yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unfriendly
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- + friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).
Base: friendly
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unfriendlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unfriendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unfriendliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unfriendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unfriendlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unfriendlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more unfriendly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: unfriendliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most unfriendly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not friendly; hostile; mean.
pos: adj
examples: Shrekkies will notice that the musical is going off-piste from the film right from the start when the curtain rises to reveal a seven-year-old Shrek turfed out into an unfriendly world by his parents.
The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
I thought of him as a young man in Washington for the first time, first job with McCarthy, and that that was probably one of the unfriendliest spaces at the time for a gay person.
gloss: Unfavourable.
pos: adj
gloss: An enemy.
pos: noun
examples: Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
gloss: in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend
pos: adv
Antonyms: friendly
Related words: unfriend
Derived words: eco-unfriendly
user-unfriendly
Translations:
neighbourhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neighbour
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English neighbourhood
From neighbour + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: neighbourhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of neighborhood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These developments, most of which have taken place during the past 30 years, are remarkable in view of the low traffic density, except in the neighbourhood of Oslo, and the very extensive undeveloped areas of mountain and virgin forest.
Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.
Another key event was the spontaneous mobilization of the Tiantongyuan neighbourhood in greater Beijing in 2008, which was an effort to modify the route plan of line no.5 of the Beijing subway system so that the neighbourhood could be more conveniently connected.
Translations:
accident-prone
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more accident-prone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accident-prone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Susceptible to accidents or mishaps.
pos: adj
examples: It was an epic night, filled with so many different storylines, and unfortunately for Liverpool’s accident-prone goalkeeper, Loris Karius, he will have to live with the fact that his part will be remembered for just as long as, or possibly longer than, Gareth Bale’s spectacular bicycle kick or the tears from Mohamed Salah.
Translations:
mucositis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mucosa
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English mucositis
From mucosa + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: mucositides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of a mucosa (mucous membrane), or of multiple mucosae; as
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inflammation of a mucosa (mucous membrane), or of multiple mucosae; as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: oral mucositis
Translations:
misunderstanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mys undirstonding, equivalent to misunderstand + -ing. Compare Dutch misverstand (“misunderstanding”), German Missverständnis (“misunderstanding”), Swedish missförstånd (“misunderstanding”).
Base: misunderstand
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: misunderstandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
pos: noun
examples: The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding. - Thoughtkick
Because of misunderstandings among certain member states of the Organization of African Unity's voices have been occasionally raised recently against the convocation of the Assembly in Accra. Nonetheless, the regular Assembly of the Heads of State and Government was, in the first place, designed to find peaceful solutions, through deliberations and frank exchange of views to such misunderstandings among member-states.
gloss: A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
pos: noun
examples: It was only months and months afterwards, when I made the attempt to recover what was left of the body, that I heard the original quarrel arose from a misunderstanding about some hens.
Translations:
photonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English photon
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English photonics
From photon + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science and technology of generating and controlling photons, particularly in the visible and near infrared light spectrum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cryptid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From crypt + -id. Coined by John E. Wall in 1983 in the ISC Newsletter.
Base: crypt
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: cryptids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A creature known only from folklore or legend, the existence of which is not proven by scientific observation.
pos: noun
examples: Now comes perhaps the cleverest tag of all: cryptozoology. It refers to the search for new animals, animals dwelling in unexpected places, and most importantly for "X-Files" scriptwriters, "cryptids"—legendary creatures such as the yeti.
Well, that's a painting of the mysterious Brown Blur. It's a cryptid that allegedly roams these very woods.
Translations:
Martinmas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Martin
English -mas
English Martinmas
From Martin + -mas.
Inflected forms:
form: Martinmases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Martlemas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: St Martin's Day, 11th November. A Scottish quarter day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
synchrony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -y; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: synchronies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: synchronicity, the state of two or more events occurring at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: diachrony
Translations:
susceptible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.
Inflected forms:
form: more susceptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most susceptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: susceptibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Likely to be affected by something.
pos: adj
examples: He was susceptible to minor ailments.
gloss: Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
pos: adj
gloss: Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.
pos: adj
gloss: That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.
pos: adj
examples: Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
gloss: Vulnerable.
pos: adj
examples: The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
gloss: Amenable.
pos: adj
examples: In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.
gloss: A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
pos: noun
examples: In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.
Synonyms: exposed
impaired
open
prone
receptive
sensitive
subject
susceptible
unguarded
vulnerable
weak
Antonyms: immune
resistant
unsusceptible
Derived words: atherosusceptible
hypersusceptible
immunosusceptible
insusceptible
nonsusceptible
oversusceptible
pansusceptible
supersusceptible
suscept
susceptibility
susceptibleness
susceptibly
trypanosusceptible
unsusceptible
Translations:
bouldering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Climbing, without ropes, on large boulders or boulder-sized objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
yachty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yacht
English -y
English yachty
From yacht + -y (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: yachties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yachtie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yachtier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: yachtiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Of or relating to yachts.
pos: adj
Translations:
piggery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *puggōder.
Old English *picga
Middle English pigge
English pig
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English piggery
From pig + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: piggeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
pos: noun
examples: Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.
gloss: Piggish behaviour.
pos: noun
Related words: pig farm
Translations:
piggish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *puggōder.
Old English *picga
Middle English pigge
English pig
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English piggish
From pig + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more piggish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piggish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: greedy or gluttonous
pos: adj
gloss: pigheaded
pos: adj
gloss: unpleasant or unclean
pos: adj
Derived words: piggishly
piggishness
Translations:
pigheaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English pyge heddyde, equivalent to pig + headed.
Compound parts: pig
headed
Inflected forms:
form: more pigheaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pigheaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pig-headed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
mildly
examples: "[…]I know yeh, yeh pig-headed devil. Yeh wanta go trompin' off with a bad hurt. It ain't right—now—Tom Jamison—it ain't.
Translations:
pig-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pig-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of pigging out.
pos: noun
Translations:
pigskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of pig + skin.
The American football is a direct descendant of the ball used in the game of rugby. The rugby ball originally was made of a pig’s bladder with a leather cover; the earliest versions of the leather exterior sometimes were made of pigskin.
Compound parts: pig
skin
Inflected forms:
form: pigskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skin of a pig.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In addition, most gelatins made today are produced from pigskins, which are not subject to this consideration.
Adding a porky layer of fried skin not only gives heft and flavor to the snack menu, pigskin is just sort of fun to serve at football games. Pigskin is no longer a food best left to Southerners and late-night partiers.
gloss: Leather made from the skin of a pig.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Those killed fighting his troops would be buried in pigskins.
gloss: A football.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: To paraphrase a renowned pigskin philosopher, speed is not everything, it is the only thing.
“We gotta find those pigskins!” Squat insisted. “Pigskins?” Diddly asked. With obvious disdain, Squat replied, “Yeah, you know, that is what they call footballs, dummy.”
gloss: A white person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
uncountable
vulgar
examples: almost certainly some sex tourist pedophile pigskin living in vietnam
Translations:
hellraiser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hell + raiser. Coined in 1914.
Compound parts: hell
raiser
Inflected forms:
form: hellraisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who engages in wild, wanton behavior: one who raises hell.
pos: noun
Translations:
helminthology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From helminth + -ology.
Base: helminth
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of zoology related to the study of helminths (parasitic worms).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
helot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Hīlōta, from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes), possibly from ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai, “to be captured, to be made prisoner”) or from Ἕλος (Hélos, “Elos”), a Laconian town.
Inflected forms:
form: helots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] when one of their kings dies, not only the Spartans, but a certain number of the country people from every part of Laconia are forced, whether they will or no, to attend the funeral. So these persons and the helots, and likewise the Spartans themselves, flock together to the number of several thousands, men and women intermingled; and all of them smite their foreheads violently, and weep and wall without stint, saying always that their last king was the best.
gloss: A serf; a slave.
pos: noun
examples: A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.
All wore a costume suggestive of a more tranquil and prosperous age than this — Dame Clara Butt singing, in a voice not quite so deep as Arumugam's, 'Land of Hope and Glory', the gold squeezed from tropical helots enhancing the upper-class comforts of a cold climate.
“In part, the blame falls on the corporate elite,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote back in 1989, “which demands ever more bankers and lawyers, on the one hand, and low-paid helots on the other.” These low-paid helots are now unpaid interns and networked amateurs.
Related words: Elos
Derived words: helotage
helotism
helotry
Translations:
thrashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
dance
dancing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Inflected forms:
form: thrashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Action of the verb to thrash.
pos: noun
examples: the thrashings of a fish on a hook
gloss: A beating, especially a severe one.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy defeat.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.
gloss: Excessive paging within virtual storage.
pos: noun
gloss: Slam dancing.
pos: noun
gloss: Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Derived words: thrashing floor
Translations:
three-cornered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having three corners; triangular.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having three prominent longitudinal angles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a three-cornered stem
Translations:
threefold
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Base: three
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
form: three-fold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 3-fold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: three-fold
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 3-fold
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: threefolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: three-fold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 3-fold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: threefolds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: threefolding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: threefolded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: threefolded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: three-fold
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 3-fold
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Three times as great.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "We recognise that electrifying more of the railway is likely to be necessary to deliver decarbonisation," it stated.
There's clearly a growing momentum in that direction, but some significant hurdles have still to be overcome - not least the legacy of the three-fold increase in cost on the Great Western Electrification Programme, which has become the poster project for expensive wiring.
gloss: Triple.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: By a factor of three.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An algebraic variety of dimension 3.
pos: noun
examples: In this way, we find some new pairs (h#123;1,1#125;,#92;#59;h#123;2,1#125;) of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
gloss: To make threefold; to triple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: trine
triple
triplicate
threefold
Antonyms: trisect
Derived words: thick and threefold
threefold law
threefoldly
threefoldness
Translations:
three-quarters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: three quarters
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: three-quarters of the population
three-quarters majority
The role of men is evolving even in the three-quarters of dual-parent families in which fathers are the primary breadwinners.
gloss: forty-five minutes
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It took two hours and three-quarters to get home.
Related words: fraction
Translations:
three-quarter
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
form: three-quarters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of three fourths of the usual dimension
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a three-quarter length coat.
gloss: with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)
pos: noun
examples: England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
gloss: A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)
pos: noun
tags: singular
examples: Europe has around a three-quarter billion/milliard (i.e. 750 million) inhabitants.
Synonyms: three-quarters
Derived words: three-quarter bathroom
Translations:
thriving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thriving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thriving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thrivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.
pos: adj
examples: thriving shop
thriving community
thriving industry
gloss: The action of the verb to thrive.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mithraic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Mithras + -ic. First attested in English circa 1678. More at Mithras.
Base: Mithras
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Mithraism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [T]hat the Druids deliberately adopted Mithraic, Serapic or other exotic rituals is, to me, unthinkable.
Translations:
restrained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more restrained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most restrained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
pos: adj
examples: He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
gloss: Proscribed, restricted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Ha? fie, these filthy vices. It were as good
To pardon him, that hath from nature stolne a man already made, as to remit
Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image
In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easie,
Falsely to take away a life true made,
As to put mettle in restrained meanes
To make a false one.
Synonyms: low-key
understated
Derived words: nonrestrained
overrestrained
restrainedly
restrainedness
Translations:
sophisticated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Inflected forms:
form: more sophisticated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sophisticated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
pos: adj
examples: Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
gloss: Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
pos: adj
gloss: Complicated, especially of complex technology.
pos: adj
examples: The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.
gloss: Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: sophisticate
sophist
sophistry
philosophy
Derived words: hypersophisticated
oversophisticated
pseudo-sophisticated
sophisticated falsificationism
sophisticatedly
sophisticatedness
sophisti-pop
supersophisticated
ultrasophisticated
unsophisticated
Translations:
endurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: First attested in the late 15th century. From Middle French endurance, from Old French endurance. Morphologically endure + -ance.
Base: endure
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: endurances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enduraunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: indurance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: induraunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.
gloss: An ability to endure hardship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The length of time that a ship's rations will supply.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: thole
Related words: endura
enduration
endure
Derived words: endurance art
muscular endurance
nonendurance
superendurance
Translations:
persistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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Etymology: From Middle French persistance, from persistant, from Latin persistēns, from persistō. By surface analysis, persist + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: persistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being persistent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously.
gloss: Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
gloss: Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.
Synonyms: persistency
Derived words: antipersistence
biopersistence
lactase persistence
nonpersistence
persistence hunter
persistence hunting
Translations:
obstinately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obstinate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English obstinately
From obstinate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more obstinately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most obstinately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an obstinate manner.
pos: adv
examples: He obstinately made his motion at every meeting, even though no one else ever supported it and everyone else was bored with it.
'She'll do no such thing,' said the old man obstinately.
Translations:
stubbornly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stubborn
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stubbornly
From stubborn + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stubbornly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stubbornly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stubborn manner.
pos: adv
examples: He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.
It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner.
The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
Translations:
tenaciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tenacious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tenaciously
From tenacious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tenaciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tenaciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tenacious manner.
pos: adv
examples: He continued tenaciously, doggedly continuing over all obstacles.
[…] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
Translations:
maharaja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi महाराजा (mahārājā)bor.
English maharaja
Borrowed from Hindi महाराजा (mahārājā). First attested in 1698.
Inflected forms:
form: maharajas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maharajah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maharana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maharanah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor.
pos: noun
examples: I speak from a very intimate knowledge of their ways and habits after having spent a very happy twenty years amongst them with friends in every degree, from the Maharaja himself to some of the humblest coolies.
Benny: Hey, T.C., what's a maharaja?
Top Cat: What's a what?
Benny: A maharaja.
Top Cat: Oh, do I look like Daniel Webster? I didn't write no dictionary.
Translations:
flameproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flame
English -proof
English flameproof
From flame + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more flameproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flameproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flame-proof
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flameproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flameproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flameproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flameproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flame-proof
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to catching fire.
pos: adj
examples: One hundred and fifty miles of flameproof wire have been used in the signalboxes and relay rooms.
gloss: To make flameproof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Structural timber in the roofs throughout the station has been flameproofed.
Translations:
fireproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English -proof
English fireproof
From fire + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more fireproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fireproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fire-proof
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fireproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fireproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fireproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fireproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to damage from fire.
pos: adj
examples: The fireproof safe will protect documents inside for up to four hours in a standard house fire.
When I was in the States, three years ago, the head porter at one hotel took pains to impress on me that the building was absolutely fireproof.
gloss: To make resistant to damage from fire.
pos: verb
examples: I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames.
Translations:
Miskito
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Mosquito, and its source, Miskito Miskito, of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: Mosquito
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Musquito
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Miskitos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Miskito
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mosquito
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Musquito
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a Native American people living in the region of Moskitia in Central America.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Before I embarked, I found with the Doctor four Musquito Indians, who were chiefs in their own country, and were brought here by some English traders for some selfish ends.
gloss: A member of these people; a Miskito Indian.
pos: noun
Translations:
inaudible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + audible.
Base: audible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inaudible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inaudible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard.
pos: adj
examples: Dogs can hear this whistle, but for people it is inaudible.
At first his voice was almost inaudible; but soon the spirit mastered the body, and his hollow but distinct tones gained a supernatural strength.
Translations:
fickleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fikelnesse, equivalent to fickle + -ness.
Base: fickle
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: ficklenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being fickle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
obscurantism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin obscūrans, from obscūrō (“to cover, darken, obscure”) + -ism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: obscurantisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: obscurantist
obscuration
obscure
obscurity
agnotology
Translations:
flamethrower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From flame + thrower, calque of German Flammenwerfer.
Base: flame
Inflected forms:
form: flamethrowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flame thrower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flame-thrower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is extremely good at throwing or shooting balls.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "We allowed him to kind of orchestrate the whole offense, and he got comfortable early," George said. "He's a flamethrower. Once he gets hot, it's over."
So when we see guys like that open, we gotta give them the ball. Especially Bryn [Forbes], he's a flamethrower. The guy is one of the best shooters I've been around, so to have him going in the game, it's much needed for us. We need him to get going. We need him to hit shots.
Unlike steroids, these supposedly illegal substances were not used in secret. There was an understanding that it was in everyone's best interest — pitchers and hitters alike — for today's flamethrowers to have a good grip on the ball.
Translations:
obsequies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Plural of obsequy; from Middle English obsequias, obsequies, obsequyes, from Latin obsequiae.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Funeral rites.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: A murmur of astonishment ran through the chapel. It was hushed instantly, for, at a sign from Lord Avonleigh, the coffin was carried into the vault; and again the voice of the priest was the only sound, breathing the last and solemn benediction of the mournful obsequies.
Translations:
operculum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Latin operiō
Latin -culum
Latin operculumbor.
English operculum
Borrowed from Latin operculum.
Inflected forms:
form: opercula
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
pos: noun
examples: Hyoliths […] have a small, conical calcium carbonate shell, with a lid called an operculum.
gloss: The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds.
pos: noun
gloss: A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.
pos: noun
gloss: A structure which serves as a cover or lid.
pos: noun
examples: I lifted the circular operculum from its place and laid it carefully on the bale.
gloss: One of several flaps of cerebral cortex covering the insula.
pos: noun
Related words: opercle
Derived words: operculiferous
operculitis
preoperculum
interoperculum
suboperculum
Translations:
flame-retardant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flame-retardant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flame-retardant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flame retardant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flame-retardants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flame retardant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hard to ignite; not supporting or conveying flame; tending to curtail flames' spread.
pos: adj
gloss: A substance used to make an object flameproof.
pos: noun
examples: The flame-retardant used on the child's pajamas would keep them from bursting into flame, but it caused a rash.
Translations:
fire-retardant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fire-retardant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fire-retardant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fire retardant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fire-retardants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire retardant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hard to ignite; not flammable.
pos: adj
gloss: A substance that makes an object resistant to burning.
pos: noun
Translations:
satin
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French satin, which is derived from "Zaitun", the Arabic name for the Chinese city of Quanzhou, itself derived from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn, “Zayton; olive”), from phono-semantic matching from Chinese 刺桐 (MC tshjeH duwng, “coral tree”) in 刺桐城 (MC tshjeH duwng dzyeng, “coral tree town”), an old name for Quanzhou.
Inflected forms:
form: satins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: satins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: satining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: satined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: satined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cloth woven from silk, nylon or polyester with a glossy surface and a dull back. (The same weaving technique applied to cotton produces cloth termed sateen).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ibn Batuta informs us that a rich silk texture made here was called Zaitûniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of our word Satin,—Zettani in mediæval Italian, Aceytuni in Spanish.
gloss: Gin (the drink).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: 'This poor gal was robbed, barely left a stitch, that and the drink... mind, I likes a drop of satin – wot you'd call gin – myself. I'll say nothing against it. She ended thrown out of an upstairs winder.'
gloss: Semigloss.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: satin paint
gloss: To make (paper, silver, etc.) smooth and glossy like satin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: sateen
Derived words: antique satin
Denmark satin
farmers' satin
satinash
satin bowerbird
satin carpet
satin damask
satin de chine
satin de laine
satinet
satinette
satinflower
satin flycatcher
satin glass
satinize
satin jean
satinleaf
satinlike
satin paper
satinpod
satin sheeting
satin spar
satin stitch
satin stone
satin weave
satinwood
satiny
slipper satin
surf satin
white satin
yard of satin
Translations:
sateen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A 19th century variant of satin, perhaps influenced by velveteen.
Inflected forms:
form: sateens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of cotton cloth with a shiny surface and dull back, woven using the technique that, when applied to silk or nylon, results in cloth called satin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.
Translations:
quadrangular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quadrangulere, from Late Latin quadrangulāris. Compare Middle French and French quadrangulaire. By surface analysis, quadr- + -angular.
Inflected forms:
form: more quadrangular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quadrangular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: quadrangulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the shape of a quadrangle; in the shape of a quadrangle.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving four participants or teams.
pos: adj
examples: We are promised certainly a triangular, and possibly a quadrangular, contest for Governor this Fall.
It is understood they will today consult lawyers about claims in a Sunday newspaper, attributed to a PCA official, that Collier leant on its chief executive, Sean Morris, to increase the pressure on the England players during the Test to sign a revised agreement with Stanford, scrapping the $20m Super Series but agreeing to a new quadrangular tournament at Lord's.
Immediately after the US championship, St Louis will stage an elite quadrangular tournament with the world No 1, Carlsen, the world No 2, Hikaru Nakamura, the world No 3, Caruana, and the reigning world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju.
gloss: A competition involving four participants or teams.
pos: noun
examples: With his winning shot put and discus marks in the quadrangular, Banich joined three other Bruins who have qualified for the NCAA outdoor championships in June at Baton Rouge, La.
"The PCA president and chief executive seem to have forgotten that not only were they signed up to Stanford's $20m match but that just this month they gave in principle support to a five-year deal for the quadrangular," said one ECB insider.
Quadrangulars are a very rare format, and the only real precedent is St Petersburg 1895-96, with the world champion, Emanuel Lasker, the former champion Wilhelm Steinitz, Russia’s Mikhail Chigorin and USA’s Harry Pillsbury.
Related words: quadrangle
quadrangularity
quadrangularly
Derived words: semiquadrangular
subquadrangular
Translations:
Julian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Julius Caesar.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the Julian calendar.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the Julia programming language.
pos: adj
Translations:
hellhole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First recorded in 1866.
Inflected forms:
form: hellholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hellhole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hell hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Hell hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hell-hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
slang
examples: Once the Old Nichol had been razed, the search was on for London's new hell hole.
Despite prolonged exposure to harsh conditions, medics say Nora Tallis returned to the Nexus in stable condition. In a statement to HNS, Tallis did not mince words. "Never send me to that hellhole again."
Indeed, we happily condemn damaged children—at enormous expense—to hellholes like Feltham, where they are more likely to be assaulted or killed than to find an escape from the revolving doors of courts, prisons and addiction.
Translations:
diable
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.
Inflected forms:
form: diables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diablo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diablo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
pos: noun
gloss: Flavored with hot spices.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: sauce diable
Translations:
geneticist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English genetic
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 geneticist
From genetic (“related to genes”) + -ist (“person following a profession or interest”).
Inflected forms:
form: geneticists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scientist who studies genes.
pos: noun
examples: In an ingenious approach, a team of 11 scientists – including biologists, geneticists, glaciologists, computer scientists and ice-sheet modellers – looked at the genetics of Turquet’s octopus – a species that has been living around the Antarctic continent for about 4m years.
gloss: A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.
pos: noun
examples: The geneticist said Ryan had a rare genetic disorder called mucopolysaccharidosis I, or MPS I, with a wide-range of symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body.
Derived words: archaeogeneticist
cytogeneticist
immunogeneticist
neurogeneticist
nongeneticist
oncogeneticist
ontogeneticist
palaeogeneticist
paleogeneticist
phylogeneticist
psychogeneticist
Translations:
grievous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grevous, from Anglo-Norman grevous, from Old French grever, from Latin gravō (“to burden”). Developed in the 13th century. Equivalent to grief + -ous.
Base: grief
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more grievous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grievous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: greuous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: greevous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gravious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grievious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grevious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing grief, pain, or sorrow.
pos: adj
examples: No wonder that the old man's eye dwelt upon her with mingled pride and tenderness; yet was it a face that might cause affection many an anxious hour, for there was mind in the lofty and clear forehead, heart in the warm and flushed cheek,—and what are mind and heart to woman, but fairy gifts, for whose possession a grievous price will be exacted.
Heavy rain had so undermined the approach to the bridge at Mountnessing as to make it unsafe, and although Chelmsford and Colchester had decked themselves with flags and bunting, the train returned to London "with grievous disappointment to all."
gloss: Serious, grave, dire, or dangerous.
pos: adj
examples: As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed, but not dangerous.
Derived words: grievous bodily harm
grievously
grievousness
overgrievous
Translations:
nouveau
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French nouveau. Recognized as English in 1828. Doublet of novel.
Inflected forms:
form: nouveaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nouveaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: New, fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A wine released in the same year that the grapes were harvested to make it.
pos: noun
examples: Nouveaus are wines to be drunk, not to be sipped.
Translations: