yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
spesh
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from special.
Inflected forms:
form: more spesh
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spesh
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: special
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hey. You look really cute today. Listen, this is gonna be tough, I know. It's gonna take some serious restraint on our part. But what we have is rare. Super spesh. But I'm afraid we can't act on it, Jude.
Translations:
honcho
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.
Inflected forms:
form: honchos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honchoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honchos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: honchoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: honchoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: honchoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Boss, leader.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Says they had no choice. Says the NVA killed the old honcho when he said no. Now he says all the rice is theirs.
For years, snobbery has been a hallmark of this city of wealth and glamour, movie stars and entertainment honchos, where it is possible to spend $20,000 for a watch, $6,000 for a suit with 14-karat gold pinstriping or $15,000 for a handbag of rare leather.
Mostly he wrote what the higher honchos in the newsroom referred to, often condescendingly, as “offbeat” stories.
Gulfstream makes jets for both Hollywood honchos and foreign governments like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
gloss: To lead or manage.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
informal
transitive
examples: I had never honchoed that many people so even something as simple as ordering them to knead dough or fondant became an important decision.
The task of choosing the clips that comprised the allotted 10 minutes in the bake-off was left to the supervising sound editor, as it was he or she who honchoed the preparation of the soundtrack for the rerecording mixing stage in the first place.
Translations:
titrate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Modelled after French titrer. Equivalent to French titre (“title, quality, chemical proportion”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: titre
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: titrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: titrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: titrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: titrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: titrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.
pos: verb
examples: He was obsessed with making LSD even purer than Sandoz, producing it first in powder form in gelatin capsules as well as light-blue liquid (“Mother's Milk”) that was easily recognizable when titrated onto sugar cubes.
gloss: To adjust the amount of a drug consumed until the desired effects are achieved.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A 5mg dose could not ease the pain, so he titrated to 10mg which brought him immediate relief.
gloss: To precisely control.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: In crisis debriefing, because it is done in group sessions, you can’t titrate the amount of exposure to the individual, so some may get more upset.
"All mammals engage in dangerous play," Gray told me. "Dangerous play is how kids learn how to titrate fear."
The error lies in thinking that one can titrate the application of violence to achieve exquisitely precise results. To the extent that the West continues to attempt to do so, it will merely ensure more mass graves like those of Bucha and Izyum, and more soldiers lying limbless or in the burn wards of Ukrainian military hospitals.
gloss: A solution of unknown concentration which is (to be) tested by means of titration.
pos: noun
examples: A typical titration requires approximately 1.8–2.0 mL of titrate at a concentration of 1–2 µM. The titrant will typically be at a concentration 10–20 times that of the titrate.
Related words: titer
titre
titrant
Derived words: autotitrate
backtitrate
back titrate
downtitrate
downtitration
microtitrate
overtitrate
pretitrated
titrant
titratability
titratable
titrated
titration
titrator
untitrated
uptitrate
Translations:
titration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From titrate + -ion, see titrate.
Base: titrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: titrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The determination of the concentration of some substance in a solution by slowly adding measured amounts of some other substance (normally using a burette) until a reaction is shown to be complete, for instance by the colour change of an indicator.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
titre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French titre (“title”). Doublet of tilde, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
Inflected forms:
form: titres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: titer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: titres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: titring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: titred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: titred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: titer
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The strength or concentration of a solution that has been determined by titration.
pos: noun
gloss: To determine a titre, especially by titration
pos: verb
Synonyms: titer
Translations:
blatant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by Edmund Spenser in 1596 in "blatant beast". Probably a variation of *blatand (Scots blaitand (“bleating”)), present participle of blate, a variation of bleat, equivalent to blate + -ant. See bleat. In addition, it is suggested by Latin blatiō (“speak like a fool, prate”), which is rare, and so the similitude may be just coincidental.
Compare typologically Bulgarian вопиющ (vopijušt), Russian вопию́щий (vopijúščij) (akin to вопи́ть (vopítʹ)).
Base: blate
Affixes: -and
Inflected forms:
form: more blatant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blatant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obvious, on show; unashamed; loudly obtrusive or offensive.
pos: adj
examples: Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet.
London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.
He tried to think out what those two men had which so strangely attracted her. They both had a vulgar facetiousness which tickled her simple sense of humour, and a certain coarseness of nature; but what took her perhaps was the blatant sexuality which was their most marked characteristic.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
gloss: Bellowing; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: A monster, which the Blatant beast men call.
harsh and blatant tones
A blatant bugle tears my afternoons. / Out clump the clumsy Tommies by platoons, / Trying to keep in step with rag-time tunes, / But I sit still; I've done my drill.
Derived words: blatantly
blatantness
Translations:
titrant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From titre + -ant, see titrate.
Base: titre
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: titrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reagent of known concentration and volume used in titrations.
pos: noun
Translations:
nevertheless
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nevertheles, never-þe-les, nevere-þe-lesse. By surface analysis, never (“not at all”) + the + less; compare never the wiser.
Inflected forms:
form: ne'ertheless
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
form: nethertheless
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dated
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: In spite of what preceded; yet.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: Now no chaſtening for the preſent ſeemeth to be ioyous, but grieuous: neuertheleſſe, afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruite of righteouſneſſe, vnto them which are exerciſed thereby.
The attainment of the skills of elementary reading occurred some time ago for almost all who read this book. Nevertheless, we continue to experience the problems of this level of reading, no matter how capable we may be as readers.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
Paul did eventually mention potential First Amendment concerns, saying, "We have to be wary of where it leads to, so it doesn't lead to speech problems." He nevertheless could and should have made it clearer that the "crackdown" he has in mind does not entail the sort of government restrictions that Carr and Cruz rightly rejected.
Antonyms: therefore
thus
Translations:
spyware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spy
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English softwarebf.
English -ware
English spyware
From spy + -ware.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]
Translations:
adware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ad
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English softwarebf.
English -ware
English adware
From ad + -ware.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
zygote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ζῠγωτός (zŭgōtós, “yoked”) + English -ote (suffix meaning ‘having [the thing to which it is attached]’). Ζῠγωτός (Zŭgōtós) is derived from ζῠγόω (zŭgóō, “to join or yoke together”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives of possibility); and ζῠγόω (zŭgóō) from ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke for joining animals; anything which joins two things together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming causative or factitive verbs). By surface analysis, zygo- + -ote.
Affixes: -ote
Inflected forms:
form: zygotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes (“reproductive cells”) during a fertilization process.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
Translations:
shag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
From Middle English *schagge, from Old English sċeacga (“hair, wool”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggô, *skaggiją (“projection, bristly hair, stem”), *skag- (“to emerge, stick out, protrude”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Akin to Old Norse skegg (“beard”) (compare Danish skæg, Norwegian skjegg, Swedish skägg). Related to shake and shock via the root.
Inflected forms:
form: shags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nor ſhould it prove thy leſs important Care, / To chuſe a proper Coat for Winter's Wear. / [...] / True Witney Broad-cloath with it's Shag unſhorn, / Unpierc'd is in the laſting Tempeſt worn: [...]
gloss: Coarse shredded tobacco.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was rather unshaven as well and smelt strongly of shag.
The Captain folded his brow into a look of intense perplexity. 'You seem exceedingly spry for a man who demolished an entire bottle of brandy and better part of an ounce of shag in a single evening.'
'And very nice too,' said the tramp. 'Now as to breakfast?'
gloss: A type of rough carpet pile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Bacon or fat, especially if with some remaining hair or bristles.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A roughly-cut or torn-off piece of bread or cheese.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: But it is a braw elemental sphere this o' ours, for here's a good queich o' claret for ye, an' a shag o' butter-an'-bread.
romancing Shelley between / sips of thermos tea and / yeasty shags of bread, sour-sweet, / from Lizzie Coutinho’s bakery.
gloss: A deliberately messy, shaggy hairstyle.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
uncountable
examples: There was that hair salon on Yonge Street called House of Lords. On a Saturday – nowadays you can't even imagine it – but imagine a hair salon having a lineup outside of people wanting to get a shag haircut.
gloss: To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He saw the pine its daring mantle rear, / Break the rude blast, and mock the brumal year / Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies, / And bid all southern vegetation rise.
gloss: To hang in shaggy clusters.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And long curld locks that downe his shoulders shag
Derived words: raise someone's shag
shagbark
shagger
shagginess
shaggy
shaggy-dog story
shaglike
shagpile
shag-rag
silk shag
Translations:
virago
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virāgō (“warlike or heroic woman”, literally “manlike”).
Inflected forms:
form: viragos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: viragoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation.
pos: noun
examples: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
Joan was all Arden, grinning there, siding with her virago mother.
gloss: A woman who is scolding, domineering, or highly opinionated.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman who is rough, loud, and aggressive.
pos: noun
Related words: virtue
Derived words: viraginian
viraginity
viraginous
virago sleeve
Translations:
virile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French viril, from Latin virīlis, from vir (“man”, “male human”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Base: vir
Affixes: -īlis
Inflected forms:
form: more virile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most virile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
pos: adj
gloss: Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
pos: adj
Antonyms: nonvirile
Related words: membrum virile
semen virile
virtue#Related_terms
Derived words: pudendum virile
virile member
virile organ
virilism
virilist
virility
viropause
Translations:
virtuoso
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Italic *wiros
Late Latin vir
Proto-Indo-European *-tuHts
Late Latin -tūs
Late Latin virtūs
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Late Latin -ōsus
Late Latin virtuōsusbor.
Italian virtuosobor.
English virtuoso
Borrowed from Italian virtuoso, from Late Latin virtuōsus (“virtuous”), from Latin virtus (“excellence”). Doublet of virtuous.
Inflected forms:
form: virtuosos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: virtuosi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more virtuoso
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most virtuoso
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An expert in virtù or art objects and antiquities; a connoisseur.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: For, besides the extraordinary Neatness of the Room, it was adorned with a great Number of Nicknacks, and Curiosities, which might have engaged the Attention of a Virtuoso.
gloss: Someone with special skill or knowledge; an expert.
pos: noun
examples: The prefect who officiated on this occasion was a "tolley" virtuoso, and he did his best to bring out the resources of his instrument.
Facial surgeons are now virtuosi.
gloss: Specifically, a musician (or other performer) with masterly ability, technique, or personal style.
pos: noun
gloss: Exhibiting the ability of a virtuoso.
pos: adj
examples: On Friday, the Thai police said he was under arrest and charged as a pedophile after computer experts had unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.
Instead, he was able to sit alongside De Bruyne on the City bench admiring a virtuoso performance from Foden, pulling every string in the number 10 role and illustrating again why he is so important to Guardiola, and why he simply must start for Gareth Southgate's England at Euro 2024.
Translations:
plug
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).
Inflected forms:
form: plugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He attempted to plug the leaks with some caulk.
gloss: To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The main guest on the show just kept plugging his latest movie: it got so tiresome.
Kennedy went on nationwide speaking tour to plug environmental conservation.
He [Mike Skinner] treats the gig as an opportunity repeatedly to plug the after-party, where he will be DJing.
gloss: To persist or continue with something.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Near-synonym: plug away
Keep plugging at the problem until you find a solution.
gloss: To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 1884, H. Rider Haggard, The Witch's Head
I am awfully glad that you kept your nerve and plugged him; it would have been better if you could have nailed him through the right shoulder, which would not have killed him...
gloss: To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: peg, rail
I’d love to plug him with my strap-on.
gloss: To ingest a drug rectally.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Synonyms: soldier on
pound
sleep with
🔌
Derived words: misplug
plug and chug
plug and play
plug and pray
plug away
pluggability
pluggable
plugger
plug in
plug into
plug out
plug the runner
plug up
replug
unplug
Translations:
pottery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French poterie, from potier (“potter”), from the root of pot, equivalent to pot + -ery. First attested in the 13th century.
Base: pot
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: potteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
gloss: A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
gloss: The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.
Synonyms: ceramic
ceramics
earthenware
Related words: potter
potter's clay
potter's field
potter's wheel
Pottery Estate
Torquay pottery
stoneware
terracotta
Derived words: nonpottery
potteryware
Translations:
genre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French genre, from Old French gen(d)re, borrowed from Latin genere. Doublet of gender and genus.
Inflected forms:
form: genres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: genring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: genreing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: genred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: genred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
pos: noun
examples: The still life has been a popular genre in painting since the 17th century.
This film is a cross-genre piece, dark and funny at the same time.
The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.
One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
gloss: To assign or conform to a genre, to make genre-specific.
pos: verb
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:genre.
Translations:
classy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From class + -y. Piecewise doublet of classic.
Base: class
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: classier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: classiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.
pos: adj
examples: That's a very classy outfit you're wearing.
gloss: Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.
pos: adj
examples: Ignoring his coarse insults was a classy response.
Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
Related words: class
Derived words: classily
classiness
stay classy
unclassy
Translations:
elegant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle English elegaunt, from Middle French elegant, ultimately from Latin ēlegāns, collateral form of present participle of ēligere, from ex- (“out of, from”) + legō (“choose, select, appoint”).
Base: legō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: more elegant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elegant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: elegants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterised by or exhibiting elegance; having grace, refinement, or tasteful simplicity.
pos: adj
examples: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
gloss: Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
pos: adj
examples: an elegant solution
"For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."
gloss: Fine; doing well.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
archaic
colloquial
examples: 'An' how are ye, Jemmie—how's every inch iv you?' enquired Moggy of the boy, when his agitation was a little blown over.
'I'm elegant, thank ye,' he answered; 'an' what's the matther wid ye all? I cum through the kitchen, and seen no one.'
gloss: An elegant parrot.
pos: noun
examples: But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.
Related words: elect
eligible
elite
Derived words: elegance
elegancy
elegant crested tinamou
elegantness
elegant parrot
elegant quail
elegant tit
elegant variation
hyperelegant
overelegant
piss-elegant
superelegant
swellegant
ultraelegant
unelegant
Translations:
elegance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French élégance, from Latin ēlegantia (“exquisiteness; refinement, elegance”).
Inflected forms:
form: elegances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The bride was elegance personified.
gloss: Restraint and grace of style.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The simple dress had a quiet elegance.
gloss: The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance.
gloss: A refinement or luxury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
usually
examples: As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good.
At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances.
Phineas Duge[…] was, for a man of affairs and an American, singularly fond of the small elegances of life. Although he sat alone at dinner, the table was heaped with choice flowers and carefully selected hothouse fruit.
Related words: elegant
Derived words: creeping elegance
elegancy
overelegance
piss-elegance
superelegance
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изтънченост
roman: iztǎnčenost
lang: Danish
word: elegance
lang: Danish
word: smagfuldhed
lang: Finnish
word: eleganssi
lang: Finnish
word: tyylikkyys
lang: Finnish
word: tyyli
lang: Irish
word: gléastacht
lang: Polish
word: elegancja
lang: Portuguese
word: elegância
lang: Russian
word: элега́нтность
roman: elegántnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: изы́сканность
roman: izýskannostʹ
lang: Tagalog
word: elegansya
lang: Ukrainian
word: елега́нтність
roman: elehántnistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́шуканість
roman: výšukanistʹ
earmuffs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: earmuff
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A headphone-like device designed to cover a person's ears for protection against cold or noise. They consist of a thermoplastic or metal head-band, that fits over the top of the head, and a pad at each end, to cover the external ears.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
myopic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English myopia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English myopic
From myopia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more myopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most myopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: myopics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Near-sighted; unable to see distant objects unaided.
pos: adj
examples: Corrective lenses compensate for the excessive positive diopters of the myopic eye.
A stronger prescription for myopic night drivers is often needed.
She yanked the paper from her motherʼs hands, bringing it very close to her myopic eyes.
gloss: Shortsighted; improvident.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The real problem, he insists, is the myopic mentality that has failed to address climate change to date. The rich world’s indifference to the despoliation of the environment in pursuit of short-term economic gain is rooted in a wider problem.
His postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.
gloss: Narrow-minded.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Scientific advances can draw us outside of our myopic comfort zone.
Will you come testify in the court of myopic opinion / Or will you settle for oblivion?
gloss: A short-sighted individual.
pos: noun
examples: The offbeat little girls of “Playdate,” whose mothers stumble through parenthood, are not the first characters to feel like cultural descendants of Salinger’s children, those savants, myopics, guileless nose pickers and practicing belchers who seem to glow on the page, highlighting the shallowness of the adults.
Synonyms: short-sighted
near-sighted
Related words: myopia
Derived words: anisomyopic
isomyopic
myopically
nonmyopic
unmyopic
Translations:
tyke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“female dog”), from Proto-Germanic *tīkō. Compare Icelandic tík, Faroese tík, and Swedish tik, all meaning “bitch, female dog”.
Inflected forms:
form: tykes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mongrel dog.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly. Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.
gloss: A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Manipulative little tyke I was.
gloss: A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
colloquial
gloss: An uncultured, crude and unrefined or uncouth ill-bred person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: Why, the inquiry thing, the yellow-dog thing—you wouldn’t think a mangy, native tyke would be allowed to trip up people in the verandah of a magistrate’s court, would you?
gloss: A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Synonyms: ankle-biter
nipper
tot
Related words: Tyke
Derived words: dyke tyke
gay tyke boy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: палавник
roman: palavnik
lang: Finnish
word: vintiö
lang: French
word: gamin
lang: German
word: Lümmel
lang: German
word: Schlingel
lang: German
word: Lausbube
lang: Turkish
word: haydut
lang: Ukrainian
word: розбиша́ка
roman: rozbyšáka
paramount
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂éd
From Anglo-Norman paramont /paramount (“paramount, pre-eminent; above”), from Old French par /per (“by”) + amont /amunt (“upward”). Par is derived from Latin per (“by means of, through”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”); amont and amunt are from Latin ad montem (“to the mountain; upward”), from ad (“up to”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + montem (the accusative singular of mōns (“mount, mountain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, tower”)).
Inflected forms:
form: paramounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Highest, supreme; also, chief, leading, pre-eminent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
often
postpositional
examples: […]a Traitor Paramount;
Hitherto she had chiefly dwelt on her unkindness and neglect; but absence, like charity, covers a multitude of sins; and the thought now paramount was, that she should see her no more.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
gloss: Of the highest importance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Getting those credit cards paid off is paramount.
gloss: Of a law, right, etc.: having precedence over or superior to another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: A chief or superior; (specifically, chiefly South Africa) an African chief having the highest status in a region; a paramount chief.
pos: noun
gloss: A supreme ruler; an overlord; (specifically, historical) in the feudal system, a landowner who did not derive ownership of the land from anyone else, and who was able to grant fees to others; a lord paramount.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: lady paramount
lord paramount
paramount chief
paramountcy
paramountly
paramountness
paramountship
paramount title
title paramount
Translations:
vivid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Italic *gʷīwō
Latin vīvō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin vīviduslbor.
English vivid
Learned borrowing from Latin vividus (“animated, spirited”), from vivere (“to live”), akin to vita (“life”), Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”).
The noun sense (a type of marker pen) was genericized from Bic's Vivid Marker brand.
Inflected forms:
form: more vivid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: vivider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vivid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vividest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vivids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Clear, detailed, or powerful.
pos: adj
gloss: Bright, intense, or colourful.
pos: adj
examples: Whenever the locomotive was working hard there was unmistakable evidence of its higher power than its predecessors in the brilliant and explosive arcing between conductor shoes and the third rail; this was particularly vivid in Quarry Tunnel in the down direction, where the display equalled anything we have seen on the frostiest of nights in an electrified third-rail area.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: Full of life; strikingly alive.
pos: adj
examples: The vivid, untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.
gloss: A felt-tipped permanent marker; a marker pen.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Derived words: vividly
vividness
Translations:
ostensible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French ostensible, formed with the suffix -ible, from Latin ostensus, the past participle of ostendō (“show”), itself from obs- (“in front of”) (akin to ob- (“in the way”)) + tendō (“stretch”) (akin to Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō)). Cf. also Medieval Latin ostensibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more ostensible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ostensible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
pos: adj
examples: Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
In witch-trials the conflict was officially defined as between the accused and God, or between the accused and the Catholic (later Protestant) church, as God's earthly representative. […] Behind the ostensible conflict of the witch-trial lay the usual conflicts of social class, values, and human relationships.
The ostensible reason this provision was added to a bill on international trade is to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a grass-roots campaign that seeks to pressure Israel to change its policies toward the Palestinians.
gloss: Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
pos: adj
examples: The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day.
Antonyms: ulterior
Related words: ostensive
ostentatious
ostentation
Derived words: inostensible
ostensibility
ostensibly
unostensible
Translations:
codicil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French codicille, from Latin cōdicillus, diminutive of cōdex. See code.
Inflected forms:
form: codicils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: codicils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: codiciling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: codicilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: codiciled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: codiciled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: codicilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: codicilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
pos: noun
gloss: An addition or supplement modifying any official document, such as a treaty.
pos: noun
examples: So insistent was this demand that the Wyandot actually received a codicil to the treaty […]
Those loose ends were tied up in a little-understood clarification of Brexit called the Northern Ireland protocol, ratified in January 2020. It looked like a mere codicil three years ago; now it looks like a serious diplomatic blunder that could threaten Britain’s territory and the region’s peace.
gloss: Any appendix or addition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction.
gloss: To add a codicil (to).
pos: verb
tags: ergative
Derived words: codicillary
Translations:
heroic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Partly from Middle French heroïque and partly from Latin hērōicus. By surface analysis, hero + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heroic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heroic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heroick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: heroics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heroick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
pos: adj
examples: heroic deeds
gloss: Courageous; displaying heroism.
pos: adj
examples: To stand upon the ramparts and die for our principles is heroic. To sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.
Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything… that's heroic.
“I am the one who runs from both the living and the dead,” he says early on—not an especially heroic sentiment.
gloss: Of a size larger than life, but less than colossal.
pos: adj
gloss: A heroic verse.
pos: noun
Synonyms: herolike
Antonyms: cowardly
Related words: hero
heroine
heroism
Derived words: antiheroic
heroically
heroic assumption
heroic cooling
heroic couplet
heroic dose
heroic epic
heroicize
heroicly
heroic medicine
heroic meter
heroicness
heroicomic
heroicomical
heroics
mock-heroic
nonheroic
postheroic
preheroic
pseudoheroic
semiheroic
sheroic
superheroic
ultraheroic
unheroic
Translations:
dissuade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French dissuader, from Latin dissuādeō (“to urge differently”, “to advise against”, “to dissuade”), from dis- (“away from”, “asunder”) + suādeō (“to recommend”, “to advise”, “to urge”).
Inflected forms:
form: dissuades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dissuading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dissuaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dissuaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To convince not to try or do.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jane dissuaded Martha from committing suicide.
Antonyms: persuade
Translations:
persuade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin persuādeō (“to persuade”). Cognate to for, sweet.
Inflected forms:
form: persuades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: persuading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: persuaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: persuaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: perswade
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
[VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
We will persuade him, be it possible.
The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
gloss: To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But beloued, wee are perswaded better things of you, and things that accompany saluation, though we thus speake.
gloss: To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
regional
transitive
examples: […] and hearken not vnto Hezekiah, when hee perswadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliuer vs.
She did not go into the coffee-room, though repeatedly persuaded by Miss Woodley, but waited at the door till her carriage drew up.
He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.
He did not persuade me long before I consented.
Synonyms: argue
get
sway
talk into
bring round
convict
convince
draw
gain over
persuade
pimp
prevail upon
procure
push
suade
talk around
talk over
wash with
win over
Antonyms: deter
dissuade
mispersuade
unconvince
unpersuade
Related words: suade
suasory
induce
influence
sway
allure
Derived words: mispersuade
overpersuade
persuadability
persuadable
persuadee
persuader
persuasion
persuasive
persuasory
repersuade
unpersuade
Translations:
despotism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French despotisme; equivalent to despot + -ism.
Base: despot
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: despotisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The iron hand of despotism has quenched the last spark of liberty; hunted down like a wild beast, I am watching an opportunity to fly my degraded and enslaved country.
But now events have proved that I was right because Khrushchev's grandchildren do live in freedom and the great question of our time: can they continue to live in freedom, or will they revert to the old, or a new despotism?
Translations:
dislike
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- + like.
Base: like
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: dislikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dislikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disliking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: dislikest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: dislikedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: dislikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disliketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: dislike
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: disliking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disliked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
pos: noun
examples: In deference to Queen Victoria's dislike of high speed, the specials were allowed about 75 min. for the journey on the Deeside line, but after her death, they were slightly accelerated.
gloss: Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: Tell me your likes and dislikes.
gloss: An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: To displease; to offend. In third-person only.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike [translating desplaisent] me, as instruct me[…].
gloss: To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the thick of the railway controversies of his day, Francis naturally had his prejudices. It seems that he cordially disliked the aristocracy in general.
gloss: To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
examples: Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.
Synonyms: disrecommend
mislike
dislike
disrelish
mind
misrelish
object to
stomach
Antonyms: like
Related words: abhor
despise
detest
hate
loathe
avoid
shun
Derived words: dislikeful
dislikable
dislikee
dislikeness
disliker
Translations: