yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
beefy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Italic *gʷōs
Osco-Umbrianbor.?
Latin bovem
Anglo-Norman beofbor.
Middle English bef
English beef
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English beefy
From beef + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: beefier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beefiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to, or tasting like beef.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing beef.
pos: adj
examples: The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.
gloss: Strong or muscular.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.
Soon the Latino warrior had bared his beefy body. His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.
The jaw bone in particular “looks more like that of H. erectus … than the beefier jaws of more primitive hominins such as H. habilis,” according to science journal Nature.
A beefy guy who enjoyed posting photos of himself in military gear, Smith had a love of explosives — he urged his fellow Terrorgrammers to bomb electric power stations, cell towers and natural gas lines — and contempt for federal law enforcement agents.
gloss: Large; overweight; fat.
pos: adj
examples: Grumping indignantly, he said, "By ginger, a nice blanky thing to lose a good job and risk being dam' near killed by Peabody for a beefy married woman. I tell you she weighs over fifteen stone, absolutely."
gloss: Sturdy; robust.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The software slows down even a beefy computer.
“The beefiest part of Saturday evening’s meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi may well have been the local sirloin served for dinner,” Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, wrote to clients on Monday.
Derived words: beefily
beefiness
unbeefy
Translations:
comeback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English come backdeverb.
English comeback
Deverbal from come back.
Inflected forms:
form: comebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
pos: noun
examples: That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback.
According to rumors in the entertainment world on December 6, Girls' Generation will be making a comeback next year with a masculine concept. They have supposedly decided on the title song in their new album and have begun filming the music video on December 6. It appears they have started preparing for a full-scale comeback! It will be the girls' first Korean comeback in a year since "I Got a Boy."
gloss: A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
pos: noun
examples: I wish I had thought of a quick comeback for his comment.
gloss: An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
pos: noun
examples: Newcastle produced a stunning comeback from 4-0 down to earn a draw that shocked title hopefuls Arsenal.
Derived words: comeback kid
comeback money
comeback queen
comeback sauce
turn a setback into a comeback
Translations:
rivet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.
The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
Inflected forms:
form: rivets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rivets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: riveting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rivetting
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
participle
present
form: riveted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: riveted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rivetted
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
participle
past
form: rivetted
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
past
Senses:
gloss: A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
pos: noun
gloss: Any fixed point or certain basis.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse
In 1579 it is mentioned that Almain rivets are now out of use, and in lieu of them a corselett shall be found. The rivets varied in cost; in 1509 they were to be had for 8s., in 1512 they were imported at 16s., and again in 1513 […]
gloss: To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To install rivets (see Usage notes).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To command the attention of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To make firm or immovable.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Terror riveted him to the spot.
Related words: riveters
riveting
riveter
rivets
riveted
Derived words: on the rivet
pop rivet
rivet counter
rivet gun
rivethead
rivet hearth
rivet knob
rivetless
rivetlike
rivet wheat
scrivet
de-rivet
rerivet
rivetable
unrivet
Translations:
vol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From French vol (“flight; vol”).
Inflected forms:
form: vols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heraldic symbol consisting of a pair of outstretched wings, often conjoined at their shoulders.
pos: noun
Translations:
portentous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Of multiple origins:
* Borrowed from Latin portentōsus, from portentus (“predicted”) + -ōsus. Compare earlier portentuous (via Middle English from Latin portentuōsus). By surface analysis, portent + -ous.
* Borrowed from French portentueux
Base: portentus
Affixes: -ōsus
Inflected forms:
form: more portentous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most portentous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of momentous or ominous significance.
pos: adj
examples: Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.
It is no longer in my possession, but my memory holds almost every word of its portentous message; and again I affirm my confidence in the sanity of the man who wrote it.
The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, from under siege, seemed infinitely more portentous: “The Day is Come that in all Probility on which Depends the Salvation of this Countery.”
The main problem with To Believe, however, is that by combining two of their previous styles, the Cinematic Orchestra have landed on a sound that has become ubiquitous in the years they’ve been away – portentous, restrained and impeccably tasteful electronica.
gloss: Ominously prophetic.
pos: adj
gloss: Puffed up with vanity.
pos: adj
Synonyms: fateful
prophetic
significant
Antonyms: humble
insignificant
trivial
unremarkable
Related words: portent
augury
foreboding
ominous
pretentious
Derived words: portentously
portentousness
unportentous
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: важничещ
roman: važničešt
lang: Bulgarian
word: надут
roman: nadut
lang: Catalan
word: portentós
lang: German
word: hochtrabend
lang: German
word: wichtigtuerisch
lang: German
word: eitel
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: høyttravende
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: svulstig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: oppstyltet
lang: Spanish
word: portentoso
amorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to amāre (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”). Doublet of amoroso and amoureux.
Inflected forms:
form: more amorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
pos: adj
examples: an amorous disposition
We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.
Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
gloss: Indicating love or sexual desire.
pos: adj
examples: She kept making these amorous suggestions.
UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.
And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,
Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]
Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes,
 And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke
 The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:
There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.
When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.
gloss: Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
pos: adj
examples: She read me an amorous poem.
gloss: Affected with love; in love; enamored.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: He had been amorous of her since schooldays.
Synonyms: concupiscent
lustful
Related words: amour
Derived words: amorously
amorousness
biamorous
heteroamorous
homoamorous
multiamorous
nonamorous
polyamorous
unamorous
Translations:
legendary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.
Base: legend
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more legendary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most legendary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: legendaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
pos: adj
gloss: Appearing (solely) in legends.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
pos: adj
gloss: Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
pos: adj
examples: And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
gloss: A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: One who relates legends.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A legendary Pokémon.
pos: noun
Derived words: legendarily
legendariness
nonlegendary
prelegendary
pseudolegendary
semi-legendary
unlegendary
Translations:
eroded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more eroded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eroded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: worn down or worn away.
pos: adj
Translations:
apparatchik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
Inflected forms:
form: apparatchiks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apparatchiki
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
gloss: A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
“Does France, a founder member of the EU, really want to be the country that sends the biggest battalion of far-right apparatchiks to the European parliament?” [Gabriel] Attal asked.
Translations:
solar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: solar light
solar rays
solar influence
gloss: Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: and proud beside, as solar people are
gloss: Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.
Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid.
gloss: Employing solar power.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a solar furnace
Synonyms: sunly
Derived words: active solar
antisolar
circumsolar
exosolar
extrasolar
local solar time
lunisolar
mean solar time
nonsolar
oversolar
pansolar
presolar
protosolar
solar apex
solar array
solar barge
solar barque
solar battery
solar boat
solar calendar
solar car
solar cell
solar collector
solar comedo
solar constant
solar corona
solar cross
solar cycle
solar day
solar deity
solar eclipse
solar energetic particle
solar energy
solar engine
solar farm
solar filament
solar flare
solar flower
solar gain
solar god
solar goddess
solargraph
solargraphy
solar halo
solar hero
solarisation
solarism
solarist
solarize
solar keratosis
solar lamp
solar letter
solar luminosity
solar maculation
solar mass
solar maximum
solar microscope
solar minimum
solar month
solar nebula
solar noon
solar oil
solar panel
solar phosphori
solar pillar
solar plexus
solar power
solar-powered
solar prominence
solarpunk
solar radiation
solar sail
solar shingle
solar skin
solar spot
solar spots
solar still
solar storm
solar system
solar tea
solar telegraph
solar telescope
solar term
solar thermal collector
solar time
solar tracker
solar tube
solar-type
solar viewer
solar wind
solar year
solunar
subsolar
supersolar
tough solar
unsolar
Translations:
loop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: loops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: looping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: looped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: looped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To form something into a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fly an aircraft in a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move something in a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a loop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move in a loop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The program loops until the user presses a key.
The outstanding Tom Palmer won a line-out and then charged into the heart of the Welsh defence, scrum-half Ben Youngs moved the ball swiftly right and Cueto's looping pass saw Ashton benefit from a huge overlap to again run in untouched.
gloss: To place in a loop.
pos: verb
examples: It found that trains often looped on their journey emit 14% to 20% more NOx and particulates than non-stop services.
gloss: To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Tolland Middle School in Connecticut where close to four hundred middle school students participated in looping, students from looped classroom structures scored much higher than students from prior years without the looped structure on standardized tests in mathematics and writing.
Derived words: loopable
loopback
loop in
loop off
loop the loop
loop up
on loop
Translations:
tailwind
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: From tail + wind.
Compound parts: tail
wind
Inflected forms:
form: tailwinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tailwinds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tailwinding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tailwinded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tailwinded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wind that blows in the same direction as the course taken by an aircraft, sailing ship, bird, etc.; a following wind.
pos: noun
gloss: A force that accelerates progress.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: Of a wind, to blow on a windmill or wind turbine in such a way that wind pressure is exerted on the wrong side of the sail or turbine assembly.
pos: verb
Antonyms: headwind
foul wind
Translations:
headwind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: From Middle English *hedwind, from Old English hēafodwind, equivalent to head + wind. Cognate with Old Norse höfuðvindr.
Compound parts: head
wind
Inflected forms:
form: headwinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wind that blows directly against the course of a vehicle, like an aircraft, train, or ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A strong force that impedes or reverses progress.
pos: noun
examples: "Domestic economic activity has been gaining traction in spite of formidable headwinds from external developments," the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its monthly bulletin.
At the same time, Faludi, who is working on a new book about the headwinds feminism is facing, suggested that the movement itself has grown sectarian and insular.
“The increasing appetite for obesity drugs will have myriad implications, boosting sectors such as biotech and creating headwinds for industries such as food and beverage,” the bank’s report said.
Translations:
creolization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Portuguese crioulobor.
Spanish criollo
French créolebor.
English Creole
English creole
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 creolization
From creole + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: creolizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: creolisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the process of a pidgin rapidly expanding its vocabulary and grammatical rules, ultimately becoming a creole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: of Indo-Trinidadians, the process of assimilation into the dominant Creole culture.
pos: noun
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
countable
uncountable
Derived words: decreolization
Translations:
cringeworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cringe
English -worthy
English cringeworthy
From cringe + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: more cringeworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cringeworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cringeworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cringeworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cringe-worthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That causes one to cringe with embarrassment; embarrassing.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The last word on words has spoken. Oxford Dictionaries chose “vape” as the word of the year. It was selected over cringeworthier choices such as “slacktivism” or “bae” — the latter a term of endearment that was a top contender for censorship in Time magazine’s “Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?” poll.
These ads aren’t as bad as some of the worst ads from previous years — let us not forget the gross GoDaddy commercials, or the Nationwide “Dead Kid” commercial of Super Bowls past — but they’re definitely the cringeworthiest of an already forgettable crop.
It also presented a golden opportunity for Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to wear silly outfits and produce yet another cringeworthy video, which attracted sharp criticism online.
Translations:
airworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin āēr
Old French airbor.
Middle English aire
English air
English -worthy
English airworthy
From air + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: airworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more airworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: airworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most airworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Meeting standards for safe flight
pos: adj
examples: An airworthy helicopter...
Doc Savage doubted that he would carry out the threat, and thought the plane was still airworthy.
Antonyms: unairworthy
unflyable
Translations:
blameworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blame worthy, blame-worthy, equivalent to blame + -worthy.
Base: blame
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: more blameworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blameworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blame-worthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.
pos: adj
examples: Yes, my life has been blameworthy; I confess it. But you know nothing of its temptations.
And there are ſome diſpoſitions blame-vvorthy in men, vvhich are yet, in a right ſenſe, holily aſcribed unto God; as unchangeableneſs, and irrepentance: […]
Translations:
creditworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English credit
English -worthy
English creditworthy
From credit + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: more creditworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most creditworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: credit-worthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Deemed likely to repay debts.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an acceptable credit rating.
pos: adj
Derived words: creditworthiness
noncreditworthy
uncreditworthy
Translations:
newsworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English news
English -worthy
English newsworthy
From news + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: newsworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: newsworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Interesting enough to be reported as a news
pos: adj
examples: newsworthy event
The most newsworthy articles should be towards the front of the paper.
Translations:
noteworthy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From note + -worthy.
Base: note
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: noteworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: noteworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: noteworthies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deserving attention; notable; worthy of notice.
pos: adj
examples: Zukertort represent the other most noteworthy tournaments.
Yet Hodgson’s men played with wonderful control. Their young full-backs, Luke Shaw and Nathaniel Clyne, epitomised their composure and Fraser Forster had to make only one noteworthy save before Andy Robertson’s goal, seven minutes from the end of time, temporarily threatened a winning position.
But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […].
gloss: A noteworthy person.
pos: noun
examples: One of the French Riviera’s most reliable characters is Charles Finch, a month-of-May migrant worker who jets in for the Cannes Film Festival, bunking up at the stately Hôtel du Cap with the show folk and other noteworthies who come primed to toast their outrageous fortune here with $40 Bellinis.
Translations:
praiseworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English praise
English -worthy
English praiseworthy
From praise + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: praiseworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more praiseworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: praiseworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most praiseworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: praise-worthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Meriting praise; worthy of high praise
pos: adj
examples: It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very sorry, indeed.
No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.
That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers.
Some parts of New Zagreb is really good and praiseworthy urban planning.
Antonyms: blameworthy
Translations:
roadworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
road
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English road
English -worthy
English roadworthy
From road + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: more roadworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roadworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being able to be driven, or suitable for driving, on the open road.
pos: adj
examples: It was one of the rapidest Constitutions ever put together; made, some say in eight days, by Hérault Séchelles and others; probably a workmanlike, roadworthy Constitution enough; — on which point, however, we are, for some reasons, little called to form a judgment.
The coupe shrieked as it hit the curve, but Harry managed the twist with precision and the roadworthy car responded.
Translations:
seaworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sea
English -worthy
English seaworthy
From sea + -worthy.
Inflected forms:
form: seaworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: seaworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sea-worthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fit for service at sea.
pos: adj
examples: Yet everybody knows that a cargo properly stowed in a seaworthy craft reaches market in much the better condition than by rail, though perhaps it is some hours longer on the way.
Antonyms: unseaworthy
Translations:
unseaworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English seaworthy
English unseaworthy
From un- + seaworthy.
Inflected forms:
form: more unseaworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unseaworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unfit for a sea voyage.
pos: adj
Antonyms: seaworthy
Translations:
unworthy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unworthy, equivalent to un- + worthy.
Base: worthy
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unworthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unworthies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.
pos: adj
examples: […]But alas the while!
If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
Which is the better man, the greater throw
May turn by the fortune from the weaker hand:
So is Alcides beaten by his page;
And so may I, blind Fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. [...] Such a disappointing work is embarrassing to the reviewer and unworthy of the great House of Cassell.
gloss: An inadequate person.
pos: noun
Translations:
lifeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lyfles, lifles, from Old English līflēas (“lifeless”), equivalent to life + -less. Cognate with West Frisian libbensleas (“lifeless”), Dutch levenloos (“lifeless”), German leblos (“lifeless”), Danish livløs (“lifeless”), Swedish livlös (“lifeless”), Icelandic líflaus (“lifeless”).
Base: life
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more lifeless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lifeless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: liveless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: inanimate; having no life
pos: adj
gloss: dead; having lost life
pos: adj
examples: a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.
gloss: uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life
pos: adj
gloss: dull or lacking vitality
pos: adj
examples: In a largely lifeless second half their only shot on target was a tame overhead effort from Paul Pogba, and Mourinho's already stretched squad saw Luke Shaw and Lukaku limp off late on, while Ashley Young picked up a fifth booking of the season which rules him out of Wednesday's league game at home to Arsenal.
Derived words: lifelessly
lifelessness
Translations:
abruptly-pinnate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: pinnate with a pair of leaflets at the apex
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: imparipinnate
odd-pinnate
Translations:
glare
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
Etymology: From Middle English glaren, from Old English *glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glarōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.
Inflected forms:
form: glares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more glare
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glare
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An intense, blinding light.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
gloss: Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An angry or fierce stare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
gloss: A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: a glare of ice
gloss: A viscous, transparent substance; glair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To stare angrily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]
gloss: To shine brightly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sun glared down on the desert sand.
The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
gloss: To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
gloss: To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
gloss: smooth and bright or translucent; glary
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: skating on glare ice
Derived words: aglare
anti-glare
death glare
glare filter
glaringly
antiglare
glareless
glareproof
nonglare
glare daggers
Translations:
even-pinnate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: evenpinnate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: pinnate with an even number of leaflets at the apex
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: imparipinnate
odd-pinnate
Translations:
odd-pinnate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: pinnate with a single leaflets at the apex
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: abruptly-pinnate
even-pinnate
Translations:
transceiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Blend of transmitter + receiver.
Compound parts: transmitter
receiver
Inflected forms:
form: transceivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A combined radio transmitter and receiver.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that performs transmitting and receiving functions, especially if using common components.
pos: noun
Related words: receiver
transmitter
transponder
Derived words: Gunning transceiver logic
Translations:
piquer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pique
English -er
English piquer
From pique + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: piquers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who piques.
pos: noun
examples: You are what I may call a piquer of curiosity.
The name above the door is F. Dula. Under the circumstances, an interest piquer.
Translations:
crayon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin crēta
French craie
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ō
Frankishinflu.
Old French -on
Middle French -on
French -on
French crayonbor.
English crayon
Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.
Base: craie
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: crayons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crayons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crayoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crayonning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: crayoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crayoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crayonned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: crayonned
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
pos: noun
gloss: A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
gloss: A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
gloss: A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To draw with a crayon.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: cretaceous
Derived words: crayon board
crayon eater
crayonist
crayon license
crayonlike
meat crayon
not the sharpest crayon in the box
pencil crayon
porte-crayon
sauce crayon
Translations:
coagulopathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coagulate
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ieder.
Middle English -ie
Middle English -y
English -y
English -pathy
English coagulopathy
From coagulate + -pathy.
Inflected forms:
form: coagulopathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a disease which limits the coagulability of the blood
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the condition of having a defect in the blood clotting mechanism (regardless of cause, including disease or drugs).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: coagulopathic
hypercoagulopathy
hypocoagulopathy
Translations:
femicide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fem- + -icide, ultimately derived from Latin fēmina (“woman”), after the model of homicide, genocide, etc.
Affixes: fem-
-icide
Inflected forms:
form: femicides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feminicide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The killing of a woman or girl, originally (figurative) with reference to loss of virtue but now usually (law) specifically because of their sex or gender and especially such a killing by a man motivated by misogyny.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the most pernicious nuisances of London is the insistence of voluptuaries, who, relying on the respectability of their rank, and the weight of their purse, endevour in open day to seduce young women who attract their attention in the public streets!... This species of delinquency may be denominated femicide; for the monster who betrays a credulous virgin, and consigns her to infamy, is in reality a most relentless murderer!
But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.
Mexico is tied with Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia as the countries with the fourth-highest rates of femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the latest data from the United Nations economic commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, at 1.3 such deaths for every 100,000 women in 2023.
gloss: A person who commits such an act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Synonyms: corruption and corrupter
gynocide and see Thesaurus:killer
womanslaughter
Translations:
handled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a handle or handles, often of a specified number or kind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a two-handled drinking cup
A rake is a long-handled toothed gardening tool.
The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued —
 The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes,
 He kicks his dirty children with his boot,
 Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife
 With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits
 His coming, to revile his drinking hard.
Translations:
pachyderm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from French pachyderme, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + -derm (“skin”).
Affixes: pachy-
-derm
Inflected forms:
form: pachyderms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the obsolete taxonomic order Pachydermata, grouping of thick-skinned, hoofed animals such as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, elephant and tapir.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An elephant.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: And so it happened that before the elephant realized that his new enemy had leaped from his path Tarzan had driven his iron-shod spear from behind the massive shoulder straight into the fierce heart, and the colossal pachyderm had toppled to his death at the feet of the ape-man.
Among five score pachyderm / Each canopied and passengered / Sit the duke and the duchess' luscious young girls
In September 2008[…] Portfolio rented an elephant to illustrate an article about JPMorgan Chase’s credit derivatives desk, because the editors had decided on the headline “The $58 Trillion Elephant in the Room.” Condé spent about $30,000 photographing the pachyderm, instead of using a stock image.
gloss: A person with thick skin; someone who is not affected by or does not care what others say about them.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: Someone who is insensitive.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: pachydermal
pachydermic
Translations:
deponent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó
Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der.
Proto-Italic *sinō
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Old Latin *poznō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Latin dēpōnēnsder.
English deponent
From Latin dēpōnēns (“laying aside”), the present active participle of dēpōnō (“lay aside”), from dē- + pōnō (“put, place”). The name comes from the idea that such verbs were originally reflexive and then later "laid aside" their passive meanings.
Inflected forms:
form: deponents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having an active meaning, but conjugating as though it were being used with a different voice (such as the passive).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A witness; especially one who gives information under oath, in a deposition concerning facts known to him or her.
pos: noun
examples: The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
gloss: A deponent verb.
pos: noun
Related words: depose
deposition
deposition de bene esse
affiant
de bene esse
Translations:
hella
Part of speech: det
pron
adv
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to a hell of a. Originally Northern California slang. Compare helluv, helluva.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An intensifier, signifying an abundance of a thing; much or many.
pos: det
tags: Northern-California
slang
examples: There are hella people here.
Now, let’s talk bidness.
I got nothing for you.
Wrong. You got hella cash.
(“We practiced it hella times, but it’s new, and I can’t really get it on top of the music yet,” she explained.)
gloss: A lot; very much.
pos: pron
tags: Northern-California
slang
examples: We paid hella for that Chinese cuisine.
gloss: Intensifier, modifying verbs; to a large extent; totally; very much.
pos: adv
tags: Northern-California
not-comparable
slang
examples: I can't tell you how much I hella love the new track.
Jane was driving away, and the door was open, so I hella ran for it.
Oh, today's Cyrell's bday. We hella sang her happy birthday at the spot.
You’re right. We hella deserve it. Splish splash!
Did you actually just say "hella"? I think I’m a good bad influence on you.
gloss: Intensifier, modifying adjectives; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
regional
slang
examples: I guess she seems hella stoned in her commercial.
I've been a Star Wars fan since I was hella young.
"And to the fella over there / With the hella good hair / Won't you come on over, baby / We can shake, shake, shake"
The storm got hella crazy and... and you said we would be safe at the lighthouse.
gloss: For sure; totally; hell yeah; used as a strong affirmation of something that was just said, accomplished, or revealed.
pos: intj
tags: Northern-California
slang
examples: "We definitely rocked that shit man!"
"Hella!"
Translations:
laboratory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin labōrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Late Latin -tor
Late Latin labōrātor
Medieval Latin labōrātōrius
Medieval Latin labōrātōriumbor.
English laboratory
Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
Inflected forms:
form: laboratories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
pos: noun
examples: Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
Synonyms: lab
laboratorium
Derived words: biolaboratory
collaboratory
hot laboratory
interlaboratory
intralaboratory
laboratorian
laboratorily
laboratorist
laboratory assistant
laboratory coat
laboratoryful
laboratory mouse
laboratory rat
laboratoryware
language laboratory
multilaboratory
nonlaboratory
Translations: