yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
affectation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Proto-Italic *adfakjō
Proto-Italic *adfaktāō
Latin affectō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin affectātiōder.
Middle French affectationbor.
▲
Latin affectātiōbor.
English affectation
From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“to feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: affectations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...
[T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.
gloss: An unusual mannerism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An ostentatious fondness for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
with-of
examples: The grace diuineſt Mercvrie hath done me, / In this vouchſafde diſcouerie of himſelfe, / Binds my obſeruance in the vtmoſt terme / Of ſatisfaction, to his godly will: / Though I profeſſe (without the affectation / Of an enforc’d, and form’d auſteritie) / I could be willing to enioy no place / With ſo vnequall natures.
Her upper part of decent diſcipline / Shew’d affecation of an ancient line: / And fathers, councils, church and churches head, / Were on her reverend Phylacteries read.
While for some, women’s lack of knowledge is a matter for censure, throughout the century both male and female writers emphasize that affectation of knowledge, for example when it is not properly assimilated (Du Bosc 1633: 78), and above all pedantry from women, are far more unacceptable.
Related words: affect
affectatious
affecter
affection
affectionate
affective
Derived words: affectational
affectationist
Translations:
Buddhism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Buddha
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Buddhism
From Buddha + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Buddhisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bhuddism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: Bouddhism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Boodhism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The religion or philosophy derived from the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Buddhist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Buddha
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English Buddhist
From Buddha + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more Buddhist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Buddhist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Bouddhist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Boodhist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Buddhists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bouddhist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Boodhist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism.
pos: adj
examples: Or the Fujianese soup that is so rich and sought after that it is poetically called "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall," meaning it is so good that a Buddhist monk would be compelled to break his vegetarian vows to sample it?
gloss: A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.
pos: noun
gloss: A follower of the Indian religious and spiritual teacher, Buddha.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Buddhist
Bauddha
follower of the Buddha
Dhamma practitioner
Buddha follower
Sakyan
Antonyms: non-Buddhist
unbeliever
Derived words: Buddhistic
Translations:
affectionate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin affectiōnātus. By surface analysis, affection + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of aficionado.
Inflected forms:
form: more affectionate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affectionate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.
pos: adj
examples: She eulogised her always warm and affectionate brother.
gloss: Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: the affectionate care of a parent; an affectionate countenance; an affectionate message; affectionate language
Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
gloss: Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: tender
lovesome
attached
loving
devoted
warm
fond
earnest
ardent
affectionate
caring
cordial
dear
friendly
goodhearted
good-natured
heartfelt
hearty
kind
kindhearted
kindsome
softhearted
warm-hearted
tenderhearted
Antonyms: callous
heartless
Related words: affect
affectation
affecter
affective
affection
Derived words: affectionate friendship
affectionately
affectionateness
disaffectionate
inaffectionate
nonaffectionate
pseudoaffectionate
unaffectionate
Translations:
affectionately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English affectionate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English affectionately
From affectionate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more affectionately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most affectionately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an affectionate manner.
pos: adv
examples: Catherine is affectionately known as "Kit Kat" to her friends.
The couple were touching each other affectionately.
After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.
Translations:
affiliate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
Base: fīlius
Affixes: ad-
-ō
Inflected forms:
form: affiliates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: affiliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: affiliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: affiliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: affiliated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
pos: noun
examples: Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.
gloss: To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
gloss: To fix the paternity of
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
gloss: To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
gloss: To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: affiliation
disaffiliate
reaffiliate
unaffiliate
unaffiliated
Translations:
affliction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, borrowed from Latin afflīctiōnem (“pain, suffering, torment”), from Latin afflīctō (“to damage, harass, torment”), from ad- + flīctus, past participle of afflīgō (“strike, beat”), from ad- + flīgō (“strike”) (whence af-). By surface analysis, afflict + -ion.
Base: flīctus
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: afflictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
gloss: Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
Derived words: afflictionless
bread of affliction
self-affliction
Translations:
affluent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.
Inflected forms:
form: affluents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more affluent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affluent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is wealthy.
pos: noun
examples: The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
gloss: A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
pos: noun
examples: It [Central Asia] is separated from the river-system of the Aral and Caspian Seas, […] from the affluents of the Indus and Ganges, on the south, by the chain of the Küen-lün, the rival of the Himalayas, […]
Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but all of the affluents quickly descend into the desert valley below, through which the Gila winds its way westward to the Colorado.
The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.
gloss: Abundant; copious; plenteous.
pos: adj
examples: The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.
gloss: Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.
The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.
One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.
Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
gloss: Tributary.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: affluent blood
Antonyms: indigent
Derived words: affluence
affluential
affluently
affluentness
bioaffluent
emerging affluent
mass affluent
nonaffluent
subaffluent
superaffluent
unaffluent
Translations:
afoot
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English foot
English afoot
From a- + foot.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On foot. (means of locomotion, walking)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Is it fit, let your mightyship say, / That I, like some pitiful flirt, / Should tarry within doors all day, / Or else trudge it afoot in the dirt?
"The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot.
gloss: On foot. (support of the body, standing)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Hamlet: […]I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, / Even with the very comment of thy soul / Observe mine uncle:[…]
Possibly some chemical experiment was afoot; possibly----Well, it was no business of mine to speculate upon why he wanted it.
In San Francisco and in New Jersey, to quote two other examples, plans are afoot to subsidise new commuter line construction or existing operations out of toll revenue from state highways or bridges.
‘Patience,’ said Slartibartfast again. ‘Great things are afoot.’¶ ‘That's what you said last time we met,’ said Arthur.¶ ‘They were,’ said Slartibartfast.¶ ‘Yes, that's true,’ admitted Arthur.¶ All, however, that seemed to be afoot was a ceremony of some kind.
“Has anyone seen Laszlo? I can't find him anywhere. And it's really not like him.” “Oh... Laszlo's missing, eh?” “Yeah.” “Mm, the game is afoot.”
gloss: That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
examples: Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions.
Now there are plans afoot to introduce a couple of extra trains to the timetable in December, with the long-term goal of a doubling of the service to eight trains a day.
“These poor exocomps are being tortured with meaningless, repetitive tasks. I knew there was foul play afoot.”
Translations:
afore
Part of speech: prep
conj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English afore, aforn, from Old English onforan or ætforan; equivalent to a- + fore.
Base: fore
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: affor
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: avore
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
poetic
form: affor
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: avore
pos: conj
tags: alternative
obsolete
poetic
Senses:
gloss: Before; in advance of the time of.
pos: prep
examples: He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow. For,' said he, 'that was our forbears' tryst for true lovers, and wherefore no for you and me?'
"Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.
gloss: Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
pos: prep
gloss: In advance of the time when; before.
pos: conj
examples: Now the hand of the Lord was vpon mee in the euening, afore hee that was escaped came, and had opened my mouth vntill hee came to mee in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumbe.
Translations:
afraid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English affrayed, affraied, past participle of afraien (“to affray”), from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”), from Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”), from es- (“out”) + freer (“to secure, secure the peace”), from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from Proto-Germanic *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). By surface analysis, affray + -ed. Compare also afeard. More at free, friend.
Base: freer
Affixes: es-
Inflected forms:
form: more afraid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most afraid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: affrayed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 'fraid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: He is afraid of death.
He is afraid to ask her out.
He is afraid of the future.
I’m not afraid of telling / to tell you the truth: I'm reluctant to go in you car because I’m too afraid of crashing.
I went through the worst Ku Klux proposition in the country at the time it was at its height. And I had to go down to the Ku Klux meeting and tell them what I thought of them, and I wasn't afraid of them at all. And I'm not afraid of this situation because I think it'll work out in a way that when these people sit down and get a chance to think and study the situation, they're going to be ashamed of some of the things they've done.
gloss: Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: I am afraid I cannot help you in this matter.
gloss: Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).
pos: adj
tags: predicative
Synonyms: afeared
afraid
alarmed
anxious
apprehensive
chicken
concerned
creeped out
fearful
frightened
frit
horrified
mortified
panicked
scared
shocked
startled
terrified
timorous
worried
wary
Antonyms: brave
calm
unafraid
Related words: afear
afeared
affray
fray
fear
frighten
coward
Derived words: afraidly
afraidness
afraid of one's own shadow
fraidy
I am afraid of this
I'm afraid
I'm afraid not
I'm afraid so
nonafraid
unafraid
unafraidly
Translations:
afresh
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English a-fresche, equivalent to a- + fresh. Compare Old English afersċean (“to freshen; become fresh”).
Base: fresh
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more afresh
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most afresh
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Anew; again; once more.
pos: adv
examples: We ditched the original design and decided to start afresh.
Translations:
omen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
Inflected forms:
form: omens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: omens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: omening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: omened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: omened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
pos: noun
examples: The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.
A rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery.
The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.
Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
gloss: A thing of prophetic significance.
pos: noun
examples: A sign of ill omen.
gloss: To be an omen of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To divine or predict from omens.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: augury
auspice
foreshadowing
foretoken
forewarning
harbinger
herald
hint
indication
oracle
portent
prediction
prophecy
sign
signal
token
warning
danger sign
straw in the wind
omen
prognostic
forecast
presage
writing on the wall
prognosticate
betoken
foretell
portend
foreshadow
bode
augur
prefigure
predict
auspicate
Related words: ominous
abomination
oracle
predict
augury
foreboding
portend
portent
stars are aligned
Derived words: absit omen
bird of ill omen
omenic
omenless
Translations:
olio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish olla or Portuguese olha, both from Latin olla (“pot, jar”).
Inflected forms:
form: olios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The late Refinements in Knowledge, running parallel to thoſe of Dyet in our Nation, which among Men of a judicious Taſte, are dreſt up in various Compounds, conſiſting in Soups and Ollios, Fricaſſées and Ragouſts.
gloss: A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: olio curtain
olio drop
Translations:
oca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.
Inflected forms:
form: ocas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Oxalis tuberosa (syn. Oxalis crenata), which bear edible tubers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
comparable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more comparable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comparable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comparables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be compared (to).
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."
As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
gloss: Similar (to); like.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
gloss: Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
pos: adj
examples: Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
gloss: Having comparative and superlative forms.
pos: adj
examples: "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.
gloss: Something suitable for comparison.
pos: noun
examples: And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.
Derived words: biocomparable
comparability
comparable function
comparableness
comparable worth
comparably
incomparable
intercomparable
noncomparable
uncomparable
Translations:
advert
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of advertisement.
Inflected forms:
form: adverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adverted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An advertisement, an ad.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period.
When I was writing my 'Tube Talk' column, a man sent me a letter complaining about the advertisement of cars on the Underground. Why would the Underground masochistically promote a rival transport mode? The answer, I discovered, was that the adverts on the network must not 'harm the brand', and a car advert per se was not deemed to do that. However, a car advert that said 'Why are you using this horrible Tube when you could be driving one of our lovely cars?' would not be allowed.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
On the day that decision was made, Virgin adverts appeared at St Pancras to let everyone (including its rival) know that things are going to change.
gloss: To take notice, to pay attention (to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.
gloss: To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To turn attention to, to take notice of (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: To meditate, one must advert the mind toward the breath
gloss: To call attention, refer (to).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert.’
As soon as Miss Fairlie had left the room he spared us all embarrassment on the subject of the anonymous letter, by adverting to it of his own accord.
In this context, it is worth remark that Sir Brian should have paid particular attention to the importance of a reserve of power in locomotives. He adverted to this in a discussion of punctuality, making first the highly debatable assertion that "a very high proportion" of steam locomotives today were being worked to the limit of their capacity, with little or no reserve in hand, [...].
Synonyms: refer
Derived words: advertence
advertency
advertent
advertently
inadvertent
inadvertently
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: споменавам
roman: spomenavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: обръщам внимание
roman: obrǎštam vnimanie
lang: Dutch
word: verwijzen
lang: Dutch
word: aandacht vestigen op
moustache
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Used in English since the 16th century. From Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from Early Medieval Latin mustācium, from Byzantine Greek μουστάκιον (moustákion), diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (mústax, “upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a Pre-Greek substrate). Replaced native English kemp (“moustache”), from Old English cenep.
Inflected forms:
form: moustaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mustache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
pos: noun
examples: A moment later there entered a tall thin Englishman with a great moustache, which was a rare thing amid that clean-shaven race.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.
Ivan, the confidential man with the scar and the moustaches, came out of the house like a cannon ball, and came racing across the lawn to Valentin like a dog to his master.
Small, well-knit, fair, he sat stroking his slight blond moustache and looking at her with kindly, almost tender eyes; but he left it to his sister and the others to draw her out and fit her into the pattern.
Crabbe caught the eye of the oboist, an ancient man with dignified moustaches, and mimed that they were going round to the front, to watch the real thing, the shadows.
The Stan Lee fly, or Daptolestes leei, which is said to share his characteristic sunglasses and white moustache
gloss: A curly bracket, { or }.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In this example, the first is a string of text that contains the name property in double curly brackets (or “mustaches”)—this is the syntax for a tag.
Related words: beard
kemp
Movember
mustachio
nosebeard
sideburn
sideboard
whisker
Derived words: bemoustached
cavalry moustache
Charlie Chaplin moustache
Fu Manchu moustache
handlebar moustache
Hitler moustache
horseshoe moustache
milk moustache
mo
molestache
moustache cup
moustached
moustacheless
moustachelike
moustache ride
moustache-twirling
moustachial
moustachy
mustache ride
pedo-stache
pencil moustache
pornstache
stache
'stache
tache
'tache
toothbrush moustache
twirl one's moustache
walrus moustache
Zapata moustache
Translations:
risotto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian risotto, from riso (“rice”).
Inflected forms:
form: risottos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: risotti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian savoury dish made with rice and other ingredients.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The secret to a creamy risotto is letting the rice absorb one cup of broth at a time.
Risotti are another Alvaro passion, and there’s a different special each week, as well as a legendary strawberry risotto in season.
Frankly, if I'm paying £21.50 for a plate of lamb or, as you can here, £50 for a white-truffle risotto, I'll bloody well tell you when I want to eat it.
Risotti are made with fat, short-grain rice; […]
This is one of the biggest chapters in this book because there are just so many vegetables that marry well with rice to make fantastic risotti!
gloss: A similar dish made without rice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a pearl barley risotto
Derived words: risottolike
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رِيزُوتُو
roman: rizutū
lang: Arabic
word: رِيزُوتُو
roman: rizoto
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 意大利燴飯 /意大利烩饭
roman: ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ wui⁶ faan⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 意大利燴飯 /意大利烩饭
roman: Yìdàlì huìfàn
lang: Czech
word: rizoto
lang: Esperanto
word: rizoto
lang: Finnish
word: risotto
lang: French
word: risotto
lang: German
word: Risotto
lang: Greek
word: ριζότο
roman: rizóto
lang: Hebrew
word: ריזוטו
roman: rizoto
lang: Indonesian
word: risoto
lang: Italian
word: risotto
lang: Japanese
word: リゾット
roman: rizotto
lang: Korean
word: 리소토
roman: risoto
lang: Lombard
word: risott
lang: Piedmontese
word: risòt
lang: Polish
word: risotto
lang: Portuguese
word: risoto
lang: Romanian
word: rizoto
lang: Russian
word: ризо́тто
roman: rizótto
lang: Turkish
word: risotto
lang: Yiddish
word: ריזאָטאָ
roman: rizoto
pollen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pollen (“fine flour”), used by Carl Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Inflected forms:
form: pollens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pollens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pollening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pollened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pollened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fine, granular substance produced in flowers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: Fine powder in general, fine flour.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,[…]as well of pollen, as of other vitailes
The bran, pollen and gurgions of this grain will be profitable to the miller; […]
gloss: To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
Related words: pollinate
Derived words: I'm allergic to pollen
nonpollen
pollen analysis
pollenarious
pollen basket
pollen count
pollen counter
pollen grain
pollen granule
polleniferous
pollenin
pollenize
pollenise
pollenless
pollenlike
pollen mother cell
pollen parent
pollenproof
pollen sac
pollen season
pollen spore
pollen tube
pollen vortex
pollen wasp
polleny
pollination
polliniferous
pollinivore
pollinivorous
sporopollen
sporopollenin
Translations:
stratification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
biology
business
ecology
entertainment
horticulture
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stratum
English -ification
English stratification
From stratum + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: stratifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has misunderstood the English excavators in regard to the stratification of Knossos. He has wrongly imagined that the West Court of Knossos and a great part of the whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded and partly covered over by a later structure, contemporary with the supposed mainland Achæan type of Megaron at Phæstos that is now proved to be no Megaron at all.
gloss: A layering of musical texture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biostratification
costratification
cross-stratification
destratification
economic stratification
interstratification
lake stratification
macrostratification
microstratification
monostratification
multistratification
overstratification
phylostratification
poststratification
prestratification
pseudostratification
restratification
stratificational
substratification
Translations:
interpolation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
computing
editing
engineering
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
mathematics
media
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
writing
Etymology: From French interpolation, from Latin interpolatio. Morphologically interpolate + -ion.
Base: interpolate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: interpolations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Perl, variable interpolation happens in double-quoted strings and patterns, and list interpolation occurs when constructing the list of values to pass to a list operator or other such construct that takes a LIST.
gloss: That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Today a widely established convention encloses all editorial interpolations in square brackets [like so] for clarity.
Bentley wrote a letter […] upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand.
We, who are born into the world's artificial system, can never adequately know how little in our present state and circumstances is natural, and how much is merely the interpolation of the perverted mind and heart of man.
gloss: The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The melody itself is an interpolation of “The Streets of Cairo,” an Orientalist Tin Pan Alley song originally published in 1895.
Related words: interpolate
interpolary
Derived words: Hermite interpolation
hyperinterpolation
interpolational
Lagrange's interpolation formula
noninterpolation
Phong interpolation
reinterpolation
spherical linear interpolation
time-assignment speech interpolation
Translations:
dissolution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dissolucioun, from Old French dissolucion, from Latin dissolūtiō (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).
Inflected forms:
form: dissolutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The whole fabric dries up, or becomes putrid; and, in both cases, sooner or later, tends to a dissolution.
On August 16, 2014, a 24-year-old male programmer posted a more than 9,000-word tirade about the dissolution of his relationship with video game developer Zoë Quinn.
gloss: Dissolving, or going into solution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being dissolute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.
Derived words: antidissolution
dissolutional
dissolutionism
dissolutionist
double dissolution
ego dissolution
electrodissolution
nondissolution
photodissolution
predissolution
redissolution
Translations:
amalgamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: amalgamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of amalgamating; a mixture, merger or consolidation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu).
There was, however, one proposal which, had it reached fruition, might have had far-reaching effects. This was for the amalgamation of the Caledonian, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, and the Scottish Central Railways, for which a Bill was promoted, but rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on the grounds that the preamble was not proved.
gloss: The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The result of amalgamating; a mixture or alloy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
gloss: The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd.
Related words: amalgam
amalgamate
Derived words: amalgamationism
amalgamationist
preamalgamation
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: sammenlæggelse
lang: Dutch
word: mengsel
lang: Dutch
word: mix
lang: Finnish
word: kokonaisuus
lang: Hungarian
word: foncsor
lang: Irish
word: malgamú
lang: Irish
word: cumasc
lang: Irish
word: cónascadh
lang: Irish
word: meascadh
lang: Portuguese
word: amálgama
lang: Spanish
word: amalgamación
lang: Spanish
word: amalgamamiento
gradation
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French gradation. By surface analysis, grade + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: gradations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gradations
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gradationing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gradationed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gradationed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A decade ago, the British department-store chain John Lewis built itself a long warehouse, painted in gradations of sky blue.
gloss: The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the several gradations of the intelligent universe
Two distinct types of lupus erythematosus are recognized: [1] chronic or discoid, which is essentially a skin lesion, and [2] severe systemic, designated as acute. Between the two types are many gradations to which the term subacute has been applied.
gloss: A calibration marking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A diatonic succession of chords.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ablaut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To form with gradations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: consonant gradation
gradate
gradational
intergradation
progradation
Translations:
mattress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic مَطْرَح (maṭraḥ, “place where something is thrown”), from طَرَحَ (ṭaraḥa, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).
Inflected forms:
form: mattresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mattresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mattressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mattressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mattressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment
pos: noun
gloss: A form of lagging, in particular for boilers.
pos: noun
examples: Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.
The boiler and firebox are lagged with a lightweight Fibreglass mattress.
gloss: To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.
Related words: bottom sheet
futon
Derived words: air mattress
crib mattress
down mattress
go to the mattresses
mattress actress
mattress cover
mattress fluffer
mattress itch
mattresslike
mattress pad
mattress protector
mattress topper
mattressy
overmattress
spring mattress
walking mattress
wire mattress
Translations:
manioc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French manioc, through Portuguese mandioca, ultimately from Old Tupi mani'oka. Doublet of manihot.
Inflected forms:
form: maniocs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manioca
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mandioc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: manihoc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: manihot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which tapioca is prepared; cassava, yuca.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: 1975, William R. Bascom, African Dilemma Tales, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 86,
The banana, the most important crop above ground, quarreled with the manioc, the most important underground crop. […] The manioc said that it, the yam, the sweet potato, and others were the ones that fed people and that without them people could not exist.
1977, Donald W. Lathrap, Our Father the Cayman, Our Mother the Gourd, Charles A. Reed (editor), Origins of Agriculture, Mouton (De Gruyter), page 741,
The selection process leading to the bitter group of maniocs has been in terms of higher starch yield and in terms of starch of a quality more appropriate for making bread ans flour.
Manioc, the main subsistence crop of Amazonia, is planted entirely from cuttings, which are inserted into mounds hoed up in the spaces left between the logs and the stumps.
Manioc was first reported being grown on the mainland in 1635 at the Portuguese post at Bissau.
Manioc gives the highest yield of starch per hectare of any known crop; some 90% of the fabric of the crop can be regarded as potentially fermentable carbohydrate.
gloss: Cassava root, eaten as a food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the morning, after a frugal breakfast of coffee and manioc - we had to be economical of our stores - we held a council of war as to the best method of ascending to the plateau above us.
Ground manioc (cassava) is mixed with water and pressed through tube woven from palm fibers to remove toxic cyanogenic compounds.
She made manioc pie, got water, got wild banana leaves and pounded manioc. She made the earth oven and later she opened and took out the manioc pie.
gloss: A food starch prepared from the root.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
cassava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cazabe, from Taíno *kasabi (“cassava flour”) (whence Garifuna sibiba), from Proto-Arawak *sapi.
Inflected forms:
form: cassavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cassaba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cassada
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Manioc (Manihot esculenta), a tropical plant which is the source of tapioca.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The root of this plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Tapioca, a starchy pulp made with manioc roots.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jucca, ſive Yucca Peruana. The root whereof the bread Caſua, or Cazava is made.
Derived words: cassava wood
Translations: