yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
benediction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English benediccion, from Ecclesiastical Latin benedictio, benedictionis, from benedictus (“blessed; well spoken of”). Doublet of benison.
Inflected forms:
form: benedictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short invocation for help, blessing and guidance from God, said on behalf of another person or persons (sometimes at the end of a church worship service).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to pronounce / give / say the benediction
the nuptial benediction
a parting benediction
O, look upon me, sir,
And hold your hands in benediction o’er me.
So saying, he [the angel] arose; whom Adam thus
Follow’d with benediction.
My pen (its last scrawl a benediction on my beloved) dropt from my fingers;
Cohen kept on his own hat, and took no notice of the visitor, but stood still while the two children went up to him and clasped his knees: then he laid his hands on each in turn and uttered his Hebrew benediction; whereupon the wife, who had lately taken baby from the cradle, brought it up to her husband and held it under his outstretched hands, to be blessed in its sleep.
Long brahminical hairs sprouted out of his ears, and he drew further attention to himself by closing his eyes, neatly shaking away tears, putting a hand on Owad’s head and speaking a Hindi benediction.
gloss: In the Anglican church, the ceremony used to institute an abbot, analogous to the consecration of a bishop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What Consecration is to a Bishop, that Benediction is to an Abbot; but in a different way: For a Bishop is not properly such till Consecration; but an Abbot being elected and confirm’d, is properly such before Benediction.
gloss: A Roman Catholic rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water and formally dedicated to God.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [He] later liked to attend benediction in the chapel at Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; [...]
gloss: Help, good fortune or reward from God or another supernatural source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:
Homeward serenely she walked with God’s benediction upon her.
Antonyms: malediction
Related words: benedictional
benedictionary
benedictive
benedictory
Translations:
metis
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French métis, from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Akin to mestizo, which came from Spanish. More at Metis.
Inflected forms:
form: métis
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Canada
Senses:
gloss: Of mixed heritage
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of Métis heritage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: Metis
Mestee
Translations:
victoria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Queen Victoria.
Inflected forms:
form: victorias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
pos: noun
examples: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
Translations:
ibuprofen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English isobut(anol)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English i(so)bu(tyl)
English pro(pionic acid)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der.
French phéno-
▲
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
French -yle
French phénylebor.
English phen(yl)
English ibuprofen
From i(so)bu(tyl) + pro(pionic acid) + phen(yl).
Inflected forms:
form: ibuprofens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic compound used widely as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ibuprofen is one of several new drugs used for the treatment of various types of arthritis. All these drugs reduce inflammation, and share the same side effects, the most common of which is possible formation of ulcers and upset stomach.
Translations:
daniel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: daniels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He'd pull the chair out from under some dignified dowager and catch her just before she went to fall on her daniel […]
Translations:
interlocutory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: interlocutories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to dialogue or conversation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [A]s he passed through the crowded anterooms . . . never did Leicester return the general greeting with such ready and condescending courtesy. . . . For all the favourite Earl had a bow and smile at least, and often a kind word. . . . A few of Leicester's interlocutory sentences ran as follows:— "Poynings, good morrow; and how does your wife and fair daughter? . . ."
The 13-week stint Hall did on Fox Broadcasting's "The Late Show" last fall proved the impact of his interlocutory style.
gloss: Interjected into something spoken.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Expressed during a legal action that awaits final decision.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to legal action that is temporary or provisional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person engaged in a conversation, an interlocutor.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: Lady Britomart is . . . well mannered and yet appallingly outspoken and indifferent to the opinion of her interlocutory.
gloss: Interpolated discussion or dialogue.
pos: noun
Derived words: interlocution
interlocutorily
noninterlocutory
Translations:
interlining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English lining
English interlining
From inter- + lining.
Inflected forms:
form: interlinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cloth lining between the outer and inner layers of a garment.
pos: noun
gloss: Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
pos: noun
examples: And the interlinings seemed to be writ in a hand different from that in which the papers were writ
gloss: The scheduling of vehicles to operate more than one route, or the selling of tickets for a trip across multiple carriers
pos: noun
gloss: The sharing of a segment of track between two rail lines.
pos: noun
Synonyms: interfacing
Related words: interliner
Translations:
cantle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3).
Inflected forms:
form: cantles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
In one cantle of his law.
gloss: The raised back of a saddle.
pos: noun
examples: He recognised a horse when he saw one, and could do more than fill a cantle.
Next day, he returned with a camel-saddle of equal beauty, the long brass horns of its cantles adorned with exquisite old Yemeni engraving.
The traps were packed in the splitwillow basket that his father wore with the shoulderstraps loosed so that the bottom of the basket carried on the cantle of the saddle behind him.
gloss: The top of the head.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
poltroon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French poltron, from Italian poltrone.
Inflected forms:
form: poltroons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poltron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more poltroon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poltroon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: poltron
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch.
pos: noun
examples: Patience is for poltroons, such as he:
He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
For the Devil’s a Coward in Nature,
A pitiful sorry Poltroon;
If you take but the Whip, he’ll give you the Slip;
And before you can lash him, he’ll run.
You damned poltroon, you never tried them!
"To gain life by means of a breach of faith and honour, were indeed to render myself the poltroon, and the villain my accusers believe me."
Strong had long understood Sir Francis Clavering’s character, as that of a man utterly weak in purpose, in principle, and intellect, a moral and physical trifler and poltroon.
The chief said, "That was the Colonel, likely. I've been expecting him for two days. He will be up now right away."
He was correct. The Colonel appeared in the door a moment afterward with a dragoon revolver in his hand.
He said, "Sir, have I the honor of addressing the poltroon who edits this mangy sheet?"
"You have. Be seated, sir. Be careful of the chair, one of its legs is gone. I believe I have the honor of addressing the putrid liar, Colonel Blatherskite Tecumseh?"
"Right, Sir. I have a little account to settle with you. If you are at leisure we will begin."
“He was worse than a pig,” he cried. “He was a poltroon and a coward. To save himself from the righteous wrath of the husband of a woman he had wronged, he perjured his soul in an attempt to place the blame entirely upon her.”
The sounds outside had ceased...But somebody had been there, and she proposed to look into the matter thoroughly. There was nothing of the poltroon about Adela Shannon Cork
First is our unbreakable rule that every candidate must be a trained trooper, blooded under fire, a veteran of combat drops. No other army in history has stuck to this rule, although some came close. Most great military schools of the past — Saint Cyr, West Point, Sandhurst, Colorado Springs didn’t even pretend to follow it; they accepted civilian boys, trained them, commissioned them, sent them out with no battle experience to command men... and sometimes discovered too late that this smart young ‘officer’ was a fool, a poltroon, or a hysteric.
2018 Jared, "Tech Evangelist", Silicon Valley episode 42, 5 minutes
You judas, you cow-handed poltroon, we thought you were a stallion.
gloss: Cowardly.
pos: adj
examples: Accordingly, to excuse our deliberate inactivity in the north, we had to make a show of impotence, which gave them to understand that the Arabs were too poltroon to cut the line near Maan and keep it cut.
Translations:
gaud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.
Inflected forms:
form: gauds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cheap showy trinket
pos: noun
examples: an idle gaud
A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.
Her secrets: old featherfans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer.
gloss: trick; jest; sport
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: deceit; fraud; artifice
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: gaudy
Derived words: begaud
gaudful
gaudish
gaudless
Translations:
pore
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “passage”). Displaced native English sweat hole from Middle English swet hole, which might have been a reformation of Old English swātþȳrel (literally “sweat hole”), which competed with līcþēote (literally “body pipe”).
Inflected forms:
form: pores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tiny opening in the skin.
pos: noun
examples: I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
gloss: By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
pos: noun
examples: the pores of a rock.
Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”
gloss: To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
pos: verb
examples: Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
gloss: To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
pos: verb
Related words: porous
Derived words: abdominal pore
acidopore
anal pore
apical germ pore
aporetic
aporia
aporic
biopore
blastopore
colporate
cryptopore
dactylopore
electropore
gastropore
germ pore
gonopore
haematomyelopore
hemipore
interpore
intrapore
isopore
macropore
mesopore
micropore
millipore
nanopore
nephridiopore
nephropore
neuropore
nuclear pore complex
nucleopore
parapore
polypore
poration
porefield
poreless
porelike
pore space
pore strip
porewater
pore water pressure
poriferous
porin
porite
poroid
poroma
pory
prepore
protopore
sweat pore
taste pore
pore over
poringly
Translations:
excruciating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Present participle of excruciate, from Latin excruciō, from ex- + cruciō (“to torment”).
Inflected forms:
form: more excruciating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most excruciating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
pos: adj
examples: Sagan faced an excruciating dilemma: Should he remain true to his naturalistic philosophy and reject the marrow graft as something acquired by immoral means? Or should he agree to undergo the medical treatment in hope of saving his life
gloss: Exceedingly intense; extreme
pos: adj
examples: When he at last opened his eyes, he was conscious of nothing but an excruciating pain through his temples. He was vaguely aware of unfamiliar surroundings.
Related words: cruciate
excruciate
Derived words: excruciatingly
superexcruciating
unexcruciating
Translations:
greek
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Probably from Greek (“unintelligible speech or text”).
Inflected forms:
form: greeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: greeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: greeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: greeked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can specify the type size below which text will be greeked in the Preferences dialog box. Designers often prefer to use greeked text in rough layouts because it helps the client focus on the design rather than on the words.
If text gets smaller than this value, [Adobe] Illustrator shows the text blocks as gray bars, an operation called greeking. Both type size and view size figure into the equation, so that 6-point type greeks at 100-percent view size and 12-point type greeks at 50 percent. Greeking speeds the screen display because gray bars are easier to draw than individual characters.
gloss: To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obscure a corporate logo that has not been permitted for use in a production.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: it's all Greek to me
Derived words: greeking
Translations:
syntactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Inflected forms:
form: more syntactic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most syntactic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to or connected with syntax.
pos: adj
examples: The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.
Sometimes, a preposition like of just marks the function from a noun, as in the picture of the dog. Here, the function is picture, and of is a purely syntactic marker of the argument of picture, the dog. In this case, there is no semantics for the preposition of.
gloss: Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
pos: adj
Related words: syntax
Derived words: antisyntactic
asyntactic
grammaticosyntactic
lexicosyntactic
macrosyntactic
metasyntactic
microsyntactic
morphosyntactic
nanosyntactic
nonsyntactic
postsyntactic
protosyntactic
syntactically
syntactic expletive
syntactician
syntacticise
syntacticism
syntacticist
syntacticize
syntactic middle voice
syntactic salt
syntactic sugar
unsyntactic
Translations:
therapist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?
Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.
New Latin therapīabor.
English therapy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English therapist
From therapy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: therapists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who provides therapy, usually professionally.
pos: noun
examples: Get the whole in-network provider list and then ask friends and family if they know any of the names, or check online ratings to see which therapists get high rankings. One note of warning: Friends may have their favorites, but experts say don’t assume their therapist is going to be a good fit for you as each person’s needs are different.
gloss: A psychotherapist specifically.
pos: noun
examples: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
We're Midwesterners. Our therapists are bartenders.
Related words: therapeutic
therapy
Derived words: algotherapist
aromatherapist
auriculotherapist
balneotherapist
bibliotherapist
biotherapist
brachytherapist
chemotherapist
chromotherapist
climatotherapist
cognitive behavioral therapist
cognitive behavioural therapist
cotherapist
cryotherapist
cybertherapist
ecotherapist
electrotherapist
e-therapist
gerontotherapist
group therapist
heliotherapist
hydrotherapist
hypnotherapist
immunotherapist
logotherapist
magnetotherapist
massage therapist
massotherapist
mechanotherapist
mesotherapist
multitherapist
musicotherapist
myotherapist
neurotherapist
occupational therapist
paratherapist
pedotherapist
pharmacotherapist
physical therapist
physiotherapist
phytotherapist
pranotherapist
primal therapist
prolotherapist
psychotherapist
radiotherapist
respiratory therapist
roentgenotherapist
sandplay therapist
sclerotherapist
serotherapist
sex therapist
sociotherapist
somatotherapist
speech therapist
teletherapist
thalassotherapist
the-rapist
thermotherapist
urotherapist
vegetotherapist
zootherapist
Translations:
Reaganomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of Reagan + economics, equivalent to Reagan + -nomics.
Base: Reagan
Affixes: -nomics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Many opponents of Reaganomics, in fact, don't contend that the program can't work over the long run. But they argue that the program can not work the way the President promised and that the resulting social cost isn't worth it.
However, until the wheels came off the wagon in 2008, no doubt existed as to the efficacy of Bush's Reaganomics redux in feathering the nests of his wealthy “base.”
Translations:
photocopy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
English copy
English photocopy
From photo- + copy.
Inflected forms:
form: photocopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: photocopies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: photocopying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: photocopied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: photocopied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A copy made using a photocopier.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a copy using a photocopier.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘I don’t need to read it. The relevant passages have been photocopied for me.’
Derived words: photocopylore
Translations:
inspection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French inspeccion, from Latin īnspectiō (“examination, inspection”), from the verb īnspiciō (“to inspect”), from speciō (“to look at”). By surface analysis, inspect + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: inspections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inspexion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of examining something, often closely.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
Trap doors are provided at various places in the floor to facilitate inspection and maintenance of the diesel equipment.
The NHRC conducted onsite inspections of Chienchen and Suao Fishing Harbors and held numerous seminars with industry, government, and academia representatives.
gloss: An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.
Synonyms: examination
scrutiny
Related words: inspect
inspector
Derived words: adspection
Fagan inspection
fire inspection
home inspection
inspectional
inspectioneer
inspectionism
inspectionist
inspection pit
obvious by inspection
postinspection
preinspection
reinspection
superinspection
ticket inspection
vehicle inspection
Translations:
wally
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fool.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: 'Don't be such a wally,' Ruby said. 'Felicity is way smarter than you could ever hope to be.'
gloss: A large pickled gherkin or cucumber.
pos: noun
tags: Essex
London
colloquial
examples: Mushy peas (£1.40) are ... mushy, and wallies (45p) – pickled gherkins to you – come sliced and prettily served in the shape of a flower.
Translations:
unreliable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + reliable.
Base: reliable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unreliable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unreliable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unreliables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not reliable.
pos: adj
examples: Tell one another whether any one of you has ever heard me discuss such questions briefly or at length; and then you will realize that the other popular reports about me are equally unreliable.
The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
"Operating the WCML at this intensity makes it challenging to maintain acceptable performance levels, resulting in a frustratingly unreliable service for passengers. Minor disruption can escalate into significant delays because a train running only a few minutes late can miss its slot across a junction, resulting in a snowballing effect across the network."
gloss: One who or that which cannot be relied upon.
pos: noun
examples: His employment by the leading papers in Chicago was intermittent, as he was classed among the unreliables. One could never tell when he was going to get drunk.
Translations:
austere
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐστηρός (austērós, “bitter, harsh, astringent”), having the specific meaning “making the tongue dry” (originally used of fruits, wines), related to αὔω (aúō, “to singe”), αὖος (aûos, “dry”).
Inflected forms:
form: austerer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more austere
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: austerest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most austere
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
pos: adj
examples: The headmistress was an austere old woman.
Even the austere philosopher Immanuel Kant of Koenigsberg, it is said, whose habits were so regular that the citizens of that town set their watches by him, postponed the hour of his afternoon stroll when he received the news [of the fall of the Bastille], thus convincing Koenigsberg that a world-shaking event had indeed happened.
gloss: Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.
pos: adj
examples: The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.
So we come, at above street level, into the city, and to Canterbury East Station (9.8 miles). It is an austere, rather barn-like structure, with a high roof over the two platforms.
gloss: Adhering to the economic policy of austerity.
pos: adj
examples: Counterintuitively, in an effort to be austere and save money, cities which only remove a crossing every couple of years manage to be way less efficient at it than Melbourne has been.
gloss: Harsh; astringent.
pos: adj
examples: It is like a small plum, nearly globular in shape, black covered with a bluish bloom, and with a very austere taste.
Derived words: austerely
austereness
austerity
unaustere
Translations:
echinacea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scientific Latin Echinacea, from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”, because of the soft "spines" in the centre of the flower) + translingual -acea.
Base: ἐχῖνος
Affixes: -acea
Inflected forms:
form: echinaceas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants, of genus Echinacea, having pinkish-purple flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A herbal medicine extracted from the roots and seeds of such plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
Related words: coneflower
Translations:
germanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English germanium
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English germanic
From germanium + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or containing germanium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Containing germanium with a valence of 4.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: germanic acid
Translations:
kuri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 庫裏.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The kitchen of a Zen monastery.
pos: noun
Translations:
gesundheit
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Gesundheit (literally “health”), from gesund (“healthy”). The adjective is cognate with English sound, from Old English ġesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).
Inflected forms:
form: Gesundheit
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Said to someone who has just sneezed.
pos: intj
tags: Canada
US
examples: Everybody Was at It, and There Was No One to Say Gesundheit
I used to play a game with David and Douggie, Dennis and Drew — stop their sneezes midsniff just by placing my pinkie finger against their nostrils and saying gesundheit before it was time.
gloss: Said in response to a word that sounds onomatopoeically similar to a sneeze.
pos: intj
tags: humorous
examples: Flynn: All right, Blondie.
Rapunzel: Rapunzel!
Flynn: Gesundheit.
gloss: Used as a toast
pos: intj
tags: dated
examples: Gesundheit, grandpa
Synonyms: bless you
Translations:
co-ed
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for the original phrase coeducational referring to an educational institution that taught males and females together.
Inflected forms:
form: more co-ed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most co-ed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: coed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: co-eds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of an educational institution, teaching both males and females.
pos: adj
gloss: Mixing males and females; unisex; mixed-gender.
pos: adj
examples: We played in a co-ed band.
COED NAKED SKIING: Only the bold can BARE the cold!
COED NAKED FIREFIGHTING: Find 'em Hot, Leave 'em Wet!
gloss: A young woman who attends college.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
dated
informal
examples: To many a student the most appealing subject in college is a coed. A coed is usually less interested in what she gets out of college than whom.
I gazed wistfully at the pretty coeds.
gloss: A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
dated
informal
examples: 1959: A coed is exotic with mascara on her eye lashes, demureness in a sweater, and 'the future homemaker' with a can opener.
gloss: A student of either sex at a co-educational institution.
pos: noun
examples: The majority of college coeds are female, but many still have trouble paying for tuition. Scholarships designed specifically for women can be useful in this situation.
Derived words: cohog
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 男女同教的
roman: nán-nǚ tóng jiāo de
lang: Finnish
word: yhteis-
lang: French
word: mixte
lang: Galician
word: mixto
lang: German
word: gemischt
lang: Japanese
word: 共学
roman: kyōgaku
lang: Polish
word: koedukacyjny
lang: Portuguese
word: misto
lang: Spanish
word: mixto
lang: Tamil
word: இருபாலர்
roman: irupālar
beefalo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of beef + buffalo.
Compound parts: beef
buffalo
Inflected forms:
form: beefalo
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beefalos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beefaloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cross between a domestic cow and an American buffalo or bison.
pos: noun
gloss: The meat of such a hybrid.
pos: noun
Translations:
interdict
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
Inflected forms:
form: interdicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interdicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interdicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interdicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interdicted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
pos: noun
gloss: An injunction.
pos: noun
examples: The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.
gloss: To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.
gloss: To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.
gloss: To forbid (someone) from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do not look so alarmed, Madame; every possible precaution has been taken to prevent infection. I have given the strictest orders to interdict any communication between her attendants and those devoted to your service.
gloss: To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.
Related words: interdiction
interdictive
interdictory
interdictively
interdictor
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: zakazywać
lang: Polish
word: zakazać
lang: Spanish
word: interdecir
intermarry
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English marry
English intermarry
From inter- + marry.
Inflected forms:
form: intermarries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intermarrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intermarried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intermarried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.
pos: verb
examples: Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.
The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
gloss: To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.
pos: verb
examples: Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993).
Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.
Related words: intermarriage
intermarried
intermate
Derived words: intermarrier
Translations:
grayling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English greylyng, equivalent to gray + -ling.
Base: gray
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: grayling
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graylings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.
pos: noun
examples: “This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
gloss: Other similar fish
pos: noun
gloss: Other similar fish
pos: noun
gloss: Other similar fish
pos: noun
gloss: Other similar fish
pos: noun
gloss: Any of species Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae of butterflies.
pos: noun
gloss: Other butterflies of genus Hipparchia.
pos: noun
gloss: Some butterflies of the genus Oeneis.
pos: noun
gloss: A common wood-nymph, a nymphalid butterfly (Cercyonis pegala).
pos: noun
Derived words: rock grayling
Translations:
sam
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sam- (prefix), from Old English sam-, from Proto-Germanic *sēmi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi- (“half”). Related to semi- (via Latin).
Inflected forms:
form: sams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Half or imperfectly done.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
not-comparable
gloss: Half-heated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Federal narcotics agent.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: sammy
sandblind
Translations:
bison
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”).
The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.
Inflected forms:
form: bison
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bisons
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
form: bisontes
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.
pos: noun
Translations:
intermediary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French intermédiaire, adjusted to simulate a borrowing from Medieval Latin *intermediārius.
Inflected forms:
form: intermediaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That intermediates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
pos: noun
examples: A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world […]
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.
gloss: A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain, etc.)
pos: noun
examples: The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler
gloss: One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
pos: noun
Translations:
mediator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mediatour, mediatoure, mediatur, medyatour, from Middle French mediateur, mediatur or its etymon Latin mediātor (“one who mediates”), from mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: mediators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mediatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.
pos: noun
gloss: A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell.
pos: noun
Synonyms: negotiator
Related words: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediatorial
mediatorian
mediatorship
mediatrix
medium
Derived words: biomediator
comediator
immunomediator
mediatorless
nonmediator
undermediator
vasomediator
Translations:
urania
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: uranias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several impure mixtures of uranium oxides.
pos: noun
gloss: Any moth of genus Urania.
pos: noun
Translations:
wishlist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wish + list.
Compound parts: wish
list
Inflected forms:
form: wishlists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wishlisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wishlisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wishlisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To include on a wishlist.
pos: verb
examples: The books table will hold the core information about each book, and the library table will hold each user’s information about that book—namely, whether it’s been read or wishlisted.
The titles featured saw staggering numbers of people checking out their store pages and wishlisting the games (this is key, as on launch day, an email is sent to remind players to pick up the game).
These discount promotions are driven by Google’s algorithm and can include: […] • Targeted in-app notifications and emails to customers that have wishlisted or sampled that title.
Translations:
andrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr
Proto-Hellenic *anḗr
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νδρός (ăndrós)der.
English andro-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English andrology
From andro- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine concerned with male diseases, especially those affecting the male reproductive system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
koine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”). Doublet of koinon.
Inflected forms:
form: koines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: koinai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: koiné
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A linguistic variety that has developed in supraregional contact between speakers of various interrelated dialects, typically in such a way that features shared by several dialects prevail and those of limited distribution are avoided.
pos: noun
examples: If a dominant language was spoken in the area of such trade routes, then this dominant language became the ‘interlanguage’, as it is called. Such an interlanguage, or koiné, is a simplified dialect with which speakers of two or more quite different dialects communicate with one another.
Now, another term for that product is koine, which, however, I have regularly […] employed in reference to the infrastructure (procedural, juridical, formal, cultural) that enables and informs composition of a lingua franca. […] In linguistic scholarship koine mostly (!) refers to a standard language expanded by input from several dialectal sources with concomitant levelling of morphological and syntactic differences and adoption of a general and possibly restricted lexicon.
gloss: A lingua franca.
pos: noun
examples: Darī (q.v.) is a term long recommended by Afghan authorities to designate Afghan Persian in contrast to Iranian Persian; a written language common to all educated Afghanis, Darī must not be confused with Kābolī, the dialect of Kabul and surrounding areas that is more or less understood by eighty percent of the non-Persian speaking population and is fast becoming the nation’s koine.
Related words: Koine
Derived words: koineisation
koinëisation
Translations:
exasperated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exasperated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exasperated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one's patience greatly taxed; greatly annoyed; made furious.
pos: adj
examples: look exasperated
sound exasperated
increasingly exasperated
She grew exasperated by his constant interruptions.
gloss: Made worse or more intense.
pos: adj
Derived words: exasperatedly
unexasperated
Translations:
genoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: genoas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast.
pos: noun
examples: The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.
Translations:
bologna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Italian city of Bologna.
Inflected forms:
form: bolognas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boloney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: baloney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
anthologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anthology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English anthologist
From anthology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: anthologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who anthologizes
pos: noun
Translations: