yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
crackpot
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.
Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj) (< чо́каться (čókatʹsja), onomatopoeic), see crack for the further typology.
Compound parts: crack
pot
Inflected forms:
form: crackpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more crackpot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crackpot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.
The Police Commissioner sat studying Frank the Flower for several minutes. Then he called the policeman who had arrested Frank. “You will have to lock this man up,” he said. “But treat him gently. He is a harmless crackpot.”
No one plots like Gaston / Takes cheap shots like Gaston / Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston
In the early 1990s, Ms. Feilding realized that the only way to overcome the taboo of these drugs — and her reputation as a crackpot — was to start a scientific foundation to fund research projects that governments and universities would never consider.
gloss: Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Eccentric or impractical.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a crackpot idea
While all this was happening Mr. Dies on February 1, 1943, in a long speech on the floor of the House attacked thirty-nine named Government employees as 'irresponsible, unrepresentative, crackpot, radical bureaucrats' and affiliates of 'communist front organizations.'
Derived words: crackpot index
crackpotitude
crackpotology
crackpottery
crackpotty
Translations:
ingratiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1622. From Italian ingraziare or Medieval Latin *ingratiatus, from Latin in grātiam (“for the favor of”).
Inflected forms:
form: ingratiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ingratiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ingratiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ingratiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them; to insinuate oneself; to worm one's way in.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
[H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
Her name was Michaela, but the men called her filthy things in dulcet, ingratiating voices, and she giggled with childish joy because she understood no English and thought they were flattering her and making harmless jokes.
And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is trying to crawl out from under its rock and ingratiate itself as an "equal opportunity employer" and a friend of progressive movements.
He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
Like many other executives in Silicon Valley, [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg has recently been ingratiating himself with the Trump administration.
gloss: To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
pos: verb
tags: with-to
examples: What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?
the Sense of this will mightily indear and ingratiate them to us
Related words: ingratiating
ingratiation
Derived words: ingratiator
ingratiatory
reingratiate
Translations:
robotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From robot + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story Liar!.
Base: robot
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more robotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most robotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.
pos: adj
examples: You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.
In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.
President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.
Translations:
robotics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 from robot + -ics by comparison to "physics ... hydraulics, celestial mechanics, and so on" in his short story Liar!.
Base: robot
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?
While it may take another five to 10 years for humanoid robots to make a real societal impact, they could eventually become the next widely adopted consumer electronics, according to Xi Ning, chair professor of robotics and automation at the University of Hong Kong.
Translations:
backport
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From back + port.
Compound parts: back
port
Inflected forms:
form: backports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backported
pos: verb
tags: past
form: backports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To retroactively supply to a previous version of a software product a fix or a new feature at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.
pos: verb
tags: also
transitive
gloss: An act of backporting.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
examples: This backport fixes an urgent bug.
gloss: A software program that has been backported.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
Translations:
tumultuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French tumultuous (modern French tumultueux), from Latin tumultuōsus (“restless, turbulent”), from tumultus (“disturbance, uproar, violent commotion, tumult; agitation, disturbance, excitement”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: more tumultuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tumultuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by loud, confused noise.
pos: adj
examples: Rage with Iambicks, arm'd Archilocus / Numbers for Dialogue and Action fit, / And Favourites of the Dramatick Muſe. / Fierce, Lofty, Rapid, whoſe commanding Sound / Awes the tumultuous Noiſes of the Pit, / And whoſe peculiar Province is the Stage.
The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
Down showers tumultuous music from the belfry of Old Trinity— / Merry chiming for His birth, and gave songs for His Divinity!
"Flynn! Flynn! Mike Flynn!" came surging a tumultuous roar from the crowd.
gloss: Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent.
pos: adj
examples: Yet not rejoycing in his [Satan's] ſpeed, though bold, / Far off and fearleſs, nor with cauſe to boaſt, / Begins his dire attempt, with nigh the birth / Now rowling, boiles in his tumultuous breſt, / And like a devilliſh Engine back recoiles, / Upon himſelf; […]
And ſeeing theſe Tumultuous and Rebellious Men do more immediately vent their Malice on ſome of their Fellow-Subjects and Fellow-Protestants, who will be true to their Oaths, and their Obligations to the King, whom God has placed over them, may not one humbly ask, As for theſe Sheep, what have they done? What Cauſe is there whereby an Account may be given of theſe tumultuous Inſurrections against them?
The old cavalier stooped his head in token of acquiescence in the command of his Sovereign, but he raised it not again. The tumultuous agitation of the moment had been too much for spirits which had been long in a state of depression, and health which was much decayed.
She leaned very slowly closer and yet closer to the mirror; a rich colour spread over her; her eyes, gazing into themselves, became dreamy, inexpressibly wistful, cloudily sweet; her breath was tumultuous.
A tumultuous waterway, the Yangtze ranks second after the Amazon in terms of discharge. Fed by copious amounts of melting snow and also heavy rains, the river's flow is 10 times greater than China's Huang Ho (Hwang River, Huanghe; also known in English as the Yellow River).
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, after a tumultuous first month in office, Mr [Donald] Trump delivered a conventional speech in a conventional manner.
Antonyms: untumultuous
quiet
calm
Related words: tumult
tumultuary
tumultuate
tumultuation
tumultus
tumulus
Derived words: tumultuously
tumultuousness
untumultuous
Translations:
supposed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Alleged; assumed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Elvis is the supposed king of rock and roll.
The people were averse to him, as the supposed author of the violence on the monasteries; establishments which were still revered and beloved by the commonalty.
Many criticisms have been made of prophylactic external cephalic version based on the supposed dangers of the manipulation.
Translations:
expected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more expected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur.
pos: adj
examples: The expected storm never arrived.
Antonyms: unexpected
surprising
unlikely
Translations:
presume
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English presumen, from Anglo-Norman presumer and its source, Latin praesūmere (“to take beforehand, anticipate”), from prae- + sūmere (“to take”).
Inflected forms:
form: presumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: presuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: presumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: presumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præsume
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission [with to (+ infinitive)].
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don't want to pretend to be an authority on this line of business, so I would never presume to tell you how to run your own company.
There were no women at the birth of the International Gay Association in Coventry, England in 1978. The men there decided they would like lesbians to join; they would not presume to formulate aims for them but would adjust the organization if and when women joined it.
gloss: To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.
gloss: To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Paw-prints in the snow allow us to presume a visit from next door's cat.
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
gloss: To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If we presume that human cloning may one day become a mundane, everyday reality, then maybe it's time to start thinking more positively about our soon-to-arrive genetically engineered pseudo-siblings.
gloss: To impose (on) for one's advantage; to be presumptuous; to take advantage (of); to take liberties (with) [with on or upon].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thanks, but I can't accept the money; I would not want to presume on the generosity of a stranger'
Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.
Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton. Her observation had been pretty correct. Such as Mrs. Elton appeared to her on this second interview, such she appeared whenever they met again,—self-important, presuming, familiar, ignorant, and ill-bred.
Piliso then vented his anger on us, accusing us of lying to him. He said we had presumed on his hospitality and the good name of the regent.
Related words: presumption
presumptive
presumptuous
Derived words: presumability
presumable
presumably
Translations:
inclination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English inclinacioun, inclinacyon, from Old French inclination and Latin inclīnātiō. Morphologically incline + -ation.
Base: incline
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: inclinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physical tilt or bend.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.
gloss: A slant or slope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The road up to the house had a steep inclination.
The gradients on the western part of the line are generally easy, although there is a rise at 1 in 55 before Manorbier, and a fall at the same inclination beyond that station.
gloss: A tendency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His inclination to drink escalated to alcoholism.
It should be remembered, however, that [Sir Thomas] Lawrence, who was now in demand, was charging from eighty to a hundred guineas for even his smallest portraits, a sum which would have been far beyond the pocket or inclination of the canny North countryman [George Stephenson], who had little use for empty honours.
gloss: The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The astronomer calculated the inclination of the equator or ecliptic of Earth and the orbital planes of each visible heavenly body.
Artillery must take account of a weapon's precise inclination.
gloss: A person or thing loved or admired.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: c. 1672-1679, William Temple, Memoirs
you make will be a Discovery of your Inclinations
c. 1771, John Adams, speaking in a trial
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Related words: inclinable
incline
inclined plane
inclinometer
Derived words: counterinclination
disinclination
hyperinclination
inclinational
inclinationism
misinclination
preinclination
Translations:
ecliptic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eclīptica. So named because an eclipse can occur only when the Moon lies on this plane.
Inflected forms:
form: ecliptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecliptick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ecliptick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
pos: noun
gloss: The plane in which this great circle lies.
pos: noun
gloss: A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to an eclipse or the ecliptic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: plane of ecliptic
superecliptic
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sonnebaan
lang: Albanian
word: ekliptikë
lang: Arabic
word: مَسَارُ الشَّمْسِ
roman: masāru š-šamsi
lang: Armenian
word: խավարածիր
roman: xavaracir
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ekliptika
lang: Basque
word: ekliptika
lang: Belarusian
word: экліптыка
roman: ekliptyka
lang: Bulgarian
word: еклиптика
roman: ekliptika
lang: Catalan
word: eclíptica
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黃道 /黄道
roman: huángdào
lang: Czech
word: ekliptika
lang: Danish
word: ekliptika
lang: Dutch
word: ecliptica
lang: Dutch
word: schijnbare zonneweg
lang: Esperanto
word: ekliptiko
lang: Estonian
word: ekliptika
lang: Finnish
word: ekliptika
lang: French
word: écliptique
lang: Galician
word: eclíptica
lang: Georgian
word: ეკლიპტიკა
roman: eḳliṗṭiḳa
lang: German
word: Ekliptik
lang: Greek
word: εκλειπτική
roman: ekleiptikí
lang: Hebrew
word: מישור המילקה
roman: mishór hamílke
lang: Hindi
word: क्रांतिवृत्त
roman: krāntivŕtt
lang: Hindi
word: सूर्यपथ
roman: sūryapath
lang: Hungarian
word: ekliptika
lang: Icelandic
word: sólbaugur
lang: Ido
word: ekliptiko
lang: Indonesian
word: ekliptika
lang: Irish
word: éiclipteach
lang: Italian
word: eclittica
lang: Japanese
word: 黄道
roman: kōdō
lang: Kazakh
word: эклиптика
roman: ékliptika
lang: Korean
word: 황도
roman: hwangdo
lang: Latvian
word: ekliptika
lang: Lithuanian
word: ekliptika
lang: Macedonian
word: еклиптика
roman: ekliptika
lang: Malay
word: ekliptik
lang: Malayalam
word: ക്രാന്തിവൃത്തം
roman: krāntivr̥ttaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: ക്രാന്തിപഥം
roman: krāntipathaṁ
lang: Marathi
word: क्रांतिवृत्त
roman: krāntivŕtta
lang: Norwegian
word: ekliptikken
lang: Persian
word: دایرةالبروج
roman: dâyertâlboruj
lang: Polish
word: ekliptyka
lang: Portuguese
word: eclíptica
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸੂਰਜੀ ਪੰਧ
roman: sūrjī pandh
lang: Romanian
word: ecliptică
lang: Russian
word: экли́птика
roman: eklíptika
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: еклиптика
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ekliptika
lang: Slovak
word: ekliptika
lang: Slovene
word: ekliptika
lang: Spanish
word: eclíptica
lang: Swedish
word: ekliptika
lang: Tagalog
word: guhitlaw
lang: Thai
word: สุริยวิถี
roman: sù-rí-yɔɔ-wí-tíi
lang: Thai
word: รวิมรรค
lang: Turkish
word: tutulum
lang: Turkish
word: ekliptik
lang: Ukrainian
word: еклі́птика
roman: eklíptyka
lang: Vietnamese
word: hoàng đạo
geometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin geōmetricus, from Ancient Greek γεωμετρικός (geōmetrikós), from γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs). By surface analysis, geometer + -ic or geo- + -metric.
Affixes: geo-
-metric
Inflected forms:
form: more geometric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geometric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to geometry.
pos: adj
examples: The architect used geometric techniques to design her home.
In Mathematicks he was greater / Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater : / For he, by Geometrick scale, / Could take the size of Pots of Ale ; / Resolve by Signs and Tangents streight, / If Bread or Butter wanted weight; / And wisely tell what hour o’th’ day / The Clock doth strike, by Algebra.
This does not mean that the French, works, composed by rational minds (de l’esprit) are totally devoid of any value or cultural significance. But Madame de Staël obviously prefers what she considers to be the imaginative workings of the German mind to the geometric and analytical penchants of the French mind.
gloss: Increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression.
pos: adj
examples: Bacteria exhibit geometric increase in numbers when the environment is not limiting.
The men around the table were by no means dissidents, but neither can they turn their countries around on their own. Of course, the vast problems in Africa cannot be solved by African policies alone. Poverty breeds poverty by geometric progression.
gloss: Using simple shapes such as circles, triangles, and lines in a decorative object.
pos: adj
examples: The building's profile was strikingly geometric.
A bold geometric roof design is planned to allow natural light to flood onto the station concourse.
Related words: geometer
geometrical
geometrically
geometry
Derived words: ageometric
arithmetic-geometric mean
arithmetico-geometric
chronogeometric
geomagic square
geometric algorithm
geometric analysis
geometric centroid
geometric congruence
geometric construction
geometric correlation
geometric distribution
geometric dual graph
geometric growth
geometric homology
geometrician
geometric invariant
geometric isomer
geometric isomerism
geometricity
geometricization
geometricize
geometric lathe
geometric mean
geometric mean index
geometric modeling
geometric multiplicity
geometric pen
geometric probability
geometric progression
geometric sequence
geometric series
geometric shape
geometric square
geometric topologist
geometric tortoise
geon
hypergeometric
isogeometric
kinogeometric
macrogeometric
metageometric
microgeometric
morphogeometric
nongeometric
protogeometric
quasigeometric
semigeometric
supergeometric
ungeometric
Translations:
pastry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pastre, pastri, from pastree (variant of pasterie, from Old French pastaierie and Medieval Latin pasteria, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)) or paste + -ri (modern paste + -ry).
Base: paste
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: pastries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That pastry shop sells not just pastries, but all kinds of baked goods.
gloss: The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That pastry shop sells not just pastry, but all kinds of baked goods.
gloss: The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A place where pastry is made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.
gloss: The act or art of making pastry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He learned pastry from the great Gaston Lenôtre.
gloss: Desserts of all kinds, whether or not these incorporate the baked item made from flour and fat, or that section of a kitchen that prepares these.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I used to work in the fish section, but now I've been moved to pastry.
Related words: en croute
Derived words: choux pastry
cigarette pastry
Danish pastry
filo pastry
flakey pastry
flaky pastry
French pastry
Napoleon pastry
nonpastry
pastry bag
pastry chef
pastry cook
pastrycook
pastry cream
pastry flour
pastry fork
pastryless
pastrylike
pastrymaker
pastrymaking
pastryman
pastry ring
pastry shop
pastry stout
Pastry War
pastry wheel
phyllo pastry
puff pastry
shortcrust pastry
short pastry
Translations:
deference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French déférence. Morphologically defer + -ence.
Base: defer
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: deferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great respect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The children treated their elders with deference.
gloss: The willingness to carry out the wishes of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By tidying his room, he showed deference to his mother.
Michael in turn benefits from Tom. He loosens up a bit, stops talking so much like one of the bad novels he used to read, and learns to give his intellect a rest once in a while in deference to the emotions.
Synonyms: honor
respect
Derived words: in deference to
nondeference
overdeference
Translations:
suitability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suit
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English suitability
From suit + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: suitabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being suitable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As he knows little about the particular issues, his criterion must be consistency with his other views, suitability to combine them into a coherent picture of the world.
Translations:
patchwork
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From patch + work.
Compound parts: patch
work
Inflected forms:
form: patchworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patchworks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: patchworking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: patchworked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: patchworked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any kind of creation that makes use of many different aspects to create one whole piece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Bill took all of his poetry and put it together in a folder. It made up a patchwork of his life.
Everything about China is super-sized: The five new parks, which in some cases stitched together an older patchwork of conservation zones, sprawl across more than 88,800 square miles of territory—a protected area more than 25 times the size of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
The wider North West and Central Region is itself a microcosm of the industry's complexity. Covering the approaches to London Euston, stretching through Birmingham and the West Midlands, and reaching Manchester, Liverpool and beyond, it is a patchwork of overlapping markets, political geographies, and infrastructure types.
gloss: A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Present United States privacy law – despite being made up of a patchwork federal and state constitutional, statutory, and common law – is predominantly based on the ideals of individual control, autonomy, and liberty from governmental intrusion, despite the fact that its inspiration was an idea grounded on the importance of protecting human dignity and an “inviolate personality.”
Proponents of an AI moratorium had argued that a patchwork of state and local AI laws is hindering progress in the AI industry and the ability of U.S. firms to compete with China.
gloss: To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: patchwork plagiarism
patchwork quilt
patchwork ruler
patchy
Derived words: patchworky
Translations:
pastorale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.
Inflected forms:
form: pastorales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pastorali
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
pos: noun
gloss: An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.
pos: noun
examples: She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.
gloss: One of the figures of a quadrille.
pos: noun
Translations:
pastel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.
Inflected forms:
form: pastels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pastille
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A drawing made with any of those colors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A crayon made from such a paste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Woad.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.
Derived words: pastelist
pastellic
pastellist
pastelly
Translations:
disrepair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English repair
English disrepair
From dis- + repair.
Inflected forms:
form: disrepairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sewing machine is in disrepair.
The house had fallen into such disrepair that no agent would show it to buyers.
Caleb would have said something of the disrepair of the chamber, but was silenced by the irritable impatience which was expressed in his master's countenance; he lighted the way trembling and in silence, placed the lamp on the table of the deserted room, and was about to attempt some arrangement of the bed, when his master bid him begone in a tone that admitted of no delay.
As Janet went back and forth, she was struck by the surprising charm that the old house showed within, quite out of keeping with its littered door-yard and outward disrepair. The white woodwork had gone long unpainted, it was true, and the floors were worn and uneven, but there was an airy spaciousness in the rooms, a comfortable dignity in the old mahogany furniture, and the grace of real beauty in the curved white staircase with its dark, polished rail.
All the A.C.V. four-wheel diesel railbuses are now stored in seeming disrepair at Derby Friargate.
We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own, and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
The overriding reason that the public estate - be it roads, hospitals or schools - has fallen into disrepair is the continuing lack of economic growth, which has meant no budget can be found to keep assets in a good state of repair.
Translations:
exoskeleton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der.
English exo-
English skeleton
English exoskeleton
From exo- + skeleton.
Inflected forms:
form: exoskeletons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exoskeleta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.
pos: noun
examples: This is the case not only with all forms provided with exoskeleta and endoskeleta, into the composition of which lime largely enters, but also with those which exercise the precipitating effect on the calcium salts they absorb from sea water, the precipitation rarely going so far as to form a distinct deposit in the cells or tissues of the organism.
Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.
After separation, the next generation of daughters resumes the photosynthetic fixation (reduction) of carbon, the sequestration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and mineral nutrients (up to a score), and the synthesis of the proteins that will contribute to the generational doubling of biomass. Structures such as flagella, scales, and exoskeleta also have to be reallocated or copied.
Drawings supplied with NR's council application show a bridge with an exoskeleton that repeats some of the angles of Hitachi's '800' series trains which LNER and TransPennine Express run through the station.
gloss: A wearable robotic machine used for aided or augmented mobility.
pos: noun
Antonyms: endoskeleton
Related words: carapace
Derived words: exoskeletal
semiexoskeleton
Translations:
dissolute
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dissolute, from Latin dissolutus.
Inflected forms:
form: more dissolute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissolute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dissolutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unrestrained by morality.
pos: adj
gloss: Recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures.
pos: adj
examples: Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).
gloss: An immoral person devoted to sensual pleasures.
pos: noun
examples: [H]e illustrated the hypocrisy of his party; and was often known to exercise his talent of drinking a company of dissolutes under the table.
Synonyms: debauched
dissipated
hedonic
lascivious
lewd
libidinous
profligate
wanton
Derived words: dissolutely
dissoluteness
undissolute
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ցոփ
roman: cʻopʻ
lang: Armenian
word: շվայտ
roman: švayt
lang: Armenian
word: զեղխ
roman: zeġx
lang: Azerbaijani
word: pozğun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əxlaqsız
lang: Azerbaijani
word: azğın
lang: Bulgarian
word: разпуснат
roman: razpusnat
lang: Bulgarian
word: развратен
roman: razvraten
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 放蕩 /放荡
roman: fàngdàng
lang: Dutch
word: losbandig
lang: Estonian
word: kõlvatu
lang: Finnish
word: irstas
lang: Finnish
word: irstaileva
lang: Finnish
word: rietas
lang: French
word: dissolu
lang: Galician
word: perdido
lang: Galician
word: disoluto
lang: Greek
word: ακόλαστος
roman: akólastos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄσωτος
roman: ásōtos
lang: Hungarian
word: kicsapongó
lang: Irish
word: scaoilteach
lang: Italian
word: dissoluto
lang: Japanese
word: 嫌らしい
roman: iyarashii
lang: Japanese
word: エッチ
roman: etchi
lang: Macedonian
word: ра́звратен
roman: rázvraten
lang: Macedonian
word: ра́спуштен
roman: ráspušten
lang: Macedonian
word: блу́ден
roman: blúden
lang: Māori
word: karihika
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: utsvevende
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tøylesløs
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: liderlig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lastefull
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: uanstendig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: fordervet
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: usedelig
lang: Polish
word: rozwiązły
lang: Portuguese
word: dissoluto
lang: Russian
word: распу́щенный
roman: raspúščennyj
lang: Russian
word: распу́тный
roman: raspútnyj
lang: Russian
word: развра́тный
roman: razvrátnyj
lang: Russian
word: похо́тливый
roman: poxótlivyj
lang: Spanish
word: disoluto
lang: Spanish
word: perdulario
lang: Swedish
word: utsvävande
lang: Swedish
word: tygellös
lang: Swedish
word: liderlig
lang: Swedish
word: lastbar
incline
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-der.
Proto-Italic *kleināō
Latin clīnō
Latin inclīnāre
Old French enclinerbor.
Middle English enclinen
English incline
From Middle English enclinen, from Old French encliner (modern incliner), from Latin inclīnō (“incline, tilt”), from in- + clīnō (compare -cline), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (English lean).
Inflected forms:
form: inclines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inclining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inclined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inclined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: encline
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inclines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: encline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.
gloss: To slope.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.
gloss: To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
I'm inclined to give up smoking after hearing of the risks to my health.
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters. […] Those who inclined to the stock-breeding theory based their arguments on the absence of ploughs, […].
gloss: A slope.
pos: noun
examples: To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.
gloss: A portal of a subway tunnel.
pos: noun
examples: the Pleasant Street Incline
Related words: inclination
climate
cline
decline
recline
Derived words: disincline
inclinable
inclinator
incliningly
misincline
preincline
uninclining
incline elevator
incline lift
inclineman
inclinometer
Translations:
engulf
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English gulf
English engulf
From en- + gulf.
Inflected forms:
form: engulfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: engulfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: engulfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: engulfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To overwhelm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Depression engulfed her after her daughter's death.
Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
The blank spaces of Mallarmé, the silence of Maesterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.
gloss: To surround; to cover; to submerge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Only Noah and his family survived when the Flood engulfed the world.
gloss: To cast into a gulf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: engulfer
engulfment
unengulfed
Translations:
overwhelm
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English overwhelmen, equivalent to over- + whelm.
Base: whelm
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overwhelms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overwhelming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overwhelmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overwhelmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: o'erwhelm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
poetic
form: overwhelms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: o'erwhelm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
poetic
Senses:
gloss: To engulf, surge over and submerge.
pos: verb
examples: The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
gloss: To overpower, crush.
pos: verb
examples: In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
gloss: To overpower emotionally.
pos: verb
examples: He was overwhelmed with guilt.
Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
gloss: To cause to surround, to cover.
pos: verb
examples: I lay Turpentine all over the same: then I overwhelm a broader pipe about the first
gloss: The state or condition of being overwhelmed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you beat your opponent by a margin of 5 or more, you have Overwhelmingly Succeeded. This type of success is often simply called an Overwhelm. […] An overwhelm means you've not only succeeded, but you've done something better than the average success would be.
The fact is, that full permeation and understanding of an overwhelm or trauma makes it cease as an overwhelm or trauma.
And what you’re feeling is normal in a dangerous situation — overwhelm and guilt when someone is harmed.
Synonyms: grip
ravish
Antonyms: underwhelm
Related words: whelm
Derived words: overwhelmable
overwhelmed
overwhelmedness
overwhelmer
overwhelming
Translations:
monogram
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun derives from the post-Classical Latin monogrammum, itself from the Byzantine Greek μονόγραμμον (monógrammon); compare the French and Middle French monogramme, as well as the Italian monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.
Inflected forms:
form: monograms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monogramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monograming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: monogrammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monogrammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: monogramed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: monogramed
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: monogramme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To mark something with a monogram.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
dissipated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wasteful of health or possessions in the pursuit of pleasure.
pos: adj
Translations:
disruption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin disruptionem, from disrumpere. By surface analysis, disrupt + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: disruptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”
Much more disruption, we are told, lies ahead.
gloss: A continuing act of disorder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.
gloss: A breaking or bursting apart; a breach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: disrupt
disruptive
Derived words: chronodisruption
disruptionism
disruptionist
infodisruption
photodisruption
predisruption
weapon of mass disruption
Translations:
disrobe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- + robe. Compare Old French desrober in the same sense.
Base: robe
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disrobes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disrobing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disrobed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disrobed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To undress someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Goddamn this claustrophobia / 'Cause I should be disrobin’ ya
gloss: To undress oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The doctor asked the patient to disrobe before her examination.
It concerns a young woman (played by Wendy Rieger) with a rather curious problem: she starts to disrobe every time she drinks champagne.
Antonyms: enrobe
Derived words: disrober
disrobement
Translations:
flaccid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin flaccus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin flacceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin flaccid(us)bor.
English flaccid
Borrowed from Latin flaccid(us).
Inflected forms:
form: more flaccid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flaccid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Flabby; lacking firmness or muscle tone.
pos: adj
examples: Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
gloss: Soft; floppy.
pos: adj
examples: The combatants with rage most horrible
Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,
And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,
Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
gloss: Soft; floppy.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
gloss: Lacking energy or vigor.
pos: adj
examples: The flaccid economy of the 1970s rendered Americans even more hostile toward liberal welfare policies.
Related words: flaccidly
Derived words: acute flaccid myelitis
flaccidity
flaccidness
flaccify
nonflaccid
subflaccid
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: luntoy
lang: Bulgarian
word: мек
roman: mek
lang: Dutch
word: slap
lang: Dutch
word: slobberig
lang: Estonian
word: lõtv
lang: Finnish
word: veltto
lang: Finnish
word: löysä
lang: French
word: flasque
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πλαδαρός
roman: pladarós
lang: Hindi
word: ढीला
roman: ḍhīlā
lang: Hindi
word: शिथिल
roman: śithil
lang: Hungarian
word: puha
lang: Māori
word: ngongohe
lang: Māori
word: whakanewa
lang: Māori
word: ngore
lang: Māori
word: ngorengore
lang: Māori
word: tīmohea
lang: Māori
word: tihō
lang: Māori
word: tihōhō
lang: Māori
word: pīkawikawi
lang: Plautdietsch
word: schlaup
lang: Plautdietsch
word: flebrich
lang: Portuguese
word: mole
lang: Portuguese
word: fofo
lang: Russian
word: вя́лый
roman: vjályj
lang: Spanish
word: flácido
lang: Spanish
word: blando
lang: Spanish
word: fláccido
lang: Swedish
word: slak
lang: Volapük
word: nestifik
fleeting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“to float”), from Old English flēotan (“to float”), from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. By surface analysis, fleet + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more fleeting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fleeting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Passing quickly; of short duration.
pos: adj
examples: Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.
As they passed, accelerating, on to the bridge and felt the first bite of the incline beyond, one had a fleeting glimpse of driver and fireman, illumined as by the fires of hell, the one tugging at the regulator handle, the other shovelling for dear life.
During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.
For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.
And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.
gloss: That which flees, especially quickly; fugitive.
pos: adj
gloss: An automatic operation mode of an absolute signal that reserves a route for several trains following one another, without the need for dispatcher to re-set the route for each train.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Derived words: fleetingly
fleetingness
fleeting note
unfleeting
Translations: