yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sanctimoniousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sanctimonious
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 sanctimoniousness
From sanctimonious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sanctimonious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This kind of smiling, bossy sanctimoniousness was a little too pervasive for Toby, especially among the female members of the sect.
Translations:
salvific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Etymology: From Late Latin salvificus, from Latin salvus (“saved, safe”) + facio (“make”).
Inflected forms:
form: more salvific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most salvific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
pos: adj
examples: Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or the invocation of his name.
2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84,
The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .
[…]participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving.
2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press, page 93,
Nevertheless, as this love truly begins to show itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back.
Translations:
skyward
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sky
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English skyward
From sky + -ward.
Inflected forms:
form: skywards
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: skywards
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At or toward the sky.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The rocket shot skyward and exploded in a burst of glittering stars.
No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.
If there is a heaven up there, Carl Sagan will be in his element on November 30, when Venus, Jupiter, and the moon align in a facelike formation. Gaze skyward to appreciate this rare triple feature of the brightest planets with a wry grin from the moon.
Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
gloss: Pointing or facing at or moving toward the sky.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
arboricultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From arboriculture + -al.
Base: arboriculture
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.
Translations:
Benedictine
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus, named after Italian 6th century Saint Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae). Recorded in English from the 17th century. By surface analysis, Benedict + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: Benedictines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
pos: noun
examples: Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.
gloss: A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
pos: noun
examples: Cripps differed from Partridge there, and proceeded to prove, by personal instances, that the safest thing for a man to drink was benedictine.
Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
gloss: Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
strophe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”). Compare strap and strop.
Compare typologically rehearsal, rehearse (related to French herser (“to harrow”) << Latin hirpex, another meaning shift from the idea of turning).
Inflected forms:
form: strophes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
pos: noun
gloss: The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
pos: noun
gloss: A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.
pos: noun
Related words: antistrophe
apostrophe
catastrophe
strophic
ode
stanza
Derived words: monostrophe
strophical
strophism
Translations:
galliot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From French galiote, from Italian galeotta, diminutive of galea; see also galley, jolly boat.
Inflected forms:
form: galliots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: galiot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galiote
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A light galley.
pos: noun
examples: Having seen the minutes of the proceedings on the capture of the galliot the Betsy of Washington, North Carolina, captain Reynold Brown, taken the 5th of this month by the French privateer le Poisson Volant (Flying Fish) captain Thomas de Haunot—[…].
The Holy See received 19 galleys and two galliots, Spain was given 58 galleys and six galliots, while the Venetian share was 39 galleys and four galliots.
The galliots averaged about three hundred tons, and their cargo of Japanese silver must have equaled that carried by the Santa Catarina—that is, in excess of 1 million cruzados' worth.
Translations:
humidex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Blend of humidity + index.
Compound parts: humidity
index
Inflected forms:
form: humidexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measurement used by Canadian meteorologists to reflect the combined effect of heat and humidity, as the apparent temperature felt by a person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Translations:
Meiji
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 明治 (meiji, “enlightened rule”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the Meiji period (1868–1912).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the Emperor Meiji (1852–1912).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
low-budget
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-budget
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-budget
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a project such as a film, achieved with a relatively small financial outlay.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-propelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English propelled
English self-propelled
From self- + propelled.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having its own means of propulsion that moves with it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Of particular note were two self-propelled fire-fighting vehicles, adapted from Drewry railcars, enabling a rapid response to a fire anywhere on the extensive site.
Translations:
disarticulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disjointed.
pos: adj
Translations:
vanishingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vanishing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vanishingly
From vanishing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: vanishingly rare
a vanishingly small object on the horizon
When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality.
[Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
Translations:
humiliated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: deprived of dignity or self-respect
pos: adj
Translations:
bearskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bear + skin.
Compound parts: bear
skin
Inflected forms:
form: bearskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.
In the midst stalked the King, his great limbs muffled, like Goldry’s, in a cloak: and it was of black silk lined with black bearskin, and ornamented with crabs worked in diamonds.
gloss: A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Derived words: bearskinned
Translations:
esoterically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English esoteric
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English esoterically
From esoteric + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more esoterically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most esoterically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an esoteric manner
pos: adv
Translations:
estimator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin aestimātor; equivalent to estimate + -or.
Base: estimate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: estimators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who estimates, especially one who estimates costs
pos: noun
examples: The Æstimators of the Valor of everie Townes Teinds.
gloss: A function of a random sample of a population used to estimate some parameter of the whole population
pos: noun
Related words: overestimator
underestimator
Derived words: L-estimator
James-Stein estimator
Translations:
estrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oestrous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus.
pos: adj
Translations:
evacuee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French évacué, évacuée, from évacuer, equivalent to evacu(ate) + -ee.
Base: evacuate
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: evacuees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
pos: noun
examples: In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice. […] Confusion about who was in charge made the chaos worse, said Annette Bethea, 49, another evacuee from the Rockaways.
Translations:
evader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evade
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 evader
From evade + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: evaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who evades something.
pos: noun
gloss: During the Second World War, an Allied pilot shot down over enemy territory who then escaped back to his own side.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: draft evader
fare evader
tax evader
Translations:
evaporator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evaporate
English -or
English evaporator
From evaporate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: evaporators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of equipment used to evaporate the solvent from a solution.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a refrigerator that absorbs heat by evaporating a refrigerant.
pos: noun
Derived words: evaporatory
rotary evaporator
rotoevaporator
Translations:
everglade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of ever + glade.
Inflected forms:
form: everglades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation
pos: noun
Translations:
everyplace
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From every + place.
Compound parts: every
place
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: everywhere
pos: adv
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
examples: He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
Translations:
eviction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin ēvictiō, from Latin ēvincō.
Inflected forms:
form: evictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of evicting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: order of eviction
face eviction
threat of eviction
The family faced eviction after missing several payments.
Protesters resisted the eviction of squatters.
gloss: The state of being evicted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: antieviction
noneviction
Related words: evict
evince
Derived words: evictionism
evictionist
Translations:
evildoing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From evil + doing.
Compound parts: evil
doing
Inflected forms:
form: evildoings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An evil or wicked act, especially a crime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
evolutionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evolution
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 evolutionist
From evolution + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: evolutionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proponent or supporter of evolutionism.
pos: noun
examples: Ironically, the argument used today by Roadruck and other designists—that their teachings should receive equal time in schools—mirrors the one employed by evolutionists some 75 years ago.
gloss: Someone who believes in the capacity of people to change.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Aeschylus is in fact an evolutionist as regards both gods and man.
Derived words: deistic evolutionist
evilutionist
neoevolutionist
nonevolutionist
theistic evolutionist
Translations:
evolutionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evolution
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English evolutionism
From evolution + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: evolutionisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: The belief in the universal presence of evolution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: evolutionist
evolutionistic
evolutionistically
Derived words: antievolutionism
creationary evolutionism
cultural evolutionism
deistic evolutionism
neoevolutionism
social evolutionism
sociocultural evolutionism
theistic evolutionism
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: էվոլյուցիոն տեսություն
roman: ēvolyucʻion tesutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: էվոլյուցիոնիզմ
roman: ēvolyucʻionizm
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 進化論 /进化论
roman: jìnhuàlùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 演進主義 /演进主义
roman: yǎnjìn zhǔyì
lang: Danish
word: evolutionisme
lang: Dutch
word: evolutionisme
lang: Esperanto
word: evoluismo
lang: Esperanto
word: evoluciismo
lang: Finnish
word: evoluutio-oppi
lang: Finnish
word: evolutionismi
lang: German
word: Evolutionismus
lang: Ido
word: evolucionismo
lang: Japanese
word: 進化主義
roman: shinkashugi
lang: Kazakh
word: эволюцияшылдық
roman: évolüsiäşyldyq
lang: Manx
word: aafilleydys
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: evolusjonisme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: evolusjonisme
lang: Polish
word: ewolucjonizm
lang: Romanian
word: evoluționism
lang: Russian
word: эволюционизм
roman: evoljucionizm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: evolucionizam
kantar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār). Doublet of centenary, centner, and quintal.
Inflected forms:
form: kantars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cantar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qantar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a unit of weight used in Eastern Mediterranean countries, varying from place to place (44.93 kg in Egypt)
pos: noun
Translations:
bob-cherry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bob cherry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bobcherry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Playing at bob cherry
Tom and Nell and Hugh:
Cherry bob! cherry bob!
There's a bob for you.
Tom bobs a cherry
For gaping snapping Hugh,
While curly-pated Nelly
Snaps at it too.
Translations:
tian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French, from Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek τήγανον (tḗganon), variant of τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan”).
Inflected forms:
form: tians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oval cooking-pot, traditionally used in Provence.
pos: noun
gloss: A Provençal dish of layered baked vegetables.
pos: noun
Translations:
salver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English salver (attested only in the sense of "ointment box"), from Old English *sealfere (“salver, one who anoints”), equivalent to salve + -er. Cognate with Dutch zalver (“salver”), German Salber (“salver”).
Base: salve
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: salvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who salves or cures.
pos: noun
gloss: One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver.
pos: noun
Related words: salve
Translations:
sandlot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + lot.
Compound parts: sand
lot
Inflected forms:
form: sandlots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vacant lot where children play.
pos: noun
examples: Many great players started out playing sandlot baseball.
Translations:
sander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos?
Proto-Germanic *samdaz
Proto-West Germanic *samd
Old English sand
Middle English sond
English sand
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 sander
From sand + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to sand wood.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.
pos: noun
examples: The autophiles hang around a big, fluorescent-lighted garage with cars on cinder blocks, ostensibly in competition for a job, and they talk to the camera in between sessions at the sander or other machines.
gloss: A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy, icy, slippery conditions to improve traction.
pos: noun
examples: Grass growing on the track made the running far from easy, and only frequent use of the sanders enabled us to breast the 1 in 50 gradients between Letterkenny and Kilmacrenon [sic].
Traditionally, sand was used to aid grip, being released onto the track in front of the wheels from a special 'sandbox'. However, the Slough accident led to two trials on the use of train-borne sanders to aid braking: [...] Now, all new stock is fitted with automatic sanders, as have most of the pre-1994 units still running.
gloss: A small device resembling a salt shaker but containing sand that was shaken over a document to remove excess ink.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: sanding gear
Derived words: sanderdust
Translations:
salutatorian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salutatory
English -an
English salutatorian
From salutatory + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: salutatorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give the salutatory address during the graduation ceremony.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School. […] Within days, and breaking with longstanding tradition, West Point High School decided to name two valedictorians and two salutatorians — with two white students, Emma Berry and Dominic Borgioli, joining the Black students who had already been named.
He was the salutatorian of his high school class (a sore subject, his sister said, since So thought he missed the top spot on a technicality), and entered Stanford intending to major in computer science.
Translations:
sailplane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sail + plane.
Compound parts: sail
plane
Inflected forms:
form: sailplanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sailplanes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sailplaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sailplaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sailplaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A glider that is optimised for soaring and is equipped with fixed wings and fuselage.
pos: noun
gloss: To fly in a sailplane.
pos: verb
Translations:
maci
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 麻糍 (môa-chî).
Inflected forms:
form: macy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Cebu
form: muah chee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Singapore
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Chinese rice cake snack made of glutinous rice, peanuts, and sugar.
pos: noun
tags: Cebu
Philippines
uncountable
Translations:
convivium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: convivia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A symposium.
pos: noun
examples: In Canada, there are more than 1,500 members and 39 convivia or local chapters.
I neglect the convivium (many people) in the hunger for the kind of fullness of being only possible in the dialogue (verbal mostly, sometimes physical) with one other person.
gloss: A geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype
pos: noun
Translations:
etcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English etch
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 etcher
From etch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: etchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who etches
pos: noun
Translations:
ethereally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ethereal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ethereally
From ethereal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ethereally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ethereally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ethereal manner
pos: adv
Translations:
ethically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ethical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ethically
From ethical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ethically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ethically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ethical manner.
pos: adv
examples: In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president.
It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
gloss: Concerning ethics.
pos: adv
Antonyms: unethically
Related words: morally
Derived words: ethically challenged
Translations:
ethnocentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + -centric.
Base: ethno
Inflected forms:
form: more ethnocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ethnocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism.
pos: adj
examples: The third ethnocentric approach [to halakhah] is extremely pragmatic. The greatest threat to the survival of the Jewish people today is assimilation and intermarriage. For thousands of years the mitzvot have protected the Jewish people from these threats and ensured Jewish continuity.
Translations:
ethnological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ethnology
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 ethnological
From ethnology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more ethnological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ethnological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ethnology.
pos: adj
Translations:
ethological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ethology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
exurb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of extra + urban.
Compound parts: extra
urban
Inflected forms:
form: exurbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A residential area beyond the suburbs.
pos: noun
examples: I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.
Translations:
exurban
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ex-urban
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: exurbans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ex-urban
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
pos: adj
examples: Mirella had a story about a duplex in a housing development of identical duplexes, exurban Cleveland, cornfields on one side and an expressway on the other.
gloss: A person who lives in an exurb.
pos: noun
Translations:
ergonomically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ergonomic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English ergonomically
From ergonomic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more ergonomically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ergonomically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ergonomic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Using ergonomics.
pos: adv
Derived words: unergonomically
Translations:
Panamax
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of Panama + -max.
Base: Panama
Affixes: -max
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft, allowing it to transit the locks on the Panama Canal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
aisle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
transport
Etymology: From Middle English ele, from Anglo-Norman ele (“wing”) (Modern French aile), from Latin āla (whence English ala). Further from Latin axis (whence English axis, atelier). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with English axle, Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn) (whence English axo-, axon).
The modern pronunciation has been influenced by English isle, whence the obsolete form isle; the modern spelling reflects further modification of this form after modern French aile.
Inflected forms:
form: aisles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: isle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
pos: noun
examples: Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.
gloss: A clear path/passage through rows of seating.
pos: noun
examples: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
gloss: A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale.
pos: noun
gloss: Any path through an otherwise obstructed space.
pos: noun
examples: It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible "sections", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day.
gloss: Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle.
pos: noun
examples: Do you want to seat window or aisle?
gloss: An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymic) marriage.
pos: noun
examples: You ask her if she loves you, she answers, "I do" / Your heart starts glowing inside / And then you will know she is just for you / While each step, draws you closer to the aisle
Antonyms: window
window seat
Derived words: aisled
aisleless
aisle seat
aisle sitter
aisleway
cleanup on aisle
cross aisle
cross the aisle
middle-aisle it
reach across the aisle
roll in the aisle
roll in the aisles
up the aisle
walk down the aisle
Translations:
disgruntlement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disgruntled
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English disgruntlement
From disgruntled + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: disgruntlements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being disgruntled, usually displayed in a stereotypical form such as frowning and annoyance; the acts of sulky dissatisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The third most common motive for Americans to commit espionage is disgruntlement, usually caused by the person's relationships or treatment in the workplace, and the associated desire to take revenge.
...J. D. Salinger managed to forge, in Holden Caulfield, the epitome of American adolescent disgruntlement for decades of young readers...
Translations:
half-hardy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
English hardy
English half-hardy
From half- + hardy.
Inflected forms:
form: half-hardies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant: requiring protection against frost.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A plant that requires protection against frost.
pos: noun
Translations:
haversack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French havresac, from Low German Haaversack and/or German Habersack, Hafersack (literally “oat-sack”), from Hafer + Sack. Compare also Dutch haverzak.
Inflected forms:
form: haversacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas.
pos: noun
examples: And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
When I went, I left from the station / With a haversack and some trepidation
gloss: An oat-sack, or nosebag for a horse.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: backpack
knapsack
rucksack
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: haverzak
lang: Finnish
word: kaurasäkki
lang: German
word: Hafersack
tomentose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin tōmentōsus of like application, from tōmentum + -ōsus.
Base: tōmentum
Affixes: -ōsus
Inflected forms:
form: more tomentose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tomentose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: covered in (often matted) hair.
pos: adj
Translations:
trunking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trunk
English -ing
English trunking
From trunk + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: trunkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The movement of containers or packages between a terminal and a transporter's inland facilities, or the scheduled transportation service between locations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But long-distance trunking, of course, is the cream of the road haulier's job as well as the railway's; hence the anguish.
gloss: A system of ducts for cables, heating or ventilation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Plastic conduit or duct used to conceal and protect electrical wiring.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A two-way radio technique that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: raceway
cable tray
wire molding
wire mold
Translations:
va-va-voom
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The first documented use of the phrase is on the April 21, 1949 episode of The Morey Amsterdam Show. Art Carney portrays "Newton the waiter" in a sketch and uses the phrase. He later recorded a song entitled "Va Va Va Voom" (1954). It was popularized a year later by car mechanic Nick in the Hollywood classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which helped the catchphrase to be remembered and reused many decades later in advertisements and pop songs.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing that something is lively, sexy, passionate, or exciting.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: Lively excitement or sexuality.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
reintroduced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant or animal, introduced again.
pos: adj
Translations:
reintroduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English introduce
English reintroduce
From re- + introduce.
Inflected forms:
form: reintroduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reintroducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reintroduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reintroduced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-introduce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To introduce again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
[…] whereas, were the masters to reintroduce slavery, both sides would return to the prebargain state, which would fall within the frontier and, therefore, would be inefficient.
It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.
The present chapter reintroduces CL in a more compact and less technical way, being written in a semitutorial style with a wider computer science audience in mind.
Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.
“Earth Two,” a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore.
Sweden has moved to reintroduce conscription “as a response to the new security situation” in Europe, the country’s defense minister told CNN Thursday.
SWR has decided to withdraw it with immediate effect and cease the programme of modifications that were under way, to avoid incurring further costs to the taxpayer to reintroduce and operate these trains.
Translations:
hydrogeological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English geological
English hydrogeological
From hydro- + geological.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to hydrogeology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Capsian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French capsien, from Latin Capsianus, from Capsa (“Gafsa”) + -ianus (“-ian”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or pertaining to a Paleolithic culture of North Africa (named after primary findings there, in the now southern Tunisian oasis Gafsa) and southern Europe
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
obstructed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obstructed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstructed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
excavator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excavate
English -or
English excavator
From excavate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: excavators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who excavates.
pos: noun
examples: the excavators of an ancient Egyptian tomb
gloss: A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
pos: noun
Related words: backhoe
Excavata
Derived words: dragline excavator
excavator operator
mini excavator
spoon excavator
Translations:
exciter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excite
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 exciter
From excite + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: exciters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which excites.
pos: noun
examples: It imparts a sweetness to the breath, is a valuable medicine in all nervous complaints, and is esteemed as a prolonger of life and an exciter of venery.
gloss: The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
pos: noun
gloss: An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.
pos: noun
Translations:
expansionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expansion
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English expansionism
From expansion + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: expansionisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: European colonialism exported its domestic, counter-revolutionary Inquisition around the world, starting with Portuguese expansionism around 1500 C.E.
Translations:
expansionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expansion
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 expansionist
From expansion + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more expansionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expansionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: expansionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to expansionism.
pos: adj
examples: Unlike passenger demand forecasts in England, that have resulted in the removal of 20% of service capacity in the May 2022 timetable, Welsh Ministers acting through the TfW agency are continuing an expansionist agenda for rail services under their control.
Lindberg says that current phenomena are reminiscent of the 1930s, right before the expansionist ambitions of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sparked a world war.
gloss: An advocate of expansionism.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.
Translations:
expediter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expedite
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 expediter
From expedite + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: expediters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expeditor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who expedites.
pos: noun
gloss: Employee charged with tasks related to the purchase of materials (place orders, receive shipments, examine deliveries, check correctness of invoices) and other clerical duties.
pos: noun
Synonyms: expo
Translations:
experimenter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English experiment
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 experimenter
From experiment + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: experimenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who experiments.
pos: noun
examples: In the request-only condition, the experimenter said simply 'Excuse me, I have 5 (20) copies. May I use the xerox machine?' In the placebic information condition, this was followed by the phrase 'because I need to make copies'. In the real information condition, the reason offered in support was 'because I am in a rush'.
In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments in which rewards are uncertain, such as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow right away may be beneficial. Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality.
Translations:
expositor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: expositors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: expositour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who expounds; a commentator.
pos: noun
Translations:
expounder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English expounder, expounere, expowner, expownere; equivalent to expound + -er.
Base: expound
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: expounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who expounds or explains
pos: noun
Translations:
expressionist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expression
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 expressionist
From expression + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more expressionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expressionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: expressionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
pos: adj
examples: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
gloss: A painter who paints in this style.
pos: noun
Translations: