yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
paralyze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or partly (ii) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Etymons: Middle English paralysie, -ize suffix; French paralyser.
Inflected forms:
form: paralyzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paralyzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paralyzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paralyzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: paralyse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To afflict with paralysis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To render unable to move; to immobilize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So I stood alone in horror / Paralyzed with fear and dread / When a voice dead and inhuman / Whispered to me "go, you fool, Warren's dead!"
gloss: To render unable to function properly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The transport strike paralyzed the city.
Derived words: paralyzation
paralyzer
Translations:
Phrygian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Latin Phrygiānus + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Phrygianus is derived from Phrygia + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Phrygia is from Ancient Greek Φρῠγῐ́ᾱ (Phrŭgĭ́ā, “region in Anatolia”), from Φρῠ́ξ (Phrŭ́x, “person from Phrygia”) (further etymology unknown, possibly from Phrygian or related to Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- (“to ascend, rise up; to be elevated, up high”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: Phrygians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Written or spoken in the Phrygian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ‘Then one day one of the infants stretched out his little hands to the shepherd and exclaimed bekos, which is the Phrygian word for bread.’
gloss: In the Phrygian mode.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.
pos: noun
examples: ‘And so Psammetichus decided the Phrygians must have been the first race on earth, and Phrygian the first language.’
gloss: A Montanist.
pos: noun
Translations:
portraiture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.
Inflected forms:
form: portraitures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
gloss: The art of painting or photographing portraits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autoportraiture
Translations:
merci
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French merci (“thank you”). Doublet of mercy.
Inflected forms:
form: mercis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Thank you.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Rebecca Rosen, merci for helping me to understand that connection between you and The Other Side, and making the character of Theresa come alive.
"Improve the roads! Merci for the reception!" With this insouciant remark and the banner he affixed to his automobile that read "Auto rally against roadlessness and slovenliness!"
“Merci, Bob. I'll inform Lauren,” Bergere said as he hurried out of the office.
gloss: An extra card or set of cards that is allowed to play at the end of various card games.
pos: noun
examples: Few games are won without the merci. In the final deal a King above a card of the same suit automatically blocks the game, and the merci should be used to free such a card.
Translations:
clemency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English clemency, clemencie, from Latin clēmentia.
Gradually eclipsed Middle English clemence, from Old French clemence, from the same Latin origin.
Inflected forms:
form: clemencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
Notwithstanding, that I be not farther tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy clemencie a few words.
A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
gloss: A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Judicial intervention might, for example, be warranted in the face of a scheme whereby a state official flipped a coin to determine whether to grant clemency, or in a case where the State arbitrarily denied a prisoner any access to its clemency process.
gloss: Mildness of weather.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Now of all theſe Things there is ſuch a conſtant Continuance, by reaſon of the Clemency of the Climate, that ſcarce the leaſt Famine, which frequenteth other Countries, hath been felt in England theſe 400 Years.
The variegated verdure of the fields and woods, the ſucceſſion of grateful odours, the voice of pleaſure pouring out its notes on every ſide, with the gladneſs apparently conceived by every animal, from the growth of his food, and the clemency of the weather, throw over the whole earth an air of gaiety, ſigniſicantly expreſſed by the ſmile of nature.
It rained still, and blew; but with more clemency, I thought, than it had poured and raged all day.
Antonyms: cruelty
Related words: clemence
clement
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: смекчаване
roman: smekčavane
lang: Czech
word: milost
lang: French
word: clémence
lang: German
word: Milde
lang: German
word: Mildheit
lang: Latvian
word: apžēlošana
lang: Russian
word: поми́лование
roman: pomílovanije
lang: Slovene
word: pomilostitev
lang: Spanish
word: clemencia
involved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English involve
English -ed
English involved
From involve + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more involved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most involved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Complicated.
pos: adj
examples: He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.
E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.
gloss: Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
pos: adj
examples: The people involved in the project for three years.
He got/was involved in a bar fight.
When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
gloss: Having an affair with someone.
pos: adj
examples: She has been happily involved with the same woman for almost three years. During that time, they have grown together, dealt well with their problems and have worked consistently for a loving and trusting relationship.
Derived words: involvedly
involvedness
justice-involved
noninvolved
officer-involved
officer-involved shooting
overinvolved
self-involved
ultrainvolved
underinvolved
uninvolved
Translations:
viscid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin viscum
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Late Latin viscidus
English viscid
From Late Latin viscidus, from viscum (“birdlime”).
Inflected forms:
form: more viscid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most viscid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a high viscosity.
pos: adj
gloss: Sticky, slimy, or glutinous.
pos: adj
examples: They trod noiselessly upon a stair carpet that its own loom would have forsworn. It seemed to have become vegetable; to have degenerated in that rank, sunless air to lush lichen or spreading moss that grew in patches to the staircase and was viscid under the foot like organic matter.
The pool’s bottoms and sides were lined with a blanket of viscid slime, and the three statues in the middle, the three Sirens of Titan, were under a mucilaginous hump.
gloss: Covered with a viscid layer.
pos: adj
Derived words: viscidity
viscidly
viscidness
Translations:
inviscid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Latin viscum
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Late Latin viscidus
English viscid
English inviscid
From in- + viscid.
Inflected forms:
form: more inviscid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inviscid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not viscid
pos: adj
gloss: having a gradient of zero
pos: adj
Antonyms: viscid
Derived words: inviscid flow
inviscid fluid
inviscidness
Translations:
offence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: offences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exhausted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider.
Proto-Italic *auzjō
Latin hauriō
Latin exhauriō
Latin exhaustusder.
English exhaust
English -ed
English exhausted
From exhaust + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more exhausted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exhausted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very tired; zonked (out).
pos: adj
examples: The exhausted man fell asleep immediately.
gloss: Depleted of resources.
pos: adj
examples: The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.
gloss: Emptied of contents, especially of air; that has been made into a vacuum.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: A man can live in thick air, but perishes in an exhausted receiver.
Synonyms: depleted
Derived words: exhausted combination
exhaustedly
exhaustedness
exhausted receiver
exhaustipated
inexhausted
unexhausted
Translations:
depleted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used up, expended; of which nothing is left.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The depleted aerosol can spray no more since there was no propellant left.
Antonyms: overflowing
plentiful
replete
undepleted
unexpended
Translations:
pectin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French pectine, coined in the 1830s by Henri Braconnot, from acide pectique "pectic acid", from Ancient Greek πηκτικός (pēktikós, “curdling”), from πηκτός (pēktós, “curdled”), from πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “stiffen”).
Inflected forms:
form: pectins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pectine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A plant-derived polysaccharide found in cell walls (especially in fruits) that forms a gel under acidic conditions and is commonly used to thicken foods like jam and jellies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Apple is rich in pectin and so is often added to other fruits when making jam so it will set.
Translations:
especial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English especial, via Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form, beauty”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special. Related to species.
Inflected forms:
form: more especial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most especial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: especiall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Exceptional in importance or significance; special.
pos: adj
examples: Pay especial attention to chapter five.
an especial hatred of cats
[...] this is of especial value in foggy weather.
Starting from this base list, a number of databases were systematically searched for terms, with especial effort taken to discover the earliest attestation possible[.]
gloss: Particular.
pos: adj
examples: acting with no especial goal
Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.
Related words: special
Derived words: especially
especialness
in especial
Translations:
succulent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French succulent, from Latin succulentus.
Inflected forms:
form: more succulent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most succulent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: succulents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Juicy or lush.
pos: adj
examples: Escargots, smoked salmon, fresh seafood, and pasta are all presented in succulent style, and the price is right.
“Ah. Good evening, sir. Can I interest you in a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?”
gloss: Luscious or delectable.
pos: adj
examples: "Hotter Than That," written by his wife, Lil Hardin, who had dandy rhythm herself, is scat vocal a la king, as Armstrong trades succulent phrases with guitar whiz Lonnie Johnson before offering a brief but telling solo.
It could be a verse from God's word that darts straight to the need of your heart with its succulent comfort.
Not far from me, I noticed a succulent blond.
Let go of the titles and just be the succulent woman you are each moment changing anew.
It will get a hard-on even if its owner sees a one-breasted woman with no teeth, and squinty eyes, just as long as she holds promise of a nice behind, agreeable thighs — a succulent woman.
The peaceful revolution was achieved in the United States following 1820, largely under the guise of succulent phrases and legal technicalities.
gloss: Having fleshy leaves or other tissues that store water.
pos: adj
gloss: A succulent plant.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonsucculent
semisucculent
subsucculent
Succulent Karoo
succulently
succulentness
unsucculent
Translations:
penne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian penne, plural of penna.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
superfluity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From superflu(ous) + -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.
Base: superfluous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: superfluities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [S]he could not but contrast the splendour of the Polish retinues and their plumages and draperies, with the strait-buttoned Prussian dignitaries, all in mere soldier uniform, succinct 'blue coat, white linen gaiters,' and no superfluity even in the epaulettes and red facings.
Each stores has its own storekeeper, a clerk who specializes in organizing his department so that there is not a superfluity of one article and a scarcity of another.
gloss: Something superfluous, as a luxury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As they had almost all the conveniencies of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search of superfluity.
I really doubt whether there be such a thing as a heart in the world: perhaps, after all, it is only an elegant superfluity kept for the use of poets. Certainly we have no use for it here.
It is to be presumed that Miss Blanche Amory had more than one rose in her bouquet, and why should not the kind young creature give out of her superfluity, and make as many partners as possible happy?
gloss: Collective noun for a group of nuns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
[…] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.
Translations:
distressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: more distressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Anxious or uneasy.
pos: adj
examples: She is distressed because she can't find her keys.
Oh that thou wer't not, poore distreſſed ſoule.
Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,
Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?"
gloss: Damaged.
pos: adj
tags: usually
gloss: Offered for sale after foreclosure.
pos: adj
gloss: Faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?
Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”.
gloss: Experiencing financial or operational distress, default, or bankruptcy.
pos: adj
examples: distressed debt
Funds that buy “distressed” debt, which typically yields ten percentage points or more over Treasuries, are becoming familiar villains.
Sam Zell called himself “the Grave Dancer”, even though, as he explained, his penchant for buying distressed assets “wasn’t so much dancing on graves as …raising the dead”.
One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises in distressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.
Derived words: distressedly
distressedness
distressed sale
nondistressed
predistressed
pre-distressed
undistressed
Translations:
balls
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ballses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ballsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ballsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ballsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The testicles.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: After that shot, his balls were really hurting!
*groans* My b… b… ba… balls… balls…
gloss: Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
vulgar
examples: You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.
The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: Very. Intensifier.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: It is balls cold out there.
Translations:
clink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”).
Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call.
Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.
Inflected forms:
form: clinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clinked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
gloss: Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.
Never you mind if I / Don't tell strangers passing by / If I don't brag / If I don't brag or boast / Clink my glass and say a toast / About my love for you / How it runs so deep and true
On the other side: the rich, beautiful tapestry of WASP culture that constituted Levis's life—friends playing horseshoes at backyard cocktail parties, where girls swanned in chaise longues, clinking their gin and tonics.
gloss: To rhyme.
pos: verb
tags: dated
humorous
Derived words: clink-clanks
crambo-clink
clinkable
clinker
clinking stuff
clinkstone
clinky
Translations:
incontinent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English incontinent, from Old French incontinent, from Latin incontinens, from in + continens.
Inflected forms:
form: more incontinent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incontinent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to contain or retain.
pos: adj
tags: often
gloss: Plagued by incontinence; unable to retain natural discharges or evacuations, most commonly of urine or feces.
pos: adj
examples: About 90% of all koalas have chlamydia... which makes them incontinent, so they spend all day pissing themselves.
The male body, opened and bleeding, can assume the shameful attributes of the incontinent female body as both cause of and justification for its evident vulnerability and defeat.
gloss: Lacking moral or sexual restraint, moderation or self-control, especially of sexual desire.
pos: adj
gloss: Unrestrained or unceasing.
pos: adj
examples: an incontinent river of pure water
[Jesus] was borne in Bethlem a City of Juda: where incontinent by the glorification of the Angels, the agnition of the Shepeherds, the veneration of the wiſe men, the prophecy of holy Simeon, and the admiration of the Doctours, he was had in honour.
gloss: Immediate; without delay.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Antonyms: continent
restrained
Derived words: doubly incontinent
incontinently
incontinent ordinance
Translations:
eardrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From ear + drum.
Compound parts: ear
drum
Inflected forms:
form: eardrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ear drum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.
pos: noun
examples: Those exposed to the weapon experience sharp ear pain, disorientation and panic, security experts say. Prolonged exposure can cause eardrum ruptures and irreversible hearing damage.
Translations:
earache
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From ear + ache.
Compound parts: ear
ache
Inflected forms:
form: earaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pain in the middle or inner ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Annoyance or aggravation caused by noise, especially the sound of someone nagging, complaining, issuing orders, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I can't stay too late at the pub, otherwise I'll get a load of earache from the missus.
Translations:
otitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From ot- + -itis.
Base: ot
Inflected forms:
form: otitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: otitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cystitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.?
Ancient Greek κύω (kúō)?
Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis)der.
Late Latin cystisder.
English cyst
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English cystitis
From cyst + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: cystitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the urinary bladder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Partying involves taking the tube home two days late, in a damp silk dress, ravenous, reeking of Moët, sweat and stale Shalimar, a bunch of plastic cocktail twizzlers in your clutch bag, with glitter on your face and extreme dehydration, followed by a 20-hour sleep and three days of cystitis.
Translations:
vaginismus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wāgīnā
Latin vāgīnalbor.
English vagina
English -ismus
English vaginismus
From vagina + -ismus.
Inflected forms:
form: vaginismuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A painful muscular contraction of the vagina when attempting to insert something, such as a tampon or a penis, into it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
vaginitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From vagin- + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: vaginitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vaginitises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the vagina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
adolescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English adolescence, from Old French adolescence, from Latin adolēscentia, from adolēscēns (“young”); see adolescent.
Inflected forms:
form: adolescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transitional period of physical and psychological development between childhood and maturity, beginning at the onset of puberty and with an endpoint defined either legally (at the age of majority, such as 18 in many jurisdictions) or psychocognitively (at various ages, depending on individual experience).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: teenagehood, teenhood, teenagerhood, teenagedom, teenagerdom, teendom
During adolescence, the body and mind go through many complex changes, some of which are difficult to deal with.
So lawyers started filing separate asylum requests for the children, arguing that reintegrating in countries they barely knew, after spending their childhood or adolescence in Belgium, would not only be impossible but would expose them to serious risks.
Translations:
braced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From brace (noun).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having braces or similar supports.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Interlaced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: three chevronels braced in base
Derived words: braced wall line
nonbraced
Translations:
breviary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin breviārium (“summary”) (compare abbreviation), ultimately from brevis (“short”). Doublet of brevier and brimborion.
Inflected forms:
form: breviaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.
pos: noun
examples: Sister took out her breviary and said her evening office.
gloss: A brief statement or summary.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
baby-minder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: baby-minders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A childminder or babysitter.
pos: noun
Translations:
colonization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
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 colonize
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 colonization
From colonize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: colonizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colonisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The process of establishing a colony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of colonizing or taking over.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: anticolonialist
colonial
colonialism
colonialist
colonialistic
colonially
colonist
colony
neocolonialist
Derived words: anticolonization
biocolonization
Cocacolonization
cocolonization
colonizational
colonizationism
colonizationist
decolonization
dyscolonization
endocolonization
hypercolonization
monocolonization
neocolonization
pseudocolonization
recolonization
Translations:
containerization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English container
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
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 -ization
English containerization
From container + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: containerizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: containerisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of containerizing; the use of containers in shipping and transport, especially shipping containers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Again, because containerisation had yet to arrive, we loaded and unloaded the lot by hand.
gloss: Software virtualization at the level of the operating system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These cloud deployments become simple due to well-defined and matured cloud technologies such as containerization, virtual infrastructure, orchestration, CI/CD, etc.
Related words: containerize
containerload
container ship
break-bulk
intermodal
transloading
transshipment
Translations:
continence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
urology
Etymology: Dated from the 14th century as Middle English contynence, from Old French continence, from Latin continentia (“a repression”). See also countenance.
Inflected forms:
form: continences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: continency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The voluntary control of urination and defecation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To maintain continence, the puborectalis muscle chokes the anal canal. The sling of tissue is supposed to release during defecation. Mine has not been doing that.
gloss: Moderation or self-restraint, especially in sexual activity; abstinence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:continence.
He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, — a continence which is practised by few writers.
Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence of married persons.
For this was a line so little frequented, especially at this hour, when the driver, the stoker, the guard and the station staffs all along the line, were anhelating towards their wives, after the long hours of continence, that the train would hardly draw up, when it would be off again, like a bouncing ball.
gloss: Uninterrupted course; continuity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: the Continence of the Cause should be divided
Antonyms: incontinence
akrasia
acrasy
intemperance
Related words: countenance
Translations:
cupped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the shape of a cup; concave.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: cupped hands
Translations:
curbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more curbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most curbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: restrained
pos: adj
Translations:
cure-all
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cure
English -all
English cure-all
From cure + -all.
Inflected forms:
form: cure-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cureall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Step right up! Step right up! Our panacean patent medicine miracle cure-all will cure what ails ya! Cash only! No refunds.
Translations:
costal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French costal and its etymon Medieval Latin costālis, from Latin costa (“rib”). As a Spanish unit, via Spanish costal. By surface analysis, costa + -al. Piecewise doublet of coastal.
Inflected forms:
form: costals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: costales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a rib.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a costa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a costa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of saco, a historical Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 111 L
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: antecostal
chondrocostal
costal cartilage
costalgia
costally
extracostal
hypocostal
iliocostal
infracostal
intercostal
intracostal
midcostal
paracostal
pericostal
phrenicocostal
phrenocostal
postcostal
precostal
retrocostal
sacrocostal
scapulocostal
spondylocostal
sternocostal
subcostal
supracostal
vertebrocostal
xiphocostal
Translations:
anaphylactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to anaphylaxis.
pos: adj
Translations:
coagulant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin coagulans, present participle of coāgulō (“to thicken”).
Inflected forms:
form: coagulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That causes coagulation or that coagulates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A substance that causes coagulation.
pos: noun
examples: Magnesium sulfate is the coagulant used in making tofu. It causes the liquid soy milk to separate into solid tofu and water.
Aluminum also is an incrustant present in most waters in quantities so small that it is not necessary to consider it; but when too much aluminum sulphate, a substance frequently used as a coagulant in filtering water, is added in the process of filtering, the excess passes through the filter and may cause trouble in the boiler, where it hydrolyzes, forming free sulphuric acid.
Primary stage – removal of insoluble particulate material by screening, the addition of coagulants, followed by settlementation.
Translations:
nepotism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepōs (“nephew”), a reference to the practice of popes appointing relatives (most often nephews) as cardinals during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Inflected forms:
form: nepotisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The favoring of relatives (most strictly) or also personal friends (more broadly) because of their relationship rather than because of their abilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nepotism can get you very far in the world if you've got the right connections.
Now retailers even demand deslotting or failure fees, a penalty for trial products that fail to meet their sales objectives. The struggle over display space heavily favors the incumbents and encourages what might be called brand nepotism.
Mr Chen - a member of the national politburo as well as the Shanghai boss - is accused of nepotism and corruption on a grand scale: protecting political allies, granting preferment to his family and looting Shanghai's pension fund.
Antonyms: meritocracy
Translations:
hematoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hemato- + -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma.
Affixes: hemato-
-oma
Inflected forms:
form: hematomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hematomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haematoma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hæmatoma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.
pos: noun
examples: The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less pronounced hyperlaxity and hyperelasticity of the skin (dermatochalasis-laxitas cutis) and (3) more or less pronounced hyperlaxity or hyperflexibility of the joints (arthrochalasis-laxitas articularis).
In 30 years as an expert witness, I have seen total plexus paralysis in three patients after needle angiography with intraaxillary hematoma not followed by surgical repair.
Translations:
sumptuary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin sūmptuārius (“of or relating to expenditure, sumptuary; person in charge of household expenses”) + English -ary (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Sūmptuārius is derived from sūmptus (“charge, cost, expense”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives); and sūmptus from sūmō (“to catch, seize, take; to acquire, get, obtain; to apply, employ, use; to consume, spend”) (from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, beneath, under’) + emō (“to acquire, procure; to buy, purchase”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”))) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
Cognates
* Middle French sumptuaire (modern French somptuaire)
* Italian sontuario
* Portuguese suntuário
* Spanish suntuario
Inflected forms:
form: more sumptuary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sumptuary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to expenditure or expense, especially on luxury goods.
pos: adj
examples: Among the trade goods mentioned are not only luxury items but also food produce, which contradicts the idea of exclusively sumptuary trade. Quite possibly these northern lords maintained sporadic trade with Guayaquil in pre-Hispanic times.
gloss: Chiefly in sumptuary law: of a law, regulation, etc.: intended to limit or restrain the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc., or to forbid the use of certain articles (especially luxurious ones), to regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labour, or to reinforce morals or social hierarchies.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: Some vvill vvonder, that Empſon and Dudley (the Royal Promoters then in prime) did not catch him [Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden] by the Collar, or pick an hole in his Govvn, upon the breach of ſome ruſty ſumptuary Statute; the rather, becauſe lately the Earl of Oxford vvas heavily fined for ſupernumerous attendance.
When Sunday came, it was indeed a day of finery, which all my ſumptuary edicts could not reſtrain. How well ſo ever I fancied my lectures againſt pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I ſtill found them ſecretly attached to all their former finery: […]
Out upon the folly of modern liberty, which has abolished sumptuary laws, and left us to all the horrors of our own inventions! Liberty of conscience is bad enough—the liberty of the press is still worse—but worst of all is liberty of taste in dress to common people.
Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".
gloss: Of or relating to sumptuary laws or regulations.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
historical
Related words: consume
consumer
consumption
sumptuosity
sumptuous
sumptuously
sumptuousness
unsumptuous
Derived words: sumptuaries
sumptuarily
sumptuary law
sumptuary tax
Translations:
fielding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who fields.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: the fielding of questions from an audience
gloss: The role of a fielder.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: fielding average
fielding circle
fielding percentage
fielding position
Translations:
earlier
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: occurring previously
pos: adj
examples: I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.
I'd seen earlier (in the day).
To me it seems that extensive investment in relatively low-powered units may have the same ultimate result of motive power shortage as that which afflicts the London Midland Region today, and which has compelled the re-engining of some of the earlier multiple-unit diesel train sets.
Machine learning uses computer algorithms to teach machines to make independent decisions by learning from earlier or existing behavior.
gloss: previously; before now; sooner
pos: adv
examples: From what I vaguely saw earlier this morning, when I had just woken up and was tidying my bed, a tall, bulky person left an unfamiliar box at my front door.
I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.
They were looking for some measuring equipment they had placed in the ice earlier.
Derived words: earlierness
Translations:
perceived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Generally recognized to be true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
gloss: As seen or understood by someone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In product design, where one deals with real, physical objects, there can be both real and perceived affordances, and the two need not be the same.
Anger is a natural response in humans to perceived or actual threat or provocation.
Derived words: imperceived
nonperceived
perceivedly
perceivedness
perceived temperature
unperceived
Translations:
deliberately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deliberate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English deliberately
From deliberate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deliberately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deliberately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
pos: adv
examples: He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
Major funding for this book was made possible by deliberately starving a family of four in Tennessee.
“As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
gloss: Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.
pos: adv
examples: After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.
Related words: on purpose
Translations:
affected
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more affected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: affecteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Influenced or changed by something.
pos: adj
examples: The affected products had to be recalled.
gloss: Simulated in order to impress.
pos: adj
examples: He spoke with an affected English accent.
The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.
He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that’s in this new picture he’s writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking.
gloss: Emotionally moved; touched.
pos: adj
examples: Jones […] was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello. […] Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.
gloss: adfected.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: an affected equation
gloss: Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone affected, as by a disease.
pos: noun
examples: Affecteds felt that they get conflicting orders from superiors more frequently than did nonaffecteds […]. Affecteds were more frequently bothered by feelings of a sharp increase in their workload than nonaffecteds […].
Related words: affectation
Derived words: affected equation
affectedly
affectedness
gender-affected
ill-affected
inaffected
misaffected
nonaffected
transmisogyny-affected
unaffected
Translations:
geographical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin geōgraphicus + -al. By surface analysis, geography + -ical.
Base: geōgraphicus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more geographical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geographical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: geographicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to geography.
pos: adj
examples: Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
ONE OF the facts which define the United States is that its national and its imperial boundaries are the same. Another is that it is a political unit which occupies a remarkably compact geographical unit of continental extent.
Clearly, the plane of the frame must be dominant, since that is the only plane that actually exists on the screen. Composition for this plane, however, is often influenced by factors in the geographical plane since, unless we are dealing with animation, a photographer or cinematographer must compose for the frame plane in the geographical plane.
gloss: A move to another place in the hope of curing an addiction etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: At QA they called these 'Geographicals'. It was a common tactic of the alcoholic type to think that a move would make all the difference.
There were always too many geographicals. That is a change of address.
'Doing Geographicals'
The word 'geographical' comes from the recovery community. It refers to one of the actions that an alcoholic mistakenly takes in order to 'fix' their problems.
Translations: