yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
compensation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
medicine
neuroscience
real-estate
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English compensacioun, from Old French compensacion, from Latin compensātiōnem, accusative singular of compensātiō. Equivalent to compensate + -ion.
Base: compensate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: compensations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or principle of compensating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
gloss: Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
gloss: The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A recompense or reward for service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: amends
acquittal
assyth
bote
compensation
indemnification
indemnity
mends
quittal
recompensation
recompense
redress
relief
remuneration
reparation
requital
requite
restitution
satisfaction
Antonyms: noncompensation
penalty
Related words: compensate
atonement
reward
Derived words: anticompensation
autocompensation
compensational
compensationary
compensation balance
compensation culture
compensation neurosis
compensation pendulum
compensation trade
decompensation
dosage compensation
hypercompensation
just compensation
malcompensation
neurocompensation
noncompensation
overcompensation
precompensation
recompensation
supercompensation
time-gain compensation
undercompensation
worker's compensation
workers' compensation
workman's compensation
workmen's compensation
Translations:
compete
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French competer, from Latin competere (“to coincide, to be equal to, to be capable of”), from com- (“with”) + petō (“to seek; to aim for, strive for”). Compare Latin competītor (“competitor”).
Inflected forms:
form: competes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: competing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: competed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: competed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
pos: verb
examples: Negga, who was born in Ethiopia but grew up in Limerick, already has a clutch of Best Actress nominations under her belt for Loving but this is the most high profile to date. She's won rave reviews for her performance since the movie's premiere at Cannes in May, where it competed for the Palme d'Or.
"No. But one, or both of those men, may prove to be worse. That second man was Addison Berg, and he's agent for a firm of submarine boat builders who are rivals of dad's. Berg has been trying to find out why we abandoned our intention of competing for the Government prize."
The idea behind Sir Montagu's gift is that there should be for the amateur clubs a trophy which will take the place of the Stanley Cup, now becoming a trophy for which professional clubs will alone compete.
gloss: To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
pos: verb
examples: Now, when it comes to meeting the larger challenges we face as a nation, I realize that finding this unity is easier said than done – especially in Washington. But if we want to compete on the world stage as well as we’ve competed in the world’s games, we need to find common ground.
gloss: To take part in a contest, game or similar event.
pos: verb
gloss: To strive to achieve or obtain something which another also strives for, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
pos: verb
Antonyms: cooperate
Related words: competent
competition
competitor
Derived words: competimer
coopete
noncompete
non-compete
outcompete
recompete
Translations:
compilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: English compile + -ation, from Middle French, from Latin compilatio (“a raking together, a plundering, a collection of documents”).
Base: compile
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: compilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The scope of this computor will not necessarily be restricted to paybill compilation; its application to other work is being studied, and all possible use will be made of its capabilities.
gloss: That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Susie made Jasmine a compilation CD of some of the best songs they'd heard at the festival.
gloss: Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autocompilation
compilation album
compilation tape
cross-compilation
decompilation
metacompilation
precompilation
recompilation
supercompilation
transcompilation
transpilation
Translations:
completely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complete
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English completely
From complete + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more completely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most completely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a complete manner; thoroughly.
pos: adv
examples: Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number “2” pencil.
I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.
She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.
Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.
“Temu is gone! What I saw today completely convinced me!” the user wrote. “Local sellers, despite obviously buying some items in advance in a bulk, don’t have all these items I was interested in.”
gloss: To the fullest extent or degree; totally.
pos: adv
examples: He is completely mad.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control.
1975, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles/Workbook for Students, Lesson 75: The light has come,
Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made.
Synonyms: absolutely
all-out
tout à fait
all the way
blind
altogether
at large
at length
cap-a-pie
categorically
completely
detailly
downright
entirely
exhaustively
finally
first and last
flat-out
flat out
from aardvark to zymurgy
from A to Z
from head to toe
from soup to nuts
from stem to stern
from the rooter to the tooter
from top to bottom
from top to toe
handsomely
heartily
head to foot
head to tail
head to toe
hook
line
and sinker
in detail
in full
lock
stock
and barrel
one hundred percent
out-and-out
out and out
outright
particularly
perfectly
plumb
properly
purely
quite
right
root and branch
soundly
soup-to-nuts
straight up
through and through
top to tail
top to toe
totes
to the bone
to the core
to the full
well and truly
whole
whole cloth
wholly
Antonyms: after a fashion
barely
half-assedly
hardly
in a sense
in a way
incompletely
inconsistently
moderately
partially
partly
poorly
somewhat
spottily
to an extent
Related words: alpha and omega
degree
extent
abundantly
but good
comprehensively
consistently
extensively
extremely
in spades
thoroughly
entire
entirety
everything
total
the dickens
Derived words: completely and utterly
completely metrizable
Translations:
complexity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From complex + -ity. Partially displaced native English manifoldness.
Base: complex
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: complexities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The battle was like the grinding of an immense and terrible machine to him. Its complexities and powers, its grim processes, fascinated him.
Synonyms: complicacy
complexity
complexness
complicate
complicatedness
complication
complicity
intricacy
involution
sophistication
Antonyms: simplicity
incomplexity
uncomplexity
Related words: complexus
complicate
complexification
complex
Derived words: attributional complexity
biocomplexity
chaoplexity
complexity class
complexity function
complexity-hiding proxy
complexity theory
computational complexity theory
cyclomatic complexity
geocomplexity
hypercomplexity
incomplexity
irreducible complexity
Kolmogorov complexity
McCabe's complexity
overcomplexity
Rademacher complexity
space complexity
time complexity
time-space complexity
ultracomplexity
uncomplexity
Translations:
compliant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comply
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English compliant
From comply + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: more compliant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compliant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.
pos: adj
examples: The suspect was compliant when arrested.
Tendon is compliant compared to bone.
gloss: Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.
pos: adj
examples: The browser is standards-compliant.
The workplace is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Station capacity in London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam remains a thorny issue, as does obtaining suitable Channel Tunnel-compliant trains.
Related words: compliance
Derived words: compliancy
compliantly
incompliant
uncompliant
Translations:
comprise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
Etymology: From Middle English comprisen, from Old French compris, past participle of comprendre, from Latin comprehendere, contr. comprendere, past participle comprehensus (“to comprehend”); see comprehend. Compare apprise, reprise, surprise.
Inflected forms:
form: comprises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: comprising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: comprised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: comprised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: comprize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: To be made up of; to consist of (especially a comprehensive list of parts).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: subsume, contain, include, embrace, comprehend
The whole comprises the parts.
The parts are comprised by the whole.
Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.
Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.
gloss: To compose; to constitute.
pos: verb
tags: passive
proscribed
sometimes
usually
examples: Near-synonym: make up
The whole is comprised of the parts.
The parts comprise the whole.
1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX
"Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
gloss: To include, contain, or be made up of, defining the minimum elements, whether essential or inessential to define an invention.
pos: verb
examples: (close-ended)
Synonyms: make up
Related words: comprehensive
Derived words: comprisable
comprisal
Translations:
compulsory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin compulsorius, from Latin compulsus. Displaced native Old English ġenīedelīċ.
Inflected forms:
form: more compulsory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compulsory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: compulsary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
India
Philippines
form: compulsories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compulsary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
India
Philippines
Senses:
gloss: Required; obligatory; mandatory.
pos: adj
examples: The ten-dollar fee was compulsory.
They are entirely private concerns, established by individual teachers, and attendance upon them is no more compulsory than attendance on our dispensaries.
Some might agree that membership in the firm is perhaps more compulsory than membership in a municipality, but balk at applying the analogy to the nation.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are compulsory, but I want to find out what would happen if you just turn up.
gloss: Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
pos: adj
examples: Such compulsory measures are limited.
There will be financial and other incentives to encourage voluntary recruitment, but if that fails to find the numbers a compulsory nationwide call-up will be reconsidered.
gloss: Something that is compulsory or required.
pos: noun
examples: Delobel and Schoenfelder failed to win the free dance, but they had built a big lead in the compulsories and the original dance.
Synonyms: mandatory
binding
compulsatory
compulsory
decretory
forced
imperative
involuntary
nonoptional
obligatory
required
unbewised
unvoluntary
Antonyms: optional
voluntary
Related words: command
instruction
requisite
Derived words: compulsorily
compulsoriness
compulsory acquisition
compulsory education
compulsory heterosexuality
compulsoryness
compulsory purchase
compulsory purchase order
non-compulsory
noncompulsory
semicompulsory
uncompulsory
Translations:
computation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late Middle English computacioun, from Middle French computation, from Latin computatiō, from computare (“sum up, reckon, compute”); see compute. Morphologically compute + -ation.
Base: compute
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: computations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As there are some naturally deficient in the power of computation, others in an ear for harmony, so Francis Evelyn was utterly devoid of truth—he neither understood its moral beauty nor its actual utility.
gloss: The result of computation; the amount computed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: calculus
Derived words: biocomputation
computational
computation history
computationism
computationist
computation time
computation tree logic
computative
geocomputation
hypercomputation
metacomputation
microcomputation
miscomputation
neurocomputation
noncomputation
precomputation
recomputation
subcomputation
supercomputation
Translations:
concatenation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Italic *katesnā
Latin catēna
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin catēnō
Latin concatēnō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin concatēnātiōbor.
English concatenation
Borrowed from Latin concatenātiō. Related to chain.
Inflected forms:
form: concatenations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Try and penetrate with our limited means of the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
gloss: The application of these series of links.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”
gloss: The operation of joining multiple character strings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: concatenate
Derived words: concatenation tree
deconcatenation
reconcatenation
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: kroĉo
lang: French
word: concaténation
lang: Greek
word: συνένωση
roman: synénosi
lang: Hindi
word: श्रृंखलाबंधन
roman: śrŕṅkhlābandhan
lang: Hungarian
word: konkatenáció
lang: Icelandic
word: samskeyting
lang: Malay
word: penjeraitan
lang: Polish
word: konkatenacja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: konkatenacija
lang: French
word: concaténation
lang: Greek
word: συνένωση
roman: synénosi
lang: Polish
word: konkatenacja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: konkatenacija
concede
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old French conceder, from Latin concēdō (“give way, yield”), from con- (“wholly”) + cēdō (“to yield, give way, to go, grant”), from Proto-Indo-European *ked- (“to go, yield”).
Inflected forms:
form: concedes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conceding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conceded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conceded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
pos: verb
examples: I have to concede the argument.
He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.
Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.
gloss: To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
pos: verb
gloss: To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
pos: verb
examples: Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky. It fulfilled its function of humanizing him on the spot, though he refused to concede his astuteness to a mere gulp of liquor.
On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has contributed to. Thus, agency does not necessarily result in one’s own (sinophone or other) learning goals but may mediate others’ socialization, even when the facilitating or socializing agent is not herself an expert in the Chinese language.
Transport Minister Baroness Vere has conceded that the Government does not yet know how its flagship £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan "will actually work on the ground".
gloss: To yield or make concession.
pos: verb
gloss: To have a goal or point scored against
pos: verb
examples: I don't know how they conceded that goal; their defense was so solid.
The visitors arrived at the Reebok Stadium boasting an impressive record of winning their last eight Premier League games there without conceding a goal.
gloss: (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
pos: verb
Synonyms: give up
come around
give way
Related words: concession
Derived words: concededly
concedence
reconcede
unconcede
unconceded
unconceding
Translations:
concentrate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: (early 17th century) From a Romance language, see French concentrer, Italian concentràre, Spanish concentrar; alternatively from Medieval Latin/New Latin concentrō + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare also earlier concentre and German konzentrieren. By surface analysis, con- + center (centr- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: concentrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concentrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concentrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concentrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more concentrate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concentrate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: concentrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: to concentrate rays of light into a focus
to concentrate the attention
gloss: To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
pos: verb
examples: to concentrate acid by evaporation
to concentrate by washing
gloss: To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
pos: verb
examples: Population tends to concentrate in cities.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
gloss: To focus one's thought or attention (on).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: (oneself)
Let me concentrate!
The Group has recently concentrated on two main objectives, the implementation of a Code of Practice on minor station improvements and the preparation of a stock list of approved items of equipment for railway stations.
gloss: concentrated
pos: adj
examples: It is, when good, a concentrate yellow.
Subtracting the liters of concentrate fluid required in the diluted operation.
gloss: A substance that is in a condensed form.
pos: noun
examples: orange concentrate
Related words: concentration
Derived words: concentrated
concentrative
concentrator
cryoconcentrate
deconcentrate
hemoconcentrate
overconcentrate
preconcentrate
reconcentrate
upconcentrate
Translations:
condemnation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English condempnacioun, from Latin condemnātiō, condemnātiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: condemnations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
gloss: The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being condemned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ground or reason of condemning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: attainder
attainture
attaintment
blame
censure
condemnation
condemning
damnation
dispraise
disapprobation
disapproval
improbation
reprehension
Antonyms: approval
encouragement
praise
Related words: tut tut
sanction
Derived words: countercondemnation
forecondemnation
inverse condemnation
precondemnation
recondemnation
Translations:
confer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Early Modern English conferre, from Middle French conférer, from Old French conferer, from Latin cōnferō. Compare Dutch confereren, German konferieren, Danish konferere, Swedish konferera. Doublet of collate. See also infer, relate and refer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Inflected forms:
form: confers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conferring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conferred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conferred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grant as a possession; to bestow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The college has conferred an honorary degree upon the visiting Prime Minister.
Nor shall I count in hainous to enjoy
The public marks of honour and reward
 Conferr'd upon me[…]
Abel tried to refuse the honor thus unexpectedly conferred upon him, but it was no use. He had been made a deacon, and a deacon he must remain.
Referring to the "hero of the day," No. 92220, Mr. Hanks acceded that she was not of the Great Western breed, but they had done their best to make up for that by "dollying her up in good old Western colours and conferring upon her the finest honour we can—the halo or crown of Swindon, the copper top to her chimney."
The special immunities that are conferred on MPs were framed with the essential purpose of allowing them to speak freely in parliament.
The mere existence of a dictionary of a certain variety of English does not automatically confer acceptance of that variety.
gloss: To talk together, to consult, discuss; to collogue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They were in a huddle, conferring about something.
Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks.
gloss: To compare.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The Newe Testament ... Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approued translations.
Confer thine estate with others […]. Be content and rest satisfied, for thou art well in respect to others […].
If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.
gloss: To bring together; to collect, gather.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To contribute; to conduce.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The closeness and compactness of the parts resting together doth much confer to the strength of the union.
Related words: cf
cf.
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collation
conference
Derived words: agreement conferring jurisdiction
conferee
conferment
conferrable
conferral
conferrer
reconfer
unconferred
Translations:
coniferous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin. By surface analysis, cone + -i- + -ferous (“bearing”), or conifer + -ous (“pertaining to”), as reflected in the meanings.
Base: conifer
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more coniferous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coniferous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
pos: adj
examples: During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.
Derived words: nonconiferous
Translations:
confiscation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin cōnfiscātiō. By surface analysis, confiscate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: confiscations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of confiscating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
conflagration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Italic *flagrosder.?
Latin flagrō
Latin cōnflagrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnflagrātiōder.
Middle Frenchbor.
English conflagration
From Middle French, from Latin cōnflagrātiō (“burning, conflagration”).
Inflected forms:
form: conflagrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.
And back to hell his way did he take, / For the Devil thought by a slight mistake / It was general conflagration.
gloss: A large-scale conflict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.
gloss: A situation of great passion or emotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.
Derived words: superconflagration
Translations:
conformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin confōrmātiō. By surface analysis, conform + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: conformations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being conformed; agreement
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was much struck with the gaiety of the creoles , whose exterior told a stranger that education had been doing something among them in these solitudes ; and as all the parties kissed the Bible in conformation with the law of England
gloss: Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sennertus [Daniel Sennert] alſo, vvhere he vvrites De morbis Figuræ, reckons amongſt other cauſes of the ill conformation of mens heads, That they are novv and then induced after the birth, vvhilſt the tender Heads of Infants are by Midvvives and Nurſes formed after a divers manner, vvhile they are involved in head-bands, & moulded vvith their hands, according to their irregular and varying phanſies.
One may see well the advantages of this form from the coach - box of our heavily - loaded public vehicles , where animals of different conformation are yoked together
gloss: The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: The more stable conformation has the methyl group in an equatorial position , since this minimizes repulsions between axial substituents
Related words: conform
conformity
allostery
configuration
Derived words: boat conformation
chair conformation
chromosome conformation capture
coconformation
conformational
malconformation
misconformation
multiconformation
osmoconformation
thermoconformation
Translations:
congestion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From late Middle English congestioun, from Old French [Term?], from Latin congestĭō (“heap, accumulation”), from congerō (“to bring together, accumulate, heap up”), formed by the root gerō (“to carry”) and the prefix con-.
Inflected forms:
form: congestions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: network congestion
gloss: The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: arterial congestion
venous congestion
congestion of the lungs
gloss: An excess or accumulation of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: traffic congestion
The crossing caused serious congestion with long traffic hold-ups, and had been a bone of contention between the local authorities and the railway for over eighty years. It was controlled from Fletton Road Junction Signalbox (removed at the same time) and, until a wheel was installed in 1920, required two gatemen on each turn of duty.
gloss: An excess or accumulation of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An excess or accumulation of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: congest
Derived words: congestional
congestion charge
congestion charging
congestion pricing
decongestion
nasal congestion
noncongestion
rebound congestion
vasocongestion
Translations:
conglomeration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: conglomerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which consists of many previously separate parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The green-purple conglomeration behaves nearly like a monospecific culture with characteristics halfway between those of the green and the purple, though metamorphosing more slowly than either[…]
gloss: An instance of conglomerating, a coming together of separate parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.
Translations:
congratulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English congratulacion, from Middle French congratulation or its etymon Latin congrātulātiō, from congrātulor (“to congratulate”). By surface analysis, congratulate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: congratulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gratulation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of congratulating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: May I present my warmest congratulations?
Translations:
consecration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós
Proto-Italic *sakros
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *sakrāō
Latin sacrō
Latin cōnsecrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnsecrātiō, cōnsecrātiōnembor.
English consecration
Borrowed from Latin cōnsecrātiō, cōnsecrātiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: consecrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration.
Translations:
conservation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Old French. By surface analysis, conserve + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: conservations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wise use of natural resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
gloss: The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anticonservation
anticonservationist
conservational
conservation biology
conservationism
conservationist
conservation law
conservation of energy
conservation of mass
cryoconservation
geoconservation
hyperconservation
law of conservation of mass
microconservation
neuroconservation
nonconservation
proconservation
reconservation
soil conservation
ultraconservation
Translations:
conspiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English conspiracioun, from Middle French conspiration, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōnem. Doublet of conspiracy.
Inflected forms:
form: conspirations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plot between two or more people against somebody's wishes; conspiracy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: conspiracy
conspirator
conspiratorial
conspiratorialism
conspiratorialist
conspiratorially
conspiratory
conspire
conspirer
Derived words: conspirational
conspirationism
Translations:
consternation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French consternation, from Latin consternātiō. By surface analysis, consternate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: consternations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.
It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
And privately, some European officials are sharing mounting consternation over the U.S. conduct of the Iran war that they say with each passing week is moving further away from the international rules of engagement and values that underpin the NATO alliance.
Translations:
constipation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English constipacioun, borrowed from Medieval Latin constīpātiō or its Old French equivalent, from cōnstīpō + -tiō. By surface analysis, constipate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: constipations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.
Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.
gloss: The act of crowding anything into a lesser space, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Constipation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: anticonstipation
verbal constipation
Translations:
consubstantiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Inflected forms:
form: consubstantiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An identity or union of substance.
pos: noun
gloss: The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation, as opposed to transubstantiation.
pos: noun
Derived words: consubstantiationist
Translations:
consummation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Indo-European *-m̥mo-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)úp-m̥mo-s
Proto-Italic *supemos
Latin summus
Latin summa
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin cōnsummō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnsummātiōbor.
English consummation
Borrowed from Latin cōnsummātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: consummations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I emptied my revolver upon him as he lay, and should have done the same with its mate had not two hunters at that moment come upon the ground and prevented any further consummation of my designs.
The opening of the extension from Brentwood to Colchester took place on March 29, 1843, when it was reported that at Colchester "the town had literally turned out its population to witness the consummation of the hopes and the fears of alike friends and opponents."
It was the consummation of plans designed on Tufton Street, and of an alliance with Ms. Truss stretching back years. Under her watch, Britain has become a libertarian laboratory.
gloss: The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The consummation of marriage involves the mightiest issues of life and is the most holy and sacred right recognized by man, and it is the Balm of Gilead for many ills. Masturbation or prostitution soon blight the brightest prospects a young man may have.
gloss: The achievement of perfection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had no vague false notions of beginning fires in November, and ending them in May; but had arrived at the philosophical conclusion, that there are very few evenings, in all the year, that a fire is not a consummation of domestic felicity in England most devoutly to be wished.
gloss: Termination; the end (as of the world or of life); an end or resulting state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.
It may be supposed that from the spread of information all real danger from ignorance is past. Not so, good reader, that is a consummation as yet "devoutly to be wished."
gloss: The date at which the mortgagor becomes contractually obligated to the mortgagee in a real estate transaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: consummate
consummator
Derived words: nonconsummation
Translations:
contamination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: etymology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
Etymology: From Latin contāminātiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: contaminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of contaminating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something which contaminates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: adulteration
contamination
defedation
defilement
pollution
sophistication
Antonyms: conservation
decontamination
distillation
purification
Derived words: anticontamination
biocontamination
cross-contamination
microcontamination
noncontamination
radiocontamination
recontamination
xenocontamination
Translations:
contemplation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English contemplacioun, from Old French contemplation, from Latin contemplatio. By surface analysis, contemplate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: contemplations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of contemplating; being highly concentrated in thought; musing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: meditation, cogitation; see also Thesaurus:attention, Thesaurus:consideration
Now, 80 percent is accessible — quickly filling with exhibition spaces, stylish restaurants and cafes, bookstores, and highly profitable gift stores, as well as quiet walkways, shady stands of trees and odd nooks that invite contemplation of bygone dynasties.
Mr. Pickwick congratulated the fortunate owner of the irresistible garments on their acquisition; and Mr. Peter Magnus remained a few moments apparently absorbed in contemplation.
gloss: Holy meditation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: devotions, prayer
Whilst he roamed about with his flocks, through ice and snow, communion with his God in prayer, and quiet contemplation, were his portion.
gloss: The act of looking forward to a future event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: anticipation
gloss: The state of being considered or planned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: consideration, planning, proposal
contemplation of port facility expansion
He concludes: "This letter is written in contemplation of legal proceedings, and is a pre-action protocol letter within the meaning of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998."
Related words: contemplate
contemplational
contemplative
precontemplation
Derived words: contemplationism
contemplationist
recontemplation
Translations: