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā
Proto-Brythonic *llex
Middle Welsh llech
Welsh llech
Welsh cromlechbor.
English cromlech
Borrowed from Welsh cromlech, from crom (the feminine singular form of crwm (“bent, bowed, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Celtic *krumbos (“bent, crooked”) and Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”); further etymology uncertain) + llech (“flagstone, slab of stone”) (ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā (“(flat) stone”) and Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”)).
Sense 1 (“stone circle”) is from Breton cromlec'h, krommlec'h probably from Welsh cromlech: see above.
Inflected forms:
form: cromlechs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of stone circle (“a prehistoric monument consisting of standing stones arranged in a circle”), especially one located in Brittany, France.
pos: noun
gloss: synonym of altar tomb or dolmen (“a prehistoric megalithic tomb consisting of a (somewhat) flat capstone lying horizontally on two or more upright stones”), especially one located in Wales, but also in England (chiefly Cornwall and Devon) or Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Wales
examples: The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides.
Synonyms: bowing stone
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կրոմլեխ
roman: kromlex
lang: Basque
word: cromlech
lang: Breton
word: cromlec'h
lang: Catalan
word: cromlec
lang: Cornish
word: krommlegh
lang: Czech
word: kromlech
lang: Esperanto
word: kromleĥo
lang: Estonian
word: kromlehh
lang: Finnish
word: cromlech
lang: French
word: cromlech
lang: French
word: cromlec'h
lang: Georgian
word: კრომლეხი
roman: ḳromlexi
lang: German
word: Cromlech
lang: German
word: Kromlech
lang: Greek
word: κρόμλεχ
roman: krómlech
lang: Italian
word: cromlech
lang: Lithuanian
word: kromlechas
lang: Occitan
word: cromlec
lang: Polish
word: kromlech
lang: Portuguese
word: cromeleque
lang: Russian
word: кро́млех
roman: krómlex
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cromleac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кро̏млек
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кро̏млех
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krȍmlek
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krȍmleh
lang: Slovak
word: kromlech
lang: Spanish
word: crómlech
lang: Spanish
word: crónlech
lang: Welsh
word: cromlech
authorization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
Etymology: Etymology tree
English authorize
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 authorization
From authorize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: authorizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: authorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act of authorizing.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
examples: Our proposal thus envisages a new procedure for the authorization of experimental program
His authorization of decapitation targeting is incompatible with his theory of limited war
Its purpose is to govern the authorization of credit institutions and the provision of financial services throughout the EC.
She pushed buttons at a new, small oval kind of telescreen, quickly gathering together the high-level authorizations it had taken hours of preparation to collect.
gloss: The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
uncountable
examples: I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
gloss: A document giving formal sanction, permission or warrant.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
examples: Can I see your authorization?
gloss: Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.
Related words: author
authority
unauthorized
Derived words: atomic authorization
deauthorization
misauthorization
postauthorization
preauthorization
prior authorization
reauthorization
Translations:
crupper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English croper, crouper, from Anglo-Norman cruper, cropere, from Old French cropiere, crupiere, from the same Germanic root as croup. Doublet of croupiere.
Inflected forms:
form: cruppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cruppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cruppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cruppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cruppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
pos: noun
examples: Our knight did bear no less a pack / Of his own buttocks on his back: / Which now had almost got the upper- / Hand of his head, for want of crupper.
he eſpied a mule's crupper, which hung to the ceiling of the room; this he took down, and tendering it to Don Quixote, went on, ſaying...
Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
I sought among the mules one with a mild expression of generosity and gentleness in its eyes, and found it in a white mule with a crupper adorned with arabesques.
gloss: The buttocks or rump, especially of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of armour covering the hindquarters/buttocks of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon.
pos: verb
examples: to crupper a horse
Translations:
crural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin crūrālis, from crūs (“leg”) (stem: crūr-). By surface analysis, crur- + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the leg.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Leg-like in shape or constitution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: crured
crus
Derived words: bicrural
brachiocrural
crural arch
crural artery
crural canal
cruralgia
crural hernia
crural nerve
crural ring
crural septum
crural sheath
crural vein
crural vessel
femorocrural
genitocrural
inguinocrural
intercrural
lumbocrural
popliteocrural
postcrural
precrural
retrocrural
talocrural
tarsocrural
vulvocrural
Translations:
cullet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of collet.
Inflected forms:
form: cullets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Scrap glass which is melted down for reuse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small central plane in the back of a cut gem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brawny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brawny; equivalent to brawn + -y.
Base: brawn
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: brawnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brawniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by brawn; muscular, thewy; strong.
pos: adj
examples: Rattler was a big, brawny fellow, and he stepped up in front of me, rolling up his sleeves.
As he stood on one side, for a minute or so, unbuttoning his waist-coat and breeches, her fat, brawny thighs hung down
Once the pressure of the comparatively low-drivered J's was raised to 300 pounds, they ranked as the brawniest of 4-8-4's with a tractive force of 80,000 pounds.
gloss: Calloused; hardened.
pos: adj
Derived words: brawnily
brawniness
Translations:
culverin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.
Inflected forms:
form: culverins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.
This had been discharged from a culverin on the opposite side of the valley.
Derived words: culverineer
demiculverin
Translations:
curule
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin curūlis (“of or pertaining to a chariot; curule chair”), from currus (“chariot”), from currō (“run”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.
pos: adj
examples: Followed by his foolish followers Titus Vinius, who had served him in Spain, Cornelius Laco, an arrogant idiot, and the freedman Icelus Marcianus, who was after Laco’s post, he made for the curule chair.
Translations:
brawner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brawn
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 brawner
From brawn (“boar”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: brawners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boar killed for the table.
pos: noun
examples: [A]nd it is now the universal opinion among all enlightened men, that the misery of the brawner would be very little diminished, if he could be made sensible that he was to be eaten up only by persons of the first fashion.
Translations:
koken
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 後見(こうけん) (kōken, “a staff in noh and kabuki”).
Inflected forms:
form: kokens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A black-clad person who enters the stage to rearrange the set, unremarked by the actors
pos: noun
examples: McAllister uses the Japanese device of the koken for changing scenes, distributing props, and creating furniture.
Translations:
phosphide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusbor.
English phosphorus
English phospho-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English phosphide
From phospho- + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any binary compound of phosphorus, especially one in oxidation state −3.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new fulminate consists of a mixture of chlorate of potash, with the prussiates, soluble or unsoluble, the hyposulphites, the hypophosphites, the phosphides, the amorphous phosphorus, alone or combined.
These two metals were then melted in magnesia crucibles and cooled slowly, in order to find how much phosphide would separate during solidification.
Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide.
So you took the bottle of phosphide and you poured a good dose into your sister’s cup.
On the other hand, too much phosphide may render the iron brittle.
Translations:
by-product
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English by-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcō
Latin prōductusder.
Middle English product
English product
English by-product
From by- + product.
Inflected forms:
form: by-products
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: byproduct
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bye-product
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something made incidentally during the production of something else.
pos: noun
examples: It was about this time that the first experiments were made (in Germany) with basic slag, a material which had hitherto been regarded as a worthless by-product of steel manufacture. A year or two later field trials were begun in England, with the final result that basic slag has become recognized as a valuable source of phosphorus for growing crops, and is now in constant demand for application to the soil as a fertilizer.
gloss: A consequence, especially a side effect.
pos: noun
examples: The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent.
One of the most obvious results of the B.R. Modernisation Plan has been the increasing use of diesel and electric traction; a less obvious by-product is the increase in track damage possible with the new forms of traction.
Related words: waste product
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: страничен продукт
roman: straničen produkt
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 副产品
roman: fùchǎnpǐn
lang: Dutch
word: bijproduct
lang: Dutch
word: nevenproduct
lang: Dutch
word: afvalproduct
lang: Finnish
word: sivutuote
lang: French
word: sous-produit
lang: French
word: co-produit
lang: French
word: produit dérivé
lang: Georgian
word: თანაპროდუქტი
roman: tanaṗrodukṭi
lang: Georgian
word: მეორადი პროდუქტი
roman: meoradi ṗrodukṭi
lang: Georgian
word: თანმდევი პროდუქტი
roman: tanmdevi ṗrodukṭi
lang: German
word: Nebenprodukt
lang: German
word: Beiprodukt
lang: German
word: Nachprodukt
lang: German
word: Teilprodukt
lang: Greek
word: υποπροϊόν
roman: ypoproïón
lang: Icelandic
word: aukaafurð
lang: Italian
word: sottoprodotto
lang: Japanese
word: 副産物
roman: fukusanbutsu
lang: Macedonian
word: нуспроизвод
roman: nusproizvod
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: biprodukt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: biprodukt
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: побочни продукт
roman: pobočni produkt
lang: Polish
word: produkt uboczny
lang: Portuguese
word: subproduto
lang: Russian
word: побочный продукт
roman: pobočnyj produkt
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: far-stuth
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nusproizvod
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nusprodukt
lang: Swedish
word: biprodukt
lang: Tagalog
word: yaga
lang: Thai
word: ผลพลอยได้
roman: pǒn-plɔɔi-dâai
lang: Turkish
word: yan ürün
lang: Ukrainian
word: побічний продукт
roman: pobičnyj produkt
lang: Vietnamese
word: phụ phẩm
citizenship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From citizen + -ship. Displaced native Old English burgrǣden, equivalent to borough + -red.
Base: citizen
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: citizenships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Katz himself is one of them. Originally an American citizen, the entrepreneur acquired citizenships in Israel and Canada where he lived for long periods. Later, he obtained a St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship through a real estate investment.
Both sides cited the case of United States vs. Wong Kim Ark from 1898, which defines elements of citizenship for immigrants.
Translations:
antimonide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English antimony
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English antimonide
From antimony + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: antimonides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any compound of antimony with more electropositive elements.
pos: noun
examples: Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide.
Translations:
informant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inform
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English informant
From inform + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: informants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
pos: noun
examples: One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.
gloss: A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
examples: The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.
The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.
Synonyms: consultant
abaddon
accuser
beefer
bewrayer
bigmouth
blabber
blabtale
blabtongue
canary
CI
finger
fink
fizgig
gossip
grass
informant
informer
jurat
leak
mole
narc
nark
nonce
outer
peacher
quisling
rat
ratfink
rooster
sneak
snitch
snout
squealer
state's evidence
stooge
stool pigeon
stoolie
supergrass
sycophant
tattler
tattletale
telltale tit
telltale
tout
whistleblower
Related words: name names
rat out
gossiper
Derived words: confidential informant
disinformant
misinformant
multiinformant
Translations:
citizenry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From citizen + -ry. Displaced native Old English burgwaru.
Base: citizen
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: citizenries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's one of the main selling points of the prison business: that they keep the sexually non-conformist or "deviant" out of sight of the respectable citizenry, especially to "protect" the children.
Translations:
disorganized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more disorganized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disorganized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disorganised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.
pos: adj
examples: If we fail to repulse the enemy within the gates--unemployment, poverty, disorganized agriculture and the like--from whence may we expect the united strength and clear purpose to repulse any outside force?
gloss: Lacking skills for organizing one's affairs.
pos: adj
examples: He is quite disorganized and has difficulty planning his day or remembering when his homework is due.
gloss: In a state of disruption of orderly psychological functioning; engaging in behavior that is chaotic, self-contradictory, or out of keeping with reality; (of a mental illness) poorly controlled and leading to a disorganized state.
pos: adj
Translations:
disorganised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disorganised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disorganised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disorganized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking order or organisation; confused; chaotic.
pos: adj
Translations:
impartiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French impartialité. By surface analysis, impartial + -ity = im- + partial + -ity.
Base: im
Inflected forms:
form: impartialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being impartial; fairness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: bias
partiality
Translations:
deel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian дээл (deel)/ᠳᠡᠪᠡᠯ (debel).
Inflected forms:
form: deels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Mongolian cloak, traditionally worn with a sash.
pos: noun
examples: As I stood just below that statue, close to seven hundred Mongolians organized themselves for a picture. Most were dressed in traditional formal wear--beautifully colored deal.
Translations:
dubbel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch dubbel (“double”). Doublet of double.
Inflected forms:
form: dubbels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of strong brown beer, originally from Belgian Trappist monasteries.
pos: noun
examples: Dubbels typically have a rich, complex, malt-centered personality and a copper or caramel color.
Translations:
bespectacled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From be- + spectacle + -ed.
Base: be
Inflected forms:
form: more bespectacled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bespectacled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing spectacles (glasses).
pos: adj
examples: The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.
Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.
The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?
What caught my eye, however, was an appearance on state-run television in Beijing of DeepSeek’s bespectacled, mop-topped CEO, Liang Wenfeng, who met with China’s No. 2 official – Premier Li Qiang.
Translations:
impartially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impartial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impartially
From impartial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impartially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impartially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impartial manner; fairly.
pos: adv
examples: […] to the inspection of many Orientalists among your readers, very well qualified to decide impartially on the comparative merits of my scheme, at least in its application to the two indispensable languages for British India: namely, the Hindoostanee and Persian tongue.
Inasmuch as our correspondent has such a poor opinion of the capacity of men to write understandingly and impartially upon feminine topics, we say to her and everybody else, "The lists are open, ladies—hissez alia!" We will be but as the heralds at the tourney, to sound the trumpets and preserve order.
But the infant […] impartially offered the great green cucumber pickle with which he regaled his "teething appetite," and with which, betweentimes, he combed his mother's head and wiped the dusty outside of the coach.
Questions had been raised about Walker's ability to impartially decide the controversial question of same-sex marriage.
Translations:
dwelling-place
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dwelling-places
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dwelling place
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place where one dwells.
pos: noun
Translations:
impoverish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English empoverishen, impoverishen, empoverischen, enpoverisshen, Anglo-Norman empoveriss-, from Old French empoverir, from em- + povre, from Latin pauper (“poor”) (English poor).
Inflected forms:
form: impoverishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impoverishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impoverished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impoverished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make poor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.
To many of us, organized religion is obnoxious. Yet if we throw out the sense of peace, order and joy that flows from religious ritual, we impoverish ourselves.
gloss: To become poor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: beggar
depauperate
depauperize
destitute
embeggar
empoverish
immiserate
impoor
impoverish
pauperize
poor
poverish
ruin
Antonyms: enrich
Derived words: impoverishee
impoverisher
impoverishment
Translations:
impoverishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman empoverissement, from the Old French verb empoverir. By surface analysis, impoverish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: impoverishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of impoverishing someone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of being impoverished.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: immiseration
Translations:
impoverished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more impoverished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impoverished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reduced to poverty.
pos: adj
gloss: Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
pos: adj
examples: English has an impoverished inflectional system.
[I]t was out of print for 28 years, before an edition (now rare) was published in 1960, impoverished by having all citations removed.
Synonyms: almsless
arm
badly off
bankrupt
beggared
beggarly
boracic
broke
broken
broker than the Ten Commandments
depauperate
destitute
dirt poor
disadvantaged
down and out
down at heel
down on one's luck
down on one's uppers
empty-handed
farthingless
feeling the pinch
flat
goodless
groatless
hard up
impecunious
impoverished
in need
indigent
insolvent
lower-class
moneyless
necessitous
needy
oofless
pauperized
penniless
penurious
pinched
pok kai
poor
poor as a church mouse
poor as a rat
poor as Job
possessionless
poverty-ridden
poverty-stricken
shillingless
skint
stone-broke
stony-broke
strapped
stuck
threadbare
unwealthy
wealthless
Antonyms: affluent
comfortably off
flush
loaded
pecunious
rich
wealthy
well-fixed
well-heeled
well off
well-off
well-to-do
Related words: having undergone loss of features
underemployed
underprivileged
unemployed
poverty
pauper
Derived words: impoverishedly
impoverishedness
unimpoverished
Translations:
inactivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin āctīvitāsder.
Middle French activitébor.
English activity
▲
Latin in-
▲
Latin āctīvus
Latin ināctīvuslbor.
French inactifder.
English inactive
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English inactivity
From in- + activity or inactive + -ity.
Base: activity
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inactivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Painters depicted Idle Hours (see fig. 99), reverie, solitude, and other themes that reflected Americans' new willingness to eschew productivity, and they sold their canvases to patrons who enjoyed both the inactivities portrayed and seeing themselves portrayed in inactivities.
Shepard: How do the Reapers survive out in dark space?
Vigil: We have only theories. The researchers here came to believe the Reapers enter prolonged states of inactivity to conserve energy.
Vigil: This allows them to survive the thousands and thousands of years it takes for organic civilization to rebuild itself. But in this state, they are vulnerable.
Translations:
idleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ydelnesse, from Old English īdelnes, from Proto-West Germanic *īdalnassī, equivalent to idle + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian īdelnisse (“idelness”), obsolete Dutch ijdelnis, Old Saxon īdalnussi (“idleness, vanity”), Old High German ītalnissa (“idleness, vanity, emptiness”).
Base: idle
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: idlenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being idle; inactivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being indolent; indolence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For either they be puffed vp vvith pride, / Or fraught vvith enuie that their galls do ſvvell, / Or they their dayes to ydleneſſe diuide, / Or drovvnded lie in pleaſures vvaſtefull vvell, / In vvhich like Moldvvarps [i.e., moles] nouſling ſtill they lurke, / Vnmyndfull of chiefe parts of manlineſſe, / And do themſelues for vvant of other vvorke, / Vaine votaries of laeſie loue profeſſe, […]
gloss: Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: idledom
idlehood
idleship
Derived words: eat the bread of idleness
love-in-idleness
Translations:
jerkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First recorded in early 1500s. Possibly related to Dutch jurk (“dress”), itself of unknown origin and not attested before the 17th century. Derivation from Old French jo(u)rne (“day”) has been suggested.
Inflected forms:
form: jerkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.
gloss: A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
pos: noun
examples: A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain.
I booked a room at the small hotel and deposited my luggage there. I bought myself strong boots, a pair of breeches, a jerkin, and a couple of shirts. Then I turned my back upon the town and climbed.
Related words: bodice
doublet
gherkin
Derived words: buff jerkin
green jerkin
jerkined
jerkinhead
Translations:
housekeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + keeper.
Compound parts: house
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: housekeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: house-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone (traditionally a woman) employed to look after the home, typically by managing domestic servants or superintending household management; also someone with equivalent duties in a hotel, institution etc.
pos: noun
examples: She was their third housekeeper, but after a month or so she also gave up.
The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.
When management of the toney Copley Plaza Hotel ordered housekeepers recently to put down their mops and hand wash the floors, a furor arose among the hotel cleaning staff. Local union representatives and others concerned with issues affecting women workers also rallied in anger to protest the directive, which in essence forced housekeepers to scrub on their hands and knees.
gloss: Someone who manages the running of a home, traditionally the female head of the household.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who keeps to their house; someone who rarely ventures away from home; an unadventurous person, a homebody.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
examples: I do assure you he is no house-keeper. I have seen him in desperate conflict with savage men, and even with His Majesty's redcoats.
gloss: Someone who owns a house as a place of residence; a householder.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He was often heard to express his fears of coming upon the parish; and to bless God, that, on account of his having been so long a housekeeper, he was intitled to that provision.
Derived words: housekeeperess
housekeeperless
housekeeperly
Translations:
househusband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + husband (etymologically equivalent to house + bond).
Compound parts: house
husband
Inflected forms:
form: househusbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house husband
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: house-husband
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who tends to his home as a housekeeper or homemaker; the male equivalent of a housewife.
pos: noun
examples: He’s always thought of himself as boring, “a white-bread suburban househusband.”
Translations:
nephrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós
Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós
Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós)
English nephro-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English nephrology
From nephro- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine that deals with the function and diseases of the kidneys.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
superstitious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French superstitieux, from Latin superstitiōsus, from superstitio + -ōsus.
Inflected forms:
form: more superstitious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superstitious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Susceptible to superstitions.
pos: adj
examples: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
gloss: Arising from or having the character of superstitions.
pos: adj
gloss: Overexact; unnecessarily scrupulous.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Synonyms: freety
Related words: superstition
Derived words: hyperstitious
nonsuperstitious
oversuperstitious
stupidstitious
superstitiously
superstitiousness
unsuperstitious
Translations: