yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
coriander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English coriandre, from Anglo-Norman coriandre, from Old French corïandre, from Latin coriandrum, from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cilantro.
cognates, etc.
Compare Ancient Greek κορίαννον (koríannon), κορίαμβλον (koríamblon), Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀪𐁀𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-a2-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀈𐀜 (ko-ri-ja-do-no), 𐀒𐀪𐀍𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-jo-da-na), Akkadian 𒌑𒄷𒌷𒌝 (^úḫurium) Aramaic כסברה (kusbara, “coriander”), Classical Syriac ܟܽܘܣܒܰܪܬܳܐ (kūsbartā, “coriander”) and Arabic كُزْبَرَة (kuzbara).
Beekes supposes that cluster -dn- implies a Pre-Greek word, and hypothesizes that *koriaⁿdro- may have dissimilated to *koriaⁿdno-.
Inflected forms:
form: corianders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The annual herb Coriandrum sativum, used in many cuisines.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
usually
examples: The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination. Also vinegar, dried coriander, potassium bromide, cocaine, vervain, acid drinks, lemonade.
gloss: The dried fruits thereof, used as a spice.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: dhania
Derived words: Bolivian coriander
Burmese coriander
coriandered
coriander seed
Lao coriander
Mexican coriander
sawtooth coriander
spiny coriander
Vietnamese coriander
Translations:
cumin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English comyn, from Old English cymen (which is cognate with Old High German kumin) and Old French cummin, both from Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), a Semitic borrowing ultimately to be traced to Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /⁠kamūnu⁠/, “cumin”). Possibly related to caraway.
Inflected forms:
form: cumins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Cumin is native to the region from the eastern Mediterranean to India.
gloss: Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Cumin was often an ingredient of such love potions since it produced the effect of retention in whoever ate it.
Related words: ground
Derived words: black cumin
cuminic
cuminol
cuminseed
Persian cumin
Translations:
fennel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From the Middle English fenel, from the late Old English finuðl, finule (weak feminine forms); fenol, finul (masculine forms), from Proto-West Germanic *fenukl, from the Vulgar Latin *fēnuclum, fēnoclum, from Late Latin fēnuculum, from the Classical Latin faeniculum, a diminutive form of faenum (“hay”); compare the Italian finocchio, the Occitan fenolh, the French fenouil, and the Spanish hinojo. Doublet of finocchio and finook.
Inflected forms:
form: fennels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: sweet anise
Derived words: bronze fennel
common fennel
dogfennel
dog fennel (Anthemis cotula, Eupatorium capillifolium, etc
fennelflower
fennel-flower
Florence fennel
giant fennel
hog fennel
hog’s fennel
meridian fennel
sea fennel
sweet fennel
water fennel
wild fennel
Translations:
fenugreek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der.
Latin foenum
Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós)bor.
Latin graecus
Latin foenum-graecum
Old French fenigrecbor.
Middle English fenygreke
English fenugreek
Inherited from Middle English fenygreke, borrowed from Old French fenigrec, from Latin foenum-graecum (literally “Greek hay”), from foenum (“hay”, variant of faenum) + graecus (“Greek”).
Inflected forms:
form: fenugreeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the species leguminous plant, Trigonella foenum-graecum, eaten as a vegetable and with seeds used as a spice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fenugreek plant was introduced to Central Europe by Benedictine monks, and it is promoted in the 9th century by Charlemagne. It was grown extensively in the imperial gardens of Charlemagne (Popova, 2017).
gloss: The seeds of this plant, used as a spice (especially in Indian and Thai cooking).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fenugreek’s nutritional and tonic properties have also been tapped since ancient times. […] Fenugreek-based preparations stimulate the appetite and promote weight gain in people with anemia, anorexia, tuberculosis or asthenia.
Derived words: blue fenugreek
sweet fenugreek
Translations:
galangal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English galyngale, from Old French galingal, from Arabic خَلَنْجَان (ḵalanjān), from Persian قولنجان (qulenjân, qulanjân), from Sanskrit कुलञ्जन (kulañjana), perhaps from Chinese 高良薑／高良姜 (gāoliángjiāng), from 高涼 /高凉 (Gāoliáng) (a prefecture or county in China) + 薑 /姜 (jiāng, “ginger”).
Inflected forms:
form: galangals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: galingale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: galanga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The refreshing aroma of galangal acts in combination with and as a contrast to lemongrass in many recipes in this book.
Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been. It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal, which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.
Translations:
liquorice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From licorice by association with liquor.
Inflected forms:
form: liquorices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK, Ireland, India, and South Africa standard spelling of licorice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
licorice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lycorys, from Old French licoresse, from Late Latin liquiritia, alteration of Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza): γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) (English glucose, English rhizome). Doublet of glycyrrhiza.
Inflected forms:
form: licorices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liquorice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
India
Ireland
UK
form: usage notes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: A type of candy made from that plant's dried root or its extract.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A black color, named after the licorice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: A flavoring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A supposed aphrodisiac made in the past from dried roots of Glycyrrhiza glabra and Glycyrrhiza echinata.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: crab's eye
Pontefract cake
rosary pea
sambuca
allsorts
Derived words: black licorice
deglycyrrhizinated licorice
Indian licorice
licorice allsorts
licorice extract
licorice milkvetch
licorice mint
licorice pizza
licorice root
licorice stick
licorice wheel
licoricey
liquorice allsorts
red licorice
salty licorice
wild licorice
Translations:
escapee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English escape
English -ee
English escapee
From escape + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: escapees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: escapée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who has escaped.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant that has escaped from cultivation.
pos: noun
Related words: escape
Translations:
conserve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English conserven, from Old French conserver, from Latin conservare (“to keep, preserve”), from com- (intensive prefix) + servo (“keep watch, maintain”). See also observe.
Inflected forms:
form: conserves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conserves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: conserving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: conserved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: conserved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Wilderness where human development is prohibited.
pos: noun
gloss: A jam or thick syrup made from fruit.
pos: noun
examples: I shall […] study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman.
gloss: A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A conservatory.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: water[…]alwayes placed in the Conserve
gloss: To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to conserve fruits with sugar
the amity which […] they meant to conserve and maintain with the emperor
Also the Russian lines over which these locomotives run pass through long stretches of waterless country, where the only alternative to hauling additional water-tank wagons is to conserve the water supply by condensing.
gloss: To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.
gloss: To remain unchanged during a process
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: conservancy
conservative
conservatory
conserved sequence
conserveness
hyperconserve
nonconserving
reconserve
unconserving
Translations:
antepenultimate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Proto-Italic *anti
Classical Latin ante
Classical Latin ante-lbor.
English ante-
Latin paene
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Italic *-tm̥mos
Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos
Latin ultimus
Latin paenultimus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English penultimate
English antepenultimate
From ante- + penultimate, modelled on Latin antepaenultima/antepēnultima (syllaba) (“last syllable but two in a word”), from the feminine of antepaenultimus/antepēnultimus (“antepenultimate”).
Base: penultimate
Affixes: ante-
Inflected forms:
form: antepaenultimate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: antepænultimate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: antepenultimates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antepaenultimate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: antepænultimate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Two before the last, i.e., the one immediately before the penultimate, in a series.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This book has ten chapters — chapter 8 is the antepenultimate one.
[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
gloss: The second before the last in a series; the item preceding the penultimate and ultimate.
pos: noun
gloss: The syllable that comes two before the last in a word.
pos: noun
examples: The words animal, citizen, comedy, and antepenultimate are stressed on the antepenultimate.
Related words: penultimate
preantepenultimate
propreantepenultimate
ultimate
Translations:
sequitur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sequitur (“it follows”), the third person form of sequor (“to follow”).
Inflected forms:
form: sequiturs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sequuntur
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A logical conclusion or consequence of facts.
pos: noun
examples: He is accordingly in haste to show that it was not kept on shore; for, if so, ‘some trace would be found on shore of the murderers’. I presume you smile at the sequitur.
Antonyms: non sequitur
Translations:
dreck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish דרעק (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in mūsthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Cimbrian drèkh (“excrement, manure”), Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Inflected forms:
form: drek
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: trash; worthless merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Unfortunately, the conversation soon turned into a late-night freshman-year dorm-room debate, as he stumbled into a controversy of his own making by using Holocaust deniers and their appalling falsehoods as an example of how much dreck should be allowed on the platform.
Translations:
remittance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English remit
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English remittance
From remit + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: remittances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sending money to someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: remittance advice
gloss: Money which is sent to someone, typically to someone in another country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Money sent by a foreign worker back to their home country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It had been built on remittances, Lamin told me, sent back by a local young man who had been doing well, driving a cab in Amsterdam, until his luck changed and the money abruptly stopped.
While the average cost of sending money to sub-Saharan Africa is the highest in the world, the cost of digital remittances to the region is less than the global average. If more Africans sent money home via digital services rather than cash, average remittance fees should fall, but receiving money online requires the internet, which is used in sub-Saharan Africa by only 37% of people, according to the World Bank.
Related words: money order
Derived words: remittance man
remittance woman
Translations:
recipient
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).
Inflected forms:
form: recipients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who receives.
pos: noun
examples: the recipient of money or goods
My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
gloss: A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
pos: noun
gloss: The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
pos: noun
gloss: receiving
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: accepter
accipient
acquirer
getter
obtainer
procurer
receiver
recipient
securer
Antonyms: giver
Related words: receiving
receive
Derived words: corecipient
geniculorecipient
multirecipient
nonrecipient
recipientship
retinorecipient
subrecipient
Translations:
tamarind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
cooking
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).
Inflected forms:
form: tamarinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fruit of this tree; the pulp is used as spice in Asian cooking and in Worcestershire sauce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Currently, the Palestinian territories are being featured, and the menu boasts treats like maftoul (a garlicky chicken and couscous dish) and tamar Hindi (chilled tamarind juice with rose water).
He began to crack tamarinds, pulling out the pod flesh, adding sugar and black pepper from his palms.
gloss: Other similar species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other similar species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other similar species:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dark brown color, like that of tamarind pulp (also called tamarind brown).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: monkey tamarind
tamarindade
tamarind fish
tamarind plum
velvet tamarind
Translations:
salvia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Salvia, in turn from Latin salvia (“sage”). Doublet of sage.
Inflected forms:
form: salvias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches.
gloss: A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: red salvia
Translations:
keening
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From keen + -ing, from Irish caoin.
Base: keen
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: keenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.
As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.
gloss: Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.
gloss: An unpleasant wailing sound.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
eisteddfod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh eisteddfod (“session”), from eistedd (“to sit”) + bod (“to be”), literally “being sitting”.
Base: eistedd
Inflected forms:
form: eisteddfods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eisteddfodau
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several annual festivals in which Welsh poets, dancers, and musicians compete for recognition.
pos: noun
gloss: (more generally) An annual performing arts competition, typically for youth.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Related words: eisteddfodwr
Derived words: eisteddfodic
Translations:
dado
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.
Inflected forms:
form: dados
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dadoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dadoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dadoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dadoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dadoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The section of a pedestal above the base.
pos: noun
gloss: The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
pos: noun
examples: Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.
Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.
gloss: The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish with a dado.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut a dado.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dado rail
Translations:
pluperfect
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
graph-theory
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pluperfect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pluperfect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plpf.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: pluperfects
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plpf.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
pos: adj
gloss: Being or relating to a certain type of graph that complies with a theorem ("pluperfect graph theorem") discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970, satisfying even more constraints than a perfect graph.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of multiperfect.
pos: adj
gloss: Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!
The drought has raised pluperfect heck with fishing more ways than one.
gloss: The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
pos: noun
gloss: A verb in this tense.
pos: noun
Synonyms: plusquamperfect
preterpluperfect
Related words: pluperfection
Derived words: pluperfectly
pluperfectness
Translations:
danza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish danza. Doublet of dance.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dancing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sunday at 2 p.m., a performance of classical Puerto Rican danza music by the Association for Puerto Rican Culture, featuring the pianist Alberto Bird and the singer Thelma Ithier-Sterling.
Translations:
vindictive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin vindicta (“vengeance”) + -ive. Contrast Latin vindicātīvus.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more vindictive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vindictive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
pos: adj
examples: Lord Avonleigh was an angry rather than a vindictive man. Vindictiveness requires more energy of character than he possessed. Indeed, it may be questioned whether he would of himself have taken the violent measures of the preceding evening.
The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.
The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.
gloss: Punitive.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: vindicate
vindication
vindicator
Derived words: vindictively
vindictiveness
vindictive protectiveness
Translations:
voodoo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Fon voduder.
Haitian Creole Vodouder.
Louisiana Creole voudoubor.
English voodoo
From Louisiana Creole voudou, from Haitian Creole Vodou, from a West African language, such as Ewe vódũ (“deity, idol”), Fon vòdún (“fetish”) or the Kwa languages vodũ.
Inflected forms:
form: voodoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vodou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vodoun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: voudon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: voudoun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vodun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: voudou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Voodoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: voodoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voodooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voodooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: voodooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You cannot understand Haitian Vodou as it is practised today without first knowing something about the culture from which it sprang, and the ways history has shaped religion, and vice versa.
gloss: The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: I want a real explanation, not this statistical voodoo.
gloss: One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: So a reporter of the Boston Herald (U.S.) has 'interviewed' a few local Voodoos. He has seen a dance round a boiling pot, seen some tomfoolery with spiders, and heard a lot of superstitious stories.
gloss: To bewitch someone or something using voodoo
pos: verb
examples: He claimed his neighbor had voodooed him.
Synonyms: voodooism
Derived words: voodoo death
voodoo doll
voodoo economics
voodooism
voodooist
voodoo mode
voodoo programming
voodoo science
Translations:
innings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).
Inflected forms:
form: innings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inningses
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
pos: noun
gloss: A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
pos: noun
gloss: The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A person's lifespan.
pos: noun
tags: UK
euphemistic
examples: Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.
My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.
He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.
You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.
Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.
Derived words: change of innings
early innings
extra-innings
extra innings
late innings
Translations:
fielder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
Etymology: From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.
Base: field
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: fielders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.
pos: noun
gloss: A defensive player in the field.
pos: noun
gloss: A fieldworker.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: center fielder
fielder's choice
left fielder
right fielder
Translations:
vertigo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wert-
Proto-Indo-European *wértetor
Proto-Italic *wertō
Latin vertō
Latin -īgō
Latin vertīgōbor.
English vertigo
Borrowed from Latin vertīgō.
Inflected forms:
form: vertigos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vertigoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A snail of the genus Vertigo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: dizziness
giddiness
Derived words: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
vertiginous
Translations:
vacuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vacuus (“empty, vacant”) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more vacuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vacuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
pos: adj
examples: vacuous expression
vacuous remark
The movie was criticized for its vacuous dialogue.
She gave him a vacuous smile.
gloss: Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
pos: adj
Related words: vacant
vacuous truth
vacuum
empty-headed
Derived words: vacuity
vacuously
vacuousness
Translations:
galleon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French galion or Spanish galeón. Originally an augmentative form of a Romance language cognate of galley, the word spread around the Mediterranean from the 12th century, taking on different meanings depending on place and time.
Inflected forms:
form: galleons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, three-masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.
pos: noun
examples: The next day he returned to camp with the balance of his ingots, and when they were stored on board the cruiser Captain Dufranne said he felt like the commander of an old-time Spanish galleon returning from the treasure cities of the Aztecs. “I don’t know what minute my crew will cut my throat, and take over the ship,” he added.
Translations:
reopen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-Germanic *upanaz
Proto-West Germanic *opan
Old English open
Middle English open
English open
English reopen
From re- + open.
Inflected forms:
form: reopens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reopening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reopened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reopened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-open
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To open (something) again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1920, Breckinridge Long, US Ambassador to Italy, a speech titled America's Accomplishments
From the moment of the declaration by Germany, she would reopen her inhuman warfare by the indiscriminate use of submarines.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been conspicuously absent from national television interviews over the last two weeks, as the White House moves ahead with reopening the economy.
Says Barnes: "The next priority [for Devon County Council] is reopening the line from Tavistock to Plymouth.
gloss: To open again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks which reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call.
Yet city officials said unburned sections of the upscale Westfield Galleria at Roseville could reopen within weeks, in time for the holiday shopping season.
Derived words: reopenable
reopener
reopen old wounds
Translations:
clopen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: Blend of closed + open.
Compound parts: closed
open
Inflected forms:
form: clopens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Both open and closed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A subset of a metric space is clopen iff it is both closed and open. A metric space is called zero-dimensional iff there is a base for the open sets consisting of clopen sets.
FACT 1. Disjoint closed subsets of #92;mathbb#123;N#125;#92;mathbb#123;N#125; may be separated by disjoint clopen sets.
Theorem 3. 1) Every two disjoint closed sets in a totally disconnected compact space #92;mathfrak#123;Q#125; are separated by disjoint clopen sets.
2) Every algebra of clopen sets which separates the points of a totally disconnected compact space contains all clopen sets.
gloss: A pair of work shifts in which a worker works a closing shift one day and then works an opening shift the following day.
pos: noun
examples: James is on vacation, so I've got to do a clopen this weekend to cover his shifts.
Translations:
clutter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).
Base: clot
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: clutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cluttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cluttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cluttered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fill something with clutter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
gloss: To clot or coagulate, like blood.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls
gloss: To make a confused noise; to bustle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle.
gloss: To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Derived words: clutterer
clutter up
overclutter
Translations:
subset
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
set-theory
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English set
English subset
From sub- + set.
Inflected forms:
form: subsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subsets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subsetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subsetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subsetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A set A such that every element of A is also an element of S.
pos: noun
examples: The set of integers is a subset of the set of real numbers.
The set #92;lbracea,b#92;rbrace is a both a subset and a proper subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace while the set #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace is a subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace but not a proper subset of #92;lbracea,b,c#92;rbrace.
1963, David B. MacNeil, Modern Mathematics for the Practical Man, David Van Nostrand, Republished as 2013, David B. MacNeil, Fundamentals of Modern Mathematics: A Practical Review, Dover, page 3,
In the foregoing example, the set D of the first four letters of the alphabet, was a subset of the set A of all the letters of the alphabet, because A includes all the members of D.
Let A be a subset of the topological space X and take x#92;inX.
We say that a set S has a finite partition into subsets S#95;1,#92;dots,S#95;n, if S#61;S#95;i#92;cup#92;dots#92;cupS#95;n, where the subsets are pairwise disjoint, that is, S#95;i#92;capS#95;j#61;#92;empty, if i#92;nej. (We do not require that the subsets be nonempty.)
gloss: A group of things or people, all of which are in a specified larger group.
pos: noun
examples: We asked a subset of the population of the town for their opinion.
Interestingly, this [the core lexicon] is not all of the words of the language: It turns out that most of the words in a language from an industrialized culture come from narrow semantic domains, such that only a subset of speakers know them.
gloss: To take a subset of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: subclass
Antonyms: superclass
superset
Derived words: immunosubset
multiplicative subset
multisubset
proper subset
subset classifier
subsethood
Translations:
healer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English helere, the agent noun of heal; analysed as heal + -er. Cognate with Dutch heler (“healer”), German Heiler (“healer”), Icelandic heilari (“healer”).
Base: heal
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: healers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who heals, especially through faith.
pos: noun
examples: faith healer
gifted healer
natural healer
The villagers sought help from a traditional healer.
She became known as a spiritual healer.
gloss: Anything that heals; a medicine that heals some wound, injury, ailment, or disease.
pos: noun
Derived words: time is a great healer
time is a great healer of all wounds
time is the great healer
Translations:
summa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin summa.
Inflected forms:
form: summas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: summae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
pos: noun
gloss: A culmination or archetypal example.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.
The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.
Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II.
Related words: summa cum laude
Translations:
reflect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflectō (“to reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flectō (“to bend, to curve”). Compare English reflex.
Inflected forms:
form: reflects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reflecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reflected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reflected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
gloss: To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
gloss: To mirror, or show the image of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
gloss: To be mirrored.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
gloss: To agree with; to closely follow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
gloss: To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: People do that sort of thing every day, without ever stopping to reflect on the consequences.
Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
Derived words: misreflect
nonreflective
reflectability
reflectable
reflectance
reflectarray
reflectible
reflectin
reflecting microscope
reflective
reflectogram
reflectograph
reflectography
reflectometer
reflectometry
reflect on
reflectoporn
reflector
reflectorize
reflectron
reflect upon
reflexion
retroreflect
self-reflect
unreflective
Translations:
audience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English audience, from Middle French audience, from Old French audience, from Latin audientia, from present participle audiēns (“hearing”), from verb audiō (“to hear”). Doublet of audiencia.
Inflected forms:
form: audiences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
pos: noun
examples: We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
gloss: Hearing; the condition or state of hearing or listening.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: WHen he had ended all his ſayingꝭ in the audience of the people / he entred ĩto Capernaum.
... groans and roarings full of plaintive anger, the force of which can only be realized by actual audience. When solicited by the jerking of their noses, they condescend to kneel down and tuck their legs under them;[…]
gloss: A widespread or nationwide viewing or listening public, as of a TV or radio network or program.
pos: noun
gloss: A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
pos: noun
examples: She managed to get an audience with the Pope.
Captain Anderson: Sounds like you convinced the Council to give us an audience.
Ambassador Udina: They were not happy about it. Saren's their top agent. They don't like him being accused of treason.
gloss: The readership of a book or other written publication.
pos: noun
examples: "Private Eye" has a small but faithful audience.
gloss: A following.
pos: noun
examples: The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.
gloss: An audiencia (judicial court of the Spanish empire), or the territory administered by it.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: hearership
listenership
Related words: audition
Derived words: audience effect
audience hall
audience left
audienceless
audience-proof
audience right
audience surrogate
audience wave
captive audience
captive audience meeting
cyberaudience
fraudience
inherited audience
intended audience
preaudience
right of audience
target audience
unaudienced
viewing audience
work the audience
Translations:
precautious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more precautious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most precautious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Taking precautions.
pos: adj
Translations:
neo-Luddite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English Luddite
English neo-Luddite
From neo- + Luddite.
Inflected forms:
form: more neo-Luddite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neo-Luddite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neo-luddite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: neo-Luddites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neo-luddite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to technology, in the fashion of the Luddites.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: One is a neo-Luddite revolt, aiming to destroy machines and machine systems […]
Last along the spectrum comes a diverse set of social critics, activists and intellectuals for the most part, who accept the neo-Luddite label without demur and are consciously working to adapt certain of the Luddite fundamentals to contemporary politics.
One such collection of thoughts is the neo-Luddite spectrum. Not yet an organized movement, the neo-Luddite approach contains multitudes of […]
However, as the original Luddites did, a small number of people within the neo-Luddite movement have resorted to criminal activity.
Past neo-Luddite movements have, it should be noted, come and gone. In the 1990s, activist writers such as Kirkpatrick Sale called for a neo-Luddism that rejected the computer age altogether, arguing that “a world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.”
Nick Hilton, host of a neo-luddite podcast called The Ned Ludd Radio Hour, has invited me over for a cup of tea.
gloss: One who opposes technology or scientific progress, in the fashion of the Luddites.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: "Neo-Luddite," I said to myself. A filthy accusation.
Yet the neo-Luddite resistance is remarkably disparate. Some flee to the woods; others, taking a less courageous stand, are content to dis the microwave oven and cellular phone. But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.
Where a techno-pessimist like Yudkowsky would have us address the biggest-picture threats conceivable[…] neo-luddites tend to focus on ground-level concerns. Employment, especially, because this is where technology enriched by AIs seems to be causing the most pain.
Translations: