yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
scrutinise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrutiny
English -ise
English scrutinise
From scrutiny + -ise.
Inflected forms:
form: scrutinises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrutinising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrutinised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrutinised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrutinize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To examine something with great care.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade.
Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account.
gloss: To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
Translations:
dejection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”). By surface analysis, deject + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: dejections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Adoration implies submission and dejection, so that while we worship we cast down ourselves; there must be therefore some great eminence in the object worshipped, or else we should dishonor our own nature in the worship of it.
gloss: A low condition; weakness; inability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meat remaining in the stomach undigested, dejection of appetite, wind coming upwards, are signs of a phlegmatick constitution.
gloss: Defecation or feces.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.
His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.
Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections, high fever and rapid prostration.
Translations:
prisoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English prisoner, from Old French prisonier (compare Medieval Latin prisōnārius), equivalent to prison + -er.
Base: prison
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: prisoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
pos: noun
examples: Two other prisoners were staying in the same cell as him.
The evidence disclosed that the three prisoners were in a public-house together with the prosecutor, Abraham Rhodes, and that in concert with the other two prisoners, the prisoner John Dewhirst placed a pencase on the table in the room where they were assembled, and left the room to get writing-paper.
American journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan were among the 24 detainees released as part of a complex prisoner swap between Russia, the US and other Western nations. […] Krasikov, a former high-ranking FSB colonel serving a life sentence in a German prison, was on the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange.
gloss: Any person held against their will.
pos: noun
examples: And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords / And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, / Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue / For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
gloss: A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
pos: noun
examples: I am no longer a prisoner to fear, for I am a child of God.
I'm a prisoner of your love.
You're not a hit and run driver, no no, racing away. You just picked up a hitcher, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway
Synonyms: inmate
prisoner
guest of Her Majesty
Related words: imprison
prison
Derived words: coprisoner
ghost prisoner
non-prisoner
political prisoner
prisoner at large
prisoner exchange
prisonerlike
prisoner of conscience
prisoner of hope
prisoner of war
prisoner-of-war camp
prisoner swap
prisoner visa
Spanish prisoner
star prisoner
Translations:
Wolof
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wolof Wolof.
Inflected forms:
form: Wolofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wolof
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wollof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Woloff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jolof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Jollof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Djolof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ouolof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Olof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Volof
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An individual member of the Wolof people.
pos: noun
Translations:
capable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capable, from Late Latin capābilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more capable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
pos: adj
examples: She is capable and efficient.
He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
That fact is not capable of proof.
They are neither capable of forming to themſelves a Rule, nor of diſcovering a Law-giver, nor of having the Rule enforc’d on them by the Proſpect of future Good or Ill.
The attainment of the skills of elementary reading occurred some time ago for almost all who read this book. Nevertheless, we continue to experience the problems of this level of reading, no matter how capable we may be as readers.
gloss: Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The place chosen was the cathedral church, capable of about 400 persons.
[...] deſignation only to thoſe things, which have parts, and are capable of increaſe or diminution [...]
Again, I farther obſerve, that as man is a compound being, ſo this renders him capable of ſeveral diſtinct kinds of pleaſure [...]
He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.
Synonyms: capable
Antonyms: incapable
Related words: healthy
skillful
Derived words: capability
capableness
capably
dual-capable aircraft
handicapable
noncapable
overcapable
supercapable
ultracapable
uncapable
Translations:
scholar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Doublet of schooler, Schuyler, and escolar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.
Base: school
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
form: scholars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
pos: noun
gloss: A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
pos: noun
gloss: A learned person; a bookman.
pos: noun
examples: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
gloss: Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
Related words: scholiast
savant
scholarch
humanities scholar
Derived words: Chinese scholar tree
choral scholar
day-scholar
gentleman and scholar
independent scholar
King's Scholar
nonscholar
organ scholar
Oxford scholar
Queen's Scholar
scholar and gentleman
scholaress
Scholar Green
scholarism
scholarless
scholarlike
scholarly
scholar's gown
scholarship
scholar's mate
visiting scholar
Translations:
folklore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung (“popular tradition”). Compare also Old English folclar (“popular instruction; homily”) and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).
Compound parts: folk
lore
Inflected forms:
form: folklores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: folk-lore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The tales, legends, superstitions, and traditions of a particular ethnic population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece.
“Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”
Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-GRYF—the horror place of the folklore of her race.
gloss: The tales, superstitions etc. of any particular group or community.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore.
Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.
gloss: The collective of proofs or techniques which are widely known among mathematicians, but have never been formally published.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Related words: folk
lore
myth
oral tradition
intangible cultural heritage
Derived words: computerlore
fakelore
folkloric
folklorish
folklorism
folklorist
folkloristic
folkloristically
folkloristics
nonfolklore
non-folklore
pseudofolklore
Translations:
superstition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French superstition, from Latin superstitio (“superstition”), from superstāre (“to stand above, to stand upon, to survive”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming nouns”), from super- (“above, over, upon”) + stāre (“to stand”).
Inflected forms:
form: superstitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belief considered to be irrational, unfounded, or based solely on fear and ignorance, particularly credulous reverence towards and belief in supernatural forces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: What children we are in trifles! what slight things exercise an influence over us! to how much that our reason would be ashamed to acknowledge! nevertheless does it submit. Our whole nature must change; we must be less susceptible, less dependent on "blind accident," before we can shake off hopes and fears, which are almost superstitions.
The world is not merely the sum of all its atoms... There are no atoms in themselves. Atoms regarded as things in themselves are a scientific superstition.
gloss: Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: superstitious
Derived words: sub-superstition
superstitionist
superstitionless
Superstition Mountains
Translations:
athletic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.
Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor.
Latin āthlēticuslbor.
Middle French athletiquebor.
English athletic
Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete.
The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).
Base: athlete
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more athletic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most athletic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: athletick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: athletics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: athletick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with athletes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?
gloss: Physically active.
pos: adj
examples: Since you're such an athletic person, you may wish to consider joining.
An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.
gloss: Having a muscular, well developed body, being in shape.
pos: adj
examples: You have such an athletic build—you must work out regularly.
gloss: An attribute of a motion or play which requires fine physical ability.
pos: adj
examples: The center fielder made an athletic play to snatch the ball from over the fence.
gloss: Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.
pos: adj
examples: An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks.
Mario levels are usually indicated to belong to one of five types (overworld, underground, athletic, castle, underwater)². The type determines the aesthetic style of the level, but also affects the challenges that are posed. For example, athletic levels usually contain platforms that are spaced far apart, as well as moving platforms. They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.
gloss: A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
pos: noun
Related words: athlete
Derived words: antiathletic
athleisure
athletically
athletic heart syndrome
athleticism
athleticize
athleticness
athletic protector
athletics
athletic shoe
athletic supporter
athletic tape
athleticwear
cyberathletic
hyperathletic
mathletic
nonathletic
philathletic
pseudoathletic
unathletic
Translations:
mutant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: mutants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
pos: noun
examples: Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view.
There does seem to have been some mutation among plants[…]but in animal life where are the mutants? When or where has a new species originated in this way?
"How did I ever get such ability?" he wondered. "No one else in our family has it. Am I some sort of a mutant? But if so, how or why? I never heard Dad or Mother mention it."
gloss: Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!
She could really get to like this relationship with Raven, if it weren't for the fact that he's a homicidal mutant.
gloss: Synonym of mutex.
pos: noun
gloss: A changed version of a program, developed as part of mutation testing.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: mutant DNA
Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles—by accident.
Researchers at the SSI found that antibodies from people who recovered from coronavirus were less effective at neutralising the mutant strain, but have not made details of their experiments public.
gloss: Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
Boris Johnson got an angry response after telling school pupils that the exam results crisis was caused by a “mutant algorithm” and he was glad it had been “sorted out”.
Related words: mutate
mutation
Derived words: antimutant
epimutant
glycomutant
heptamutant
hexamutant
hypermutant
mutant disco
mutantkind
mutantlike
mutant protein
nonmutant
paramutant
phosphomutant
pseudomutant
sesquimutant
tetramutant
triplomutant
Translations:
vacant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Inflected forms:
form: more vacant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vacant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not occupied; empty.
pos: adj
examples: a vacant room
a vacant consulate
Below and to rearward circles the Tweed, silver grey on a dark brown field. Beside its low banks no tourists linger, vacant hangs the quivering bridge; down the narrow lanes no carriages come pressing over a succession of waving hills[…]
gloss: Not present; absent.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.
gloss: Blank.
pos: adj
examples: a vacant page
gloss: Showing no intelligence or interest.
pos: adj
examples: a vacant stare
a vacant look in her eyes
Fortunately the Reagan administration proved you can have a vacant moron as President and nothing really that bad will happen because the government isn't actually run by one person...the Executive office isn't even really run by the President alone.
Related words: vacate
vacuous
vacuum
Derived words: situations vacant
vacancy
vacant lot
vacantly
Translations:
vacancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Late Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacance.
Inflected forms:
form: vacancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unoccupied position or job.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
gloss: An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Empty space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy ….
gloss: A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?
gloss: Lack of intelligence or understanding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: vacant
vacate
Derived words: anion vacancy
divacancy
monovacancy
multivacancy
semivacancy
trivacancy
Translations:
vacate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Originally used in the legal sense "to annul", a denominal from Early Modern English vacat (“legal annulment”), a development from Middle English vacat (“absence or cancellation noted in a register”), from Latin vacat, third-person singular present active indicative of vacō (“to be idle; to be unoccupied”, literally “to be empty”).
The primary modern sense "to move out" likely developed under the influence of older borrowing vacant (“unoccupied”), in combination with the Early Modern use of vacate to refer to the termination of official appointments to office, which would leave those position vacant.
Inflected forms:
form: vacates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vacating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vacated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vacated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
pos: verb
examples: I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
gloss: To leave an office or position.
pos: verb
examples: He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
gloss: To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
On Thursday, the New York court of appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.
gloss: To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
pos: verb
examples: If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
Related words: vacant
vacation
evacuate
Translations:
diligent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin dīligēns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of dīligō (“to love, esteem much”, literally “to choose, select”), from dī-, dis- (“apart”) + legō (“to choose”); see elect and select.
Inflected forms:
form: more diligent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diligent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deligent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.
pos: adj
examples: Scientists are very diligent in their work.
Translations:
flyer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: acrobatics
architecture
arts
cheerleading
engineering
entertainment
firearms
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
music
natural-sciences
performing-arts
physical-sciences
politics
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.
Base: fly
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: flyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flyers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flyering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flyered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flyered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flier
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That which flies, as a bird or insect.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine that flies.
pos: noun
gloss: An airplane pilot.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A person who travels by airplane.
pos: noun
gloss: A leaflet, often for advertising.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
pos: noun
gloss: An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
pos: noun
gloss: A stray shot away from the group on a target.
pos: noun
gloss: A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
pos: noun
gloss: A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
pos: noun
gloss: A leap or jump.
pos: noun
gloss: A risky investment or other venture.
pos: noun
examples: It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.
gloss: A fast-moving person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.
gloss: A false start.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of flying cymbal.
pos: noun
gloss: To distribute flyers (leaflets).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.
gloss: To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Baltimore flyer
blue flyer
blue pigeon flyer
cave flyer
flyerer
frequent flyer
high flyer
high-flyer
microflyer
paper flyer
take a flyer
Translations:
pectus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin pectusbor.
English pectus
Borrowed from Latin pectus.
Inflected forms:
form: pectora
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The breast, especially of a bird.
pos: noun
Translations:
forum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.
Inflected forms:
form: forums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fora
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 4m
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 4rum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place for discussion.
pos: noun
gloss: A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
pos: noun
gloss: An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.
gloss: A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: conforaneous
Derived words: choice of forum agreement
choice of forum clause
cyberforum
e-forum
forum clause
forumgoer
foruming
forumite
forum non conveniens
forum selection agreement
forum selection clause
forum shopping
forum weapon
subforum
teleforum
Translations:
admin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of administrator or administration.
Inflected forms:
form: admins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: admin.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Admin.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: admins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: admining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adminning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: admined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: admined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: adminned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: adminned
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
form: admin.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Admin.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Administration, or administrative work.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
gloss: An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”
“I had word from The Trump admin that theyre^([sic]) on top of things,” Mr. Tate wrote to someone close to him, in a message reviewed by The New York Times.
gloss: The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.
gloss: An administrator (one who administers affairs).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.
gloss: A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.
gloss: A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
informal
examples: The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.
gloss: To serve as an administrator for or of.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Derived words: admin abuse
adminese
adminhood
admin night
admin party
adminship
adminspeak
admin vortex
badmin
life admin
modmin
sadmin
superadmin
wedmin
Translations:
sportsmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sports
English -manship
English sportsmanship
From sports + -manship.
Inflected forms:
form: sportsmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: James showed good sportsmanship in consoling Shankar after his wicket fell.
Related words: good sport
poor sport
cricket
Translations:
grudge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.
Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).
Inflected forms:
form: grudges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grudges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grudging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grudged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grudged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to have, hold, owe or bear a grudge against someone
Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
I have never mentioned it to a human creature; I have kept my grudge to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my grudge has grown old with me.
It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge, for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.
gloss: To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
pos: verb
examples: Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
gloss: To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
gloss: To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
Derived words: begrudge
grudgement
grudger
grudgery
grudgingly
misgrudge
Translations:
swiftly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swiftly, swyftely, swiftliche, from Old English swiftlīċe (“swiftly”), equivalent to swift + -ly.
Base: swift
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: swiftlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more swiftly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: swiftliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most swiftly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
pos: adv
examples: Mrs. Piper cut short these piracies by swiftly removing his spoon.
The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
Strategic sites in even the remotest regions of the kingdom were swiftly fortified using forced labour.
[T]he early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
Translations:
promotion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
board-games
business
chess
entomology
games
marketing
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin prōmoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Late Latin prōmotiōder.
Old French promocionbor.
Middle English
English promotion
Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin prōmotiō, from Latin prōmoveō (“to move forward”). Equivalent to promote + -ion.
Base: promote
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: promotions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advancement in rank or position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'll have to give myself a promotion!
gloss: Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools
gloss: An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties.
gloss: Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
Derived words: antipromotion
copromotion
cross-promotion
mispromotion
nonpromotion
numeric promotion
overpromotion
phytopromotion
postpromotion
prepromotion
promotional
repromotion
self-promotion
social promotion
Translations:
entice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English enticen, from Old French enticier (“to stir up or excite”), from a Vulgar Latin *intitiāre (“I set on fire”), from in- + titiō (“firebrand (tool)”), from Proto-Italic *tītjō (“heating”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teih₁- (“to become hot, melt or to end”).
Base: titiō
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: entices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enticing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enticed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enticed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I enticed the little bear into the trap with a pot of honey.
Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.
Translations:
valet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.
Inflected forms:
form: valets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: valets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: valeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: valeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: valeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
pos: noun
gloss: A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
pos: noun
gloss: A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
pos: noun
gloss: A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed to clean or park cars.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: A HEROIC dad who helped deliver his new-born baby in the back of his car had to explain to his car valet that he wasn't involved in illegal crime.
gloss: A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
pos: noun
gloss: To serve (someone) as a valet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can valet me, can you? Bother valeting me! I like to put on my own clothes, and brush them, too, when they are on; and if I only knew how to black my own boots, by George I should like to do it!
[…] the red-haired boy who had valeted me in the morning appeared in a plain suit of black.
gloss: To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
transitive
examples: He revealed: “We had been through a lot and I decided the car needed to be cleaned out after Georgina had to deliver the baby in the car.
“You can imagine the scene when I left the car in for valeting. I got some funny looks and I had to explain to the guy that I wasn’t up to anything illegal because it did look a bit like a crime scene.”
gloss: To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it. Nervous time.”
“‘Is this a date?’” Ms. Ludbrook recalled thinking during dinner. “I had valeted my car, and he hadn’t. He said, ‘Bye,’ and went to his car. Clearly this was not a date.”
Derived words: clothes valet
valet-de-chambre
valet-de-place
valet parking
Translations:
vanity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From va(i)n + -ity, from Middle English vanite, from Old French vanité, from Latin vānitas, from vānus, whence English vain. Doublet of vanitas.
Base: vain
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: vanities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me and why then was I more wise? Then I said in my heart that this is also vanity. / For there is no more remembrance of the wise than the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
gloss: Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To make a man in love with you gives an instant hold on his vanity; and with that, you can do any thing. Vanity is the real lever with which Archimedes said he could move the earth; so, try what you can effect with Sir Robert.
Try to second guess what people see / All the time it's just your vanity / No one's impressed and you wonder why / Well it is, it shows in the eyes
Social media hasn’t just weaponized our vanity—it’s transformed us from humans into curated digital performances. Our phones have become portable propaganda machines for our personal brands.
gloss: A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was sitting in front of her vanity, brushing out her hair.
gloss: A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.
To help the matter, the alchemists call in likewise many vanities out of astrology.
Synonyms: arrogance
Related words: vain
Derived words: vanity box
vanity card
vanity case
vanity domain
Vanity Fair
vanity height
vanity item
vanity label
vanity license plate
vanity number
vanity plate
vanity press
vanity publisher
vanity publishing
vanity sizing
vanity surgery
vanity table
Translations:
weakling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weak
English -ling
English weakling
From weak + -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: weaklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.
pos: noun
examples: “Mon Dieu!” he soliloquized, “but they are all alike. Cheating, murdering, lying, fighting, and all for things that the beasts of the jungle would not deign to possess—money to purchase the effeminate pleasures of weaklings. And yet withal bound down by silly customs that make them slaves to their unhappy lot while firm in the belief that they be the lords of creation enjoying the only real pleasures of existence.
gloss: A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: c.1551, Hugh Latimer, a sermon in Lincolnshire
We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.
Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
gloss: weak, either physically, morally or mentally
pos: adj
Synonyms: pushover
sissy
weenie
Antonyms: strongling
Translations:
chiral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English chiral
From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + English -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: that exhibits chirality; as in the left-handed and right-handed versions of a helix, or a molecule with L- and D- stereoisomers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
examples: In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
Translations:
chirality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chiral + -ity = chir- + -ality.
Base: chiral
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: chiralities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are otherwise identical; handedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
plimsoll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Samuel Plimsoll, a Bristol merchant who created a system of marks and symbols for the waterline of ships. The shoe was possibly named because the line of its sole resembled the Plimsoll line of ship.
Inflected forms:
form: plimsolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plimsol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plimsole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: “Yes, there are two distinct sets of footprints, both wearing rubber shoes—one I think ordinary plimsolls, the other goloshes,” replied the sergeant.
While here, now, a large boy, a famous bully, swaggered to the front to bend, leering, and offer his satirical backside to be ineffectually beaten with a plimsoll by the gentle Scot.
gloss: The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dap
pump
sandshoe
Related words: Plimsoll line
Plimsoll mark
Derived words: plimsolled
Translations: