yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
seawall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English se-walle, from Old English sǣweall (“seawall”), equivalent to sea + wall.
Compound parts: sea
wall
Inflected forms:
form: seawalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea wall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A coastal defence in the form of a wall or an embankment.
pos: noun
Translations:
hyphenated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hyphenated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hyphenated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Written with a hyphen.
pos: adj
examples: Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.
gloss: Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).
pos: adj
examples: [The Community Newspaper] is one of the many symbolic emblems that stand for the other half of the hyphenated American’s identity.
Derived words: hyphenated American
multihyphenated
nonhyphenated
unhyphenated
Translations:
paring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fragment or shaving that has been pared.
pos: noun
gloss: The cutting off of the surface of grassland for tillage.
pos: noun
Derived words: paring knife
Translations:
sandpit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.
Base: sand
Inflected forms:
form: sandpits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sand pit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
pos: noun
gloss: A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
pos: noun
gloss: A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
pos: noun
examples: Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.
[…] the commentaries on the battle given by Peter Snow with the aid of a model of the theatre of war, known as the 'Sandpit'.
[…] a conflict that did not fit so easily into the television studios, with their super-patriotic anchormen, their verbose ex-generals, their model tanks and their bloodless sandpits.
Translations:
whitehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From white + head.
Compound parts: white
head
Inflected forms:
form: whiteheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
pos: noun
examples: Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.
Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.
gloss: A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
pos: noun
gloss: The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
pos: noun
gloss: The surf scoter duck.
pos: noun
gloss: A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
pos: noun
Derived words: like a whitehead
whiteheaded
Translations:
whiskers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Faded creases around the crotch of blue jeans. Can be added artificially or created by daily wear over the lifetime of a garment.
pos: noun
Related words: whiskering
Translations:
whiskered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whisker
English -ed
English whiskered
From whisker + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more whiskered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whiskered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
pos: adj
examples: Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
Their attention was, however, too much taken up with their fellow-passengers: a whiskered, cloaked, and cigared youth, with every thing military about him but the air:...
Translations:
whiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whine
English -er
English whiner
From whine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: whiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who whines about perceived problems; a complainer.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: I never realized that he was such a whiner, but he complained steadily about various minor discomforts for the entire road trip.
Translations:
complainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complain
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 complainer
From complain + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: complainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who complains, or is known for their complaints.
pos: noun
gloss: A complainant (an alleged victim in a criminal trial).
pos: noun
Synonyms: grumbler
squeaky wheel
bellyacher
carper
castigator
caviler
censurer
complainer
crabber
critic
criticizer
faultfinder
findfault
grouch
grump
grumpy pants
hafter
kvetcher
latrant
nitpicker
pettifogger
pick-fault
quibbler
scolder
smellfungus
sourpuss
troublemaker
vituperator
whiner
whinger
whining Willy
Antonyms: noncomplainer
Related words: fussbudget
fusspot
complain
peevish
Derived words: noncomplainer
Translations:
diplopia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Ancient Greek δῐ́ς (dĭ́s)
Ancient Greek -πλόος (-plóos)
Ancient Greek δῐπλόος (dĭplóos)der.
New Latinder.
English diplo-
English -opia
English diplopia
From diplo- + -opia.
Inflected forms:
form: diplopias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diplopy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ophthalmologic condition where one perceives two images for a single object; double vision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As for Bodhidharma the only painting extant is too late to have been done from life. The sage’s eyes are crossed from his exertions. Diplopia giving the impression of the pineal eye, the Third Eye in full flower.
That doctor also noted the diplopia and sent her for a CT scan.
Translations:
unpleasantness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unpleasant
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 unpleasantness
From unpleasant + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: unpleasantnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Given the behaviour of the members, who do normally come to Lord’s, this seemed a bizarre attempt to offload the unpleasantness on hoi polloi taking advantage of some rare £25 tickets.
gloss: An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am, of the mischief that may, of the unpleasantnesses that must, arise from a young man’s being received in this manner—domesticated among us—authorized to come at all hours—and placed suddenly on a footing which must do away all restraints.
Antonyms: pleasantness
Derived words: late unpleasantness
Translations:
energize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From energy + -ize.
Base: energy
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: energizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: energizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: energized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: energized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: energise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To invigorate; to make energetic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Magazines of the day celebrated the new gay health consciousness in articles which linked the proliferation of gay bodybuilding with the health craze sweeping the country, though this was often complete nonsense. For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?
gloss: To supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
gloss: To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
Derived words: deenergize
de-energize
disenergize
energizable
energization
energizer
reenergize
Translations:
dissimulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dissimulaten, dissimilaten, from Latin dissimulātus + -en (“verb-forming suffix”), perfect passive participle of dissimulō (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Compare the obsolete dissimule (“to conceal, disguise”), from Old French dissimuler (French dissimuler), ultimately from the same Latin root. Doublet of dissemble, dissimilate, and dissimule.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: dissimulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dissimulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dissimulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dissimulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To practise deception by concealment or omission, or by feigning a false appearance; to dissemble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But now, as he paced alone in his apartment, now that he was not upon exhibition, now when there was no eye to behold him, and there was no reason to dissimulate or veil a single thought or feeling, his look was anything but open; the last trace of frankness disappeared; the muscles at mouth and eyes shifted; lines and planes intermingled and altered subtly; there was a moment of misty transformation – and the face of another man emerged. It was the face of a man uninstructed in mercy; it was a shrewd and planning face: alert, resourceful, elaborately perceptive, and flawlessly hard.
gloss: To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance; to dissemble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [P]ublic feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows.
gloss: To connive at; to wink at; to pretend not to notice.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: That al thyng be forgiven to theim that be olde and broken, and to theim that be yonge and lusty to dissimulate for a time, and nothyng to be forgiuen to very yong children.
Related words: dissimulator
dissimulation
Derived words: dissimulatingly
undissimulated
Translations:
conforming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conforming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conforming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting conformity.
pos: adj
examples: He's trying to get a conforming loan.
Translations:
mitigating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That serves to mitigate.
pos: adj
Translations:
banishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English banish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English banishment
From banish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: banishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of banishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The judge pronounced banishment upon the war criminal.
gloss: The state of being banished, exile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has been in banishment from his home country for well over four years.
You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
Synonyms: exile
Translations:
second-string
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: belonging to the second string of a team
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: substitute or replacement
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: second most important
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Having worked so hard to reach the Champions League, elimination will be a bitter blow for Mancini and City as they join neighbours United in Europe's second-string competition.
Translations:
segmental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English segment
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 segmental
From segment + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more segmental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most segmental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or constructed from segments
pos: adj
Translations:
selectman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English select
English -man
English selectman
From select + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: selectmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a board of municipal officers elected to manage some New England towns.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Near-synonyms: selectperson, selectwoman, councilperson, councilman, councilwoman
But what villager could have foreseen that their neighbor was to be commissioner for the government of Massachusetts, church elder, town selectman, judge of small causes, and town deputy to the Massachusetts legislature? The people of Weyhill [in Hampshire, England], who had seen Peter Noyes serve as juryman in their manorial court and churchwarden of their church on the hill, could have predicted that he would do well as land surveyor, road building director, grantor of timber, and fence viewer. They would have been amazed, however, and so would Noyes himself, if someone had told him, in 1638, that during the next twenty years he was to attend one hundred and twenty-nine separate official meetings in his town, to say nothing of the informal church gatherings, church services, and sessions of the Massachusetts legislature.
Every selectman in the state of New Hampshire seems to be positive that growth in a town will lower taxes, but if you plot growth rates against tax rates, you find a scatter as random as the stars in a New Hampshire winter sky.
The New England […] town had its own government: a group of selectmen elected by the adult male members of the church. The selectmen acted as a plural executive, while the town’s eligible voters gathered for town meetings and functioned as a miniature parliament.
Translations:
self-possession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English possession
English self-possession
From self- + possession.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A confidence in one's own powers.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
gloss: Calmness and composure, especially when under stress.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
examples: She had a very fresh complexion and a pretty, round little face saved from any dolliness by the steadiness of her blue eyes, the firmness of her mouth, and the expression of quiet self-possession.
Translations:
self-reliance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English reliance
English self-reliance
From self- + reliance.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Loss of self-reliance leads to loss of self-confidence.
The present sorrow always exceeds its predecessors—not so the present joy; comparison exaggerates the one, while it diminishes the other; and people talk of their youth as if it had not been a period of feverish sensitiveness, awkward embarrassments, many heart-burnings, and an utter want of that self-reliance which alone can ensure content.
A successful response uses social forces such as peer pressure and altruism to help people adapt to changing circumstances. It delivers messages and support that promote self-reliance rather than encourage people to fall back on stressed state support.
Translations:
shirtwaist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shirt + waist.
Compound parts: shirt
waist
Inflected forms:
form: shirtwaists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shirt-waist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shirt waist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman's tailored blouse, buttoned down the front.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist […].
Translations:
side-by-side
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From side + by + side.
Inflected forms:
form: side by side
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: SxS
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Adjacent; juxtaposed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The cylinder banks are at 60 deg. with the cylinders staggered to allow for side-by-side connecting rods on each crank.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
Translations:
skinfold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From skin + fold.
Compound parts: skin
fold
Inflected forms:
form: skinfolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A double layer of skin and the underlying adipose tissue obtained by pinching the skin at an appropriate site; the thickness (measured using calipers) gives an estimation of body fat.
pos: noun
Translations:
inheritor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English enheriter, enheritour. Displaced Old English ierfenuma. By surface analysis, inherit + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: inheritors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enheritour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inheritour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who inherits something; an heir.
pos: noun
gloss: A class, etc. that derives from another code element through inheritance.
pos: noun
Related words: coinheritress
inheritress
inheritrix
Derived words: coinheritor
Translations:
doorbell
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + bell.
Compound parts: door
bell
Inflected forms:
form: doorbells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doorbells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doorbelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doorbelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doorbelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bell, buzzer, or chime device mounted on or adjacent to a door's exterior, meant to be rung by a visitor to announce one's presence.
pos: noun
examples: There are, of course, smart speakers (which roughly a quarter of American homes have) and smart thermostats, as well as smart thermometers, smart mattress covers, smart coffee makers, smart doorbells, and even, yes, smart toasters.
gloss: To ring many doorbells in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ring many doorbells of (target people or an area) in an effort to contact people and thereby spread information or solicit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We doorbelled the whole district in an effort to get out the vote.
Translations:
doorjamb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + jamb.
Compound parts: door
jamb
Inflected forms:
form: doorjambs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the upright posts on either side of a door, which together support a lintel.
pos: noun
examples: There was a ball-pein hammer on a ledge above the doorjamb and Kidd reached up softly and took it down.
Translations:
doorknob
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + knob.
Compound parts: door
knob
Inflected forms:
form: doorknobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: door knob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: door-knob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doorknobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doorknobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doorknobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doorknobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: door knob
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: door-knob
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A circular device attached to a door, the rotation of which permits the unlatching of the door.
pos: noun
examples: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
gloss: A stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: (especially psychiatry) To suddenly bring up a time-consuming topic when very little time remains to discuss it, often as a tactic to avoid conversation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: door handle
Derived words: dead as a doorknob
deaf as a doorknob
doorknobbed
doorknob complaint
doorknoblike
doorknob phenomenon
doorknob question
doorknob statement
dumb as a doorknob
Translations:
doorkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of door + keeper.
Inflected forms:
form: doorkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: door-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes responsible for security in the immediate area around the entryway.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: doorman, concierge, bouncer
The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theatre was warned not to admit him to the house; and Charley Edwards remorsefully promised the boy's father not to see him again.
gloss: Someone with power to keep others out of some sphere or activity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Translations:
doughboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dough + boy; its use to refer to an infantryman is unknown, but dates from 1847, during the Mexican–American War.
Compound parts: dough
boy
Inflected forms:
form: doughboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American infantryman, especially one from World War I.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The "dough boys" were loaded into army wagons drawn by mules, and with the cavalry at the flanks the relief column started.
The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!
gloss: A kind of flour dumpling.
pos: noun
gloss: Frybread.
pos: noun
Translations:
heterodimeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English dimeric
English heterodimeric
From hetero- + dimeric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: produced from two similar but different monomers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
downshift
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
Etymology: The noun is derived from down (preposition) + shift (“slight change or movement”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Compound parts: down
shift
Inflected forms:
form: downshifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: downshifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downshifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downshifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downshifted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A change of direction or a movement downwards.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A reduction in quality or quantity.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A change in career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A shift of a transmission into a lower gear, as dictated by heavier load on the engine, as for example when climbing a hill or strongly accelerating.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The driver, Lindsay, gave me a regal wave at the top after he had completed a series of perfect downshifts[.]
gloss: To reduce (something) in quality or quantity (as effect, scope, speed, etc.)
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: But in this variation on Superbad's wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism.
gloss: To change (one's career or lifestyle) to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
gloss: To shift (a car or bicycle) into a lower gear.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: He brought the car to a stop before the bridge, downshifted and then put her at the road again in a rising disciplined snarl along the N.6 to Cannes.
gloss: To function at a lower rate; to slacken.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
gloss: To change one's career or lifestyle to one which is not as well paid but less stressful and more personally rewarding.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
gloss: To shift a transmission into a lower gear.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
examples: In a stick-shift vehicle, the driver must downshift when necessary; in an automatic, the transmission downshifts as needed.
Related words: stickshift
drive stick
Derived words: downshifter
downshifting
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: zwalniać
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 落波
roman: lok⁶ bo¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 降擋 /降挡
roman: jiàngdǎng
lang: Dutch
word: terugschakelen
lang: Finnish
word: vaihtaa pienemmälle vaihteelle
lang: French
word: rétrograder
lang: German
word: herunterschalten
downscale
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English downscale
From down- + scale.
Inflected forms:
form: more downscale
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downscale
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: downscales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downscaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downscaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downscaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Being downmarket, of a lower quality.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a series of notes, falling in pitch in regular or musical intervals; descending.
pos: adj
gloss: To reduce in size; to downsize.
pos: verb
Translations:
downstate
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From down + state.
Compound parts: down
state
Inflected forms:
form: downstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more downstate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most downstate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more downstate
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most downstate
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The southern region of certain US states, particularly Michigan, New York, and Illinois.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The final election returns from downstate may not be available until late Wednesday morning.
gloss: A period during sleep when somebody is not primed and not ready to learn.
pos: noun
gloss: Of the southern section of a state.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: To the southern section of a state.
pos: adv
tags: US
Translations:
downtime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From down (“out of order; out of service; inoperable”) + time.
Compound parts: down
time
Inflected forms:
form: downtimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: down time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: down-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Time lost due to the failure of some system or machinery, such as a computer crash or power outage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A short internet outage might sound like a trifling matter – don’t we all need a little bit of time offline now and then? – but for many, the pervasiveness of the so-called “internet of things” meant downtime at Amazon affected their physical life as well as their digital one.
gloss: A period of time when work or other activity is less intense or stops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the world turns inward, trapped inside in various stages of pandemic quarantine, numerous songwriting luminaries (often blessed with their own in-home studios) have tried to use the downtime creatively—from Millennial stars like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande to longtime veterans like Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello.
gloss: A period of time set aside for relaxation and rest; leisure time, free time.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: I’ve been working all weekend. I need some downtime.
But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.
‘We need to use the downtime, when things are calm, to prepare for when things get serious in the decades to come,’ he [Demis Hassabis] has said. ‘The time we have now is valuable, and we need to make use of it.’
Translations:
dragnet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fishing
government
hobbies
law-enforcement
lifestyle
Etymology: From drag + net, probably based on the model of Middle English draynet, dreynett (“dragnet”), Old English dræġnet, dræġnett (“dragnet”), equivalent to dray + net. Cognate with Swedish dragnät, Norwegian dragnett, from Icelandic dragnet.
Compound parts: drag
net
Inflected forms:
form: dragnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drag-net
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drag net
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dragnets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dragnetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dragnetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dragnetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drag-net
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: drag net
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
pos: noun
examples: Anchovy dragnets are an important part Korea's fishing sector. Over 99% of catches found in anchovy dragnets are anchovy. Although the annual total catches of anchovy have fluctuated, dragnets catch 55 to 70% of the total annual catch of anchovy. The remaining portion is caught with drift gill nets (10%) and other fishing methods.
gloss: A heightened effort by law enforcement personnel undertaken in order to capture suspects.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.[…]who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
gloss: To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When ponds are cleaned out periodically, fish are trapped or dragnetted and finally the pond is drained to remove all fish.
gloss: To undertake a heightened effort to catch a suspect.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: In fact, Carty was not the man, but, after a police swoop had dragnetted twenty men suspected of having taken part in the business, he was lodged in Sligo jail and accused of this violence to the lady.
A May Day anti-capitalist protest last year in Seattle saw clashes between police and protesters, and the FBI had been dragnetting potential anarchists.
Derived words: dragnet mortgage
Translations:
dragster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from drag + -ster.
Base: drag
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: dragsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavily modified or custom-built vehicle used in drag racing.
pos: noun
examples: On a raceway near Riverside, California, a dragger was fatally injured when his dragster went out of control […]
In 1960, Honolulu motorcycle racer (and Street Roadster dragger) Danny Ongais stepped up to the dragster ranks […]
gloss: One who takes part in drag racing.
pos: noun
gloss: A drag queen.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Dragsters Justin Bond and Jackie Beat kick up their own New York "holigay" spirit
Related words: funny car
Translations:
drawstring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From draw + string.
Compound parts: draw
string
Inflected forms:
form: drawstrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A string or cord, encased in a fabric tube, with one or more small openings into the tube, on a bag or garment, allowing the item to be closed (as with a bag) or tightened (as with sweatpants or a bathing suit).
pos: noun
Translations:
sourcing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sourcings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is sourced, or obtained from another place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But even such specific sourcings of ideas from string theory presuppose a certain cultural currency of string theory as a whole.
gloss: The supply of resources needed by a business process.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: crowdsourcing
multisourcing
ridesourcing
impact sourcing
insourcing
outsourcing
Translations:
po-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, probably from po, abbreviated slang based on French pot de chambre (“chamber pot”), after the distasteful expression anyone would adopt upon being presented with a full one. Perhaps similarly from pooh; perhaps influenced by poker-faced. Also possibly “poor-faced”.
Inflected forms:
form: more po-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most po-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a particularly stern and disapproving expression; humourless; priggish.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Nae hassle man . . . I'll git oaf the skag, and Saughton's barry fir hash. It'll be a piece ay pish likesay . . . he sais, as he's escorted away by a po–faced labdick.
I mean, you would never guess if you came up from the South to Edinburgh in August that it is such a po-faced, humourless place, now would you?
gloss: Poker-faced.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Derived words: po-face
Translations:
poker-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the attitude necessary in the game of poker, since one is ill-advised to reveal delight at being dealt a winning hand lest other players decline to bet (or contrariwise, show disappointment at a poor hand if one is inclined to bluff).
Inflected forms:
form: more poker-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poker-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: poker faced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pokerfaced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a poker face: studiously neutral in facial expression; giving nothing away.
pos: adj
examples: John, in his most poker-faced manner, continued to explain the rules.
Harold Lloyd had had one or two minor comic brushes with railway trains, but the first man to produce real comedy from locomotives was the great poker-faced clown, Buster Keaton.
Translations:
canzone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian canzone (“song”), from Latin cantiō. Doublet of cantion and chanson.
Inflected forms:
form: canzones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canzoni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian or Provençal song or ballad.
pos: noun
gloss: A canzona (mediaeval Italian instrumental composition).
pos: noun
Related words: canzonet
canzonetta
Translations:
skirmisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skirmish
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 skirmisher
From skirmish + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: skirmishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infantry soldier used for skirmishing.
pos: noun
examples: A skirmisher had fired three shots at the Captain -- the third striking his horse. He dismounted to see how much the animal was injured, and had just placed one foot in the stirrup to remount when the same man fired again. The ball this time struck the Captain in the back -- he raised one hand and fell to the ground dead.
The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
Translations:
slavering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slaverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: drooling saliva
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: saliva dropped from the mouth
pos: noun
examples: This Ra was not willing to divulge, but he was old at this time, and Isis got him into her power, for she formed a serpent from his slaverings and the earth and set it in the path of the god, who was bitten and brought near death […]
Translations:
fireboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + boat.
Compound parts: fire
boat
Inflected forms:
form: fireboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harbor boat designed for pumping large volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.
pos: noun
Translations:
slaver
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slaveren, from Old Norse slafra (“to slaver”), probably imitative. Doublet of slabber.
Inflected forms:
form: slavers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slavering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slavered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slavered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be drooled out of someone’s mouth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
gloss: To smear with saliva issuing from the mouth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be besmeared with saliva.
pos: verb
examples: should I, damn'd then, / Slaver with lips as common as the stairs / That mount the Capitol
gloss: Saliva running from the mouth; drool.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Of all mad Creatures, if the Learn'd are right, / It is the Slaver kills, and not the Bite.
He went over to it, held it in his hands awhile, feeling its coolness, smelling the clammy slaver of the lather in which the brush was stuck.
Synonyms: drool
slobber
Derived words: slaverer
slaveringly
antislaver
Translations:
small-scale
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From small + scale.
Compound parts: small
scale
Inflected forms:
form: smaller-scale
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smallest-scale
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: small scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Concerning a lower order of magnitude rather than a higher one.
pos: adj
examples: small-scale aspects of fluid dynamics
gloss: Having a modest scope or extent.
pos: adj
examples: small-scale business operations
gloss: Drawn or constructed at a small size (at low scale), without much detail.
pos: adj
examples: a small-scale inset orienting the viewer, implying "you are here"
Related words: scale model
scale modeler
Translations:
softhearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From soft + hearted.
Compound parts: soft
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more softhearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most softhearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: soft-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Gentle; kind; sympathetic.
pos: adj
gloss: Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
pos: adj
gloss: Willing to accept criticism.
pos: adj
Antonyms: hardhearted
Related words: softboy
softy
Derived words: softheartedly
softheartedness
Translations:
compote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite, compost, and kompot.
Inflected forms:
form: compotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: compôte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
pos: noun
gloss: A dish used for serving fruit.
pos: noun
Translations:
soothingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English soothing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English soothingly
From soothing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more soothingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most soothingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a soothing manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
sopor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).
Inflected forms:
form: sopors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unnaturally deep sleep.
pos: noun
Translations:
soured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more soured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has become or been made sour.
pos: adj
Translations:
spasmodically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spasmodic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English spasmodically
From spasmodic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more spasmodically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most spasmodically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a spasmodic manner; intermittently.
pos: adv
Translations:
spats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of spatterdashes.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A stiff legging worn over the instep and ankles of a shoe.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: A similar device for horses.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Long hair on front of lower legs of heavier horses (over the hooves), especially draft horses, notably the Clydesdale breed.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: form-fitting shorts covering the waist to mid- or lower thigh usually worn for athletic situations, compression shorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
cocksure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from cock (“rooster”) + sure, early 16th c.
Base: cock
Inflected forms:
form: more cocksure
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cocksure
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cock-sure
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Too confident; overconfident.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.
The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
Cocksure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.
“What's this? You sending the little guy to private school?” “Yeah, we're thinking about it.” “Oh. Well, you better add Helen Country Day School to the list 'cause you're talking to an HCD grad right here.” “Really? Well, there you go. That's where the boy shall go.” “Yeah, I can help you with that. I happen to be very tight with the headmaster.” “Don't you think that's a rather hasty decision?” “Sean went there, and look how he's turned out.” “Right.” “Tuck his trousers in and everything. No, I've never been more cocksure of any decision in my life.”
Translations:
photocopying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: photocopyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which photocopies are made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The forms became almost illegible after multiple photocopyings.
Translations: