yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
observable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English observe
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English observable
From observe + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more observable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most observable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: observables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be observed.
pos: adj
examples: The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.
In 1913, in the same year that Mother's Day became a nationally observable holiday, the American people passed another milestone: for the first time in American history more than one person in one thousand was divorced.
Although intellectual property rights, such as patents, are highly observable, they are mostly limited to product technologies. Process technologies, or the routines endemic in the firm's production, are not readily observable, and thus cannot be easily imitated.
He added, in an email to CNN, that “the collection of increasingly large and well curated medical datasets has enabled AI tools to predict genetic mutations from imaging phenotypes reducing the burden of healthcare systems and improving the way we care for patients.” Phenotypes are observable characteristics.
gloss: Deserving to be observed; worth regarding; remarkable.
pos: adj
examples: Both were observable figures; one a personable individual of foreign cut, the other—obviously in spite of his well-wrapped-up form—a pronounced cripple.
gloss: Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
pos: noun
examples: Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to Hermitian operators. Also, they act a lot like random variables. Taking their expected value one may recover something resembling a classical observable.
Synonyms: perceivable
noteworthy
Derived words: coobservable
eigenobservable
nonobservable
observableness
observable universe
observably
unobservable
Translations:
observance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Old French observance, from Latin observantia. Equivalent of observe + -ance.
Base: observe
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: observances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: observancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: observaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Observation or the act of watching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thomas Merton was a monk in the Order of Cistertians of the Strict Observance.
gloss: That which is to be observed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reverence; homage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: misobservance
Derived words: disobservance
hyperobservance
inobservance
misobservance
nonobservance
Sabbath observance
unobservance
Translations:
demoniacal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin daemoniacus + -al.
Base: daemoniacus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more demoniacal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demoniacal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dæmoniacal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish, demonic, fiendish.
pos: adj
examples: sarcastic, demoniacal laughter
Rebecca laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits.
'What do you think of that, Job?' I asked of our retainer, who was sitting on the edge of the boat, trying to get as much sunshine as possible, and generally looking uncommonly wretched, and I pointed to the fiery and demoniacal head.
The spectator feels almost persuaded that he is witnessing some unearthly demoniacal orgie.
They knew what it meant; even Joan had heard the cry of the lone wolf hunting in the lean time of winter, and of all things sad, all things lonely, all things demoniacal, the howl of a wolf stands alone.
Translations:
observant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French observantbor.
English observant
Borrowed from French observant.
Inflected forms:
form: more observant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most observant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
pos: adj
examples: The observant police officer noticed that my tax disk was out-of-date.
gloss: Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.
pos: adj
examples: I was normally observant of the local parking restrictions.
We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.
They also profess Buddhism, but are not so observant of its customs, nor are there so many monasteries and Lamas to be met with as in the other part of Bhutan.
gloss: Practicing a religion.
pos: adj
examples: She is an observant Catholic who goes to church regularly.
Antonyms: inobservant
nonobservant
unobservant
unobserving
Related words: inobservant
Derived words: hyperobservant
nonobservant
unobservant
Translations:
intentional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more intentional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intentional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intentionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
pos: adj
gloss: Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
pos: adj
examples: It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent.
When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer. As such Kafka’s protagonists are a reflection of the thinking and behavior of Kafka the author. Critics and literary scholars misinterpret Kafka’s work by focusing on aspects such as the psychological and mental state of the characters, which are of limited actual concern for the externally intentional focus of the writer Kafka.
gloss: Done with intent.
pos: adj
gloss: Object to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.
pos: noun
examples: Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate set of evidentials fused with tense (see §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.
Synonyms: purposeful
purposive
advertent
conscious
witting
intentional
on purpose
volitational
volitional
voluntary
wilful
Antonyms: unintentional
accidental
unwitting
Derived words: intentional community
intentional fallacy
intentional grounding
intentionalism
intentionalist
intentionalistic
intentionality
intentionally
intentional pass
intentional species
intentional walk
nonintentional
preterintentional
Translations:
genotoxic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geno-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Italic *-kos
Latin -cus
Latin toxicusbor.
French toxiquebor.
English toxic
English genotoxic
From geno- + toxic.
Inflected forms:
form: more genotoxic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genotoxic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of damaging genetic material such as DNA, and thus causing mutations or possibly cancer.
pos: adj
Translations:
supposition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English supposicioun, from Anglo-Norman supposicion, from Latin suppositiō, suppositiōnem (“supposition”), from sub- (“under”) + positiō, positiōnem (“position; theme”), from positus (“position”), from the perfect passive participle of pōnō, pōnere (“put, place”).
Inflected forms:
form: suppositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The supposition that Geoffrey had been chloroformed was a reasonable hypothesis at that stage of the disclosure.
gloss: The act or an instance of supposing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: assumption
conjecture
educated guess
foreguess
given
guess
guesstimate
hunch
hypothesis
inference
overhope
posit
possibility
postulation
presumption
reckoning
speculation
supposition
surmise
suspicion
theory
working hypothesis
Related words: deposition
suppositious
supposititious
suppository
axiom
postulate
suppose
Derived words: missupposition
suppositional
suppositionary
supposition theory
Translations:
observer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
motor-racing
politics
racing
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English observe
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 observer
From observe + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: observers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
pos: noun
examples: Most impartial observers agreed that Sampras had not served well.
Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."
gloss: One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
pos: noun
examples: I shall be an observer of the local customs.
gloss: A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
pos: noun
examples: The UN sent many observers to the country's first elections.
When the army reached Tsun-i, an enlarged Politburo meeting was called. Teng attended as an observer.
gloss: A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
pos: noun
examples: The Vatican and Palestine have observer status at the UN.
gloss: A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
pos: noun
examples: The only crew-member to survive the crash was the Canadian observer.
gloss: A sentry etc. manning an observation post.
pos: noun
examples: We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.
gloss: Synonym of spotter.
pos: noun
Related words: observable
observably
observance
observant
observation
observational
observatory
observe
Derived words: electoral observer
interobserver
intraobserver
nonobserver
observeress
observerless
observer pattern
observership
participant observer
Sabbath observer
Translations:
obsess
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin obsessus, perfect passive participle of obsideō (“sit on or in, remain, besiege”), from ob- (“before”) + sedeō (“to sit”); see sit, session, etc.; compare assess, possess.
Inflected forms:
form: obsesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obsessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obsessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obsessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
pos: verb
examples: Some people are obsessed with sports.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
Over the past few months, RAIL has frequently condemned the Department for Transport for its growing contempt for rail customers - by obsessing on cost, caring nothing for service, and not having the slightest interest in growth.
gloss: To dominate the thoughts of someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thoughts of her obsess my every waking moment.
gloss: To think or talk obsessively about.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: Stop obsessing over it, will you!
Synonyms: fixate
Related words: obsession
Derived words: obsessee
obsessingly
obsessive
obsessoid
obsessor
Translations:
obstacle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obstāculum.
Inflected forms:
form: obstacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
pos: noun
examples: A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
Translations:
obstetric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”).
Inflected forms:
form: obstetrick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: obstetric clinic
For Wenham, the most striking statistic from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, was that from 2013 to 2016, during the outbreak, more women died of obstetric complications than the infectious disease itself.
Translations:
obstetrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From obstetric.
Inflected forms:
form: ob.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: obs.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: obstet.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: obstetr.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: obstetricks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The care of women during and after pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as doctors trained in this procedure.
Translations:
obstetrician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obstetrics
English -ician
English obstetrician
From obstetrics + -ician.
Inflected forms:
form: obstetricians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physician who specializes in childbirth.
pos: noun
examples: The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
“Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.
Translations:
obstinacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obstinate
English -cy
English obstinacy
From obstinate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: obstinacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obstinance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
proscribed
form: obstinancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.
"I don't know where," replied the girl.
"Then I do," said Sikes, more in the spirit of obstinacy than because he had any real objection.
1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12,
His hand closed, he drew back, and his face assumed a still more stubborn expression.
"For you it's a matter of obstinacy," she said, looking intently at him and suddenly finding the right word for the expression of his face which exasperated her so much.
gloss: A group of bison; the collective noun for bison.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
Synonyms: conviction
insistence
recalcitrance
stubbornness
tenacity
obstinacy
doggedness
pertinacity
self-will
resolve
temerity
vehemence
intransigence
pigheadedness
Related words: determination
perseverance
persistence
resolution
steadfastness
sticktoitiveness
mumpsimus
obstinate
persevere
Translations:
obstructive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obstruct
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English obstructive
From obstruct + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more obstructive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstructive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obstructives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing obstructions.
pos: adj
examples: I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive.
The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
gloss: One who obstructs something.
pos: noun
Translations:
obtainable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obtain
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English obtainable
From obtain + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more obtainable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obtainable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be obtained.
pos: adj
examples: 2007, Bill Mason, Connetquot targeted: BLACK POWDER HISTORY, Newsday.com, 14 July,
Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal are combined in proportions and through methods easily obtainable in books and on the Internet.
Antonyms: unobtainable
Translations:
obtrude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin obtrūdō (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + trūdō (“thrust”).
Inflected forms:
form: obtrudes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obtruding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obtruded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obtruded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]
The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
gloss: To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!
Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights.
It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.
In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
gloss: To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.
This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"
As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.
Derived words: obtruder
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tyrkyttäytyä
lang: Finnish
word: tungetella
lang: Hindi
word: निकलवाना
roman: nikalvānā
lang: Russian
word: навязываться
roman: navjazyvatʹsja
lang: Ukrainian
word: нав'язуватися
roman: navʺjazuvatysja
obtuseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obtuse
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 obtuseness
From obtuse + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: obtusenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being obtuse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that is obtuse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: obtusity
Translations:
obverse
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin obversus, 1650s.
Inflected forms:
form: obverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Turned or facing toward the observer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
gloss: Corresponding; complementary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
gloss: Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an obverse leaf
gloss: The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
pos: noun
examples: The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
gloss: A proposition obtained by obversion.
pos: noun
examples: White racism says that all black people are the same, with no right to or understanding of these words. Too much of what I have seen of black society simply assumes the obverse, that black people should have no interest in these words, that these words are irrelevant to or destructive of "black culture."
Derived words: obversely
Translations:
occasionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English occasionally, occasionaly, occasyoneely, occasyonly, equivalent to occasional + -ly.
Base: occasional
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more occasionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most occasionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On occasion: at relatively infrequent intervals, from time to time, sometimes.
pos: adv
examples: God ſetteth no houres for the morning or evening ſacrifice because they may occaſionally be changed.
Some perhaps worship only on alternate Sundays; others still more occasionally.
The journal, more occasionally, has turned to what might be called "fashionable" themes.
Flames could still be seen from town flaring up occasionally on a hill dotted with emergency vehicles.
gloss: On an occasion, accidentally, by chance.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Mr Tourville occasionally told his age; just turned of thirty-one.
[N]othing gave him so much joy in conversation, as an opportunity of giving the company to understand, how well he was with persons of distinguished rank and character: he would often (for example) observe, as it were occasionally, that the duke of G— was one of the best natured men in the world […].
I had met Lord Ossory in the forenoon, who had come to town occasionally.
gloss: On the occasion of something else happening; incidentally, by the way.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Were nothing els diſcourſively inſerted (as ſome little elſe occaſionally preſented it ſelfe), what paper more currently fit for the bareſt mechanicall uſes, [...]
I think it is plain, that Origen, whatever Character he may have occaſionally given of this Book, did not judge it any part of the Canon...
Synonyms: at times
ever and anon
every once in a while
every now and then
every so often
from time to time
intermittently
irregularly
now and again
now and then
occasionally
on occasion
once in a while
sometimes
sporadically
uncommonly
while
whilom
Antonyms: usually
rarely
Related words: flakily
unreliably
frequency
unusually
Translations:
occultism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French occultisme, analyzable as occult + -ism.
Base: occult
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: occultisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the supernatural
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A belief in occult powers and the hope of controlling them
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
occultist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ob-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱéletider.
Latin *celo
Latin occulō
Latin occultusbor.
English occult
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English occultist
From occult + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: occultists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
pos: noun
examples: Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.
Translations:
bushwhacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bush + whacker.
Compound parts: bush
whacker
Inflected forms:
form: bushwhackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bushwacker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: The bushwhackers remained at General Cooper′s camp several days, then crossed the Red River into Texas.
1967 April, Donald Keith, The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure, Boys' Life, page 51,
She stared at us. “Hardly. You must be from far off, not to know about Quantrill′s raids. Last March the bushwhackers rode into Aubrey, shot every man in town, stole everything, burned down houses. […] ”
Many bushwhackers were young men born to families of southern heritage who were generally wealthier and more likely to own slaves than the typical Missouri farmer.[…]His eldest daughter, Elisa, was an effective bushwhacker spy and informant.
gloss: Someone who attacks without warning.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
pos: noun
examples: 1977 September, Dave Hurteau, Air and Water, Field & Stream, page 90,
We spent the rest of the day hopping from pond to pond with the bushwhackers, and we found them very suited for it.
Related words: bushbash
Translations:
preventable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prevent
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English preventable
From prevent + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more preventable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preventable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: preventible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preventables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preventible
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being prevented.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that can be prevented.
pos: noun
examples: Nonetheless, we should all like to see fewer of these preventables in our ER and more of that money going to help keep these people safe and healthy.
Translations:
prevention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English prevencion, from Medieval Latin prēventiō.
Inflected forms:
form: preventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a fire prevention campaign
Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
But no Man Pities another for any Evil lying upon Him, which he would not help, but which he could not. One is his Burden, the other his Choice; Vertually at least, since he might have Chosen its Prevention.
It performed this task in the beginning and has always exercised the power of passing on books. By this transfer, the Pope points out, every danger of a collision, which might become very embarrassing, is evaded. The prevention of such collisions has indeed been one of the chief reasons for Pius X to undertake the complete reorganization of the Roman Curia.
In the next few days we'll announce the administration's new strategy for the prevention of drug abuse and drug trafficking.
gloss: Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whatever cures are known, and preventions that are practiced now, could have been common knowledge centuries ago.
gloss: The act of going, or state of being, before.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It is generally knowne and obserued, that Light, and the Obiect of Sight, moue swifter than Sound; For we see the Flash of a Peece [i.e. firearm] is seene sooner, than the Noise is heard. […] And the greater the Distance, the greater is the Preuention: As we see in Thunder, which is farre off; where the Lightning Precedeth the Cracke a good space.
gloss: Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [Suffolk, York and Beaufort]
Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,
And, fly thou how thou canst, they’ll tangle thee:
But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,
Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
gloss: precaution; forethought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. LUKE, Chapter 14, verse 3, p. 238,
And Jesus […] by way of prevention asked a question of the Doctors of the law and Pharisees that were present, saying, Is the working of a cure on a sick man a thing forbidden, and so unlawfull to be done upon a sabbath day?
Derived words: angioprevention
an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure
an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
antiprevention
chemoprevention
immunoprevention
loss prevention
nonprevention
photoprevention
prevenception
preventional
prevention is better than cure
preventionism
preventionist
Translations:
bony
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bony, equivalent to bone + -y.
Base: bone
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bonier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: boniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: boney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
pos: adj
gloss: Full of bones.
pos: adj
gloss: With little flesh; skinny, thin.
pos: adj
examples: That bony fellow could use a few hot dinners.
gloss: Having prominent bones.
pos: adj
Derived words: bonily
boniness
bony bream
bony fish
bony labyrinth
bonytail
infrabony
intrabony
nonbony
suprabony
Translations:
consistency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, consistent + -cy, consistence + -y or consist + -ency.
Base: consistence
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: consistencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Local coherence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Correspondence or compatibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
gloss: The degree of viscosity of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
gloss: Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.
Antonyms: inconsistency
Related words: consist
consistence
consistent
Derived words: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
endoconsistency
exoconsistency
nonconsistency
paraconsistency
photoconsistency
self-consistency
sparsistency
unconsistency
Translations:
spack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a contraction of spastic (as a term of abuse).
Inflected forms:
form: spacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with cerebral palsy.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
offensive
slang
gloss: An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
offensive
slang
examples: You spilt beer on your shirt, you spack!
For quotations using this term, see Citations:spack.
Related words: spacko
spacka
spacker
spaz
spastic
Derived words: spack attack
spacky
Translations:
pose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause.
Inflected forms:
form: poses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: posing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: posed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: posed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To pose a model for a picture.
gloss: To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.
Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad.
gloss: To falsely impersonate (another person or occupation) primarily for the purpose of accomplishing something or reaching a goal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To assume or maintain a pose; to strike an attitude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He […] posed before her as a hero.
gloss: To behave affectedly in order to attract interest or admiration.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
gloss: To interrogate; to question.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: She pretended to […] pose him and sift him.
gloss: To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose or puzzle him.
The Doctor […] had likewise a pair of little eyes that were always half shut up, and a mouth that was always half expanded into a grin, as if he had, that moment, posed a boy, and were waiting to convict him from his own lips.
Related words: puzzle
Derived words: malpose
posable
poseable
posingly
posing pouch
unpose
Translations:
boga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bogas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Haemulon vittatum, a species of grunt.
pos: noun
Translations:
consistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French. Compare French consistance. By surface analysis, consist + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: consistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Logical consistency; lack of self-contradiction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The staying together, or remaining in close relation, of non-physical things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her performance has lacked consistence over the last year.
This composer’s musical work is of extraordinary consistence.
gloss: The physical quality which is given by the degree of density, firmness, solidity, and viscosity; consistency.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: If they [expressed juices] be boiled into the Consistence of a Syrup.
It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.
All these things, and many others too numerous to mention, were well mixed together in the famous pot and boiled for four hours, until the consistence of a mess, or poss, was obtained, […]
gloss: The condition of adhering or standing together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; coherence, existence, firmness, solidity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence.
VVe are as vvater, vveak, and of no conſiſtence, alvvayes deſcending, abiding in no certain place, unleſeſ vvhere vvee are detained vvith violence: […]
When it was brought to the school it discharged from its right nostril, a whitish, viscid, clotty matter, which, although of little consistence, strongly adhered to the sides of the nostril.
gloss: That which stands together as a united whole; a combination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members.
gloss: Standing still; quiescence, state of rest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A substance which adheres together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.
Related words: consist
consistency
consistent
Derived words: inconsistence
Translations:
undisputed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English disputed
English undisputed
From un- + disputed.
Inflected forms:
form: more undisputed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undisputed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Universally agreed upon; not disputed.
pos: adj
examples: She may be declining in popularity, relevance and quality, but Ayumi Hamasaki is still the undisputed Queen of J-Pop, and it will be a long while before anyone can surpass her.
The publishing industry is littered with frequent blurbers. Still, Mr. Shteyngart managed to stand out as an undisputed master of the form.
gloss: Unchallenged and accepted without question.
pos: adj
Translations:
angiosperm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “receptacle”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”), equivalent to angio- + sperm.
Base: sperm
Affixes: angio-
Inflected forms:
form: angiosperms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
pos: noun
examples: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms, justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.
2009, Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms, Pierre Pontarotti, Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application, page 55,
With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of angiosperms.
The palynoassemblage is rich in angiosperm taxa (45.63%) followed by gymnosperms (0.45%), pteridophytes (18.49%) and fungal remains (23.88%).
Translations:
gymnosperm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- + sperm.
Inflected forms:
form: gymnosperms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.
pos: noun
examples: Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm.
The palynoassemblage is rich in angiosperm taxa (45.63%) followed by gymnosperms (0.45%), pteridophytes (18.49%) and fungal remains (23.88%).
Translations:
terminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English terminate
English -ed
English terminated
From terminate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more terminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been the subject of termination; ended or destroyed.
pos: adj
gloss: Having lost a job or assignment.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an end or a boundary.
pos: adj
Derived words: coterminated
interminated
nonterminated
null-terminated
preterminated
unterminated
Translations:
terminating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Coming to an end.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a decimal: having a finite number of digits.
pos: adj
examples: Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
Antonyms: nonterminating
Derived words: unterminating
Translations:
ascetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἀσκέω (askéō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀσκητής (askētḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ἀσκητῐκός (askētĭkós)der.
Medieval Latin asceticusbor.
English ascetic
First use appears c. 1646. From Medieval Latin asceticus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκητικός (askētikós), from ἀσκητής (askētḗs, “monk, hermit”), from ἀσκέω (askéō, “to exercise”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ascetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ascetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ascetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ascetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ascetick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to ascetics.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
pos: adj
examples: In a word, the stern, ascetic rigor of the temple discipline, which had been so long exchanged for prodigal and licentious indulgence, seemed at once to have revived at Templestowe under the severe eye of Lucas Beaumanoir.
1999, Alan Davies, Tradition and Modernity in Protestant Christianity, Karigoudar Ishwaran (editor), Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement, page 30,
The rich communal life of the most ascetic Protestants, for example, the Hutterites and the Old Order Mennonites, with their nineteenth century dress and preference for antiquated technology, refutes such superficial judgments.
2004, Phyllis G. Jestice, Ascetics as Holy People, Phyllis G. Jestice (editor), Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Entries A to G, page 70,
Throughout the hagiographical tradition, though, holy people have engaged in more ascetic practices than the population at large, usually proceeding two or three degrees beyond what is expected among the merely pious.
This experience enables Nāgārjuna to recognize that desire is the root cause of suffering and motivates him to turn to a more ascetic lifestyle.
gloss: One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
pos: noun
examples: First, the technical terms used to signify hindu ascetics, hermits, mendicants and some related terms are analysed in their religious meaning with the view of avoiding a good deal of confusion that exists in such studies.
Female ascetics find shelter in a wide variety of establishments and vary greatly in the degree to which they travel.
The ascetics were not only concerned with abstinence from food, and much of the contemporary literature stresses sexual desire and civil ambition as other important dangers to avoid.
Derived words: antiascetic
ascetically
asceticism
asceticist
nonascetic
pseudoascetic
unascetic
Translations: