yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
statistic
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from statistics.
Inflected forms:
form: statistics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: statistics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: statisticking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: statisticked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: statisticked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A single item in a statistical study.
pos: noun
gloss: A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).
pos: noun
gloss: A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.
pos: noun
examples: By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.
gloss: To analyze or describe using statistics.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is the only subject in the world which has not been statisticked, which is another proof of scientific neglect by the investigators.
When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?
Statisticked, are thirty other estates, ranging from that of a Mr. Morrison who has only one house, one garage, 65 stables, 2 kennels, 480 cattle, and 1250 acres, to the little hideaway of William Woodward which boasts 29 houses, 90 horses, 100 cattle, one tennis court, 26 vehicles, and 2200 acres.
The proposals can be broken down to easily understood issues, they may be developed, illustrated, "statisticked,” to whatever point is necessary.
The direct empirical knowledge of these circumstances, available to individuals involved in production, cannot be quantified, statisticked or otherwise frozen for the central planner's use.
gloss: To cite or calculate statistics.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?”
I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking.
A lot of books about the Rape of the Land have shouted or wheedled or statisticked at us.
Some substitute for negative evidence, such as counting, and statisticking, is required.
gloss: To comprise (as statistics)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The afternoon game was pitched by Walter Johnson and was the start of the sixteen-game winning streak which statisticked that one in Boston, four in St. Louis, four in Chicago, four in Detroit, three in Cleveland and none for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Synonyms: reduced to item of information
statistic
Related words: probability distribution
:Category:Statistics
Derived words: biostatistic
geostatistic
order statistic tree
outstatistic
out-statistic
parastatistic
statistically
statistician
statisticism
statisticization
statisticize
superstatistic
thermostatistic
unstatistic
vital statistic
zombie statistic
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tilastotieto
statuette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Base: statue
Inflected forms:
form: statuettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
pos: noun
examples: […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother.
Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.
Translations:
steak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”).
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.
Inflected forms:
form: steaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steaked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Beefsteak: a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: venison steak, bear steak, pork steak, turtle steak, salmon steak; cauliflower steak, eggplant steaks
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
gloss: A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cook (something, especially fish) like or as a steak.
pos: verb
examples: Really large bass can be treated as filets, as we mentioned earlier, or they can be steaked. If they are to be steaked, they should be cleaned like a bass to be baked, scaled, and the skin left in place.
Derived words: all sizzle and no steak
book steak
bucket steak
burger steak
butcher's steak
butler steak
carpetbag steak
cheesesteak
chicken-fried steak
chipsteak
chip steak
chuck steak
club steak
country-fried steak
cowboy steak
cube steak
Delmonico steak
finger steak
flank steak
flap steak
flat-iron steak
flatiron steak
flat iron steak
Florentine steak
frying steak
Gaelic steak
grillsteak
hamburger steak
Hamburger steak
hamburg steak
Hamburg steak
ham steak
hanger steak
Hawaiian steak
liberty steak
minute steak
Montreal steak seasoning
Montreal steak spice
nonsteak
oyster blade steak
pepper steak
pimp steak
point steak
poor man's steak
pork steak
porterhouse steak
rib-eye steak
ribeye steak
rib eye steak
rib steak
ribsteak
robber steak
rump steak
Salisbury steak
shell steak
sizzle steak
skirt steak
Spencer steak
Steak and Blowjob Day
steak and kidney pie
steak au poivre
steak bake
steak Benedict
steak bomb
steakburger
steak chips
steak commando
steak-cut
steak Diane
steakette
steakfish
steak fork
steak fries
steak hammer
steak house
steakhouse
steak knife
steakless
steaklet
steaklike
steakmaker
steak on the hoof
steak sauce
steak set
steak tartare
steakwich
strip steak
Swiss steak
T-bone steak
tenderloin steak
tomahawk steak
tube-steak
tube steak
two-eyed steak
Translations:
stealthily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stealthy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stealthily
From stealthy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stealthily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stealthily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stealthy manner, furtively.
pos: adv
examples: The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.
So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle; nor did his companion, the ape, hear either, for he was drinking and the noise of his sucking lips and gurgles of satisfaction drowned the quiet approach of the intruder.
Translations:
steed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stede (“steed”), from Old English stēda (“stallion, stud”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōdijō; (compare Old Dutch stoti (“herd of horses”), Old High German stuot (“herd of horses”)).
Inflected forms:
form: steeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stallion, especially one used for riding.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: The studded bridle on a ragged bough
Nimbly she fastens: -- O, how quick is love! --
The steed is stalled up, and even now
To tie the rider she begins to prove:
Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,
And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.
The torch-eyed ſavage, with growl tremendous, riſing up, diſlocated at one blow the arched neck of Sadit's Arabian ſteed, and brought the unfortunate omrah to the duſt, expiring between his extended claws.
gloss: A bicycle or other vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
examples: In the green lanes of Merrie England the bicycle rider in his natty uniform, speeding along on his silent steed, is met with almost as often as vehicles drawn by horses, and it is safe to say that in the various countries of the world not less than half a million bicycles and tricycles are now in use.
She was to creep out quietly […] and meet me at our usual trysting place—a spot a few hundred yards from our respective abodes. I would be there with my iron steed, and on the pillion thereof would whirl her into fairyland.
Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
Related words: horse
Derived words: barbel steed
Saxon steed
steedless
steedlike
Translations:
stent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent. The English surname is a variant of Stein.
Inflected forms:
form: stents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.
pos: noun
examples: Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.
gloss: To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.
pos: verb
Translations:
stickleback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dialectal stickle (“a prickle, spine, sting”), from Old English sticel + bæc. See stick (transitive verb) and compare banstickle.
Inflected forms:
form: sticklebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
pos: noun
examples: [I]n my exile and irkeſome diſcontented abandonment, the ſillieſt millers thombe, or contemptible ſtickle-banck of my enemies, is as buſie nibbling about my fame, as if I were a deade man throwne amongeſt them to feede vpon.
Translations:
stillbirth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From still + birth.
Compound parts: still
birth
Inflected forms:
form: stillbirths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: still-birth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The birth of a dead fetus; the delivery of an infant which is dead at birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The birth of a dead fetus after 20 weeks of gestation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Each year, approximately a million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of the newborn child.
Related words: stillborn
coffin birth
death
livebirth
maternal death
jellyfish baby
Translations:
stingy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: stingier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stingiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
pos: adj
examples: "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
gloss: Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
pos: adj
examples: The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.
As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
Synonyms: as tight as Dick's hatband
cheap
cheeseparing
chintzy
close
close as wax
close-fisted
illiberal
mean
miserable
miserly
narrow-fisted
niggardly
nipcheese
parsimonious
peddling
penny-wise
penny-pinching
penurious
scrooge-like
scrubby
shabby
still got one's communion money
stingy
swear
tight
tight-fisted
tight as a tick
tighter than Dick's hatband
ungenerous
ungiving
Antonyms: wasteful
prodigal
profligate
spendthrift
generous
Related words: economy
frugality
parsimoniousness
parsimony
thrift
thriftiness
miser
Derived words: mingy
stinge
stingily
stinginess
stingy gut
unstingy
Translations:
stray
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, streyȝen (“to spread, scatter”), from Old English strēġan (“to strew”).
Inflected forms:
form: strays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: straying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more stray
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strayer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stray
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: strayest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thames among the wanton valleys strays.
gloss: To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.
gloss: To cause to stray; lead astray.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
To ease myself I was compelled to leave my basket behind me, trusting to return and find it, if I should ever reach safety and discover on what pathless hill I had been strayed.
gloss: Having gone astray; strayed; wandering.
pos: adj
examples: The alley is full of stray cats rummaging through the garbage.
The organisation fills many gaps left by the state, operating a dizzying array of services, including homes for victims of domestic violence, food banks and a shelter for stray animals.
gloss: In the wrong place; misplaced.
pos: adj
examples: a stray comma
a stray bullet
Derived words: strayer
unstraying
nonstray
stray bullet
stray dog
straylight
stray line
strayling
stray mark
Translations:
straightforward
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From straight + forward.
Compound parts: straight
forward
Inflected forms:
form: more straightforward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: straighterforward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most straightforward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: straightestforward
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: more straightforward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: straighterforward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
rare
form: most straightforward
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: straightestforward
pos: adv
tags: rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating.
pos: adj
gloss: Easy, simple, uncomplicated, without difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: For the most part they are of straightforward design and the largest group is the ex-Prussian "T16" Class 0-10-0 of Type "94", [...].
Poland played with great energy, quick to the ball, strong in the challenge, and projecting the clear sense they had absolutely no intention whatsoever of making this a straightforward night.
gloss: Direct; forthright; frank; sincere.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: A great deal of the uneasiness about Clinton reflects his propensity to dance away from straightforward yes or no answers to any character question.
gloss: In a straightforward manner; straightforwards; straightforwardly.
pos: adv
Derived words: straightforwardly
straightforwardness
unstraightforward
Translations:
strict
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
mathematics
natural-sciences
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (“to draw tight, bind, contract”). Doublet of strait and stretto. See stringent, strain. Related to strong.
Inflected forms:
form: stricter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strictest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strained; drawn close; tight.
pos: adj
examples: strict embrace
strict ligature
gloss: Tense; not relaxed.
pos: adj
examples: strict fiber
gloss: Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
pos: adj
examples: to keep strict watch
to pay strict attention
gloss: Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
pos: adj
examples: they are very strict in observing the Sabbath
No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
gloss: Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
pos: adj
examples: to understand words in a strict sense
gloss: Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
pos: adj
gloss: Severe in discipline.
pos: adj
examples: Our teacher was always very strict. If we didn't behave, we would get punished.
It was a very strict lesson.
gloss: Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
pos: adj
Related words: stricture
stringent
strain
Derived words: non-strict
overstrict
rule of strict construction
semistrict
strict conditional
strict construction
strict constructionism
strict constructionist
stricten
strict implication
strict inequality
strictish
strict liability
strictly
strictness
strict ordering
strict scrutiny
strict-sense stationary
strict vegetarian
superstrict
ultrastrict
unstrict
Translations:
stringent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin stringēns, stringentem, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).
Inflected forms:
form: more stringent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stringent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.
pos: adj
examples: They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.
Antonyms: lenient
Translations:
stroll
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German strollen, a variant of Alemannic German strolchen, from Strolch (“vagabond; rascal”).
Inflected forms:
form: strolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: strolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble; a saunter.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance of the 1950s in which dancers leisurely stepped, cross-stepped, and dipped at the knee to the beat of the music.
pos: noun
gloss: To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
pos: verb
examples: In Ancient Times, as Story tells, / The Saints would often leave their Cells, / And ſtrole about, but hide their Quality, / To try good Peoples Hoſpitality.
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. [...] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
More often than not, the best restaurants are found by strolling rather than scrolling.
gloss: To go somewhere with ease.
pos: verb
examples: [A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
gloss: To walk the streets as a prostitute.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: "Nammers?" She'd told him before of some Vietnamese gang pressuring her to stroll for them. / "Don't even ask. You don't want to know."
gloss: To do, obtain, or achieve something in a casual and effortless way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My daughter strolled through the exam.
Synonyms: meander
ramble
range
roam
rove
stray
wander
Derived words: ho stroll
midstroll
stroll in the park
strollout
strollable
stroller
strollingly
stroll on
Translations:
stuffy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stuff
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English stuffy
From stuff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: stuffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stuffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stuffies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stuffie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
pos: adj
examples: I can’t smell very well today – I have a stuffy nose.
Let’s go outside – it’s getting stuffy in here.
gloss: Uncomfortably warm without sufficient air circulation.
pos: adj
examples: Abby Jimenez
Like my life was a stuffy room, and you’re the breeze that came in when the window opened.
If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons.
gloss: Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
pos: adj
gloss: Angry and obstinate; sulky.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Boring, old-fashioned, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
pos: adj
examples: The stuffy professor droned on as the class lost interest.
It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.
gloss: Stout; sturdy.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
gloss: Synonym of stuffed toy.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
childish
colloquial
often
Related words: stuffed shirt
Derived words: stodgy
stuffily
stuffiness
unstuffy
Translations:
sty
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sty, from Old English stī, stiġ (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds).
Cognate with German Stiege (“wooden crate”), dialectal German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“sty, enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).
Inflected forms:
form: sties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pen or enclosure for swine.
pos: noun
gloss: A messy, dirty or debauched place.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty.
gloss: To place in, or as if in, a sty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island
gloss: To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: hogsty
steward
styful
styless
stylike
swinesty
throw an ant into a sty
Translations:
sober
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sober, from Old French sobre, from Latin sōbrius, from se- (“without”) + ebrius (“intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”). In the sense "not drunk," displaced native undrunken, from Old English undruncen.
Inflected forms:
form: soberer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: soberest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sobers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sobering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sobered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sobered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not drunk; not intoxicated.
pos: adj
gloss: Not under the influence of any recreational drug.
pos: adj
examples: Ten months sober, I must admit
Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it
gloss: Not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
pos: adj
examples: Amid all the confusion and disorder that sin has introduced into the world, the Christian in union with God has a grace or Divine help that enables him to live the sober, self-restrained life.
After eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers.
Rose told me that she's sober.
gloss: Moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: God help me to watch and to be sober.
[N]o ſober man vvould put himſelf into a danger for the Applauſe of ſcaping vvithout breaking his Neck.
Which is the finest and soberest state possible.
gloss: Dull; not bright or colorful.
pos: adj
examples: Twilight grey / Had in her sober livery all things clad.
gloss: Subdued; solemn; grave.
pos: adj
examples: See her sober over a sampler, or gay over a jointed baby.
What parts gay France from sober Spain? A little rising rocky chain.
gloss: Poor; feeble.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
gloss: To make or become sober.
pos: verb
tags: often
with-up
examples: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again.
The night air may have sobered him a bit by the time they got back to Beattock.
gloss: To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.
pos: verb
tags: often
with-up
examples: It took him hours to sober up.
gloss: To moderate one's feelings; to accept a disappointing reality after losing one's ability to believe in a fantastic goal.
pos: verb
examples: Losing his job was a sobering experience.
Synonyms: clearheaded
dry
on the wagon
sober
sober as a judge
stone-cold sober
undrunken
unintoxicated
Antonyms: drunk
stoned
Related words: teetotaller
teetotaler
Derived words: appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
California sober
cold sober
draw a sober breath
drunk words are sober thoughts
ensober
insober
sober as a judge
sober-curious
sober down
soberer
sober house
soberize
sober living house
soberly
soberness
sobersided
sobersides
sober space
sober up
soberversary
stone-cold sober
unsober
wanton kittens make sober cats
unsobered
Translations:
subside
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin subsīdō (“to settle, subside”).
Inflected forms:
form: subsides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subsiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subsided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subsided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sink or fall to the bottom; to settle, as lees.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fall downward; to become lower; to descend; to sink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: An illuminating article in a recent issue of the Eastern Region's Civil Engineering News points out that where coal is worked over a reasonably large area, it is not only the whole of the strata above the workings, but also an area beyond which is liable to subside at varying rates after the coal has been removed.
gloss: To fall into a state of calm; to be calm again; to settle down; to become tranquil.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sea subsides.
The tumults of war will subside.
The fever has subsided.
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…].
I've been meaning to tell you / I've got this feelin' that won't subside / I look at you and I fantasize
gloss: To cease talking.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
Related words: subsidize
subsidy
subsist
subsidence
Derived words: nonsubsiding
subsidation
subsider
unsubsided
unsubsiding
Translations:
subsistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence.
Base: subsist
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: subsistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subsistance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Real being; existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature
gloss: The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inherency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the subsistence of qualities in bodies
gloss: Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.
gloss: Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: hypostasis
Related words: subsist
subsistent
Derived words: consubsistence
nonsubsistence
subsistence crop
subsistence economy
subsistence farming
subsistence level
subsistential
Translations:
subsume
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
Base: sūmō
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subsumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subsuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subsumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subsumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: comprise
March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.
1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.
no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
gloss: To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: subsumation
subsumption
Derived words: subsumability
subsumable
Translations:
subvert
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English subverten, from Old French subvertir, from Latin subvertō (“to overthrow”, literally “to underturn, turn from beneath”).
Inflected forms:
form: subverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subverted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: subverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He […] razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
, Book IV, Chapter XVIII
This would be to subvert the principles and foundations of all knowledge.
gloss: To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The oppressive regime stays in power only as long as they manage to subvert the will of the people.
gloss: To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An advertisement created by subvertising.
pos: noun
Derived words: resubvert
subversion
subversive
subvertable
subvertible
subvertingly
unsubverted
Translations:
successful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From success + -ful.
Base: success
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more successful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most successful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect.
pos: adj
examples: a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…]"share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
Translations:
suffice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English suffisen, from Middle French souffire, from Latin sufficiō (“supply, be adequate”), from sub (“under”) + faciō (“do, make”). Cognate with French suffire.
Inflected forms:
form: suffices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sufficing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sufficed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sufficed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For this plum cake, two eggs should suffice.
To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice?
gloss: To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.
gloss: To furnish; to supply adequately.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: During the festival, the temple suffices food to the beggars.
The king sufficed his army with food and weapons before the great battle.
Synonyms: do
Related words: satisfice
sufficient
Derived words: suffice it to say
sufficive
unsufficed
Translations:
sufficient
Part of speech: det
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French sufisanz, soficient, from Latin sufficiēns, present participle of sufficiō.
Inflected forms:
form: suff.
pos: det
tags: alternative
form: more sufficient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sufficient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: suff.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An adequate quantity of; enough.
pos: det
examples: We have sufficient supplies to last the winter.
There is not sufficient access to the Internet in many small rural villages.
gloss: A quantity (of something) that is as large as is needed.
pos: det
examples: We don't need any more; we already have sufficient.
Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.
gloss: Of a type or kind that suffices, that satisfies requirements or needs.
pos: adj
examples: This is a necessary condition but not a sufficient one.
gloss: Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
pos: adj
examples: They felt sufficient to maintain their present prosperity and independence.
I have never yet felt adequate. I have never yet felt sufficient.
gloss: Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: ...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
gloss: Having enough money to meet obligations and live comfortably.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I shall in this place only mention that qualification by wealth; the rather, being applyed to the deputies of towns and citties, where they use to say of a rich man, he is a very sufficient man : and the other sufficiencies and qualifications are mentioned on other occasions.
Some persons have been called, who have proved (it is true) that he was insufficient at that time, and could not pay more than 3 or 4,000l.; but the same witnesses give an account, that his ill circumstances were then known but to four or five persons of his acquaintance, and that by all other people, who had any knowledge of him at that time, he was looked upon to be very sufficient ; he had left off his business upon having raised an estate; he was of good reputation: he lived at Hackne in a house making a good appearance, with good furniture, and a great quantity of plate, till the last, till the time of his being put in prison, which was not till last year, that he surrendered himself in discharge of his bail.
The second in the Hong, Mowgua, has been a man of large property, but he is of more questionable property now ; I consider him still to be a very sufficient merchant.
Antonyms: insufficient
nonsufficient
unsufficient
Related words: suffice
adequate
ample
enough
plenty
Derived words: haplosufficient
immunosufficient
lymphosufficient
omnisufficient
oversufficient
principle of sufficient reason
sufficientarian
sufficient condition
sufficientness
supersufficient
law of sufficient reason
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
self-sufficient
sufficiency
sufficiently
Translations:
suite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French suite. See also the doublet suit.
Inflected forms:
form: suites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group or train of attendants, servants etc.; a retinue.
pos: noun
examples: [A]s to men, we shall live altogether at the Duc de Romagnecourt's, his suite of servants will be ours.
gloss: A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together.
pos: noun
examples: a suite of rooms
a suite of minerals
Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].
gloss: A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
pos: noun
examples: The Presidential suite is well appointed and allows for good security.
gloss: A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
pos: noun
gloss: An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of related computer programs distributed together.
pos: noun
Related words: ensuite
Derived words: bedroom suite
bridal suite
consuite
cottage suite
C-suite
droit de suite
en-suite
en suite
garage suite
gifting suite
gift suite
granny suite
income suite
in-law suite
Jack and Jill suite
minisuite
nonsuite
secondary suite
suitelike
suitemate
three-piece suite
Translations:
sunflower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pathology
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: Compound of sun + flower. Compare English sunbloom.
Inflected forms:
form: sunflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
pos: noun
examples: The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
The low-beamed Bell Inn, believed to date from 1520, is locally renowned for its garden where giant sunflowers grow. In 1978, one reached the spectacular height of 23 ft 6 in.
gloss: Any plant of the genus Helianthus, so called probably from the form and color of its floral head, having the form of a large disk surrounded by yellow ray flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A bright yellow, like that of the flower petals.
pos: noun
gloss: Any flat, radially symmetric organic compound, such as coronene.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Synonym of worm-star.
pos: noun
gloss: An Automatic Warning System (AWS) indicator in the driver's cab that is displayed after a driver has acknowledged an audible warning, which consists of a yellow circle enclosing a white circle, with black spokes overlaid.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Synonyms: sunbloom
turnsole
Related words: sunchoke
blueweed
girasol
helianthus
Jerusalem artichoke
moonflower
Derived words: beach sunflower
bush sunflower
Maximilian sunflower
Mexican sunflower
paradox sunflower
red sunflower
sea sunflower
sunflower beetle
sunflower bread
Sunflower County
sunflowered
sunflowerlike
sunflower moth
sunflower oil
sunflower sea star
sunflower seed
sunflower star
sunflowery
The Sunflower State
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kirkkaan oranssi
lang: Hungarian
word: napraforgósárga
lang: Ido
word: sunflorea
lang: Russian
word: ора́нжевый
roman: oránževyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: жо̀втогаря́чий
roman: žòvtoharjáčyj
sunless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English sunless
From sun + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more sunless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sunless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
pos: adj
examples: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
gloss: Dreary, cheerless.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.
Derived words: sunlessly
sunlessness
Translations:
superstructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English structure
English superstructure
From super- + structure.
Inflected forms:
form: superstructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
gloss: All that part of a building above the basement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
pos: noun
tags: Marxism
countable
uncountable
examples: The superstructure evolves more slowly and is more resistant to change than the economic infrastructure, especially in the modern industrial age of advanced capitalism.
Derived words: superstructural
Translations:
surmise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).
Inflected forms:
form: surmises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: surmises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: surmising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: surmised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: surmised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: surmises of jealousy or of envy
This opinion, however, is merely a surmise, which may or may not be the case.
But ſurely no Man whatſoever ought in Justice or good Manners to be charged with Principles he actually diſowns, unleſs his Practices do openly and without the leaſt Room for Doubt, contradict his Profeſſion: Not upon ſmall Surmiſes, or becauſe he has the Miſfortune to have Ill Men ſometimes agree with him in a few general Sentiments.
The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
In short, the chances of the Princes Street terminal's survival seem unsure, though at the moment these views are no more than surmise.
gloss: Reflection; thought; posit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My Thought, whoſe Murther yet is but fantaſticall, / Shakes ſo my ſingle ſtate of Man, / That Function is ſmother'd in ſurmiſe, / And nothing is, but what is not.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken; / Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men / Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
gloss: To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.
Translations: