yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
improvement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman emprouwement. By surface analysis, improve + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: improvements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emprovement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
I look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
gloss: The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: good improvement of his reason.
I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
gloss: The state of being improved; betterment; advance
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something which is improved
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the new edition is an improvement on the old.
The decade has seen vast improvements in techniques.
The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
Here 12...B-B3 as in Fischer-Geller is quite necessary. Black intended an improvement on this variation but received bad advice on his pre-analysis.
gloss: Increase; growth; progress; advance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.
gloss: Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: improval
amelioration
Antonyms: worsening
deterioration
disimprovement
Related words: uplift
Derived words: disimprovement
home improvement
Kaldor-Hicks improvement
misimprovement
nonimprovement
overimprovement
Pareto-improvement
Pareto improvement
pseudoimprovement
require improvement
tomahawk improvement
unimprovement
Translations:
pierce
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English perce, from conjugated forms of Old French percier such as (jeo) pierce (“I pierce”), probably from Vulgar Latin *pertūsiō, from Latin pertūsus, past participle of pertundō (“thrust or bore through”), from per- (“through”) + tundō (“beat, pound”). Displaced native Old English þȳrlian (literally “to hole”).
Inflected forms:
form: pierces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: piercing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pierced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pierced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pierces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To puncture; to break through.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The diver pierced the surface of the water with scarcely a splash.
to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship
I pierce her open back, or tender side
What appliance can pierce through the outer layers of a star and test the conditions within?
gloss: To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can you believe he pierced his tongue?
gloss: to break or interrupt abruptly
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A dreadful scream pierced the silence.
gloss: To get to the heart or crux of (a matter).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: to pierce a mystery
gloss: To penetrate; to affect deeply.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: A stab of fear pierced my heart.
pierced with grief
Can no prayers pierce thee?
The flatness of the landscape facilitates views right across the Firth of Forth to Fife, before the railway begins to pierce the Edinburgh suburbs.
gloss: A pierced earring.
pos: noun
tags: Japan
Derived words: armor-piercing shot
empierce
impierce
interpierce
pierceability
pierceable
piercee
pierceless
piercement
piercer
piercing
repierce
transpierce
Translations:
puncture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
Proto-Italic *pungō
Late Latin pungō
Late Latin pūnctus
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Late Latin -tūra
Late Latin punctūrabor.
English puncture
Borrowed from Late Latin punctūra.
Inflected forms:
form: punctures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: punctures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: puncturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: punctured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: punctured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of puncturing.
pos: noun
gloss: A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.
pos: noun
examples: There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.
The lion may perish by the puncture of an asp.
gloss: A hole in a vehicle's tyre, causing the tyre to deflate.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: On the way back we got a puncture, and we were stuck at the roadside for three hours until help arrived.
Dieter's car had suffered a puncture on the RN3 road between Paris and Meaux. A bent nail was stuck in the tire.
A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
gloss: To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.
pos: verb
examples: The needle punctured the balloon instantly.
The couple all bloody / Tongues punctured by each other's teeth / Died and didn't let go
gloss: To destroy the vitality or strength of.
pos: verb
examples: The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.
Derived words: acupuncture
antipuncture
apipuncture
aquapuncture
arteriopuncture
cardiopuncture
colorpuncture
counterpuncture
cryopuncture
electropuncture
encephalopuncture
galvanopuncture
ignipuncture
laserpuncture
lumbar puncture
macropuncture
mesopuncture
micropuncture
multipuncture
pharmacopuncture
postpuncture
puncturable
puncturation
punctureless
punctureproof
puncture vine
puncture-wallah
renipuncture
repuncture
sonopuncture
vacupuncture
venipuncture
puncturer
punctured interval
punctured neighborhood
Translations:
purely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English purely, equivalent to pure + -ly.
Base: pure
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more purely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most purely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wholly; really, completely.
pos: adv
tags: US
regional
examples: I am fascinated by the entire scene, I purely am.
gloss: Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
pos: adv
examples: The IRA should "lead by example" and "unilaterally" abandon paramilitary violence and adopt a purely political strategy, a leading Sinn Féin MP urged yesterday.
"But this meal tonight is not a date, not in the traditional sense. It's purely platonic, I assure you."
gloss: Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.
pos: adv
examples: faith and troth, / Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: / Bids thee with most diuine integritie, / From heart of very heart, great Hector welcome.
gloss: Without physical adulterants; refinedly, with no admixture.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: By some means or other the water flows purely, and separated from the filth, in a deeper and narrower course on one side of the rock, and the refuse of the dirt and troubled water goes off on the other in a broader current [...].
Derived words: purely and simply
purely imaginary
purely imaginary number
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: puramente
script
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin scrīptum
Old French escritbor.
Middle English scrit
English script
From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).
Inflected forms:
form: scripts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scripting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scripted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scripted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make or write a script.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To devise, concoct, or contrive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
Derived words: script out
Translations:
thriller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thrill
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English thriller
From thrill + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: thrillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that thrills.
pos: noun
examples: While Arsenal had enjoyed a Boxing Day break thanks to the cancellation of their game against West Ham, Newcastle had come out of the wrong end of a thriller at Old Trafford and Pardew said that strain accounted for his side conceding four goals at the Emirates after Demba Ba had drawn Newcastle level for the third time in the 69th minute.
gloss: A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play, film.
pos: noun
examples: She loves to read thriller books.
gloss: A sharp, usually sweetened herbal tea flavored with a fruit or berry.
pos: noun
Related words: chiller
page-turner
Derived words: cyberthriller
ecothriller
psychothriller
superthriller
technothriller
thrillerdom
thrilleresque
thrillerlike
thrillmance
Translations:
machismo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1940, from American Spanish machismo, from Spanish macho (“male”), + suffix -ismo (“-ism”).
Inflected forms:
form: machismos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An excessive masculine pride, exaggerated masculinity.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
With machismo, Christian nationalism and callousness toward the lives of US troops, they say, Hegseth’s puerile displays on TV are aimed at sating Trump’s desire for a warmonger worthy of the manosphere.
gloss: Male chauvinism, misogyny.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: PSP [Puerto Rican Socialist Party] spokesperson Victor Lopez-Tosado told GCN: "[…] The party is mainly organized in a Latin American country where oppression, as a result of machismo, etc., to homosexuals is very common."
The Dominican Republic is traditionally regarded as a patriarchal island brimming with machismo — where, indeed, a recent U.S. ambassador was publicly vilified for bringing his husband to his posting. It was, and is, an unlikely place to find an enclave of acceptance. So what explains this unique tolerance?
Synonyms: machoism
machoness
Related words: macho
machoism
machoistic
machoistically
braggadocio
marianismo
masculinism
testeria
Derived words: antimachismo
Translations:
principe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian principe. Doublet of prince and princeps.
Inflected forms:
form: principi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian prince.
pos: noun
Translations:
Filipinas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the women's national football representative team of the Philippines
pos: noun
Translations:
compendium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“to weigh”).
Inflected forms:
form: compendiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compendia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short, complete summary; an abstract.
pos: noun
gloss: A list or collection of various items.
pos: noun
examples: It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
gloss: A list or collection of various items.
pos: noun
gloss: A list or collection of various items.
pos: noun
Synonyms: encyclopedia
cyclopedia
Related words: compendious
Derived words: biocompendium
compendial
Translations:
chili
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Chinese-cuisine
Indian-Chinese-cuisine
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chile, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.
Inflected forms:
form: chilis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
regional
form: chilli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: chilly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: Capsicum—the dried ripe fruit of Capsicum fastigiatum—is also known as Chilly pepper, Chillies, Guinea, or pod pepper, and is chiefly brought from Zanzibar. The several varieties differ in shape and size, are of a red colour, and filled with numerous red-brown, pungent seeds.
Kama Indian Bistro, […] Everything is made from scratch, including the spice blends and sauces; the ingredients are quality; and the heat is no-holds-barred. Planks of crispy, "chilly" potatoes and elegant, delicately flavored shrimp Sunnaina in white-wine garlic-tomato concassé are hits.
gloss: Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: bird's eye chili
chili crab
chili crisp
chili crunch
chili dip
chilidog
chilified
chilihead
chili mac
chili oil
chili pepper
chili sauce
ghost chili
malagueta chili
white chili
chili powder
Translations:
lynching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lynch + -ing, see lynch.
Base: lynch
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: lynchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging.
pos: noun
examples: The police with difficulty prevented the swaying mass from lynching him on the spot.
Atlanta newspapers fanned the flames of racial hatred by carrying stories of lynchings and calling for a renewed Ku Klux Klan to “control” blacks.
Translations:
frenetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English frenetik (also frentik, frentyk, frantike > modern English frantic), from Old French frenetike, from Latin phreneticus, from Ancient Greek φρενητικός (phrenētikós, “delirious”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “delirium”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”). Doublet of frantic and phrenitic.
Etymologically, initial stress would be expected (compare the syncopic form phrentic); the modern pronunciation with stress on the second syllable is due to the influence of other words ending in -etic such as phonetic and sympathetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more frenetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frenetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phrenetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phrenetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phrentic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phrentick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: frenetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phrenetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phrenetick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phrentic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phrentick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Frenzied and frantic, harried; having extreme enthusiasm or energy.
pos: adj
examples: After a week of working at a frenetic pace, she was ready for Saturday.
gloss: Mentally deranged, insane.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Characterised by manifestations of delirium or madness.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: One who is frenetic.
pos: noun
Synonyms: frantic
frenzied
Related words: frantic
frenzy
schizophrenia
Derived words: frenetically
freneticism
unfrenetic
Translations:
frantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English frantike, frentik, variant of frenetik, from Old French frenetique, from Late Latin phreneticus, alteration of phreniticus, from φρενιτικός (phrenitikós, “mad, suffering from inflammation of the brain”), from φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”), from φρήν (phrḗn, “the brain”). Doublet of frenetic and phrenitic.
Inflected forms:
form: more frantic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frantic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frantick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phrantic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: phrantick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Insane, mentally unstable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Master have mercy on my sonne, for he is franticke: and ys sore vexed.
If with myself I hold intelligence,
Or have acquaintance with mine own desires;
If that I do not dream, or be not frantic—
As I do trust I am not—then, dear uncle,
Never so much as in a thought unborn
Did I offend your Highness.
gloss: In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
pos: adj
examples: They returned the missing child to his frantic mother.
Sir George bore the annoyances of the night as a very vain man does totally unaccustomed to mortification. He was frantic with passion; he longed to kill somebody, but he did not know who.
gloss: Extremely energetic.
pos: adj
examples: frantic music
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
Synonyms: frenetic
frenzied
Related words: frenetic
frenzy
phrenitis
phrenology
schizophrenia
Derived words: frantically
franticity
franticly
franticness
semifrantic
Translations:
kludgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kludge
English -y
English kludgy
From kludge + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: kludgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kludgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: kludgey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: klugey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kluggy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: klugy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.
What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML.
Even if you imagine a political earthquake that eliminated the power of the insurance industry and objections to higher taxes, you’d still have to protect the interests of workers with better-than-average coverage, so that in practice single-payer, American style, would be almost as kludgy as Obamacare.
[…] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.
All you'd need to do is pour your kludgy old application into a container and run it in Kubernetes, and you're cloud native now, right? Nope. All you've done is make your application harder to deploy and harder to manage.
Translations:
sloppy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slop
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English sloppy
From slop + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sloppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sloppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
pos: adj
examples: The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
gloss: Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
pos: adj
examples: The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one).
The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
gloss: Imprecise or loose.
pos: adj
examples: a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of AI slop.
pos: adj
Derived words: slopper
sloppery
sloppification
sloppily
sloppiness
sloppy drunk
sloppy joe
sloppy-minded
sloppy seconds
sloppy toppy
unsloppy
Translations:
frenzy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English frensy, frenesie, from Old French frenesie, from Latin phrenesis, from Ancient Greek *φρένησις (*phrénēsis), a later equivalent of φρενῖτις (phrenîtis, “inflammation of the brain”): see frantic and frenetic. Doublet of phrenesis.
Inflected forms:
form: frenzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phrenzy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phrensy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of wild activity or panic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: international media frenzy
She went into a cleaning frenzy to prepare for the unexpected guests.
It is during these frenzies that sharks have been known to bite everything in sight, including other sharks engaged in the same activity.
At the very end of the Middle Ages, Breughel depicted country folk wrapped up in fits of mass hysteria, and the historical accounts of these rural frenzies have explained the delirium in terms of the slender diet on which the poor had to subsist during the hungry gap.
The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.
gloss: A violent agitation of the mind approaching madness; rage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.
All else is towering frenzy and distraction.
He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond.
Related words: frantic
frenetic
frenzied
schizophrenia
Derived words: feeding frenzy
frenzical
frenzily
Translations:
imprecise
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English precise
English imprecise
From im- + precise.
Inflected forms:
form: more imprecise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imprecise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not precise or exact; containing some error or uncertainty.
pos: adj
examples: Rushdie oxymoronically notes that Hobson-Jobson ‘can be wonderfully imprecise at times’ (1985: 82).
Translations:
approximation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin proximō
Latin approximō
Latin approximātusder.
Middle English approximat
English approximate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English approximation
From approximate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: approximations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, process or result of approximating, as
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the back of the cupboard, you find your interview skirt, the one you bought when you had cash to purchase an approximation of the fashion spreads you mulled over in magazines.
gloss: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act, process or result of approximating, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For some loanwords borrowed from French into English, the standard English pronunciation is an approximation of the French, as with denoument.
Related words: interpolation
Derived words: approximation algorithm
approximation error
approximation problem
approximation property
approximation theory
misapproximation
overapproximation
over-approximation
pseudoapproximation
reapproximation
to a first approximation
underapproximation
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: մոտարկում
roman: motarkum
lang: Bulgarian
word: приближение
roman: približenie
lang: Danish
word: tilnærmelse
lang: Dutch
word: benaderen
lang: Dutch
word: schatten
lang: Finnish
word: lähestyminen
lang: Finnish
word: arvioiminen
lang: Finnish
word: approksimointi
lang: French
word: rapprochement
lang: Galician
word: aproximación
lang: German
word: Approximieren
lang: Greek
word: προσέγγιση
roman: proséngisi
lang: Hebrew
word: קֵרוּב
roman: qerúv
lang: Hungarian
word: közeledés
lang: Hungarian
word: közelítés
lang: Hungarian
word: megközelítés
lang: Hungarian
word: harmonizáció
lang: Icelandic
word: nálgun
lang: Indonesian
word: aproksimasi
lang: Indonesian
word: penghampiran
lang: Indonesian
word: pendekatan
lang: Italian
word: approssimazione
lang: Kazakh
word: жуықтау
roman: juyqtau
lang: Malay
word: penganggaran
lang: Malay
word: penghampiran
lang: Malayalam
word: ഏകദേശം
roman: ēkadēśaṁ
lang: Māori
word: whakaāwhiwhiwhitanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tilnærmelse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tilnærming
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tilnærming
lang: Polish
word: aproksymacja
lang: Portuguese
word: aproximação
lang: Romanian
word: aproximare
lang: Romanian
word: aproximație
lang: Russian
word: приближе́ние
roman: približénije
lang: Spanish
word: aproximación
lang: Tagalog
word: aproksimasyon
goo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English burgoo?
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten
Late Latin glūs
Old French glubor.
Middle English glew
English glue?
English goo
American English, attested since 1903, possibly from burgoo (“thick porridge”); alternatively, an alteration of glue.
Inflected forms:
form: goos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: I stepped in some goo and had a terrible time getting the sticky stuff off my shoes.
gloss: Excessive, showy sentimentality.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: […] To be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic, is to be in some basic interior way forever infantile, some sort of not-quite-right-looking infant dragging itself anaclitically around the map, with big wet eyes and froggy-soft skin, huge skull, gooey drool.
gloss: To apply goo to something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They gooed their hair with some fragrant styling product.
Synonyms: gleet
gloop
glop
goo
gook
goop
gunge
gunk
gum
ick
muck
ooze
paste
slop
sludge
slime
Derived words: goo to you by way of the zoo
girl goo
goo ball
gooey
gooeyness
goo-gob
goolike
grey goo
guck
man goo
sprue goo
Translations:
gunk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.
Compound parts: grime
funk
Inflected forms:
form: gunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gunks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gunking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gunked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gunked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.
Don't get gunk on me. I took a bath last Saturday and I'm all clean.
gloss: A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An entity with no atomic parts; infinitely divisible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A member of the gunk subculture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To soil or make dirty.
pos: verb
Derived words: degunk
degunking
eye gunk
gamer gunk
gook
gunkhole
gunkholing
gunkless
gunk up
gunky
ungunk
Translations:
mastitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From French mastite; by surface analysis, mast- + -itis, ""breast inflammation".
Inflected forms:
form: mastitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mastitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of a breast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oncology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested 1857. By surface analysis, onco- + -logy, which see for more.
Inflected forms:
form: oncologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stumble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).
Inflected forms:
form: stumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fall, trip or substantial misstep.
pos: noun
examples: I went to his aid. As he said, a board in the floor was loose. His stepping on it unawares had caused his stumble.
gloss: An error or blunder.
pos: noun
examples: Possibly Mr. Carrados was considering it from his own way round for he did not appear to notice anything in her stumble.
She owns up to early stumbles, such as bottles being mislabeled.
gloss: A clumsy walk.
pos: noun
examples: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
gloss: To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He stumbled over a rock.
Last night, you drunkenly stumbled to the front door, waking up the whole house.
He stumbled up the dark avenue.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.
I try to say goodbye and I choke (yeah) / Try to walk away and I stumble / Though I try to hide it, it's clear / My world crumbles when you are not near
gloss: To make a mistake or have trouble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.
[…] they are out of the way through strong drinke, they erre in vision, they stumble in iudgement.
gloss: To cause to stumble or trip.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Slowly, I turned around and the shock of it stumbled me back a few steps.
gloss: To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: False and dazzling fires to stumble men.
One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.
gloss: To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
pos: verb
examples: It ſeems more probable that Ovid vvas either the Confident of ſome other paſſion, or that he had ſtumbled by ſome inadvertency, upon the privacies of Livia, and ſeen her in a Bath: […]
Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake.
Related words: stumbling block
Derived words: stumble across
stumble against
stumblebum
stumble-drunk
stumble into
stumble on
stumble onto
stumbler
stumblesome
stumble upon
stumbly
Translations:
blazed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blazed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blazed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under the influence of marijuana, usually at a relatively high dose.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I could tell by his bloodshot eyes that he was pretty blazed.
That's when they asked the fatal question. Can I use the car for a minute? I was reluctant, but so blazed that I let them.
"Just kidding. I wanna get blazed out of my mind, eat every muffin in this place, and yell about how much I love everyone."
Translations:
motto
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c. Doublet of mot.
Inflected forms:
form: mottos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mottoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mottos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mottoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mottoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mottoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A personal slogan.
pos: noun
examples: You have to be in it to win it — that's my motto.
gloss: A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Gentlemen, I can tell you what the new queen will take as her motto. It is Bound to Obey and Serve.’
gloss: A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
pos: noun
examples: It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... Serve God, and be cheerful.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
gloss: A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To compose mottos.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The singularity of his epigraphic strategy notwithstanding, Emerson does not draw attention to his own mottoing. One exchange suggests that his practice was a convention imposed from without.
Derived words: mottoless
mottolike
mottoware
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: նշանաբան
roman: nšanaban
lang: Armenian
word: բնաբան
roman: bnaban
lang: Bulgarian
word: мо́то
roman: móto
lang: Catalan
word: lema
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 格言
roman: géyán
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 座右銘 /座右铭
roman: zuòyòumíng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 標語 /标语
roman: biāoyǔ
lang: Czech
word: motto
lang: Danish
word: motto
lang: Dutch
word: motto
lang: Finnish
word: motto
lang: Finnish
word: tunnuslause
lang: French
word: devise
lang: German
word: Motto
lang: Hungarian
word: mottó
lang: Japanese
word: モットー
roman: mottō
lang: Japanese
word: 標語
roman: hyōgo
lang: Korean
word: 표어
roman: pyoeo
lang: Polish
word: dewiza
lang: Polish
word: motto
lang: Portuguese
word: lema
lang: Portuguese
word: mote
lang: Russian
word: деви́з
roman: devíz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ceann-sgrìobhadh
lang: Spanish
word: lema
lang: Swedish
word: motto
lang: Tagalog
word: kasabihan
lang: Thai
word: คำขวัญ
roman: kam-kwǎn
lang: Thai
word: คติ
roman: ká-dtì
lang: Thai
word: คติพจน์
lang: Turkish
word: motto
lang: Ukrainian
word: деві́з
roman: devíz
aleph-one
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The second of the transfinite cardinal numbers; according to the continuum hypothesis, it corresponds to the number of real numbers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
Inflected forms:
form: pic
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Motion pictures; movies.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
specifically
examples: Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive.
Related words: pixel
Translations:
porringer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English paroger, porrynger, a variant of potager, potynger (“small dish for stew”), apparently from potage + -er, with intrusive n before g as in messenger and passenger. Compare poddinger and later porridge.
Inflected forms:
form: porringers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
pos: noun
examples: There was a little clutch of boiled eggs as well, in their own special heater, and porridge, in a silver porringer.
gloss: A headdress shaped like such a dish.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her
pinck'd porrenger fell off her head
Derived words: porringerful
Translations:
Lusophone
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Portuguese lusófono (“Portuguese-speaking”), from Lusitania (“the Roman province in what is now Portugal”), in the form of Luso- + -phone.
Base: Luso
Inflected forms:
form: lusophone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Lusophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lusophone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Portuguese-speaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Portuguese-speaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A Portuguese speaker.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պորտուգալախոս
roman: portugalaxos
lang: Catalan
word: lusòfon
lang: Finnish
word: portugalinkielinen
lang: French
word: lusophone
lang: German
word: portugiesischsprachig
lang: Italian
word: lusofono
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: portugisisktalende
lang: Polish
word: portugalskojęzyczny
lang: Polish
word: luzofoński
lang: Portuguese
word: lusófono
lang: Russian
word: португалоязы́чный
roman: portugalojazýčnyj
lang: Russian
word: португалоговоря́щий
roman: portugalogovorjáščij
lang: Spanish
word: portugués
lang: Ukrainian
word: португаломо́вний
roman: portuhalomóvnyj
lang: Armenian
word: պորտուգալախոս
roman: portugalaxos
lang: Catalan
word: lusòfon
lang: Finnish
word: portugalinkielinen
lang: French
word: lusophone
lang: German
word: portugiesischsprachig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: portugisiskspråklig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: portugisisktalende
lang: Polish
word: portugalskojęzyczny
lang: Polish
word: luzofoński
lang: Portuguese
word: lusófono
lang: Russian
word: португалоязы́чный
roman: portugalojazýčnyj
lang: Russian
word: португалоговоря́щий
roman: portugalogovorjáščij
lang: Spanish
word: portugués
lang: Swedish
word: portugisiskspråkig
lang: Ukrainian
word: португаломо́вний
roman: portuhalomóvnyj
Russophone
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Russo- + -phone.
Base: Russo
Inflected forms:
form: more Russophone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Russophone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Russophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Russian-speaking.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who speaks Russian.
pos: noun
Translations:
repetition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin repetitionem (accusative singular of repetitio; cf. French répétition). Doublet of repetitio. By surface analysis, repeat + -ition.
Inflected forms:
form: repetitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repetitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repetitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repetitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repetitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-petition
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How we hope and believe each day will be our last of anxious waiting! The post comes in, and there is no letter for us. How bitter is the disappointment! and on every repetition it grows more acute.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
gloss: The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To petition again.
pos: verb
examples: The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning, losing again and again.
Synonyms: reiteration
repetition
reprise
Related words: repetitious
have seen this movie
Derived words: nonrepetition
overrepetition
pulse repetition time
repetitional
repetitionary
repetitionless
repetition time
spaced repetition
Translations:
gathering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).
Base: gather
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: gatherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
pos: noun
examples: I met her at a gathering of engineers and scientists.
gloss: A group of people or things.
pos: noun
examples: a gathering of Catholics
gloss: A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
pos: noun
examples: This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.
gloss: A charitable contribution; a collection.
pos: noun
gloss: The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
gloss: A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
pos: noun
gloss: That gathers together.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.
On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
Derived words: data gathering
evidence-gathering
gathering place
intelligence-gathering
newsgathering
sports gathering
taxgathering
woolgathering
Translations:
get-together
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: get-togethers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gettogether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gettogether
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A meeting or gathering.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A party or social function.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I am planning a get-together with some friends next Saturday.
gloss: Preferring or favoring cooperation or social interaction.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
Chewa
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chichewa Mcheŵáder.
Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀-
Chichewa chi-
Chichewa Chi-
Chichewa -cheŵa
Chichewa Chicheŵáder.
English Chewa
From Chichewa Mcheŵa and Chicheŵa.
Inflected forms:
form: Chewas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chewa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the Chewa or their language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
constantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From constant + -ly. Displaced native Old English singallīċe.
Base: constant
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more constantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most constantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: constantliel
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: constauntly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: With steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him […] not to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so constantly died.
gloss: In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
pos: adv
examples: For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
gloss: Recurring regularly.
pos: adv
examples: I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
gloss: In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.
pos: adv
Synonyms: incessantly
nonstop
invariably
uniformly
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: постоянно
roman: postojanno
lang: Catalan
word: constantment
lang: Finnish
word: vakaasti
lang: Finnish
word: tasaisesti
lang: French
word: constamment
lang: German
word: konstant
lang: Italian
word: costantemente
lang: Italian
word: sempre
lang: Macedonian
word: постојано
roman: postojano
lang: Portuguese
word: constantemente
lang: Romanian
word: constant
lang: Romanian
word: invariabil
celebrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more celebrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most celebrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: famous or widely praised
pos: adj
examples: She became a celebrated actress, but never won any major awards.
Translations: