yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bland
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin blandusbor.
English bland
Borrowed from Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).
Inflected forms:
form: blander
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blandest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blaind
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blaund
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: a bland oil
a bland diet
gloss: Lacking in taste or flavor.
pos: adj
examples: The coffee was bland.
gloss: Lacking in vigor.
pos: adj
examples: First and foremost, alternative country artists generally claim to reject mainstream country music as musically indistinguishable from bland pop music, as lyrically superficial, and as having no artistic merit […]
gloss: Lacking interest; boring; dull.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: bland comment
He's reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac / It's a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland
gloss: Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
gloss: Mixture; union.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: blandfest
blandify
blanding
blandiose
blandish
blandly
blandness
blandoid
blandscape
blandsome
in bland
Translations:
blanch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Cognates
Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.
Inflected forms:
form: blanches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blanching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blanched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blanched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grow or become white.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His cheek blanched with fear.
The rose blanches in the sun.
Nurse Cramer's face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid.
"Where is the target?"
"Bearing zero-four-five, Comrade. Bearing is constant," the michman replied, "closing rapidly."
Tupolev blanched. "Left full rudder, all ahead flank!"
gloss: To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to blanch linen
Age has blanched his hair.
gloss: To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to blanch almonds
gloss: To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture
Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Related words: blanch holding
parboil
Derived words: blanchable
blanched almond
blancher
blanch up
emblanch
preblanch
Translations:
blazer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blaze + -er. Originates from the 'blazing' scarlet jackets worn by members of Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club associated with St. John's College, Cambridge. Compare Old English blæsere, blasere (“burner, incendiary”, literally “blazer”).
Base: blaze
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: blazers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A semi-formal jacket.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
pos: noun
gloss: The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
pos: noun
gloss: One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: blazers of crime
gloss: An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A con or swindle.
pos: noun
examples: "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."
These folks don't take kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run a blazer on 'em.
Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him.
Related words: blazar
Derived words: blazered
blazerless
trailblazer
Translations:
bleak
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, blǣċ, blāc (“bleak, pale, pallid”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), all from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”).
Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).
Base: blay
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: bleaker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bleakest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bleaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bleak
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without color; pale; pallid.
pos: adj
examples: When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
gloss: Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
pos: adj
examples: a bleak and bare rock
a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
They escaped across the bleak landscape.
We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, / A fisherman stood aghast, / To see the form of a maiden fair, / Lashed close to a drifting mast.
gloss: Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
pos: adj
examples: Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
A bleak future is in store for you.
The news is bleak.
The survey paints a bleak picture.
But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.
The industrial shitscape of Los Angeles gave way to something even bleaker as I passed out of lonely Riverside into the wide-open range of horse stables and twisted trees and spinning giant wind turbines outside of Indio.
Dany didn’t necessarily have to die, but letting her live would’ve been an assessment of humanity so bleak that even George R.R. Martin, it seems, wants to hope for something better.
gloss: A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
pos: noun
Derived words: bleaken
bleakish
bleakly
bleakness
bleakonomics
bleaksome
unbleak
Translations:
blurt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Possibly imitative, or possibly an alteration of Middle English blurden (“to wail, cry out, threaten”), or possibly from Middle English *blerten, *blarten, *blorten, from Old English *blǣrettan, a frequentative or emphatic form of *blǣran (“to blear, bellow, roar”). If so, equivalent to blear + -t.
Base: blear
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: blurts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blurting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blurted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blurted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blurts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.
pos: verb
examples: Please think about your reply and don't just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
"Who are you?!" he blurted into the woman's palm, and she shook it off in obvious disgust, wiping spittle onto his D-class uniform.
gloss: To spurt.
pos: verb
tags: informal
uncommon
examples: the sound of rusty water blurting from the faucet in the kitchen
Blurted tea onto the monitor at FAL being "satisfying" and Brine's reaction . . .
gloss: An abrupt outburst.
pos: noun
Related words: blirt
blirty
Derived words: blurtation
blurter
blurtingly
blurt out
Translations:
bonanza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-der.
Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκός (mălăkós)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek μᾰλᾰκῐ́ᾱ (mălăkĭ́ā)bor.
Latin malacia
▲
Latin bonusinflu.
Vulgar Latin *bonacia
Spanish bonanzabor.
English bonanza
Borrowed from Spanish bonanza (“dead calm, fair weather, good luck, rich lode”), from Vulgar Latin *bonacia (“lull, dead calm”), in turn from Latin malacia (“calm sea”), influenced by bonus (“good”) under the false impression that initial mal- is a derivate of malus (“bad”).
Inflected forms:
form: bonanzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rich mine or vein of silver or gold.
pos: noun
gloss: The point at which two mother lodes intersect.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything which is a great source of wealth or yields a large income or return.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: The popular show quickly became a ratings bonanza for the network.
For two decades the bonanza on Scotland’s west coast continued. An occupation that had been seasonal and modestly profitable became year-round and lucrative. Baskets of herring put televisions into fishermen’s cottages and cars outside their doors. But fish, like oil and gas, with which Scotland’s continental shelf is also well-endowed, are not in unlimited supply.
It has also yielded a bonanza for corporate executives and other shareholders: Money not spent filling warehouses with unneeded auto parts is, at least in part, money that can be given to shareholders in the form of dividends.
His [D. Trump's] domestic policy bill allocated a record $1 trillion to defense in 2026, including for technology such as autonomous drones. Silicon Valley executives and venture capitalists are eagerly eying that bonanza.
Translations:
bookish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English bookish
From book + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more bookish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bookish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result.
pos: adj
examples: From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
A Google search reveals Gendrot has no great internet or social media footprint, but in any case, he says, the police recruiters did not delve into his background. He did change his round spectacles to look less “bookish”.
gloss: Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.
pos: adj
examples: Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]
Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
Related words: comic-bookish
nerd
Derived words: bookishly
bookishness
nonbookish
overbookish
unbookish
Translations:
botanical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
cosmetics
food
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English botany
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English botanical
From botany + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: botanicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a botanical system
a botanical textbook
gloss: Of or pertaining to plants; vegetable in the broad sense.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
not-comparable
gloss: Something derived from a botanical, especially herbal, source.
pos: noun
examples: But where vodka stays neutral, gin is infused with botanicals — a witch’s pantry of roots, berries, herbs, dried fruits and spices — dominated by the piney, breezy aroma of juniper berries.
Derived words: archaeobotanical
archeobotanical
botanical garden
botanically
botanical name
ecobotanical
ethnobotanical
geobotanical
macrobotanical
medicobotanical
microbotanical
nonbotanical
palaeobotanical
paleobotanical
unbotanical
zoobotanical
Translations:
bream
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).
Inflected forms:
form: bream
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
pos: noun
gloss: A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
pos: noun
gloss: A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
pos: noun
gloss: To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
pos: verb
Derived words: black bream
bony bream
breamlike
carp bream
gilt-head bream
seabream
sea bream
silver bream
white bream
Translations:
bridal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.
Base: bride
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber
Translations:
brink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brinke, brenke, from Old Norse *brenka, brekka, from Proto-Germanic *brinkǭ, *brinkaz (“hill, edge (of land)”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”). Cognate with Dutch brink (“grassland”), regional German Brink, Icelandic brekka (“slope”); also Tocharian B prenke (“island”), Irish braine (“prow”).
Inflected forms:
form: brinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
pos: noun
examples: the brink of a river
And the appearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the sea.
gloss: The edge or border.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the brink of success
As South Korea heads to the polls, can Lee Jae-myung bring the country back from the brink? [title]
Derived words: brinkless
brinkmanship
brinkmate
brink pink
brinksman
on the brink
on the brink of
sea-brink
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: եզր
roman: ezr
lang: Armenian
word: ծայր
roman: cayr
lang: Bulgarian
word: край
roman: kraj
lang: Bulgarian
word: ръб
roman: rǎb
lang: Czech
word: pokraj
lang: Czech
word: hrana
lang: Czech
word: okraj
lang: Danish
word: kant
lang: Danish
word: rand
lang: Dutch
word: rand
lang: Dutch
word: steile rand
lang: Finnish
word: reuna
lang: Finnish
word: parras
lang: French
word: bord
lang: French
word: lisière
lang: German
word: Rand
lang: Ingrian
word: parras
lang: Irish
word: broinne
lang: Irish
word: colbha
lang: Italian
word: orlo
lang: Italian
word: bordo
lang: Italian
word: ciglio
lang: Māori
word: ripa tauārai
lang: Portuguese
word: beira
lang: Russian
word: край
roman: kraj
lang: Russian
word: грань
roman: granʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: oir
lang: Slovak
word: pokraj
lang: Slovak
word: hrana
lang: Slovak
word: okraj
lang: Slovak
word: hranica
lang: Spanish
word: borde
lang: Spanish
word: límite
lang: Spanish
word: tope
lang: Swedish
word: kant
brisk
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; probably a collateral form of brusque, but compare Irish briosc, Scottish Gaelic brisg, Welsh brys.
Inflected forms:
form: brisker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more brisk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: briskest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most brisk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brisks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brisking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brisked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brisked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
pos: adj
examples: We took a brisk walk yesterday.
On such occasions he would remark--
"Shaving may add an air that's somewhat brisker,
For dignity, commend me to the whisker."
Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute.
gloss: Full of spirit of life; effervescing.
pos: adj
gloss: Sparkling; fizzy.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: brisk cider
gloss: Stimulating or invigorating.
pos: adj
examples: This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, / There's brisker pipes than poetry.
gloss: Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
pos: adj
examples: Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
gloss: To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
often
Related words: brusque
Derived words: briskish
briskly
briskness
brisky
Translations:
brutalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brutalize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English brutalization
From brutalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: brutalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brutalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making brutal
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance of being brutalized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cadge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English caggen (“to tie, fasten, bind”), probably from Old Norse. Compare Old Norse kǫgurr (“quilt”), kǫgurbarn (“swaddled child”).
Inflected forms:
form: cadges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cadging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cadgin
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cadged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cadged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cadges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tie, fasten.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To beg.
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
examples: Cadging on the fly is a profitable occupation in the vicinity of bathing places, and large towns. A person of this description frequently gets many shillings in the course of the day
gloss: To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
pos: verb
tags: UK
US
slang
examples: Are ye gannin te cadge a lift of yoer fatha?
They moved about the bar incessantly, cadging cigarettes and drinks, with something behind their eyes at once terribly vulnerable and terribly hard.
1960, Lionel Bart, “Food, Glorious Food,” song from the musical Oliver!
There’s not a crust, not a crumb can we find,
can we beg, can we borrow, or cadge […]
gloss: A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
pos: noun
Derived words: cadger
codger
on the cadge
Translations:
calcification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calcify
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English calcification
From calcify + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: calcifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in the calcareous degeneration of tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An examination of the tooth shows a beautiful specimen of calcification of the dental pulp.
It was all coming at her now: the fatigue and the fever; pieces of her lung splintering and mixing with her throwup; the calcifications on her bones, where the disease had already spread.
Translations:
calculation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English calculation, borrowed from Latin calculatio, calculationis. Morphologically calculate + -ion.
Base: calculate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: calculations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of calculating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result of calculating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: As a check on these calculations we note that the total probability for 0, 1, 2, or 3 successes must be one since there are no other possibilities.
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
gloss: Reckoning, estimate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.
gloss: An expectation based on circumstances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: evaluation
reckoning
calculation
calculus
ciphering
computing
supputation
Antonyms: miscalculation
miscomputation
misreckoning
Related words: calculable
calculate
calculator
calculus
Derived words: backcalculation
calculational
mental calculation
miscalculation
overcalculation
precalculation
recalculation
retrocalculation
subcalculation
undercalculation
Translations:
calibration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calibrate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English calibration
From calibrate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: calibrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of calibrating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The thermostat needs calibration.
Translations:
cancellation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
hobbies
law
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
philately
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cancellātiō, from cancellō + -tiō.
Inflected forms:
form: cancellations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cancelation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
gloss: The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property of being cancellate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 194?, Columbia University. School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Principles of Radiodontia
Spongy bone is composed of cancellated areas appearing as a fine, interlacing network. These cancellated spaces are irregular both in size and shape. The normal cancellation is rather large […]
Related words: cancel
killer cancel
Derived words: active noise cancellation
noise cancellation
noncancellation
precancellation
Translations:
canny
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Northern English dialect, from can (“to know”) ( + -y), from Middle English can, first and third person singular of cunnen, connen (“to be able, know how to”), from Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”). Compare Scots canny, English cunny, Old English cann (“knowledge, assertion”). More at can, cunning.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cannier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: canniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Careful, prudent, cautious.
pos: adj
examples: The politician gave a canny response to the reporter’s questions.
O! as thou art bonny, be prudent and canny,
“Canny now, lads, canny now!” exclaimed old Mucklebackit, who acted as commodore; “swerve the yard a bit—Now—there! there she sits safe on dry land.”
gloss: Knowing, shrewd, astute.
pos: adj
examples: The canny lawyer knew just how to get what he wanted.
‘Paris Hilton is A-list. She’s a genuinely really big star,’ said Professor Robert Thompson, a popular culture expert at Syracuse University. She’s also a canny money-making machine.
Then again, in war, politics and life, it’s always wiser to treat your adversary as a canny fox, not a crazy fool.
gloss: Frugal, thrifty.
pos: adj
examples: canny investments
Whate’er he wins, I’ll guide with canny care.
gloss: Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny.
pos: adj
tags: Northumbria
Scotland
examples: She’s a canny lass hor like!
But gie me a cannie hour at e’en,
My arms about my dearie O;
An’ warl’y cares, an’ warl’y men,
Mae a’ gae tapsalteerie O!
gloss: Gentle, quiet, steady.
pos: adj
tags: Northumbria
Scotland
examples: a canny horse
Be canny with this letter.
gloss: Very, considerably; quite, rather.
pos: adv
tags: Northumbria
not-comparable
examples: a canny long journey
canny near home
That’s a canny big horse, man!
gloss: Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully.
pos: adv
tags: Northumbria
Scotland
not-comparable
examples: he sits very canny
drive canny
Derived words: cannily
canniness
ca' canny
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: внимателен
roman: vnimatelen
lang: Bulgarian
word: предпазлив
roman: predpazliv
lang: Czech
word: opatrný
lang: Finnish
word: varovainen
lang: French
word: prudent
lang: German
word: vorsichtig
lang: Māori
word: matawhāiti
lang: Romanian
word: prudent
lang: Russian
word: осмотрительный
roman: osmotritelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: осторо́жный
roman: ostoróžnyj
lang: Spanish
word: cauteloso
lang: Swedish
word: försiktig
canonization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canonize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English canonization
From canonize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: canonizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canonisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being canonized or sainted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Following the attribution of two miracles, the next step is for the Pope to convene a meeting of cardinals to agree on Acutis’ sainthood and decide on a date for the canonization.
gloss: Introduction into a canon of artistic or literary works.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: noncanonization
Translations:
cape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English cape, gappe, cap, from Old French cap (“cape, headland”), from Latin caput (“head”).
Doublet of capo, caput, chef, and chief, and distantly with head and Howth.
For sense development, compare English ness (“a promontory point, cape”) from a root related to nose, Bulgarian нос (nos) (the same PIE root). Also compare coast (<< Latin costa).
Inflected forms:
form: capes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
pos: noun
gloss: To incite or attract (a bull) to charge a certain direction, by waving a cape.
pos: verb
examples: “I became a novillero when I was fourteen, but I had already been going to the fields and caping bulls since I was about twelve."
gloss: To head or point; to keep a course.
pos: verb
examples: The ship capes southwest by south.
gloss: To skin an animal, particularly a deer.
pos: verb
gloss: To defend or praise, especially that which is unworthy.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: A lot of African-Americans believe the answer is Clinton, mostly because "she's not Trump" and because President Barack Obama is shamelessly caping for her.
Many times, you see white supremacist groups caping for women to mask their agenda of white nationalism.
"I can't believe I'm out here caping for a politician."
[…] Biden is the old man who once caped for systematic racism; […]
gloss: To cover (as) with or like a cape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The white fur that caped his neck and shoulders stood on end.
He shook her gently, combing his fingers through her coppery curls that caped her shoulders like filigree.
He caped the children and draped them in long wraps, wigs, and swords, and then they all went off down the hall, around the house, and into the yard, Jack singing in his high little voice, “Let’s go off adventuring, adventuring, adventuring!”
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw blatant relief sketched on her face as the jacket caped her body.
Translations:
caper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of capriole.
Inflected forms:
form: capers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: capers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: capering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: capered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: capered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A playful leap or jump.
pos: noun
gloss: A jump while dancing.
pos: noun
gloss: A prank or practical joke.
pos: noun
gloss: Playful behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: His caper had failed to find a comic resolution. Instead, there had been a genre switch, and the madcap adventure had turned serious. Or had this bleakness underlain the caper from the start?
The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress[.]
gloss: To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
pos: verb
examples: He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.
gloss: To jump as part of a dance.
pos: verb
gloss: To engage in playful behaviour.
pos: verb
Related words: cab
caprine
Derived words: caper-cutting
caper cutting
caper merchant
capersome
cut a caper
caperer
outcaper
Translations:
capitalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capitalize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English capitalization
From capitalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: capitalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
And while Brazil's Telebras and South Africa's Anglo American Corp. again rank among the world's top emerging-market groups, their market capitalizations are also down from last year.
Translations:
capitulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French capitulation; equivalent to capitulate + -ion. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.
Base: capitulate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: capitulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: capital
capitalism
capitulate
captain
chapiter
chapter
Derived words: capitulationism
capitulationist
noncapitulation
re-capitulation
recapitulation
Translations:
carbonization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English carbonization
From carbon + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: carbonizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carbonisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of carbonizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The disadvantage of the underfired grill is the potential for flareups, which can cause a burned spot or carbonization. Not only do these taste bad, but they are also carcinogenic.
Translations:
castigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: castigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: He was seasoned wood, and took the world pretty wisely; not reckless of castigation, as some boys become, nor oversensitive as to dehonour, as his friend and comrade beside him was.
gloss: Severe criticism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Emendation; correction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
cataphract
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
ichthyology
military
natural-sciences
nautical
politics
transport
war
zoology
Etymology: From Latin cataphractes (“suit of armour”), from Ancient Greek κατάφρακτος (katáphraktos, “suit of armour”), from κατα- (kata-, prefix indicating a great degree or intensity) + φρακτός (phraktós, “protected; fenced in”) (from φράσσω (phrássō, “to fortify, secure; to fence in”)) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being).
Inflected forms:
form: cataphracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Those fighting before the standards, around the standards and (otherwise) in the front line were called principes [i.e. the centurions and the other under-officers]. This was the heavy armament, which had helmets, cataphracts, greaves, shields, large swords called spathae, and other smaller swords called semispathia, [...]
Carmine streaks stained their limbs, their tunics and cataphracts; but little of the blood was theirs. They did not move like people with injuries.
gloss: An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
gloss: Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: And first we must call attention to the fact that two classes of vessels appear to have been employed, distinguished by the name of "Aphract," unfenced, or "Cataphract," fenced, according as the rowers of the upper tier were protected or exposed. Both classes were decked and floored, but the "Aphract" class carried their decks and flooring lower than the "Cataphract," so that in them the rowers of the upper tier were visible above the side of the vessel; [...] [F]rom the time of the invention by the Thasians of this system, all the larger vessels of war used by both Greeks and Romans were Cataphract. In the Cataphract trireme, the space allowed for each oarsman was, according to [B.] Graser, eight square feet per man, and this proportion was observed in the larger vessels up to the octireme.
The ancients either called these ships by their class name (a number plus the -eres root) or by a descriptive term "cataphract" (kataphraktos) which means something like "armored" or "fenced" in the sense of having reinforced decks and sides to protect the oarcrew from missiles and deck-fighting. Because "The Age of Titans" involved galleys whose signature feature was their larger than normal size, and because cataphract galleys could comprise small ships that were protected by extra planking, I frequently employ another term to describe these ships, namely, "big" or "large," from the Greek megala skaphe and its variants megalai nees (big ships) and megista skaphe (biggest ships).
Derived words: cataphracted
cataphractic
Translations:
cater
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of acatour (“acater”), from Old French acater (“to buy, to purchase”). Equivalent to cate + -er.
Base: cate
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: caters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: catering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: catered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: catered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To provide, particularly
pos: verb
examples: Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.
Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.
Huludao’s Xingcheng county and two districts have ordered entertainment venues such as theatres and cinemas to close, while restaurants are not to offer banqueting services or cater for large gatherings.
gloss: To provide
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I catered for her bat mitzvah.
His company catered our wedding.
He that doth the Rauens feede,
Yea prouidently caters for the Sparrow.
gloss: To provide
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
Art... was... catering to the national taste and vanity.
And on the other side of the enter key, they would almost invariably find forums collectively celebrating individuals’ secret desires, or enterprising smut-mongers catering directly to them.
gloss: To provide
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The business caters for young professionals.
A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".
The former were catered for both by liquor stores and, to a lesser extent, by the bottle shops of hotels.
Derived words: caterer
cateress
cater-waiter
catery
self-catering
self-catered
Translations:
catheterization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English catheter
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English catheterization
From catheter + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: catheterizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catheterisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The procedure of introducing a catheter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since the development of fiber optics, treatments utilizing catheterization have replaced some former surgical procedures.
Translations:
causation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cause + -ation.
Base: cause
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: causations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of causing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or agency by which an effect is produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Aristotle's views led him to try to describe the kind of causation by which vision is produced, instead of the laws by which it is exercised; and the attempt consisted, as in other subjects, of indistinct principles, and ill-combined facts.
gloss: Cause and effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ætiology
aetiology
etiology
Derived words: causational
causationism
causationist
noncausation
reverse causation
Translations:
cauterization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cauterize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English cauterization
From cauterize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: cauterizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cauterisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of searing organic tissue by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
caution
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Recorded since 1297 as Middle English caucioun (“bail, guarantee, pledge”), from Old French caution (“security, surety”), itself from Latin cautiō, from cautus, past participle of caveō, cavēre (“be on one's guard”).
Inflected forms:
form: cautions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cautions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cautioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cautioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cautioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: take caution
have caution
exercise great caution
utmost caution is required when travelling in this dangerous neighbourhood
act with caution
proceed without due caution
sound a note of caution
In way of caution I must tell you.
[...] and on the Saturday heavy seas pounded the W.R. on its exposed coastal stretch between Dawlish and Teignmouth, loosening the ballast and forcing trains to proceed with extreme caution.
gloss: A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The guideline expressed caution against excessive radiographic imaging.
gloss: Security; guaranty; bail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be vigorously prosecuted.
gloss: One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Oh, that boy, he's a caution! He does make me laugh.
‘You are a caution,’ she said, when she came out. ‘I don't understand you.’
gloss: A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A yellow card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
gloss: To give a yellow card.
pos: verb
Synonyms: caution
cautiousness
caginess
care
carefulness
circumspection
heed
heedfulness
prudence
reckfulness
wariness
Antonyms: incaution
Related words: caveat
cautious
cautiously
heads up
timid
timidity
timidly
Derived words: abundance of caution
cast caution to the wind
cautionary
caution fatigue
caution money
caution to snakes
cautious
competition caution
err on the side of caution
hypercaution
incaution
interview under caution
precaution
prostitute's caution
throw caution to the wind
toss caution to the wind
cautioner
overcaution
Translations: