yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
diaconate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: diaconates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deaconate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The rank of a deacon.
pos: noun
gloss: Deacons considered as a group; a body or board of deacons.
pos: noun
gloss: The period of office of a deacon.
pos: noun
examples: “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
Derived words: permanent diaconate
transitional diaconate
archidiaconate
subdiaconate
Translations:
dauphinoise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French dauphinoise, from the Dauphiné area of France, near the Italian border, whence this dish comes.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A dish of sliced potatoes baked in milk, cream and cheese.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
boulanger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Surinamese Dutch boulanger, from French beringène, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Doublet of aubergine.
Inflected forms:
form: boulangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Eggplant; aubergine.
pos: noun
tags: Guyana
countable
uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:boulanger.
Translations:
hurdler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hurdle
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 hurdler
From hurdle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hurdlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athlete who competes in the hurdling event.
pos: noun
Translations:
horseless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-?
Proto-Indo-European *wers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn
Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn
Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā
Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
Proto-Germanic *hrussą
Proto-West Germanic *hross
Old English hors
Middle English hors
English horse
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English horseless
From horse + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a horse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The stealthy Apaches waited until their pale-face friends were well asleep, and then with a piece of cow-hide, hard and thin, sawed out a section of the adobe wall, at the other end of the corral, and in the morning Los Americanos found themselves horseless and muleless.
As she puts it, "The flat green world of my parents' hogless, horseless farm – its dullness, its flies, its quiet ripped open daily by the fumes and whining of machinery – twisted away and left me with a brilliant city life of books and films and witty friends."
Translations:
herder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.
Base: herd
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: herders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who herds.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: herdsman
Translations:
hair-raising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hair-raising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hair-raising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hair raising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hairraising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing fear or anxiety; scary.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
bitterroot
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bitter + root.
Compound parts: bitter
root
Inflected forms:
form: bitterroots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bitter-root
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bitter root
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bitter-root
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bitter root
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lewisia rediviva, a small, low, pink flower with a yellow center.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Apocynum androsaemifolium (fly-trap dogbane).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Gentiana lutea (great yellow gentian, bitterwort)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Having bitter roots.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
usually
Translations:
Frenchness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *frankô
Proto-West Germanic *Frankō
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Proto-West Germanic *Frankisk
Old English Frencisċder.
Middle English Frensch
English French
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English Frenchness
From French + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or characteristic of being French.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Englishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English English
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English Englishness
From English + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: Englishnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality, state or characteristic of being English.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.
"Unlike most nations, we no longer "own" our language. The Anglish/New English project is intended as a means of recovering the Englishness of English and of restoring ownership of the language to the English people"
Translations:
Scottishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Scottish
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English Scottishness
From Scottish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality, characteristic or state of being Scottish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Welshness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Welsh
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English Welshness
From Welsh + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or characteristic of being Welsh
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
logon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English log ondeverb.
English logon
Deverbal from log on.
Inflected forms:
form: logons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: credentials: the combination of a user's identification and password used to enter a computer.
pos: noun
examples: Using the same logon for different systems can be a security risk.
gloss: The process of logging on.
pos: noun
examples: The user's desktop is displayed shortly after logon.
Translations:
drunkness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drunk
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English drunkness
From drunk + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Drunkenness
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hugger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hug
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 hugger
From hug + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: huggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hugs or embraces.
pos: noun
examples: When the pub downstairs closed, a contingent of straight couples ranging in age from 16 to 60 arrived to dance, though they were still safely outnumbered by same-sex huggers and smoochers.
Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.
Translations:
strangulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin strangulō.
Inflected forms:
form: strangulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strangulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strangulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strangulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strangle.
pos: verb
gloss: To stop flow through a vessel.
pos: verb
Translations:
kinked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bent or twisted into a tight curl.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
atmospherical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English atmosphere
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English atmospherical
From atmosphere + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more atmospherical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most atmospherical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: atmospheric
pos: adj
Translations:
scheduling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: schedulings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.
Derived words: trace scheduling
Translations:
glittery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glitter
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English glittery
From glitter + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: glitterier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glitteriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That glitters.
pos: adj
Translations:
glitzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glitzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glitziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Brilliantly showy.
pos: adj
examples: It must have been a while since I've attended a fancy, glitzy event, because as soon as I got to the GQ awards I felt like something was up.
It’s glitzy throughout, with multiple outfit changes, tight musical arrangements and solo sections, and [Olivia] Dean’s pitch-perfect vocals.
Translations:
globalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geopolitics
government
historiography
history
human-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English global
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English globalist
From global + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more globalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most globalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: globalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to globalism.
pos: adj
examples: From a globalist point of view, talk of threats to a local culture or identity can look like bigotry and even racism: what reason could there be for excluding people when we are all part of a welcoming, global culture?
[Kevin] Roberts soon backtracked. He issued a second statement more explicitly condemning [Nick] Fuentes. He has also apologized for using the terms “venomous coalition” and “globalist class”, saying he did not realize their antisemitic connotations.
gloss: An advocate of globalism.
pos: noun
examples: You are either a globalist or a nationalist; one cannot be both.
gloss: A Jew, implying that Jews are more loyal to a global conspiracy than the country which they live in.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
gloss: One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.
pos: noun
gloss: One who believes international events are primarily caused by conflicts between great powers.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: "Globalists" tend to view international issues in terms of US-Soviet rivalry, while "regionalists" see them more often as manifestations of local rivalries and problems.
The authors suggest that the globalist emphasis among policymakers has increased during the Reagan administration.
Related words: globalism
globalisation
Derived words: globohomo
Translations:
globalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English global
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English globalize
From global + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: globalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: globalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: globalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: globalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: globalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to make something global in scope, as:
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
gloss: to make something global in scope, as:
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
Related words: globalism
globalist
Derived words: deglobalize
globalizable
globalization
globalizer
glocalize
reglobalize
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: globalitzar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 全球化
roman: quánqiúhuà
lang: Czech
word: globalizovat
lang: Estonian
word: globaliseeruma
lang: Estonian
word: üleilmastuma
lang: Finnish
word: globaalistaa
lang: French
word: globaliser
lang: Galician
word: globalizar
lang: Georgian
word: გლობალიზება
roman: globalizeba
lang: German
word: globalisieren
lang: Italian
word: globalizzare
lang: Portuguese
word: globalizar
lang: Romanian
word: globaliza
lang: Spanish
word: globalizar
lang: Turkish
word: küreselleştirmek
lang: Welsh
word: globaleiddio
globetrotting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Worldwide travel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
footbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + bag, by analogy with football.
Compound parts: foot
bag
Inflected forms:
form: footbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small beanbag or sandbag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. It is typically controlled by the feet, but in some sports every part of the body except the hands and arms may be used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any of the sports that use the footbag.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: hack
hacky sack
Translations:
analogic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French analogique, from Latin analogicus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to analogy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
antivenom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From anti- + venom, q.v. Doublet of antivenin and antivenene.
Base: venom
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: antivenoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medicine that counteracts venom, an antidote to biological poisons from venomous animals such as snakes and spiders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: broad-spectrum antivenom
Most deaths and serious consequences from snakebites are entirely preventable by existing means, including making antivenom much more widely available.
So how much venom do you actually need to make antivenom?
About 15.
15 snakes to make one vial of antivenom?
For Tim Friede, who's now the director of herpetology at Centivax, it's about helping the people impacted by venomous snakebites worldwide. When he heard that his antibodies had helped create this new antivenom cocktail, he says he was happy. […] David Williams, a scientist who evaluates antivenoms for WHO, says the biggest risk to people who are bitten by these snakes is paralysis, "which can prevent them from being able to control their airway and breathing and they can potentially suffocate and die as a result of that."
Translations:
bellflower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bell + flower.
Compound parts: bell
flower
Inflected forms:
form: bellflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many plants that produce flowers that are bell-like.
pos: noun
gloss: A flower of one of these plants, which is shaped like a bell.
pos: noun
Derived words: alpine bellflower
American bellflower
birch-leaved bellflower
bonnet bellflower
bristly bellflower
Chilean bellflower
Chinese bellflower
Dalmatian bellflower
Japanese bellflower
Korean bellflower
peachleaf bellflower
rover bellflower
Translations:
fanatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fanatical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fanatically
From fanatical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fanatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fanatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fanatical manner; with extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm.
pos: adv
examples: This argument, vaguely political in nature, took place as often as the two men met. It was a topsy-turvy affair, for the Englishman was bitterly anti-English and the Indian fanatically loyal.
Islam was as fanatically monotheist and aniconist as any Jew could desire, and the sensational successes of its devotees in the military — and soon also in the missionary — field gave Christendom something new to think about.
As I look back on that week in China two impressions stand out most vividly. One is the awesome sight of the disciplined but wildly—almost fanatically—enthusiastic audience at the gymnastic exhibition in Peking, confirming my belief that we must cultivate China during the next few decades while it is still learning to develop its national strength and potential. Otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most formidable enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world.
I have seen no more romantic figure than Stewart Carter, his head and shoulders wrapped in a flaming red head-scarf, moustaches at the high port, crouched fanatically over the steering-wheel of a stripped-down Land Rover.
Translations:
full-timer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English full-time
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 full-timer
From full-time + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: full-timers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is employed, or otherwise engaged in an activity, on a full-time basis.
pos: noun
examples: Based at BTP's London headquarters, Russell's team of three full-timers in the drone unit are responsible for overseeing the safety of drones in support of police officers.
Translations:
overbalance
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Latin bilanx
Vulgar Latin *bilancia
Old French balancebor.
Middle English balaunce
English balance
English overbalance
From over- + balance.
Inflected forms:
form: overbalances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overbalancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overbalanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overbalanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overbalances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be more important than; to outweigh.
pos: verb
examples: I thought of giving up this club, which was expensive and of no service to me, and the amusement overbalanced by the late hours.
gloss: To cause an imbalance in (something) by means of excess weight or numbers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To throw (someone or something) off balance; to cause to capsize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lose one's balance; to fall over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Excess of weight or value; something more than an equivalent.
pos: noun
examples: an overbalance of exports
[…] if there is in man's nature a tendency to guilt and ill desert in a vast overbalance to virtue and merit […]
Translations:
treetop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tree + top.
Compound parts: tree
top
Inflected forms:
form: treetops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crown or uppermost branches of a tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
highborn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From high + born.
Compound parts: high
born
Inflected forms:
form: high-born
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of high social standing as a result of having been born a member of an upper-level social class.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: I am too high-born to be propertied,
To be a secondary at control.
It is not for Kings to drink wine, nor for Princes strong drink. It becomes not them who are highborn to be intemperate.
His acquaintance with this high-born dame gave wit no opportunity of boasting its influence; she was not to be subdued by the powers of verse, but rejected his addresses, it is said, with disdain.
The young Irishman was not a little touched and elated by the high-born damsel's partiality for him.
Was he not Rajah Hassim and was not the other a man of strong heart, of strong arm, of proud courage, a man great enough to protect highborn princes?
He is a career rather than a conviction politician, but too highborn to be written off as a mere scaler of the greasy pole. He is a scion of the class that, deep down, believes it was born to rule.
gloss: Born a member of an upper-level social class (although not necessarily retaining high social standing)
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain.
The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.
Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or befitting people of high social standing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In this illustrious throng, your lofty flood
Swells high, fair confluence of all highborn Blood.
I should have then
Been trained in no highborn necessities
Which I could meet not by my daily toil.
Dowling says that most performances of Chekhov plays have been filtered through translations into a British highborn sensibility.
If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.
gloss: Of superior or premium quality; magnificent; expensive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: The tires are highborn Pirelli P Zeroes in appropriately majestic sizes.
Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.
Antonyms: low-born
Translations:
argal
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A corruption of the Latin ergō (“therefore, thus”).
Inflected forms:
form: argals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: thus, therefore
pos: adv
examples: And an act hath three branches—it is to act, to do, to perform. Argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.
gloss: crude tartar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
baza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi बाज़ (bāz, “goshawk”).
Inflected forms:
form: bazas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of three species of small, crested hawks in the genus Aviceda.
pos: noun
Translations:
bushcraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bush
Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
Old English cræft
Old English -cræft
Middle English -craft
English -craft
English bushcraft
From bush + -craft.
Inflected forms:
form: bushcrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skills needed to survive in the bush, and by extension in any natural environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: camping, firemaking, hunting, fishing, trapping, gathering, first aid, orienteering
Near-synonym: bushmanship
The two activities (bushcraft and camping) have remarkable similarities because they are both outdoor activities that occur in distant territories. Camping is what everybody can participate in regardless of their abilities to survive. On the other hand, bushcraft requires a learned skillset and some amount of experience to thrive.
Translations:
flatiron
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flat + iron.
Compound parts: flat
iron
Inflected forms:
form: flat iron
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flat-iron
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a flatiron shape.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a flatiron building
The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
Translations:
supernatant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English natant
English supernatant
From super- + natant.
Inflected forms:
form: supernatants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There may be a place at some certain latitude between the poles and the line on each side the equator, where the inflammable supernatant atmosphere may end, owing to the greater centrifugal force of the heavier aerial atmosphere.
gloss: The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate.
pos: noun
gloss: Material that floats on the surface of a liquid.
pos: noun
Antonyms: infranatant
Related words: immunosupernatant
surnatant
Translations:
rainproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hréǵʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *Hréǵʰnos?
Proto-Germanic *regną
Proto-West Germanic *regn
Old English reġn
Middle English reyn
English rain
English -proof
English rainproof
From rain + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more rainproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rainproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rainproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rainproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rainproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rainproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: waterproof (for use outdoors); resistant to rain
pos: adj
gloss: To make rainproof.
pos: verb
Translations:
sedated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sedated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sedated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
coliform
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the genitive of Latin colon + -iform.
Affixes: -iform
Inflected forms:
form: coliforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the bacteria that inhabit the intestines (especially the colon) of mammals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such a bacterium.
pos: noun
examples: By contrast, nonaerogenic coliforms in human feces were only 2.5 per cent of the total coliform strains examined
Differential biochemical or physiological characteristics which correlate with aerogenesis at elevated incubation temperatures will be adapted towards a fecal coliform procedure and towards converting a total coliform procedure under development to give a fecal coliform count as well.
The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.)
Translations:
epideictic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιδεικτικός (epideiktikós), from ἐπιδείκνυμι (epideíknumi, “to display, exhibit”), from ἐπι- (epi-) + δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to rhetoric of ceremony, declamation, and demonstration, most often the rhetoric of funerals and other formal events. One of the three branches, or "species" (eidē), of rhetoric as outlined by Aristotle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
goalkeeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The art of a goalkeeper.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Karius has too much previous for this to be considered a one-off and, as goalkeeping mistakes go, his errors in the 51st and 83rd minutes were as bad as one another. In fact, they were not just bad. They were appalling, so wretched it was difficult to recall a worse goalkeeping performance in any major final through the years.
Translations:
goddammit
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contraction of God + damn + it.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of goddamn.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: Goddammit, you wrecked my car while I was cleaning it!
Goddammit, who the hell stole half of my money?!
Goddammit, I told you to shut up three times already!
Translations:
godhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *godhod, from Old English godhād, equivalent to god + -hood. Compare godhead and Dutch godheid as well as German Gottheit.
Base: god
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: godhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of divinity: the state of being a god or God.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
godlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English godless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English godlessness
From godless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: godlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being godless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Malevolence, wickedness, worldliness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
Translations:
goggle-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more goggle-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most goggle-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.
pos: adj
examples: […] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.
Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.
1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent Tlaloc.
1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.
Translations:
gold-filled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goldfilled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gold filled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a layer of gold applied to the surface
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gold-plated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goldplated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gold plated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a thin layer of gold applied to the surface, often by electrolysis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Incorporating costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily; overengineered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: One often hears of gold plated designs with reference to our engineers lack of concern for cost.
We have to do enough that works. Not a gold-plated program, but a solid one
The consequence of this regulatory approach is that it has provided an opportunity for airport companies to exercise their market power indirectly through higher-than-necessary levels of investment in capacity and in costly gold-plated investment.
There are countless examples of gold-plated or excessive infrastructure projects — whether publicly or privately financed.
"[...] We could have made this a gold-plated railway but that would have cost a considerable amount more than £40m."
gloss: Embellished to excess, especially so as to be stifling, or rigid and inflexible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Has society introduced swathes of new gold-plated regulations?
The UK has this gold-plated approach, is that beneficial to the UK in terms of the rest of Europe and in terms of the business and the employees? Do we benefit to a greater degree by adopting such an approach
Related words: gold plate
Translations:
gonadal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵíǵn̥h₁eti
Proto-Hellenic *gígnomai
Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γονή (gonḗ)
Ancient Greek -άζω (-ázō)
Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs)
New Latin gonadēsbor.
English gonad
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 gonadal
From gonad + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the gonads
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the future, artificial means of reproduction will become possible. Perhaps we will inject the genetic material from one of each partner's sperm into either a synthetic human cell or a gonadal cell with its own nuclear DNA removed beforehand, and grow the resulting emmbryo to term in an artificial uterus.
Translations:
Kirlian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the inventor's surname.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, and to his process of recording corona discharges from the surface of objects onto photographic plates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "It is not the purpose of this chapter to debate the meaning of the Kirlian effect but to provide step-by-step instructions on how to build your own Kirlian apparatus so that you can experiment with it in your own garage."
"The roots of Kirlian photography are in observations of patterns produced in resin dust by high-voltage discharges."
"Kirlian photography is a technique that allows the etheric energy patterns around living things to be photographed."
Translations:
stereoselective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der.
English stereo-
English selective
English stereoselective
From stereo- + selective.
Inflected forms:
form: more stereoselective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stereoselective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a chemical reaction in which the production of one stereoisomer is favoured over all others.
pos: adj
Translations:
neurodegenerative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English degenerate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English degenerative
English neurodegenerative
From neuro- + degenerative.
Inflected forms:
form: more neurodegenerative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neurodegenerative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or resulting in the progressive loss of nerve cells and of neurologic function.
pos: adj
examples: neurodegenerative disease
A very rare polymorphism in the prion protein gene recently has been identified that appears to protect against prion disease; this finding, in addition to providing greater understanding of the prionlike mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders, might lead to potential treatments.
It doesn’t help that symptoms of Alzheimer’s develop gradually and slowly and a diagnosis might only be made years after the brain has started to undergo neurodegenerative changes.
Antonyms: neurogenerative
Translations:
amyotrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amyotrophy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English amyotrophic
From amyotrophy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more amyotrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amyotrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by amyotrophy (atrophy of the muscles).
pos: adj
examples: The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Translations:
apocalyptically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apocalyptic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English apocalyptically
From apocalyptic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an apocalyptic manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a manner portending future disaster, devastation, and doom.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.
I hope I appear not to speak too apocalyptically in saying that the problem is still there to minister to our interest and perhaps even a little to our anxiety.
Juxtaposing a secular vision of an earth apocalyptically destroyed through the activities of a Euro-American culture devoted to exploiting resources in every possible way with an equally apocalyptic, sacred vision of the age of the coming of the fifth world in which the culture of destruction will pass away, Silko depicts a world in which apocalypse saturates the everyday, undoing the realism of the nuclear complex by positioning it in a different timeline that has a different past, a different future, and a different present to anything that the nuclear state might think to contain in even its most totalizing attempts to model the world.
The Hobo of the Ideal disappeared from my life as apocalyptically as he had come. He stood with me in front of the window of the Press, pointed to a bulletin saying that the Chicago anarchists had been hanged, and whispered to me, “The time has come!”
The protagonist of Shame is a retarded, completely innocent girl who becomes a universal emotional surrogate, absorbing the shame for the acts of the power-hungry characters around her and turning into a monstrous and apocalyptically destructive force.
Translations:
protoplanet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos)
Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos)
Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor.
English proto-
English planet
English protoplanet
From proto- + planet.
Inflected forms:
form: protoplanets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An astronomical object, approximately the size of the Moon, formed from the mutual gravitational attraction of planetesimals; they are thought to collide with each other and slowly form planets
pos: noun
examples: Tyrix, one of the largest objects in Thal's asteroid belt, is a metallic asteroid with an iron-nickel core under a rocky olivine mantle. It is possibly a remnant protoplanet prevented from forming into anything bigger by gravitational disturbances from Xerceo.
Translations:
planetesimal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Formed from planet by analogy with infinitesimal.
Inflected forms:
form: planetesimals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many small, solid astronomical objects that orbit a star and form protoplanets through mutual gravitational attraction.
pos: noun
gloss: Being or relating to one of these astronomical objects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a planetesimal body
Translations:
unnumbered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unnoumbird, unnoumbrid, un-nowmbyrde, unnowmyrd; equivalent to un- + numbered.
Base: numbered
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not identified with a number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unnumbered paragraphs
gloss: Too numerous to be counted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unnumbered ways
Unnumbered souls are dying / And pass into the night.
Translations:
pendency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being pendent; suspension.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The long pendency of the case before this dismissal suggests deep disagreements among the justices on the substantive issues.
Translations:
pendent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
government
grammar
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
monarchy
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.
Inflected forms:
form: more pendent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pendent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
pos: adj
examples: Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
gloss: Pending (in various senses).
pos: adj
gloss: Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
pos: adj
gloss: Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
pos: adj
examples: Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.
page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.
gloss: Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
pos: adj
gloss: Projecting over something; overhanging.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: pendentive
Derived words: pendent jurisdiction
pendently
semipendent
Translations:
newsdesk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + desk.
Compound parts: news
desk
Inflected forms:
form: newsdesks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: news desk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The department of a newspaper or broadcasting organization responsible for the collecting of news from journalists and others, and for distributing it to editors.
pos: noun
Translations:
newswire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + wire.
Compound parts: news
wire
Inflected forms:
form: newswires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: news wire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A service used for the transmission of breaking news to the media or to the public.
pos: noun
Translations: