yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
culling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cullings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which things are culled; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is he who has done everything the club have asked of him since his arrival, including overseeing the brutal culling of many of the club's legends - Luis Suarez was thrown away in a phone call which, by all accounts, lasted less than 90 seconds.
gloss: Anything separated or selected from a mass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The theft of personal possessions from a carriage during a horse race.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Culling is performed during races by stepping up on a carriage during the time the horses are coming in, and snatching reticules, silk bags, &c., from the seats of the carriage, the attention of the ladies being drawn to the winning horse.
Derived words: z-culling
Translations:
showering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: showerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that falls in a shower.
pos: noun
examples: Ovington heard the man's lightly treading step pass away over the lawn, the shrubbery brushed against him noisily, and then the silence slipped back over the place and the faintly moving air shook the fountain into light showerings of spray […]
Translations:
booing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: booings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.
pos: noun
examples: How is women's music to be defined for the purpose of holding a national women's music festival? In the past five years, the festival apparently experienced controversy due to contrasting definitions of women's music. There were walkouts and booings of performers who didn't fit within the limitations of some audience members' concepts of women's music.
The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.
Translations:
inverting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: invertings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That inverts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The act of something being inverted; an inversion.
pos: noun
Antonyms: noninverting
Translations:
intuiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: intuitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of intuition.
pos: noun
examples: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
Translations:
mewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing a mew sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The mewings of the three kittens kept us awake for most of the night.
gloss: The practice of flattening one's tongue against the roof of the mouth with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Some people say that mewing may allow for a better jawline.
Translations:
muffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In the sexual sense, popularized by Mira Bellwether's 2010 zine "Fucking Trans Women".
Inflected forms:
form: muffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The making of a mistake or gaffe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women and other people with testicles.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Muffing is a penetration technique enjoyed by some non-op trans women. It involves fingering (or otherwise penetrating) the inguinal canals, the canals through which the testes drop during puberty. […] Sometimes the testes are pushed back up into the body during muffing, and sometimes they're simply moved aside […]
[…] she says she and her partner were having a great time last night and she really enjoyed the muffing.
Translations:
mulling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mullings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who mulls or thinks over something.
pos: noun
examples: My mullings over where to go with my life, and now also where to go after Phuket island, incorporated what I saw in my everyday walks […]
Translations:
pealing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pealings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by bells as they peal.
pos: noun
examples: Then when the words were said, and man's form had tried to sanctify that which was already divine, we walked amid the pealings of the “Wedding March” into the vestry[…]
Translations:
reaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of something being reamed.
pos: noun
Translations:
trawling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trawlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A laborious search.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No longer would he have to fear the deportation of Gerald Haxton, who as an American was constantly running that risk in his trawlings through the bars of London.
Related words: trawl
trawler
Derived words: bottom trawling
otter trawling
pair trawling
Translations:
vamping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The behaviour of one who vamps.
pos: noun
examples: It is not only the baleful vampings of the fundamental Christians (the Creationists) that remain opposed to the Darwinian view, but also (and much more significantly) a subjective anthropocentrism that refuses to move over willingly or easily […]
Translations:
contesting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contestings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who contests something; a disputation.
pos: noun
examples: With regard to these disputes, doubts, and contestings, of the early and the later times of the Republic, I may be allowed to note this: that we may easily wonder how they could have been raised by persons not foreign to the city, but who belonged to those same families the members of which formed part of the government of the Republic.
Translations:
surrendering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: surrenderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of surrender.
pos: noun
Translations:
bailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is bailed.
pos: noun
examples: He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.
Translations:
blurting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blurtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
pos: noun
examples: The school often has far more information than parents realise, e.g. from the blurtings of the child and his peers, the behaviour of the parents, and what the school bus driver has seen.
Translations:
champing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: champings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of one who champs (bites or chews).
pos: noun
examples: When I passed them each a plate of the fried meat, they ate greedily, making loud mouth-noises — champings of worn teeth and sucking intakes of the breath, accompanied by a continuous spluttering and mumbling.
Translations:
cratering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: craterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The creation of a crater on a surface.
pos: noun
examples: Is the Minister in a position to give the results of ithe Garda investigation of the two latest allegations of deliberate crossings and craterings of Irish roads?
Major craterings are quite apparent on the older and non-reworked faces of the other planets and their satellites.
Many of the building fronts bore the pockmarks of rifle or machine gun fire; a few showed the larger craterings of aircraft cannon, and an occasional pile of nibble showed the effects of artillery or bombs.
The moon also hangs as an inhospitable, cold companion in the night, a grim ball that shows many signs of craterings on its surface but not the great number we see now.
Translations:
disarming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disarming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disarming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Charming; likely to put one at ease.
pos: adj
examples: a disarming smile
Foremost in her arsenal is that smile – so enormous and so absurdly disarming that someone should have worked out a way to harness its power into international conflict resolution.
Translations:
discounting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: discountings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is discounted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings.
In Excerpts 15 and 16, G more directly claims and imputes knowledge as means for substantiating her position, relying on these alternative resources in responding to S's discountings and withholdings and thereby legitimizing her pursuit.
Negative theology, by being overwhelmingly preoccupied with delineating what God is not (He does not possess knowledge the way human beings possess knowledge; He is not powerful in hte ways that human beings are powerful, etc.), confronts the paradox that unless there is some conceptually accessible core to God's Essence all of negative theology's disownings and discountings of God's attributes seem to lack an object to be about.
gloss: The act or process by which something is discounted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Similarly, discountings by FICBs are available only for short- and intermediate-term agricultural loans but not for the wide range of other rural credit needs.
Many of the ACC's planned to increase FICB discountings during coming years.
In economic evaluations, this time preference is taken into account by ariations of rates of discount or discountings, which in most cases depend on the current average interest rates.
Derived words: antidiscounting
Translations:
feigning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: feignings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.
pos: noun
Translations:
fouling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foulings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Probably, rifling evolved from the early observation of the feathers on an arrow-and from the practical results of cutting channels in a musket, originally to reduce fouling, then because it was found to improve accuracy of the shot.
Translations:
frisking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: friskings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
pos: noun
gloss: The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
pos: noun
examples: They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.
Translations:
coveting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: covetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who covets.
pos: noun
examples: In the meantime, by the light of this discourse, we clearly see why God so highly prizeth zealous covetings and desires in men after spiritual things […]
Translations:
larding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: lardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bacon or pork stuffed into other meat before cooking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With a small knife or larding pin, cut holes in the beef, to receive the bacon thus prepared; place the lardings tolerably thick and even; rub the beef over with the remainder of the seasoning […]
gloss: Fat or grease used to lard something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: larding needle
Translations:
mustering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: musterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.
pos: noun
examples: They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples.
Translations:
pelting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
pos: noun
examples: […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.
Translations:
recruiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: recruitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.
pos: noun
Translations:
reprimanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reprimandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a reprimand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
retarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: retardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slowing or hindrance.
pos: noun
examples: It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
Translations:
rioting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: riotings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A riot.
pos: noun
Translations:
shelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Inflected forms:
form: shellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An artillery bombardment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Grain from which the husk has been removed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: sea shelling
Translations:
shrouding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shroudings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shroud (annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket).
pos: noun
Translations:
squirting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squirtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being squirted.
pos: noun
examples: Someone had attempted to make the foul ambience less offensive by liberal squirtings with a sickly sweet freshener.
Translations:
steeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: steepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is usual to expect, that the first two or three wettings or steepings of grain, at the commencement of the malting season, will not make so good malt as succeeding steepings […]
Translations:
telegraphing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: telegraphings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A communication by telegraph.
pos: noun
examples: He was given three days to reconsider himself, and the Head of the establishment, after some telegraphings, said that it was a most unusual step […]
Translations:
tenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material used for making tents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
trolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others).
pos: noun
gloss: A fishing technique in which one or more baited fishing lines are dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trawling, which drags a net.
pos: noun
Derived words: concern-trolling
do a little bit of trolling
do a little trolling
patent trolling
RIP trolling
self-trolling
trolling-rod
Translations:
tweaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tweakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tweak; a minor modification.
pos: noun
examples: The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.
Translations:
volunteering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
wallowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wallowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who wallows.
pos: noun
examples: He gives graphic descriptions of the terrors of the Last Judgement and the luxurious wallowings of the blessed in the physical pleasures of Paradise.
Translations:
wreathing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wreathings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more wreathing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wreathing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The motion or pattern of something that wreaths.
pos: noun
examples: To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
gloss: Having a pattern that wreathes.
pos: adj
examples: The ground rose on each side like a wall, but hung with natural tapestry—the creeping plants which in the South take such graceful and wreathing forms in their foliage.
Translations:
bewailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bewailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who bewails something.
pos: noun
examples: We might have been!—these are but common words,
And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing;
They are the echo of those finer chords,
Whose music life deplores when unavailing,
We might have been!
No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again.
Translations:
addicting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English addict
English -ing
English addicting
From addict + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more addicting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most addicting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing addiction.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys.
similar in action to codeine salts but when compared with codeine on the basis of weight is more active, and more addicting.
When we didn't have narcotics laws, when we could go and buy this stuff like you could candy and potatoes, laudanum was a very addicting drug
Cocaine has been reconceptualized as our most addicting drug and crack is viewed as the most addicting form of cocaine
That is why smoking and intravenous injection are the routes of administration chosen by addicted people and why these routes of administration are so much more addicting than is oral use of the same drug.
Translations:
uncorking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uncorkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of a cork from a bottle or similar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
furthering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: furtherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
pos: noun
examples: […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
Translations:
scapegoating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scapegoatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making somebody a scapegoat.
pos: noun
examples: Nazi persecution of Jews, as with other scapegoatings, was focused, systematic and directly lethal. Other oppressions have been more long-term and uneven […]
Translations:
contradicting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contradictings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of contradiction.
pos: noun
Translations:
proclaiming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: proclaimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: proclamation
pos: noun
examples: More than one of these dangerous proclaimings of loyalty to him rather than to the King had come to his ears.
Translations:
plundering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plunderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.
pos: noun
examples: Not all military exercises by human beings are forbidden. Rather, only disordered and dangerous military exercises that give rise to slayings and plunderings are forbidden.
Translations:
norming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: normings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The endowing of a vector space, etc. with a norm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
scalping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scalp
English -ing
English scalping
From scalp (noun) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: scalpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action by which someone is scalped.
pos: noun
gloss: A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up.
pos: noun
gloss: A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread.
pos: noun
Derived words: antiscalping
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: skalpeeraus
lang: Portuguese
word: escalpelamento
blackmailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blackmailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who blackmails.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
Translations:
garlanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: garlandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement of garlands.
pos: noun
examples: It is beyond us, as we thread the ruined streets: above us, as we stand upon the ruined walls, we follow it through every vista of broken columns, as we wander through the empty court-yards of the houses; and through the garlandings and interlacings of every wanton vine.
In every temple of every god processions were held and offerings made by those who had anything left to offer, while the statues of the gods were dressed in fine new garments and hung about with garlandings of flowers.
Translations:
cuffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cuffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher.
gloss: The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cuffing season
Translations:
bleeping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: UK
euphemistic
not-comparable
slang
examples: Are you bleeping kidding me? That's the amount of rent we agreed!
Translations:
whisking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whiskings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that is whisked.
pos: noun
examples: the whiskings of a horse's tail
gloss: The movement of an animal's whiskers.
pos: noun
Translations:
tasking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: taskings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A task; an assigned item of work.
pos: noun
examples: Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings […]
Translations:
faulting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: faultings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Formation of a geological fault.
pos: noun
Translations:
cornering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cornerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of decorative work forming a corner.
pos: noun
examples: We have been informed that these cornerings are rarely used when the ceilings are not decorated […]
gloss: The act by which somebody is cornered.
pos: noun
examples: 1809–1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life
Aside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice.
Translations:
sleepwalking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sleepwalkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The play presents a whole gamut of such causes, from irrational passions, omens, prophecies, haunted sleepwalkings, nightmares, prodigies of nature, and conjurings, to Laius's ghost in four incarnations […]
Translations:
complimenting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more complimenting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complimenting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: complimentary; in the nature of a compliment.
pos: adj
Translations:
snickering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snickerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who snickers.
pos: noun
Translations:
kowtowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kowtowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow.
pos: noun
examples: Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
Translations:
blackening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blacken
English -ing
English blackening
From blacken + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: blackenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of defaming or sullying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: blackenings of my reputation
Translations:
countermanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: countermandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being countermanded.
pos: noun
examples: Let us bless him as we see acts of friends or foes to him and his children, proclamations and repudiations, orders and countermandings, motions of loyalty and rebellion, all providentially arranging themselves as so many onward steps […]
Translations:
butchering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English butch
English -er
English butcher
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English butchering
From butcher + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: butcherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which someone or something is butchered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
Great crowds turned out to watch the carcass portioned out. The butchering itself was rough and inexpert, conducted rapidly with a serrated knife on the side of the road.
gloss: The act by which someone or something is butchered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which someone or something is butchered.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which someone or something is butchered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: pig butchering
Translations:
careering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English career
English -ing
English careering
From career + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: careerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rapid, uncontrollable headlong motion.
pos: noun
examples: My old friend had tricks, but then I knew its tricks, and I was not less displeased at its manoeuvres, than a good rider is at the well known plunges and careerings of a favorite steed.
Translations:
spooking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: blackjack
games
Inflected forms:
form: spookings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supernatural fright.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Until her death Marie maintained that it was she and a few other fun-loving and lively girls who had started the spookings at the expense of the superstitious sisters.
gloss: The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Translations:
squealing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squealings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of one who squeals; a squeal.
pos: noun
Translations:
discrediting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: discreditings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is discredited.
pos: noun
Translations:
cranking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is cranked.
pos: noun
examples: The engine temperature warning lamp should illuminate when the starter button is depressed. Do not depress Engine Start button for more than 15 seconds with two minute intervals between crankings.
Translations:
sloughing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: sloughings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something sloughed off.
pos: noun
examples: As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
gloss: The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
pos: noun
examples: If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).
Translations:
smurfing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who smurfs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A money laundering technique involving the break-up of large sums into smaller amounts, in order to fly under the regulatory radar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: salami slicing
Translations:
cramping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of something that cramps.
pos: noun
examples: There are also twitchings or crampings of the muscles to a greater or less extent — which, if not relieved, soon become general and exceedingly violent and painful.
Translations:
mongering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monger
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English mongering
From monger + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: mongerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Trading or peddling (typically, of a specified commodity).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: fishmongering
gloss: The spreading or promotion of a specified thing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: fearmongering, warmongering
Related words: monger and -ing form of its derived terms
Derived words: disease mongering
peacemongering
Translations:
heralding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: heraldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is heralded.
pos: noun
examples: There are many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas.
Translations:
exhorting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: exhortings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: exhortation
pos: noun
examples: […] their censorious outcries against the standing ministers and Churches in general, their Lay ordinations, their Lay preachings, and public exhortings, and administering Sacraments […]
Translations:
slobbering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slobberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who slobbers.
pos: noun
examples: the slobberings of a hungry dog
Translations:
coiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pattern or motion of something that coils.
pos: noun
examples: Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"
gloss: The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.
pos: noun
Derived words: coilingly
decoiling
homocoiling
hypercoiling
supercoiling
Translations:
brawling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more brawling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brawling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brawlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: prone to brawls; unruly; pugnacious
pos: adj
gloss: An unruly fight; a brawl.
pos: noun
examples: Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.
Translations:
yodeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: yodelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who yodels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wakening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wakenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
pos: noun
Translations:
inhibiting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more inhibiting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inhibiting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
prolonging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: prolongings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: prolongation
pos: noun
examples: the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets
Translations:
whiffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whiffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.
gloss: A mode of fishing with a handline for pollock, mackerel, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
whimpering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whimperings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.
pos: noun
examples: And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.
As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
Translations:
ganking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
Inflected forms:
form: gankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to gank.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
Translations:
constraining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: constrainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is constrained.
pos: noun
examples: In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
Translations:
windmilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of milling with a windmill.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As windmilling became more and more marginal, so there was less money to keep the mills in repair […]
Translations:
persisting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: persistings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: persistence
pos: noun
examples: Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
Translations:
distracting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more distracting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distracting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus.
pos: adj
examples: Sending a text message was considered to be the most distracting activity to perform while driving. From the list, the least distracting activity was having a conversation with a passenger.
Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).
Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.
gloss: Diverting
pos: adj
Derived words: distractingly
nondistracting
undistracting
Translations:
cuckolding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cuckold
English -ing
English cuckolding
From cuckold + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cuckoldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.
pos: noun
examples: This might include giving a man a handjob and smearing his cum on his face, or it might involve forcing a man to lick his creampie out a woman's vagina or ass. Similar and related activities include snowballing and cum swapping, as well as women humiliating men through the use of other men's semen such as might take place in some cuckolding situations.
Translations:
mothballing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mothballings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being mothballed: taken out of service and stored for possible later use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
warping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing.
Base: warp
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: warpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An action or motion that warps or twists.
pos: noun
examples: Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field[…]
gloss: the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
pos: noun
gloss: The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
pos: noun
examples: In the more rude state of the art of Weaving , it was the uniform practice in warping, to fix pins in two upright posts at a certain distance from each other, and a number of small pins upon the posts about nine inches distant from each pin
gloss: The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.
pos: noun
Derived words: reality warping
warping bank
warping hook
warping post
wing warping
Translations:
trysting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trystings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appointment; a tryst.
pos: noun
examples: He confesses that even at trystings with a lady a third is always present.
Translations:
moulting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moultings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A moult; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
sundering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sunderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is sundered.
pos: noun
examples: The sunderings of love affairs
Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings, tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.
Translations:
looping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
education
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: loopings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.
pos: noun
gloss: A loop (aerobatic maneuver).
pos: noun
gloss: The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.
pos: noun
Translations:
thwacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thwackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
pos: noun
examples: The next day he realised that, glorious as his hiding place was as an escape from books and thwackings, it had its disadvantages: the chief was that there was nothing to eat and drink, and that is a very serious thing for a growing boy […]
Translations:
flailing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more flailing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flailing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A flailing action or motion.
pos: noun
examples: The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.
gloss: Having a lack of coordination, control, or successful outcome.
pos: adj
examples: A flailing economy has left the country exposed to hyperinflation.
Translations:
budgeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: budgetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity of constructing a budget.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
weening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing.
Base: ween
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: weenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Presumption, imagination, supposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] and if I get a scanty living in the way I do, it is because the credulity of the people require such practices to satisfy their weenings — they wish to know all sorts of things, […]
Translations:
plummeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plummetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plummetting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A violent or dramatic fall.
pos: noun
Translations:
sniggering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sniggerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sniggers.
pos: noun
Translations:
clamping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is clamped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are frequent clampings of cars that fail to display a parking permit.
Translations:
pioneering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Norway as a polar nation would not have been what it is today without their tireless pioneering efforts.
Lastly, and in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research.
gloss: The activity of the verb pioneer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: