yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
intellectually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intellectual
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English intellectually
From intellectual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more intellectually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most intellectually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an intellectual manner.
pos: adv
examples: And just because the intellectuals are mostly intellectually honest it is inevitable that they should follow their own convictions whenever they have discretion and that they should give a corresponding slant to everything that passes through their hand.
Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.
Translations:
fabulously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fābulōsusder.
Middle English fabulous
English fabulous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fabulously
From fabulous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fabulously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fabulously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fabulous manner.
pos: adv
examples: That girl is fabulously beautiful.
gloss: In a fabulous manner.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: mythically, legendarily, parabolically, apocryphally
Burying its head in the sand is fabulously attributed to the ostrich.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: fabulosament
lang: Danish
word: fabelagtig
lang: French
word: fabuleusement
lang: Georgian
word: ლეგენდარულად
roman: legendarulad
lang: German
word: märchenhaft
lang: Italian
word: favolosamente
lang: Italian
word: fantasticamente
lang: Latvian
word: pasakaini
lang: Norman
word: fabuleusement
lang: Polish
word: bajecznie
lang: Polish
word: bajkowo
lang: Polish
word: baśniowo
lang: Portuguese
word: fabulosamente
lang: Russian
word: басносло́вно
roman: basnoslóvno
lang: Russian
word: потряса́юще
roman: potrjasájušče
lang: Russian
word: фантасти́чески
roman: fantastíčeski
lang: Spanish
word: fabulosamente
lang: Spanish
word: estupendamente
lang: Swedish
word: fabulöst
fabulousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fābulōsusder.
Middle English fabulous
English fabulous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English fabulousness
From fabulous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: fabulousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being fabulous or fictitious; fabulosity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of being fabulous or wonderful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lang: Latvian
word: pasakainība
lang: Polish
word: bajeczność
lang: Polish
word: bajkowość
lang: Polish
word: baśniowość
macrobiotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
English -biotic
English macrobiotic
From macro- + -biotic.
Inflected forms:
form: more macrobiotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most macrobiotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
pos: adj
examples: You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet, you're listening to Joni Mitchell!
gloss: Long-lived.
pos: adj
Derived words: macrobiotically
nonmacrobiotic
Translations:
macrobiotics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
English biotics
English macrobiotics
From macro- + biotics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The art or science of prolonging life, of living a long life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of a macrobiotic diet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
macrocosmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English macrocosm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English macrocosmic
From macrocosm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the macrocosm (universe).
pos: adj
Translations:
propagation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French propagation, from Old French propagacion, from Latin propagatio. Morphologically propagate + -ion.
Base: propagate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: propagations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: plant propagation
gloss: The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The farmer specialized in the propagation of rare orchids.
gloss: The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Radio propagation varies with atmospheric conditions.
gloss: The elongation part of transcription.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antipropagation
backpropagation
copropagation
micropropagation
nonpropagation
propagational
propagation constant
propagation delay
propagation mode
propagation time
proplifting
repropagation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разпространение
roman: razprostranenie
lang: Catalan
word: propagació
lang: Finnish
word: leviäminen
lang: Finnish
word: levittäytyminen
lang: Finnish
word: levittäminen
lang: Indonesian
word: perbanyakan
lang: Italian
word: propagazione
lang: Malay
word: penyebaran
lang: Portuguese
word: propagação
lang: Russian
word: распростране́ние
roman: rasprostranénije
lang: Spanish
word: propagación
fricassee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: fricassees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fricassée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fricassees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fricasseeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fricasseed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fricasseed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fricassée
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.
pos: noun
examples: I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
gloss: To cook meat or poultry in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]
Translations:
autocratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From autocrat + -ic, equivalent to auto- + -cratic.
Base: autocrat
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more autocratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autocratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
pos: adj
examples: In recent years, the prime minister has become increasingly autocratic.
Within democracies, nationalist leaders with autocratic impulses – from outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen in France – have seen defeats in recent months.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: Despite his lack of actual authority, his autocratic demeanour annoyed many of his colleagues.
Donna became autocratic the day Daniel born, and she realized she had absolute power over another human being.
Synonyms: authoritarian
despotic
dictatorial
monocratic
tyrannical
Related words: autocracy
autocrat
Derived words: autocratically
nonautocratic
Translations:
autogamy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From auto- + -gamy.
Base: auto
Inflected forms:
form: autogamies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sologamy, marriage to oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autogamous
hydroautogamy
Translations:
macroscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós
Proto-Hellenic *makrós
Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós)der.
French macro-der.
English macro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -scopic
English macroscopic
From macro- + -scopic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Visible to the unassisted eye.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.
gloss: Having an appreciable mass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it...
Synonyms: naked-eye
Antonyms: microscopic
Related words: telescopic
microscopic
Derived words: cryomacroscopic
macroscopically
macroscopicity
semimacroscopic
submacroscopic
Translations:
maculated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more maculated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maculated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having spots or blotches.
pos: adj
examples: 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 48,
[The light] fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
She lifts the pen from the maculated blotter.
Translations:
colander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.
Inflected forms:
form: colanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cullender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: collinder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
pos: noun
examples: An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."
Translations:
madhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mad + house.
Compound parts: mad
house
Inflected forms:
form: madhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
He is almost a tourist of his own book. There is a hint of the fad a couple of centuries ago for visiting madhouses in search of the exotic.
gloss: A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.
Translations:
madly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.
Base: mad
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: madlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more madly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: madliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most madly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a mad manner
pos: adv
examples: I'm madly in love with you.
But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.
If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.
It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.
Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?
gloss: In a mad manner
pos: adv
examples: Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.
gloss: In a mad manner
pos: adv
examples: In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: bojament
lang: Esperanto
word: freneze
lang: Finnish
word: mielettömästi
lang: Finnish
word: mielipuolisesti
lang: Finnish
word: hullun lailla
lang: French
word: follement
lang: German
word: wie verrückt
lang: Hungarian
word: őrülten
lang: Italian
word: follemente
lang: Middle English
word: madli
lang: Portuguese
word: loucamente
lang: Spanish
word: alocadamente
lang: Turkish
word: çılgınca
lang: Turkish
word: delice
azotemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
Ancient Greek αἷμᾰ (haîmă)der.
New Latinder.
English -emia
English azotemia
From azote + -emia.
Inflected forms:
form: azotemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (such as urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
preparatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English preparatori, from Late Latin praeparatorius. By surface analysis, prepare + -atory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I will conduct some preparatory research before choosing the new restaurant's location.
A butcher bird has stirred, tuned its flute with a few preparatory notes.
Translations:
aestivation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aestīvātiō, from Latin aestīvō, aestīvāre (“to spend or pass the summer in a place”), from aestīvus (“of or pertaining to summer”), from aestās (“summer”) + -īvus.
Base: aestās
Affixes: -īvus
Inflected forms:
form: aestivations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æstivation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: estivation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The spending or passing of a summer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation.
Related words: aestivate
Translations:
orally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oral
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English orally
From oral + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By mouth.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
Pleasure your partner orally and manually.
But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.
gloss: Spoken as opposed to written.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.
Derived words: extraorally
orally disintegrating tablet
periorally
Translations:
charger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.
Base: charge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chargers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that charges or recharges.
pos: noun
examples: Put the batteries in the charger overnight so we can use them tomorrow.
GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can then discharge quickly into the train's batteries through charging rails and then start recharging itself while the train is running in service.
gloss: One who charges.
pos: noun
examples: With the first volley Waziri fell. The speed of the chargers slackened. Another volley brought down a half dozen more.
That attack may damage the homosexual, but even as he is hurt, he also feels superior, because he is not a bull—a blind, stupid animal. Rather, he is an aesthete—a tweaker, not a charger.
gloss: A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The knight rode a white charger.
Before the stranger could make any reply to this unexpected proposition, another horseman dashed the bushes asides, and leaped his charger into the pathway in front of his companion.
My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed.
gloss: A large platter.
pos: noun
examples: And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
gloss: A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal.
pos: noun
examples: The fancy restaurant used a white porcelain charger when serving.
gloss: A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
pos: noun
gloss: A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
pos: noun
examples: "See this? This is a charger. It's used by convicts to hide money and drugs. They stick it in their body, they tuck it up their rectum."
gloss: Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”).
pos: noun
examples: Miller had a new executive officer, a real charger, as they're known in the trade, who was looking into all aspects of the operation up there.
Derived words: battery charger
chargerless
power charger
supercharger
twincharger
wall charger
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: dækketallerken
lang: Esperanto
word: subtelero
lang: Italian
word: sottopiatto
lang: Norwegian
word: dekketallerken
lang: Portuguese
word: prato de baixo
end-effector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: end-effectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any attachment on the end of a robot that interacts with the environment, such as a device to lift parts.
pos: noun
examples: "The system integrates a single camera into the robot's end-effector, and adds a specialized, durable lighting unit that moves with the robot to illuminate the parts." — "Eyes on the Line," Mechanical Engineering, August 2005.
gloss: The terminal moving part of a limb that interacts with the environment.
pos: noun
Translations:
skivvies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Underwear, especially men's underwear and especially men's underpants.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: My skivvies disappeared in surgery, a sinister conjunction of circumstance.
Then she pulled his pants down around his knees. He had a pair of old gray-and-white tight skivvies on. They were worn and threadbare and tight around his groin.
“I brought some jeans, a sweater, a heavy shirt, some thermal socks and some skivvies.” He replied.
“Skivvies?” A questioning look wrinkled her forehead.
“Undershirts and underpants.” He explained.
Everyone in 2nd platoon had two pairs of boots, two pairs of utilities and several pair of skivvies, which served no purpose in Nam. No one wore skivvies because of the intense heat and it took only one case of heat rash, affectionately named “crotch rot,” to impress on us that skivvies were better suited as rags to clean weapons and tools.
And the ceiling is so low that the man dancing on the bar, in nothing but his skivvies, was hunched over like a gorilla.
Translations:
niblick
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Possibly from nib + -le + -ock.
Base: nib
Affixes: -le
-ock
Inflected forms:
form: niblicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: niblicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: niblicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: niblicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strike, or take a shot, with a niblick.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
circumscription
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Latin circum
Latin circum-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin circumscribō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin circumscrīptiōbor.
English circumscription
Borrowed from Latin circumscrīptiō.
Inflected forms:
form: circumscriptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of circumscribing or the quality of being circumscribed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Anything that circumscribes or a circumscribed area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The definition of what does and does not belong to a given taxon, from a particular taxonomic viewpoint or taxonomic system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The circumscription in the APG system of the family Malvaceae includes the former families Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae.
gloss: An electoral district; used often in texts treating electoral systems in Romance countries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: circumscribe
Derived words: circumscriptional
incircumscription
recircumscription
Translations:
monochrome
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μονόχρωμος (monókhrōmos), from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”); mono- + -chrome.
Affixes: mono-
-chrome
Inflected forms:
form: monochromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A black and white image, especially such a photograph.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A painting executed in shades of a single colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A ceramic glaze of a single colour; an object so glazed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Having only one colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They are often used as decorations, like in set 9526 Star Wars Palpatine Arrest (2012) were two pearl gold monochrome minifigures represent statues.
gloss: Representing colours with shades of gray.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: monochromatic
Derived words: monochromator
monochromist
Translations:
marasmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin marasmus, from Ancient Greek μᾰρᾰσμός (mărăsmós, “withering”, noun).
Inflected forms:
form: marasmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition of chronic undernourishment especially in children, caused by a diet deficient in calories or the inability to digest protein and presenting as a severe loss of body weight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Indian children are still among the skinniest and shortest on the planet, but they are taller and plumper than were their parents or grandparents, and the signs of gross hunger, such as marasmus, are now rarely seen in nutritional surveys.
Translations:
litigious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English litigious, from Latin lītigiōsus. Compare Middle French litigieux.
Inflected forms:
form: more litigious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most litigious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to litigation.
pos: adj
examples: This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.
gloss: Inclined to engage in lawsuits.
pos: adj
examples: Tearing a page out of Monsanto's own playbook, the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), an advocacy group whose mandate is to represent the public's interest in the patent system, filed suit (PDF) on behalf of 60 organic farmers, small farm organizations, and seed businesses this week against the litigious agrichemical and genetically modified (GM) seed giant.
The United States is a litigious society.
gloss: Argumentative or combative.
pos: adj
Derived words: litigiously
litigiousness
nonlitigious
overlitigious
Translations:
Magellanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Magellan + -ic. Named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan
Base: Magellan
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Magellanic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Magellanic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or, pertaining to, the Magellanic Clouds
pos: adj
Translations:
maggiore
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs
Proto-Italic *magjōs
Latin maior
Italian maggiorebor.
English maggiore
Borrowed from Italian maggiore.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: major
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
maggoty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From maggot + -y.
Base: maggot
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more maggoty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: maggotier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most maggoty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maggotiest
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: maggotty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: magotty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Infested with or partially eaten by maggots; flyblown.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: He pilots his disreputable father-in-law through the maggotier parts of the Big Apple, tries out unsuccessfully for a job as gorilla, pulls off an unconvincing fraud (surely Gothamites don’t hand over against an uncleared cheque?).
gloss: Full of whims; capricious; freakish.
pos: adj
tags: dated
figuratively
examples: the Maggoty Turn of Fortune's Wheel
In the book, what holds the sketchy characters, the narrative chunks, and the ideas together is West's maggoty wit—positioning himself halfway between contempt and fear, clinging to literary sophistication as if it were the Mother Church.
gloss: Unpleasant or bad-tempered.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: I want you to know that I think you are a maggoty mother-fucking son of a bitch
Derived words: maggotiness
maggoty bay bean
maggoty-pie
Translations:
magically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From magic + -ally or magical + -ly.
Base: magic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more magically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most magically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
pos: adv
examples: The Everlasting Gobstopper, a jawbreaker that changes colors and flavors, was the brainchild of Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 1964. They were intended as poor kids candy since they magically kept regenerating, no matter how long you sucked on them.
Translations:
gunsight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gun + sight.
Compound parts: gun
sight
Inflected forms:
form: gunsights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An optical instrument which establishes an optical line or axis for the purpose of aiming a weapon.
pos: noun
gloss: An optical instrument which establishes an optical line or axis for the purpose of aiming a weapon.
pos: noun
examples: I could just see the nick, like a gunsight, in the ridge of rock through which the road passes into the coastal plain of Tihamah. The nick is called Bab al-Naqah, the Gate of the She-Camel, after an unmistakable humped rock by the road.
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瞄準具 /瞄准具
roman: miáozhǔnjù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瞄準鏡 /瞄准镜
roman: miáozhǔnjìng
lang: Czech
word: zaměřovač
lang: Dutch
word: vizier
lang: French
word: viseur
lang: German
word: Visier
lang: Japanese
word: 照準器
roman: shōjunki
lang: Japanese
word: 照準具
roman: shōjungu
lang: Japanese
word: サイト
roman: saito
lang: Polish
word: celownik
lang: Russian
word: прице́л
roman: pricél
magisterial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin magisterialis, from Latin magisterium.
Inflected forms:
form: more magisterial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most magisterial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Befitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
pos: adj
examples: The economist and demographer David Lam, in his magisterial 2011 presidential address to the Population Association of America, identified the keys to global prosperity in the face of record rates of population growth.
gloss: Of or pertaining to a master, magistrate, the magisterium, or one in authority.
pos: adj
examples: Instead a ‘magisterial’ Reformation was created: these were the Protestant movements led by the magistri, the theologically educated masters, and magistrates of all descriptions – kings, princes, city councils.
gloss: Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery.
pos: adj
Derived words: magisteriality
magisterially
magisterialness
unmagisterial
Translations:
gyrocompass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gyro-
English compass
English gyrocompass
From gyro- + compass.
Inflected forms:
form: gyrocompasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gyro compass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gyrocompasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gyrocompassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gyrocompassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gyrocompassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gyro compass
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A north-seeking form of gyroscope used as a directional reference in navigation.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a gyrocompass.
pos: verb
Translations:
magisterially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magisterial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English magisterially
From magisterial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more magisterially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most magisterially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
pos: adv
Translations:
magistracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magistrate
English -cy
English magistracy
From magistrate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: magistracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dignity or office of a magistrate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The actual amount paid was £6,483 8s, and the Auditor-General's report shows that last year this Department contributed a larger amount of revenue than any other Magistracy.
gloss: The collective body of magistrates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: promagistracy
Translations:
gyromagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gyro-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English magnetic
English gyromagnetic
From gyro- + magnetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more gyromagnetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gyromagnetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or resulting from the properties of a spinning magnet, or a spinning electric charge; magnetogyric
pos: adj
Translations:
magnanimity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French magnanimité, from Old French [Term?], from Latin magnanimitās.
Inflected forms:
form: magnanimities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being magnanimous; kindness of nature; generosity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...and thirdly, I have I behaved exceedingly ill to you, and, consequently, feel it quite magnanimous not to hate you, which is the established rule on such occasions."
"Pray, continue your magnanimity."
The duke had not taken advantage of this, but Bonaparte had later rewarded his magnanimity by having him put to death.
Translations:
magnanimously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magnanimous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English magnanimously
From magnanimous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more magnanimously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most magnanimously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a magnanimous manner.
pos: adv
examples: His vvords make ſemblance as if hee vvere magnanimouſly exerciſing himſelf, […]
Translations:
Choctaw
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Choctaw chahtabor.
English Choctaw
Borrowed from Choctaw chahta.
Inflected forms:
form: Choctaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Choctaw
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Choctaw tribe or its language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person of Choctaw heritage.
pos: noun
gloss: A Choctaw turn.
pos: noun
Derived words: Choctaw County
Choctaw turn
Translations:
jester
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gestour; equivalent to jest + -er.
Base: jest
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: jesters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jesters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jestering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jestered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jestered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who jests, jokes or teases.
pos: noun
examples: As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
gloss: A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Southeast Asian genus Symbrenthia.
pos: noun
gloss: To act in a foolish or clownish way for the purpose of entertainment or attracting attention.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: clown
joker
fool
jestress
fiddle
jester
joculator
joculatrix
merryman
motley fool
railleur
Related words: bauble
coxcomb
jest
laughingstock
motley
acrobat
juggler
tumbler
Derived words: court jester
jestermaxx
Translations:
supersession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin supersessiō, supersessiōnem, from supersedeō (“supersede”).
Inflected forms:
form: supersessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Two points became perfectly clear: one was that she was thinking of something very different from her present, her past, or her future relations with Hyacinth Robinson; the other was that he was superseded indeed. This was so completely the case that it did not even occur to her, it was evident, that the sense of supersession might be cruel to the young man.
Still excessively abundant, it was dressed in a manner of which the poor lady appeared not yet to have recognised the supersession, with a glossy braid, like a large diadem, on the top of the head […].
In 1923, the first of H. P. M. Beames's massive 0-8-4 tanks appeared in South Wales, for which area they had been mainly designed, and about twenty were usually stationed in the area, being freely used on both passenger and freight duties, until their gradual supersession by ex-L.N.W.R. 0-8-0s began about 1937.
Translations:
Rolodex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Genericized trademark, from rol(ling) + -o- + (in)dex. The brand name was originally part of a range including other items such as the Autodex and Clipodex.
Compound parts: rolling
-o-
index
Inflected forms:
form: Rolodexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rolodexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Rolodexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Rolodexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Rolodexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of rotating file index used for storing addresses, especially in a work context.
pos: noun
gloss: One's contact list.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A large list or category (of something specified).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To index, or scan through, in the manner of a rotating file index.
pos: verb
examples: I was already mentally Rolodexing through viable excuses.
Translations:
roofer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English roof
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 roofer
From roof + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: roofers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A craftsman who lays, or repairs roofs.
pos: noun
gloss: A daredevil who performs stunts on tops of skyscrapers.
pos: noun
examples: Ivan, Kirill and Vasilisa are “roofers,” a loose-knit group of insanely non-acrophobic daredevils who scam and sneak their way to the tops of Russia’s highest buildings.
This year, as part of his annual “Troublemaker Award,” the startup mentor and entrepreneur decided to spotlight a Ukrainian stunt-climber -- or, "roofer" -- who struck a blow for his home nation by sticking it to neighboring Russia.
“There aren’t many places in Latin America for the roofer to get on so our main aim was to climb Christ the Redeemer,” he said.
Many people say that I don’t look like roofer, which is really good when I try to get into a building which is really good secured. I started roofing two years ago with some friends.
Translations:
fallout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
Etymology: Deverbal from fall out; fall + out.
Compound parts: fall
out
Inflected forms:
form: fallouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was 5 February 2010 and Safdar had already dealt with the fallout of one explosion that day: an hour before, a motorbike laden with explosives had slammed into a bus carrying Shia Muslims to a religious procession.
gloss: The particles themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
gloss: A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism
gloss: A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: The person who declines such an offer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: An impromptu guest used to fill in for another guest spot who is a no-show or who has cancelled last minute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: rainout
smokefall
Derived words: area of militarily significant fallout
atmospheric fallout
borrower fallout
chemical fallout
executive fallout
fallout contour
fallout pattern
fallout prediction
fallout risk
fallout safe height of burst
fallout shelter
fallout winds
fallout wind vector plot
investor fallout
militarily significant fallout
nonfallout
nuclear fallout
radioactive fallout
soot fallout
Translations:
magnesite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Named after its composition in 1807.
Inflected forms:
form: magnesites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of magnesium carbonate, MgCO₃, occurring as dolomite (with calcite) but rarely found in the pure state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
magnetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magnetic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English magnetically
From magnetic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Using magnetism.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: As if by a magnet.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: My eyes were magnetically drawn to the scene.
Translations:
magnetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English magnetics
From magnet + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science or study of magnets and magnetism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
magnetizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English magnetize
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English magnetizable
From magnetize + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more magnetizable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most magnetizable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: magnetisable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be magnetized.
pos: adj
Translations:
magnetization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English magnetize
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 magnetization
From magnetize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: magnetizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The magnitude of the magnetic strength of a magnetized object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: magnetism
Derived words: demagnetization
gravimagnetization
metamagnetization
net magnetization vector
photomagnetization
thermoremanent magnetization
Translations:
magnetometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From magneto- + -meter.
Base: magneto
Inflected forms:
form: magnetometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: magnetimeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used to measure the intensity and direction of a magnetic field, especially at points on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as metal detector.
pos: noun
Translations: