yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
straightforwardness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English straightforward
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English straightforwardness
From straightforward + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being straightforward.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chiropractic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From chiro- (“hand”) + practic; from Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρακτικός (praktikós, “concerned with action”).
Base: practic
Affixes: chiro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A system of health care involving manipulation of the spinal column and other body structures, for the purpose of alleviating neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Relating to chiropractics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wetter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wet
English -er
English wetter
From wet + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wetters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wetting agent or surfactant.
pos: noun
gloss: A bedwetter.
pos: noun
gloss: A knife used to commit wettings (stabbings).
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: Anywhere, anytime, I'll get him, if he's in love; I'll corn his wedding
He backed his wetter, I backed my wetter but who really held that wetting?
Derived words: bedwetter
heavy wetter
Translations:
whitelisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Explicitly and specifically approved by appearing on a whitelist, and therefore having greater access or preference.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: He may never be entirely successful, but the difference in being "blacklisted," "greylisted," "bluelisted" or "whitelisted" is considerable.
[…] to accelerate the flag’s attempts to become ‘whitelisted’ at IMO […]
[…] is the only client-side antispam tool that quarantines any incoming mail that doesn't come from a whitelisted sender.
This means that many spam senders will never become whitelisted and email will never be accepted from them.
One way is to create whitelist email addresses, a special email address that can be given to senders who are not yet whitelisted.
Hotmail utilises this scheme and is the only method of becoming whitelisted with Hotmail.
Otherwise, traffic going to another domain is blocked. the extension allows a way to add whitelisted sites, such that traffic from x.com is allowed to retrieve content from y.com.
Translations:
blacklisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being on a blacklist, or having been shunned and rejected due to information (true or false) being spread about scandalous activities or ideas, especially controversial political opinions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kicking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kickin'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kickin'
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: a kicking pair of jeans
a kicking party
gloss: Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking).
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: still kicking at 89 years old
gloss: Actively ongoing and enjoyable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: The action of the verb to kick.
pos: noun
examples: In boxing, kicking one's opponent is not allowed.
gloss: A violent assault involving repeated kicks.
pos: noun
examples: The bullies pushed the boy over and gave him a kicking.
gloss: A great loss or defeat; licking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.
gloss: A performance art that is a mix of dance footwork, acrobatic maneuver, and martial arts kicks, drawn from a variety of disciplines. Used in stage dance choreography and staged fight choreography.
pos: noun
Synonyms: peng
top-notch
living
vital
Derived words: alive and kicking
butt-kicking
goalkicking
kickingly
can-kicking
Translations:
celebrating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: celebratings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: celebration
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes, at business meetings, bazaars, banquets, decoratings, celebratings, and what not, our animosities like wild tigers escape and create havoc in the flock.
Translations:
curled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more curled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most curled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: curly
pos: adj
examples: curled hair
curled toenails
Translations:
swaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that sways.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An injury caused to a horse's back by violent strains or overloading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Swaying of the Back, is a Pain and Weakness in the Reins, caused by a Fall
Translations:
submerged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: underwater
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: submarine (sometimes synonymous)
Janet was completely submerged when she was snorkeling.
gloss: below the surface of a liquid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: hidden
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: poor, impoverished
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonsubmerged
semisubmerged
submergedness
submerged tenth
unidentified submerged object
unsubmerged
Translations:
socially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English socially
From social + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more socially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most socially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a social manner; sociably.
pos: adv
examples: “Do you like vampires?” she asked.
“Well, I don’t know any socially.”
gloss: In social contexts.
pos: adv
examples: socially awkward
Derived words: socially distance
socially distant
socially fluent
socially-isolated
socially mobile
socially necessary labour time
Translations:
sociably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sociable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sociably
From sociable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sociably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sociably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sociable manner; with free intercourse; conversibly; familiarly; as a companion.
pos: adv
gloss: According to society or societal norms.
pos: adv
examples: In later years, marks, commendation cards, and paychecks become important incentives for accomplishments, while the range of socially acceptable behavior widens and the number of secondary drives multiplies.
gloss: For social purposes, in a social situation
pos: adv
examples: If it were not for his work, everywhere he went socially, everywhere he mixed with others, would cause his past life to rear its ugly head.
Mamma—poor dear Mamma is so unadvanced, you know!—has an idea that when the Superman does get here he won't be at all the sort of person that one would care to receive socially.
Translations:
stockings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: pantyhose
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Philippines
plural
plural-only
Translations:
stimulating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stimulating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stimulating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a manner that stimulates; serving to stimulate.
pos: adj
examples: Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar. Compounded together, these ingredient form a stimulating electuary.
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
Translations:
stunning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.
Base: stun
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more stunning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stunning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stunnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having an effect that stuns.
pos: adj
examples: The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
At length a univerſal hubbub wild,
Of ſtunning ſounds and voices all confus'd,
Borne through the hollow dark, aſſaults his ear
The ſtunning ſtroke his ſtubborn nerves unbound;
[W]e put off our burdens, and sat down rather dispirited, amidst a stunning noise made by the chirping of myriads of grasshoppers, and an abominable little creature that made a constant croaking "Caw, caw," producing a concert far from harmonious.
gloss: Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: That woman is stunning!
What if the very things you like in me now—you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?
The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.
gloss: Amazing; wonderfully good.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The film was stunning.
So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.
gloss: The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned.
pos: noun
examples: He wished he had tens of thousands more troops under Andez's control so he could round up every one of these demonstrators. But it was futile to continue cracking down. The stunnings, beatings and arrests had only inflamed them further.
Derived words: stunning and brave
stunningly
stunningness
Translations:
coquettish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coquett(e)
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English coquettish
From coquett(e) + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more coquettish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coquettish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, being, or characteristic of a young, flirtatious girl.
pos: adj
examples: 'Is there that about me that should affright a man? Then surely are men changed from what they used to be!' And with a little coquettish movement she turned herself, and held up one arm, so as to show all her loveliness and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes, almost to her sandalled feet.
When Prince Andrew arrived at the house that evening, Maxwell was more coquettish than usual.
Antonyms: uncoquettish
Translations:
movable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French movable
English movable
From Old French movable. By surface analysis, move + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more movable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most movable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moveable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: movables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moveable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The owners had supplied the vessel with a movable derrick for the purpose of raising the gangways of the vessel when in port, in order to discharge cargo.
gloss: Changing from one time to another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: This feast is movable - its date varies from year to year.
gloss: Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ambulatory
animate
kinetic
mobile
motile
motive
movable
vagile
Antonyms: immobile
Derived words: movable alphabet
movable bridge
movable feast
movable letter
movableness
movable nu
movable property
movable type
movably
unmovable
Translations:
immovable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English immevable
English immovable
From Middle English immevable, immoveable. Equivalent to im- + movable.
Base: movable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more immovable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immovable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immoveable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: immovables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: immoveable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being physically moved: fixed.
pos: adj
gloss: Steadfast in purpose or intention: unalterable, unyielding.
pos: adj
examples: I pleaded with him not to resign, but he was immovable.
gloss: Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling: impassive.
pos: adj
examples: How much happier is he […]who ent'ring on himself remains immovable, and smiles at the madness of the Dance
gloss: Not liable to be removed: permanent in place or tenure, fixed.
pos: adj
examples: an immovable estate
gloss: Something immovable.
pos: noun
gloss: Something immovable.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Related words: immobility
unmovability
unmovable
unmoveability
unmoveable
Derived words: immovableness
immovable property
immovably
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: недвижимост
roman: nedvižimost
lang: French
word: immeuble
lang: Macedonian
word: недви́жнина
roman: nedvížnina
lang: Macedonian
word: не́движност
roman: nédvižnost
lang: Romanian
word: bunuri imobiliare
lang: Romanian
word: imobil
lang: Russian
word: недви́жимость
roman: nedvížimostʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: нерухомість
roman: neruxomistʹ
unchangeable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English unchaungeable; equivalent to un- + changeable.
Base: changeable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unchangeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unchangeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unchangeables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not changeable; incapable of being changed or of changing; immutable.
pos: adj
examples: Less than 15 minutes in, he noted that he had signed an executive order declaring that the federal government will only recognize two unchangeable sexes, male and female, and another order banning trans women from participating in women’s sports.
Psychologists call this the entity theory of intelligence, which is simply the belief that ability is innate and unchangeable.
gloss: Something that cannot be changed.
pos: noun
Translations:
chalky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx)bor.?
substratebor.?
Latin calxbor.
Proto-West Germanic *kalk
Old English ċealc
Middle English chalk
English chalk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English chalky
From chalk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chalkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chalkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of or containing chalk.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling chalk in some way.
pos: adj
examples: a chalky texture
Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
The dim, chalky lighting and unsteady camera movements.
gloss: Of a tournament: in which the favorites win, or expected to win, most of the games.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: It’s funny — even though the bracket has been so chalky, several of the top seeds have looked suspect at times.
Related words: chalkiness
Derived words: chalkily
chalkiness
chalky paper
chalky percher
nonchalky
Translations:
deferral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From defer + -al, with ‘r’ doubled to clarify pronunciation.
Base: defer
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: deferrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of deferring, a deferment.
pos: noun
gloss: A prepayment.
pos: noun
Derived words: antideferral
nondeferral
Translations:
banking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
finance
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: bankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The business of managing a bank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The occupation of managing or working in a bank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
gloss: Investment banking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She became an analyst in banking after graduation, choosing that career path over sales and trading.
gloss: A horizontal turn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mechanical component to prevent vibration in a timepiece, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]
gloss: The practice of assisting a train up a steep incline (called a bank) with another locomotive at the rear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.
Synonyms: bankerage
Derived words: antibanking
banking engine
banking game
banking house
banking pin
biobanking
commercial banking
cyberbanking
e-banking
food banking
fractional reserve banking
home banking
i-banking
Internet banking
investment banking
landbanking
narrow banking
neobanking
nonbanking
online banking
open banking
phone banking
private banking
retail banking
seed banking
shadow banking
shadow banking system
telebanking
time banking
time-banking
universal banking
wildcat banking
Translations:
flavoprotein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flavo-
English protein
English flavoprotein
From flavo- + protein.
Inflected forms:
form: flavoproteins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases
pos: noun
Translations:
mentality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mental + -ity. Doublet of mentalité.
Base: mental
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: mentalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mindset; a way of thinking; a set of beliefs.
pos: noun
examples: Before he can succeed, he will have to shed the mentality that he can get by without hard work.
[…]with a mentality anchored in a profoundly influential and persistent hostility to central features of the Enlightment faith in the theoretical and practical autonomy of the human subject.
gloss: The characteristics of a mind described as a system of distinctive structures and processes based in biology, language, or culture, etc.; a mental system.
pos: noun
examples: 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted in Kuijsten, 2016, page 129.
[…] the new mentality [of Romantic poetry]...is a mentality of self-authorization.
Our mentality — whether bicameral or conscious — is thus more a function of social context, language, and forms of communication than a hard-wired neurologically-based system.
Derived words: crab mentality
drawbridge mentality
elbow mentality
herd mentality
mob mentality
pack mentality
plantation mentality
siege mentality
trench mentality
victim mentality
winning mentality
Translations:
mindset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mind
English set
English mindset
From mind + set.
Inflected forms:
form: mindsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mind set
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mind-set
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A way of thinking; an attitude or opinion, especially a habitual one.
pos: noun
examples: Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset.
You've got to use your weekend / Go nuts if you can / 'Cause you're back out until Monday, back out until Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday / It's the English mindset
These behaviors and mindsets contrast with mindful eating, which means using all your physical and emotional senses to experience and enjoy the food choices you make without judgment, said Lilian Cheung, a lecturer and director of health promotion and communication in the nutrition department at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, via email. […] Once you have been mindfully eating for a while, the mindset can apply to other areas of your life.
Some 46% of those polled agreed that the office environment puts them in a better mindset for work, with this figure rising to 55% of 18-34-year-olds.
Translations:
off-color
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more off-color
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most off-color
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: off-colour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the wrong color.
pos: adj
examples: Careful control of mixing at the central point reduces the possibility of off-color paint in some booths, and uniform pressure at the spray guns is easily maintained.
Because of his reputable work with off-color and contaminated materials, I have asked Dr. Otto Speck of Colorama Consultants to give us some direction.
After some amount of time elapses, the transition phase from color A to color B will yield off-color product until the color change for color B is fully established in the system.
gloss: Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: He told an off-color joke.
[T]he equating of the female genitalia with a wound caused by an axe is a very off-colour metaphor.
He seems to have crawled off the earth after his Texas itinerary, in company with the alleged ex-nun whom he was carting around the country to pander to the prurient appetites of off-color dames by relating naughty tales of desiring nuns and accommodating priests.
Overly risqué jokes and foul language are invitations to being charged with sexual abuse. I must admit to enjoying humor a great deal, and I am guilty of sharing all kinds of stories, some of which are slightly off-color, but far from lewd.
gloss: Different from usual.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Since Zappa treats subject matter, dialogue, and song as musical material, Permanent Damage has a casual off-color quality. Permanent Damage and An Evening with Wild Man Fischer were works of oddball sociology as much as they were rock and roll records.
Even the roadside sights seemed a little off-color and was just beginning to lose some of its summer luster.
There was something funny about his eyes . . . something off-color and old . . . but he pulled the shades back down before I could get a good look.
gloss: Feeling mildly unwell.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: I feel a bit off-color today.
Nihal Sheshan, one of our officers, tells me our chief has been a little off-color of late. Kind of disoriented sometimes.
One evening she was feeling off-color with a virus and was settled comfortably in the sitting-room.
Translations:
head-in-the-sand
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attributive form of head in the sand.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting disregard for, or denial of, a problem or threat.
pos: adj
examples: The head-in-the-sand approach to economic problems frequently bankrupts companies.
Translations:
tripos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of tripus, as though with a Greek ending. For the examination: the word is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honours, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper.
The etymon of tripus is the Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous, “triple-footed”), (from τρι- (tri-, “three”) and πούς (poús, “foot”)).
Inflected forms:
form: triposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A three-legged structure; a tripod.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Thales sent the golden tripos, which the fishermen found and the oracle commanded to be “given to the wisest”, to Bias, Bias to Solon, etc.
Scarce had I said, He shook the holy Ground: / The Lawrels, and the lofty Hills around: / And from the Tripos rush'd a bellowing sound.
gloss: Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree.
pos: noun
examples: I'm seriously thinking of chucking my tripos and taking up the History Special.
It's time you thought. The Tripos is the beginning of life, not the end. In less than two years you will have got your B.A. What are you going to do with it?
gloss: The list of successful candidates in such an examination.
pos: noun
Translations:
crosshatch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English hatch
English crosshatch
From cross- + hatch.
Inflected forms:
form: crosshatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-hatch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crosshatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crosshatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crosshatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crosshatched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cross-hatch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pattern of crossing lines.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark or fill with a crosshatch pattern.
pos: verb
examples: The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains.
Translations:
quinella
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela (“sporting bet or pool”); US from 1942.
Inflected forms:
form: quinellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quiniela
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quinellas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quinellaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quinellaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quinellaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quiniela
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of bet in which the bettor predicts the first two finishers in a race, without concern for the order of finishing.
pos: noun
examples: 1954, Michigan Department of State Compilation Commission, 1954 Michigan Administrative Code, page 38,
All tickets on the quinella will be calculated in an entirely separate pool.
A few tracks offer exactas and quinallas on the same races.
The track quinella paid $38.00 for a $2 wager, the track exacta paid $70.60 for a $2 wager.
gloss: To have two team members, horses, etc., finish first and second in the same event.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: Smith provided the winner of twenty-one Mares Produce Stakes and quinellaed the event nine times.
Gai quinellaed the Doncaster in 1997 with Secret Savings and All Our Mob.
Not only did he win his first Cup with the 30/1 chance Tawriffic, but in the finest Cummings′ tradition he quinellaed the race with Super Impose.
Translations:
clearness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English clernesse; equivalent to clear + -ness.
Base: clear
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: clearnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Brightness, brilliancy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: Thenne sayd he Fair swete fader Ihesu Cryst yf euer I dyd thyng that pleasyd the lord / for thy pyte ne haue me not in despyte for my synnes done afore tyme / and that thou shewe me some thynge of that I seke / And with that he sawe the chamber dore open and there came oute a grete clerenes / that the hows was as bryghte as all torches of the world had ben there
gloss: Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.
gloss: The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.
gloss: The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.
Derived words: clearness committee
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: klareco
lang: French
word: clarté
lang: German
word: Klarheit
lang: Greek
word: διαύγεια
roman: diávgeia
lang: Greek
word: καθαρότητα
roman: katharótita
lang: Irish
word: glaine
lang: Irish
word: trédhearcacht
lang: Irish
word: gile
lang: Latin
word: claritudo
lang: Latvian
word: skaidrība
lang: Latvian
word: skaidrums
lang: Latvian
word: dzidrums
lang: Polish
word: jasność
lang: Romanian
word: claritate
lang: Romanian
word: limpeziciune
lang: Spanish
word: claridad
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: شفافلق
roman: şeffaflık
komi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese こみ (komi).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bonus points given to the white player to compensate for the fact that black plays first.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
craftily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English craftyly, craftily, craftiliche, from Old English cræftiġlīċe (“craftily, skillfully”), equivalent to crafty + -ly.
Base: crafty
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more craftily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most craftily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crafty manner; slyly.
pos: adv
examples: [H]e [Thomas Arundell] by his euill counſaile and prodigious ſuggeſtions, craftilye circumuented the king, inducyng him to graunt his letters of pardon to a great traytour the Erle of Arondell his brother [Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel].
But the most bizarre twist of events was yet to come. That afternoon, Labour tabled a craftily worded motion. It would have guaranteed parliamentary time for a bill to ban fracking.
Translations:
above-named
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: abovenamed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Jewish fires were the heaviest blows we had had; for though the Waddingley Cotton-mills had been burnt in 1822, at a loss to the Company of 80,000£, and though the Patent Erostratus Match Manufactory had exploded in the same year at a charge of 14,000£, there were those who said that the loss had not been near so heavy as was supposed -- nay, that the Company had burnt the above-named establishments as advertisements for themselves.
Translations:
kleenex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the name of brand of tissues trademarked by Cellucotton Products Company (now Kimberly-Clark) in 1924–25. Alteration of clean + -ex.
Base: clean
Affixes: -ex
Inflected forms:
form: kleenexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kleenices
pos: noun
tags: humorous
plural
form: Kleenex
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A disposable tissue.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Could you hand me a kleenex? My nose is running.
Translations:
commoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English comoner, comyner, cumuner, equivalent to common + -er.
Base: common
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: commoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is not of noble rank.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: All below them [the peers], even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.
It was revealed on Friday that Mountbatten Windsor is in line to receive a large one-off payment and an annual stipend designed to prevent him overspending in his new life as a commoner after a back-and-forth about where he would go after leaving Royal Lodge.
gloss: A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.
gloss: Someone who has a right over another's land. They hold common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land. eg: centuries-old grazing rights
pos: noun
examples: Much good land might be gained from forests […] and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.
gloss: One sharing with another in anything.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: From the Counsell he was carried home to the Prison, and there for many days kept with bread and water, so that had the proudest Anchorite, pretending to the highest abstinence, been Commoner with him, it would have tried his swiftest Devotion to keepe pace with him.
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: O behold this ring / Whose high respect and rich validity / Did lack a parallel; yet for all that / He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp, / If I be one.
gloss: a rankless or average player in Tycoon; not the tycoon, rich, poor, or beggar.
pos: noun
Synonyms: commoner
meanling
peasant
peon
pleb
plebeian
prole
proletary
roturier
vulgar
Antonyms: nobleman
Related words: pauper
rural dweller
mundane
Derived words: commonership
fellow-commoner
gentleman-commoner
Translations:
henchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hangistaz
Proto-West Germanic *hangist
Old English henġest
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English *henġestmann
Middle English henxman
English henchman
Inherited from Middle English henxman (“page, attendant”), from Old English *henġestmann, *hengstmann (“groom”, literally “horseman”), from henġest (“stallion, horse, steed, gelding”) + mann (“man”). Akin to archaic German Hengstmann (“groom”) and Icelandic hestamaður (“horseman, groom”).
Base: henġest
Inflected forms:
form: henchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loyal and trusted follower or subordinate.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who supports a political figure chiefly out of selfish interests.
pos: noun
examples: The glib sophistries of the special pleader and the verdant gullibility of the public; the ridiculous, now happily fast disappearing partisan bias of the voter and the venal instincts of the political henchman; the lack of proper moral stamina in much of our public press, and the tardiness of practical public appreciation where journals are true to the people's interests the fear of the vengeance;
It is madness to commence war against the audacious despots under any leader like Lafayette, the traitor and venal henchman of despotism, against whom the cries of the patriots murdered on July 17 call to Heaven.
the great task confronting humankind today in effecting government that is worth its powder and shot is not regularity of attendance at the polls so much as in the intelligent analysis of the true leader from the henchman seeking selfish profit from the filling of an office.
In appreciation for his service of railroading Frank, the power-brokering Watson sent his venal henchman Dorsey to the U.S. Congress for two terms .
The practice of doubling in this production further emphasizes the ascendancy of corporeal decay and violence in the tetralogy, for, in addition to Cade, Oliver Cotton also appears as the seductive cuckold-maker Suffolk and, in the final of the three installments of The Plantagenets, as Richard of Gloucester's venal and Machiavellian henchman, the Duke of Buckingham .
The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely fought. But in the end, it’s always JD Vance, isn’t it?
gloss: An assistant member of a criminal gang.
pos: noun
examples: Johnny Genaro, chief of staff to Al Capone, was “put on the spot” in a crowded street in Chicago on Saturday night.
Most of the carpet joints were run by the mobsters and local henchmen associated with the Mayfield Road Gang, but Peter Schmidt's Playtorium and Glenn Rendezvous were also included.
gloss: A page to a prince or other person of high rank.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Henchmen had placed, as was their habit, each warrior's gear and trappings above his pile of skins.
Derived words: hench
henchboy
henchmanship
Translations:
hoovered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hoovered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hoovered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been cleaned with a vacuum cleaner; vacuum-cleaned.
pos: adj
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: 'What!' he roared, 'Listen man I'm hoovered,' and as he looked away he snapped, 'You have had too much to drink, Silent Face - all the people in here look the same to me. Here give me that bottle.'
Translations:
pinus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name. Doublet of pine.
Inflected forms:
form: pinuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
pos: noun
examples: I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.
As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.
Translations:
feverishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feverish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English feverishly
From feverish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more feverishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most feverishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With excitement and determination.
pos: adv
examples: The US believes Israel has significantly weakened Hezbollah in strikes over the last week but is still working feverishly behind the scenes to try to convince it not to escalate further and launch a ground incursion into Lebanon over concerns the intensified fighting could spark a broader conflict engulfing the wider Middle East, officials told CNN.
gloss: With great energy.
pos: adv
gloss: With speed; rapidly.
pos: adv
examples: In the outer room the two women knitted black wool feverishly.
All the way to Styles, Mary talked fast and feverishly. It struck me that in some way she was nervous of Poirot’s eyes.
With nothing else to do, he carried the candle to the front room and began feverishly filling his pipe.
Related words: feverish
feverishness
Translations:
freakish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freak
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English freakish
From freak + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more freakish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freakish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a freak.
pos: adj
gloss: Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
pos: adj
examples: It was a realy freakish accident that claimed many lives.
In all this series there is an almost freakish tendency toward the development of characters usually regarded as generic, as a result of which most of the genera have only one known species each.
This was arguably a more emphatic win than that Old Trafford thrashing, without the freakish element and simply the result of City's vast superiority in all areas.
gloss: Capricious, unpredictable.
pos: adj
examples: What freakish weather we are having lately in these parts.
Related words: freaky
Derived words: freakishly
freakishness
unfreakish
Translations:
heckling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hecklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who heckles.
pos: noun
examples: Speeches during parliamentary debates, however, belong to linguistic action patterns in which interruptions and hecklings (Burkhardt 2004) are generally conventionalised and accepted as facultative reactions […]
gloss: The preparation of flax for spinning using special combs called hackles.
pos: noun
Translations:
stepdad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-
Proto-Germanic *steupa-
Proto-West Germanic *steupa-
Old English stēop-
Middle English step-
English step-
English dad
English stepdad
From step- + dad.
Inflected forms:
form: stepdads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step-dad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stepfather.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
enforcer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
rugby
skating
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enforce
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English enforcer
From enforce + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: enforcers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who enforces.
pos: noun
gloss: A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld.
pos: noun
examples: At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]
gloss: The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
pos: noun
gloss: A battering ram used by the emergency services for gaining access to locked premises.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A player who physically intimidates or confronts the opposition.
pos: noun
Derived words: law-enforcer
Translations:
logline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
nautical
publishing
television
transport
writing
Etymology: First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.
Compound parts: log
line
Inflected forms:
form: loglines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: logge-line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: log lyne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: logg line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: logg-line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loggline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: log line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: log-line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very short summary of a script or screenplay.
pos: noun
examples: Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]
The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.
gloss: The line fastened to the log, and marked for finding the speed of a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the ingenious Pilot knowing the elevation of the Pole in some places of his voyage that he hath passed, by keeping a true, not a dead reckoning of his course in pricking his Card aright, and observing the way with the logge-line, with other currants, will give a very artificiall conjecture of the elevation of the pole in that place where he is, though he sec neither Sunne nor Starres.
Bring the ship to rights, that is, againe under saile as she was, some use a Log line, and a minute glasse to know what way shee makes, but that is so uncertaine, it is not worth the la­bour to trie it.
The 120th part of that Mile is 41⅔ feet, and so much is the space betweene the Knots upon the Log-line: So many Knots as the ship runs in half a minute, so many Miles she sayleth in an hour; or so many Leagues, and so many Miles she runneth in a Watch or four hours, called A Watch, because one half of the Ships Company watcheth by turns, and changes every four hours.
Related words: heave the log
plotline
Translations:
calico
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ)bor.
Portuguese Calicutbor.
English Calicut
English calico
From Calicut, from where the cloth was originally exported, from Malayalam കോഴിക്കോട് (kōḻikkōṭŭ, “Kozhikode”), from കോഴി (kōḻi, “palace”) + കോട് (kōṭŭ, “fortified palace”).
Base: കോഴി
Inflected forms:
form: callico
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The calico cat had distinctive red and dark markings.
The calico-patterned tablecloths were supposed to make the restaurant look rustic; instead, they made it look run down.
Sara, oh Sara / Scorpio Sphinx in a calico dress
gloss: Made of calico or resembling the color of calico cloth, having a pattern of red and contrasting areas; variegated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: басмен
roman: basmen
lang: Bulgarian
word: пъстър
roman: pǎstǎr
lang: Bulgarian
word: шарен
roman: šaren
lang: Polish
word: szylkretowy