yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
assignable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English assignable
From assign + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more assignable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assignable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being assigned (all senses).
pos: adj
examples: In many programming languages, numeric values are not assignable to string variables.
First, we were forced to infer era of service from birthdate, resulting in a relatively small number of respondents assignable to the post-EO era veterans condition.
gloss: Capable of being specified or shown.
pos: adj
examples: While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Now, certainly, in a general view, the purpose of the Platonic soldier was the same, but with this important difference—that his fighting condition was not needed on one or two days consecutively, but on many days, and not against a day punctually assignable, but against a season or period perhaps of months, quite indeterminate as to its beginning, end, or duration.
Antonyms: nonassignable
unassignable
Translations:
stroller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stroll
English -er
English stroller
From stroll + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: strollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seat or chair on wheels, pushed by somebody walking behind it, typically used for transporting babies and young children.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
gloss: One who strolls.
pos: noun
gloss: A vagrant.
pos: noun
examples: The mayor observed that it was great presumption in Wilson, who was a stroller, to proceed to such extremities with a gentleman of family and fortune; and threatened to commit him on the vagrant act.
gloss: Men's semiformal daytime dress comprising a grey or black single- or double-breasted coat, grey striped or checked formal trousers, a grey or silver necktie, and a grey, black or buff waistcoat.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pushchair
baby buggy
Related words: pram
pusher
Derived words: baby stroller
jogging stroller
running stroller
strollerobics
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разхождащ се
roman: razhoždašt se
lang: Finnish
word: jalankulkija
lang: French
word: promeneur
lang: Indonesian
word: pelangkah
lang: Indonesian
word: pemelangkah
lang: Irish
word: válcaeir
lang: Occitan
word: passejaire
lang: Occitan
word: campejaire
lang: Polish
word: spacerowicz
lang: Polish
word: spacerowiczka
lang: Russian
word: стра́нник
roman: stránnik
lang: Spanish
word: paseante
amendable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amend
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English amendable
From amend + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more amendable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amendable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being amended.
pos: adj
Translations:
strolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: strollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The taking of a stroll.
pos: noun
examples: […]to come back late at night to quarrel with their wretched elders, who perhaps envy them their capacity for such wild gaieties and strollings[…]
Translations:
eking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English *eking, *eching, deverbal of eken (“to increase, add”), equivalent to eke + -ing. More at eke.
Base: eke
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: ekings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eeking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ekeing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of adding.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is added.
pos: noun
gloss: A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
sleeker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sleek
English -er
English sleeker
From sleek + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sleekers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument for sleeking or making smooth.
pos: noun
examples: The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.
Translations:
unwritten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unwriten, from Old English unwriten, unġewriten (“unwritten”), equivalent to un- + written.
Base: written
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not written.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The most important rule is unwritten but not unspoken. It is the rule of pronounceability. Sure, xzyqt looks grand, but how do you say it?
gloss: Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It's an unwritten rule that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool.
gloss: Containing no writing; blank.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unwritten paper
Derived words: unwritten rule
Translations:
cockleshell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cockle + shell.
Compound parts: cockle
shell
Inflected forms:
form: cockleshells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shell of a cockle (or similar shell).
pos: noun
examples: The moment land had disappeared, the great canoe seemed no larger than a cockleshell; the waves lapped dangerously near to the tops of the gunwales, all but toppling into the canoe; and that is the curious thing about Polynesian canoes: the water always laps just to the tops of the gunwales, no matter whether the canoe is shallow or deep, whether empty or heavily laden.
gloss: A small, flimsy boat.
pos: noun
Translations:
substandard
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Old French estandartder.
English standard
English substandard
From sub- + standard.
Inflected forms:
form: more substandard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most substandard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.
pos: adj
examples: They built this with substandard parts. No wonder it collapsed.
Nettie describes the takeover of village after village by white men who intend to use the land and people for exploitative purposes without any regard or compensation for the villagers (who once had a strong sense of themselves) and who are then made to work the land for substandard wages.
[...] the fence provided by NR was substandard and poorly maintained, such that unauthorised access to the railway was straightforward.
gloss: Not conforming to the standard variety; nonstandard.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Derived words: substandardly
substandardness
Translations:
regionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regional
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English regionally
From regional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more regionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most regionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a large but limited area, more than local but smaller than entirety. (Generally smaller than a nation.)
pos: adv
examples: In reviewing the Mapuche case, I will examine how regionally standardized ceremonial places and elaborate symbols and objects of social status have developed and spread across the social and physical landscape by means of the exchange of women and the sublineation of kinship units linked through participation in public ritual and competition over access to, and regulation of, prime agricultural land and other key resources.
After the AA/BO split in 2001, Antifas continued to work locally and regionally as dedicated networks of antifascists opposing far-right demonstrations and gatherings, though many also take up other left-wing issues and causes.
It permits visualization of device deployment at the level of individual struts (Fig 1A–1C ), including imprecisions, as exemplified by strut-wall malapposition, as well as quantification of biological responses that demonstrate marked variability both locally in the vicinity of individual struts, as well as regionally over the length of the entire stent (Fig 1D–1F ).
The Railway Mission's regionally based chaplains perform the role of impartial 'friend' to anyone working on the railway, regardless of their faith.
Translations:
illustrative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
pos: adj
examples: This latest incident is illustrative of his continued bad behavior.
Translations:
standardization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French estandartder.
English standard
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 standardize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English standardization
From standardize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: standardizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: standardisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: standarization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: standarisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of establishing a standard.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
examples: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
Related words: standard issue
standardness
normalization
unification
uniformity
Derived words: age standardization
Translations:
spilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.
gloss: The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Translations:
epiphysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From epi- + -physis.
Base: epi
Inflected forms:
form: epiphyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pineal gland.
pos: noun
gloss: The rounded end of any long bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A small upper piece of each half of an alveolus of a sea urchin.
pos: noun
Derived words: chondroepiphysis
epiphysiodesis
epiphysiolysis
epiphysitis
pseudoepiphysis
Translations:
generalized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more generalized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most generalized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: generalised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made more general, less specialized.
pos: adj
examples: The generalized formula applies to all cases, the specialized one only works on simple problems.
gloss: Spread throughout or affecting the entire body or body part.
pos: adj
Derived words: generalized anxiety disorder
generalized circle
generalized continued fraction
generalized continuum hypothesis
generalized element
generalized estimating equation
generalized search tree
nongeneralized
ungeneralized
Translations:
diagonally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English diagonaly, modeled on Medieval Latin diagōnāliter; equivalent to diagonal + -ly.
Base: diagonal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more diagonally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diagonally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.
pos: adv
examples: The diagonally opposed driving positions in the cab are identical.
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
Translations:
scrambled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scrambled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scrambled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
pos: adj
examples: a scrambled TV signal, requiring decryption
gloss: Beaten and cooked.
pos: adj
examples: He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
Derived words: scrambled eggs
scromlette
Translations:
sufferer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin suffero
Latin sufferre
Vulgar Latin *sufferīre
Old French suffrirbor.
Middle English suffren
English suffer
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 sufferer
From suffer + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sufferers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who suffers; one who is afflicted.
pos: noun
examples: All the main-line railways, as well as London Transport, were affected by flying-bomb damage, but naturally the Southern Railway was the principal sufferer for geographical reasons, and the L.N.E.R. came next with the damage it sustained in the Stratford area.
gloss: A tailor.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: From a creditor, being a "victim," "schneider," "sufferer," or "tailor," to one who sets off his wares by wearing the same, being consequently a debtor. HONOURED SIR,— I can scarcely express my delight at your kind compliments as to the fit and patterns […]
Translations:
anciently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aunciently; equivalent to ancient + -ly.
Base: ancient
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more anciently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most anciently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: aunciently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: antiently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: auntiently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of very long ago. As the ancients did.
pos: adv
gloss: Done long ago.
pos: adv
examples: The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read.
Synonyms: oldly
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: antigament
lang: Finnish
word: muinoin
lang: Italian
word: anticamente
lang: Portuguese
word: antigamente
lang: Spanish
word: antiguamente
lang: Spanish
word: antaño
lang: Spanish
word: de antaño
Charleston
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Charles + -ton. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.
Base: Charles
Affixes: -ton
Inflected forms:
form: Charlestons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.
pos: noun
examples: Dubbed “the Black Venus”, she danced the charleston in nothing but a string of pearls and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, performed with a snake wrapped suggestively round her neck, strolled down the Champs-Élysées with her pet cheetah, and became an international superstar. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/dancer-singer-spy-frances-pantheon-to-honour-josephine-baker
Translations:
savagely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English savage
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English savagely
From savage + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more savagely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most savagely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wild, uncontrolled, or savage manner.
pos: adv
examples: "It is shaped," he hissed at Ford, with his brow savagely furrowed, "like a policeman."
Antonyms: gently
Translations:
noiselessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English noiseless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English noiselessly
From noiseless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a quiet manner, without any noise.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.
Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows / Settle around, and whose small chamber grows / Dusk as the sloping window takes its load:
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
Antonyms: noisily
Translations:
barrette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“a bar”) + -ette, literally a small bar.
Affixes: -ette
Inflected forms:
form: barrettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: barrettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barretting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barretted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barretted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: barette
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
pos: noun
examples: Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like pirate treasure.
gloss: A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of katepimeron.
pos: noun
gloss: To put (hair) into a barrette.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.
With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.
She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.
Synonyms: hair clip
hairslide
Related words: hairpin
Translations:
instinctual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instinct
English -ual
English instinctual
From instinct + -ual.
Inflected forms:
form: more instinctual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most instinctual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or derived from instinct.
pos: adj
Translations:
chesterfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chesterfield. Named after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), who commissioned the first such couch.
Inflected forms:
form: chesterfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.
pos: noun
examples: Around the table in the bay window, the slim, japanned dining chairs. The chesterfield suite, antimacassar-draped.
gloss: Any couch or sofa.
pos: noun
tags: California
Canada
dated
Related words: Chesterfield bed
Derived words: chesterfield rugby
Translations:
recusal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English recuse
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English recusal
From recuse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: recusals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of recusing; removing oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
all-inclusive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: all-inclusives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Providing all amenities, benefits or perquisites in a single package.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We stayed at an all-inclusive resort while we were in Bermuda, and even the golfing was free.
gloss: A resort that provides all amenities, benefits or perquisites in a single package.
pos: noun
examples: The development of all-inclusives may restrict the development of other forms of tourism, such as nature heritage tourism, since all-inclusive visitors are not generally consumers of these activities.
Translations:
alliterate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from alliteration.
Inflected forms:
form: alliterates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alliterating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alliterated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alliterated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exhibit alliteration.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.
Derived words: alliterative
alliterator
nonalliterated
unalliterated
Translations:
alliterative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alliterate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English alliterative
From alliterate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more alliterative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alliterative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the form or style of alliteration.
pos: adj
Translations:
alongshore
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From along + shore.
Compound parts: along
shore
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At or along a shore or coast.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: At or along a shore or coast.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.
Translations:
alphanumerical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Semitic *ʔalp-
Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor.
Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)
Proto-Semitic *bayt-
Phoenician 𐤁𐤕 (bt)bor.
Ancient Greek βῆτᾰ (bêtă)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos)
Byzantine Greek ἀλφάβητον (alphábēton)der.
Classical Latin alphabētumbor.
Middle English alphabete
English alphabet
English alpha-
Proto-Indo-European *nem-
Proto-Italic *nomezos
Latin numerus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French numériquebor.
English numeric
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 numerical
English alphanumerical
From alpha- + numerical.
Inflected forms:
form: alphanumericals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of only letters and numbers; alphanumeric.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: alphanumeric
pos: noun
Translations:
alternator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alternate
English -or
English alternator
From alternate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: alternators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.
pos: noun
Translations:
amateurishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amateurish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English amateurishly
From amateurish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more amateurishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most amateurishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an amateurish manner; without expertise or professionalism.
pos: adv
examples: He came in and we went out to the back area I'd bricked amateurishly years ago.
Translations:
amateurishness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amateurish
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 amateurishness
From amateurish + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being amateurish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He betrays his amateurishness in a hundred ways.
Translations:
amateurism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English amateur
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English amateurism
From amateur + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: amateurisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Amateur beliefs and practices generally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The opinion or conviction that sports ought not to be played for money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ambassadorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ambassador
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English ambassadorship
From ambassador + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: ambassadorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: embassadorship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The post or office of ambassador.
pos: noun
Translations:
ambitiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ambitious
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 ambitiousness
From ambitious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ambitiousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being ambitious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ambrosial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Partly from ambrosia and partly from Latin ambrosius, + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more ambrosial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambrosial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
pos: adj
tags: Greek
examples: And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]
gloss: Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
pos: adj
examples: Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]
VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]
[T]his young hero, rising from his bed, proceeded to decorate his beautiful person, and shave his ambrosial chin […]
By your cheek of vermil hue, / By your lip’s ambrosial dew, / By your soft and languid eye, / By your swelling bosom’s sigh, / You taught me love.
Synonyms: ambrosiac
ambrosian
Derived words: ambrosially
unambrosial
Translations:
ambulant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ambulans, present participle of ambulare (“to walk”).
Inflected forms:
form: ambulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to walk; ambulatory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They are crossing the carpark with difficulty for Rick is holding Pym's arm in an ambulant bearhug and they are advancing at an angle like a pair of crookedly hung overcoats.
The patients, mostly ambulant, were brought in one by one.
gloss: Designed for use by somebody with a disability that impairs, but does not prevent, walking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an ambulant toilet
gloss: A patient who is able to walk.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonambulant
Translations:
ambulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin ambulātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: ambulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Walking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ameliorative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ameliorate
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English ameliorative
From ameliorate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more ameliorative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ameliorative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: amelioratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to repair or ameliorate.
pos: adj
examples: One night while he was moaning on about his sorry existence I said: Do you really want to change it?
Of course I do, he said, but nothing I’ve tried has been ameliorative.
gloss: Suggesting or relating to a positive or approving evaluation.
pos: adj
examples: […]personal nicknames can generally be divided into positively marked (ameliorative) ones, usually given by family members and friends as a sign of affection and acceptance, and those negatively marked (pejorative or derogatory), whose aim is to mock or ridicule a person[…]
gloss: Of or relating to conceptual engineering, the normative study of which conceptual demarcation is most conducive to solve the problems the concept is a priori taken to solve.
pos: adj
examples: ameliorative inquiry
ameliorative analysis
ameliorative project
gloss: That which betters or improves.
pos: noun
examples: With such conventional Keynesian amelioratives, the economy normally recovers with output and employment on the rise, and, unfortunately, with inflation picking up too.
It certainly means the stripping from Parliament of endless debates on niggling parsimonies and trivial amelioratives; the thousand and one unreal fights and distractions which has kept democracy from winning the other half of freedom.
gloss: A linguistic unit (such as a word, morpheme) that implies a positive or approving evaluation.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: Moreover, diminutives, augmentatives, pejoratives and amelioratives have always been analysed as independent categories, neglecting the possible interrelations among them.
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Related words: amelioration
Derived words: ameliorative waste
Translations:
amenability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: amenabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being amenable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
amoebic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amoeb- + -ic.
Base: amoeb
Inflected forms:
form: more amoebic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amoebic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or caused by an amoeba.
pos: adj
Translations:
motivational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman motifder.
Middle French motifder.
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Late Latin moveō
Late Latin mōtus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin mōtīvumder.
Middle English motif
English motive
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English motivation
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 motivational
From motivation + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more motivational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most motivational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending or intended to motivate.
pos: adj
Translations:
fanaticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fānāticuslbor.
▲
French fanatiqueinflu.
English fanatic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English fanaticism
From fanatic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: fanaticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phanaticism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic or practice of being a fanatic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
Witch-hunting became a mania, with all the abuses and excesses which invariably develop with fanaticism.
Translations:
pacifism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: roguelikes
video-games
Etymology: From French pacifisme, from pacifique; pacific + -ism.
Base: pacific
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: pacifisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The support of peace, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
The individual pacifist (who may or may not follow a particular religion) can for example support voluntary euthanasia while at the same time retaining a consistent view about how to approach issues surrounding violent conflict and the common good. Although such issues raise complex ethical dilemmas, for some, pacifism can accomodate^([sic]) the possibility of killing in certain circumstances.
gloss: The support of peace, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pacifism forbids us from killing would-be murderers in self-defense, but terrorism permits us to slit the throat of a 17-year-old working a night shift at the zoo.[…]Pacifism also has the modal implication that no possible wrongful aggressor can be permissibly harmed, even in possible worlds where doing so is the only feasible means of saving oneself or others.
gloss: The support of peace, specifically:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The additional challenge of winning a game without harming any enemy characters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: bellicism
militarism
warism
Related words: pacific
pacificism
pacificist
pacifist
Derived words: anarcho-pacifism
antipacifism
ultra-pacifism
Translations:
feds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
US
slang
examples: Which leaves the states in an awful hole. The Feds have ripped $80 billion out of their budgets over the next 10 years.
gloss: Law enforcement; cops.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
US
slang
examples: Look out! Here come the Feds!
"Why don't we pull him in on tax evasion or misuse of the mails or parkin' in front of a hydrant or sumpn? Take him down to the Tombs and give 'em the works? If the Feds won't do it, we'd be glad to oblige."
Translations:
nuptials
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A wedding ceremony.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: To Night, to Night, this fatal Moment, novv / Our dreadful Father's Nuptials are preparing, / And I muſt loſe bright Monima for ever.
I hope you will not think it is any manner of disrespect to your person or merit, that the intended nuptials between us are interrupted. My father says he has a much better offer for me than you can make, and has ordered me to break off the treaty between us.
[O]f five talents he had, gave two and a half in marriage with an only daughter he had of his own, and two and a half in marriage with the daughter of Eudamidas, and in one and the same day solemnized both their nupitals.
This Sultan [Abdul Hamid II], who [Pierre] Loti always admired, had, according to the author, graciously and magnanimously permitted both women to choose their husbands. The cousins celebrated their nupitals together, and then moved into adjoining palaces which the Sultan had built for them.
We got hitched many years back / […] / The rains were severe that day / and the wild winds inclement / but the nuptials still took place.
Translations:
nuclease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From nucleo- + -ase.
Base: nucleo
Inflected forms:
form: nucleases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids.
pos: noun
Translations:
kou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian koubor.
English kou
Borrowed from Hawaiian kou.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tree of species Cordia subcordata.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
uncommunicative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English communicative
English uncommunicative
From un- + communicative.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncommunicative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncommunicative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending not to communicate; not communicating.
pos: adj
examples: He asked and asked, but she remained silent and uncommunicative.
Translations:
rale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French râle (“groan”).
Inflected forms:
form: rales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: râle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle’ he would not be alarmed.
But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.
Translations:
Moselle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Inflected forms:
form: Moselles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.
Translations:
conure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From scientific Latin Conurus (genus name), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Inflected forms:
form: conures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many New World parakeets of the former genus Conurus, now reassigned to other genera in subfamily Arinae, principally Psittacara and Eupsittula.
pos: noun
Translations:
unduly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From undue + -ly or un- + duly.
Base: undue
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unduly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unduly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.
pos: adv
examples: The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.
The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
No. 4 has recently undergone complete overhaul to relieve Dolgoch of much of the heavy work, but No. 3 has proved unduly sensitive to permanent way defects and is not to be used in regular service until further track improvements are carried out.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
Translations:
doubling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doublings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.
Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
gloss: The act of turning around, or doubling back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pleat or fold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A trick; double-dealing.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Derived words: dedoubling
doubling die
doubling time
period doubling
Translations:
financially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English financial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English financially
From financial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In terms of finance or money.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.
financially responsible
As it looked to him, another six months at sea should turn the trick financially. At least it would give him a good interest in the plantation.
For many investors using $3,000 in losses to offset regular income taxes can be more financially beneficial than offsetting gains, said Indiana-based CFP Russ Ford, because their income tax rates are higher than their long-term capital gains rate, which is 15% for most investors.
Translations:
sourwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sour + wood.
Compound parts: sour
wood
Inflected forms:
form: sourwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A North American deciduous shrubby tree, of the genus Oxydendrum, having deep fissures in its bark, and sour-tasting leaves.
pos: noun
examples: I let him chew the tip of a burgundy leaf and taste how sourwood got its name.
gloss: An Australian tree, of the genus Hibiscus; the sorrel tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
littering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: litterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dropping of litter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
relational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
computing
databases
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
Base: relation
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more relational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to relations.
pos: adj
examples: essays on relational rights
Of these three great groups of feelings the first are extremely unrelational; the second are somewhat more relational; and the third are relational in a comparatively high degree.
gloss: Friendly and peaceful.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
pos: adj
gloss: Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
pos: adj
examples: relational art
gloss: Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
pos: adj
Derived words: interrelational
metarelational
multirelational
nonrelational
pseudorelational
relational adjective
relational antonym
relational attribute
relational community
relational database
relationalism
relationality
relationally
relational model
relationalness
relational operator
sociorelational
Translations:
woodworking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wood
English working
English woodworking
From wood + working.
Inflected forms:
form: woodworkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There are two woodworkings, the first being the idealized one, the woodworking of expectations, where everything turns out perfect. The spouse is pleased, each and every joint is of Krenovian perfection […]
MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.
Translations:
narrower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English narrow
English -er
English narrower
From narrow + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: narrowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, narrows.
pos: noun
Translations:
fattened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fattened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fattened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having gotten fat.
pos: adj
Translations: