yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
nominative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Italic *nōmn̥
Latin nōmen
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin nōminō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκή (onomăstĭkḗ)calq.
Latin nōminātīvusder.
Old French nominatifbor.
▲
Latin nōminātīvusbor.
Middle English nominatyf
English nominative
From Middle English nominatyf, either via Old French nominatif or directly from Latin nōminātīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”).
Inflected forms:
form: nominatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Giving a name; naming; designating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: nominative fair use
A telling marker of the change in the reporter's status was the elimination of the nominative reports (that is, the citation of the reports by the reporter's name). The first state to use “state reports” rather than the nominative designation was Connecticut (1814). Many other states made this change in the middle of the 19th Century or began their official reports with state reports.
gloss: Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To Duchamp, an artist's nominative act—the declaration itself regardless of the object—was itself the art. He could choose anything indifferent to, or even in spite of, its aesthetic merits.
gloss: The nominative case.
pos: noun
gloss: A noun in the nominative case.
pos: noun
Derived words: denominative
nominatival
nominative absolute
nominative determinism
nominatively
nominative type system
Translations:
future
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, irregular future active participle of sum (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English bēo (“to become, will be; to be”). More at be. Doublet of futur. Displaced native Old English tōweard, which took on a different meaning as toward, and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having to do with or occurring in the future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.
Antonyms: past
present
Derived words: futureness
future perfect
future simple
futurism
futurist
futurity
retro future
Translations:
superlative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English superlatyf, from Old French superlatif, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus (“carried above, over; extravagant, of hyperbole”), past participle of superfero (“carry over”), from super (“above”) + fero (“bear, carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: superlatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the power to carry something or someone above, over or beyond others.
pos: adj
tags: literally
not-comparable
gloss: Exceptionally good; of the highest quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: The Governor-General was entertaining at a civil banquet in the evening. He is reported as having made a “superlative speech, congratulating the Victorians on their loyalty; […].”
gloss: Of or relating to the superlative degree (a degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
pos: noun
examples: A twist is accordingly something especially good, and a big twist is the superlative of excellence.
gloss: The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).
pos: noun
gloss: An adjective or adverb in the superlative degree.
pos: noun
examples: Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now!
Sometimes it feels like there are no more superlatives left. Seriously, what else can be said about this little guy with the No 10 shirt and magic in his feet other than to ask, perhaps, whether there is anyone who wants to persist with the argument that Pelé, or Diego Maradona, or any of the others, have ever played this sport any better?
Related words: absolute
comparative
elative
Derived words: hypersuperlative
oversuperlative
superlative degree
superlatively
superlativeness
superlativity
unsuperlative
super-superlative
absolute superlative
relative superlative
superlative of inferiority
superlative of superiority
Translations:
tense
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus.
Inflected forms:
form: tenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tenser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tensest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
gloss: An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation
 I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
gloss: A grammatical aspect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
gloss: A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
proscribed
examples: The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.
The Spanish teacher told the student to use the imperfect tense instead of the preterite tense.
gloss: To apply a tense to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: tensing a verb
gloss: Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
pos: adj
examples: You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
"Attention," the tense man called out in Greek. "This is Lieutenant Kazamakis of the Cypriot Provisional Guard. You will immediately surrender all weapons and slowly come down the stairs, hands above your head." No answer.
"There's no one in the house," Sahas cut him off quickly. "Actually[,] I have sent them away. I thought that only the two of us should share the special surprise." He gave a tense smile.
gloss: Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
pos: adj
examples: Chi stops, but her eyes continue to pierce right through me and into Karima. A tense moment later, she drops her eyes back to the terminal and scans the data once more. The showdown is over, at least for the moment.
gloss: Pulled taut, without any slack.
pos: adj
gloss: Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
pos: adj
Related words: See: Category:en:Tenses
tend
tension
tent
intense
Derived words: absolute tense
aorist tense
compound tense
conditional tense
continuous tense
future tense
hodiernal tense
imperfect tense
past historic tense
past imperfect tense
past tense
perfect tense
pluperfect tense
present tense
preterite tense
primary tense
progressive tense
relative tense
secondary tense
simple tense
supine tense
tensal
tenseless
hypertense
tensely
tensen
tenseness
tense vowel
tensible
tensification
tensor
ultratense
overtense
untense
Translations:
interjection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English interjeccioun, from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of intericiō (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaciō (“throw”). Displaced Old English betwēoxāworpennes (literally “between-thrown-out-ness”), a calque of the Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: interjections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
pos: noun
examples: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
 (21) (a) Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
 (21) (b) ^✽Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
gloss: An interruption; something interjected
pos: noun
examples: Mnuchin, asked about climate change in a CNBC interview after his comments about Thunberg, argued there were bigger issues that also needed to be addressed. When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.
Synonyms: exclamation
interj
interj.
Related words: interject
interjectional
interjectory
vocative
Derived words: interjectionary
interjection point
note of interjection
Translations:
ending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).
Base: end
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: endings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A termination or conclusion.
pos: noun
gloss: The last part of something.
pos: noun
examples: The book has a happy ending.
The film has an unexpected ending.
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
gloss: The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
pos: noun
examples: Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
Using diachronic evidence from Swedish, I will show that inflectional endings may be maintained as “less cumulative” inflections, or even degrammaticalize into a derivational suffix or a clitic.
Synonyms: termination
suffix
Derived words: bad ending
case ending
double-ending
Elam ending
endingless
fairy-tale ending
fairytale ending
feminine ending
good beginning makes a good ending
good ending
happy ending
harem ending
Hollywood ending
masculine ending
nerve ending
never-ending
true ending
world ending
world-ending
zero ending
Translations:
declension
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From late Middle English declinson, from Middle French declinaison (Modern French: déclinaison), from Latin dēclīnātiō. Doublet of declination.
Inflected forms:
form: declensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A falling off, decay or descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Refinement of feeling, intellectual tastes, and a noble hospitality, were among the features of his character; and hoary years brought no mental declension, and drew no shade over the ardent affections by which he was distinguished, and in whose reciprocity, was his undeclining solace.
The custom of rolling a burning wheel down a hill […] might well pass for an imitation of the sun's course in the sky, and the imitation would be especially appropriate on Midsummer Day when the sun's annual declension begins.
gloss: The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a page full of declensions
gloss: A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Latin, 'amicus' belongs to the second declension. Most second-declension nouns end in '-i' in the genitive singular and '-um' in the accusative singular.
Synonyms: declination
Related words: misdecline
Derived words: declense
declensed
declensional
declensionism
declensionist
double declension
Translations:
Castilian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Castile + -ian as a calque of Spanish castellano (“Of or related to Castile, Spain, or the Spanish language”). Doublet of castellano, castellanus, castellan, and chatelain.
Base: Castile
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Castilians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native of Castile.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or relating to Castile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kiwi
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Genericized trademark from the brand of shoe polish originating in Australia, from Māori kiwi.
Inflected forms:
form: kiwis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kiwiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kiwi-ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kiwied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kiwied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To polish (boots) with black shoe polish.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
slang
examples: Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection.
Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi the boots. Can borrow [lend] me your cloth?
Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]
Translations:
pom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A clipping of pomegranate. In reference to the British, first attested in Australia in 1912 as rhyming slang for immigrant with additional reference to the likelihood of sunburn turning their skin pomegranate red. As a cocktail, originally American.
Inflected forms:
form: poms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
derogatory
mildly
slang
examples: I could see more than mere humour in car stickers that read ‘Grow your own Dope: Plant a Pom’ ... ‘Keep Australia Beautiful: Shoot a Pom’.
The prize for being Australia′s original pom goes to the enterprising pirate William Dampier, who made the first investigations ashore about 40 years after Tasman and nearly 100 years before Cook.
At one stage a group called British People Against Racial Discrimination complained to the Advertising Standards Board in Australia about an advert for Tooheys beer that claimed it was ‘cold enough to scare a Pom’.
gloss: A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.
pos: noun
Related words: kiwi
pompom
Yank
pom-pom
pom-pom-pull-away
tiddly-om-pom-pom
Derived words: Pomland
pommie
pommy
ten pound pom
Translations:
pommy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pom + -y (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
Base: pom
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: pommies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pommie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pommie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
derogatory
often
examples: Though Sir Oswald had taken on enough London veneer to be sneered at as a pommy in certain Australian circles, he had never acquired the high-class Englishman′s apparent equanimity or indifference before the prospect of cuckolding.
Rhona nodded her agreement. ‘That′s a very interesting answer from a new Aussie – and a Pommy into the bargain,’ she added.
During one of these acts of bravery by the English pilots I saw a great big tough Aussie with tears of frustration streaming down his face. He was shouting, ‘You magnificent, stupid Pommy bastard!’
gloss: English; British.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
derogatory
not-comparable
examples: A gleam of humour, a moment of beautiful pommy arrogance.
That is, of course, until Australian movie stars like Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman proved that they could sell tickets in the West End so long as they could play at being what Rees calls a ‘movie siren’ with a convincing ‘fake pommy accent’.
athol wrote:[…]> IIRC, "hood lining" is the more pommy terminology. :-)
Synonyms: limey
Translations:
donger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of dong.
Inflected forms:
form: dongers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
Australia
UK
informal
examples: […] And I had a lad in this morning with the most enormous donger.
My donger gets sucked right up inside this bloody hose. Hell it was painful. / ‘Christ almighty,’ Sandy said. ‘Yer right. She′s a powerful pump alright.’
Translations:
Englishman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).
Base: English
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: Englishmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: englishman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.
pos: noun
examples: the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.
To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.
All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.
Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.
In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.
Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen. […] Pardew has high hopes that one young Englishman, Paul Dummett, a left-back from Gosforth, the same Newcastle suburb that produced Alan Shearer, will make at least 10 appearances for his side this season.
Yea, but that’s not really a surprise, is it? She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman. “Come along, Ron, come along. I shall have all the powers, and your brothers can die fighting my war. Come along.”
Also, for their national flower, the Scots chose a thistle. That is a plant made of tiny knives and a throwing star. “The only flower I like is a flower that can pierce an Englishman’s throat!”.
gloss: A grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).
pos: noun
tags: Quebec
dated
ethnic
slur
examples: ... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...
gloss: A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
dated
ethnic
slur
examples: Fucking above your head Englishman!
Derived words: Englishmanly
Englishman's knot
Translations:
yeasty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yeast
English -y
English yeasty
From yeast + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: yeastier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: yeastiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or resembling yeast.
pos: adj
gloss: Foamy and frothy.
pos: adj
examples: The Ocean when its yeasty war is waging / Is awful to the vessel near the rock [...].
gloss: Emotionally bubbling over (as with exuberance)
pos: adj
gloss: Trivial.
pos: adj
examples: Thus has he, and many more of the same breed that I
know the drossy age dotes on, only got the tune of the
time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of
yeasty collection, which carries them through and
through the most profane and winnowed opinions
Derived words: yeasty beasty
Translations:
gringo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gringo, from griego (“Greek”), used for anyone who spoke an unintelligible language. Doublet of Greek.
Inflected forms:
form: gringos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gringoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
examples: Truly it is as Don José tells me; these gringos have come but to make trouble where all was peace.
Indeed, much like her predecessor and mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum has perfected the art of doing the gringos’ dirty work while purporting to act in a “sovereign” fashion – and even to defy the imperial overlords to the north.
Translations:
yeah
Part of speech: particle
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Colloquial form of yea or yes. Compare nah. Analyzable as yes + -h.
Base: yes
Affixes: -h
Inflected forms:
form: yea
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: ya
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: ye
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Internet
form: yeh
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: yeag
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Internet
humorous
Senses:
gloss: Yes.
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, all right.
gloss: Used to express acknowledgment of what was previously said.
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: —You wanna get pizza for dinner? —Yeah, I think I'm gonna have leftovers instead.
gloss: Used to ascertain the continued attention of the listener.
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: I was walking down the road, yeah, and you know what I saw, yeah? A dog wearing a dress!
gloss: Expressing joy, celebration, glee, etc.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Yeah! We did it!
Related words: ya
yah
ja
yea
yay
yeh
yas
yass
yuh
ye
Y
y
yee
yes
Derived words: aww yeah
fuck yeah
heck yeah
hells yeah
hell yeah
I will yeah
oh yeah
shit yeah
yeah-huh
yeah-nah
yeah, no
yeah way
yee
Translations:
hander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English hander
From hand (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: handers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
pos: noun
examples: Of that vast Frame, the Church; yet grant they were
The handers down, can they from thence infer
A right t'interpret?
Translations:
advertisement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
card-games
games
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *wert-
Proto-Indo-European *wértetor
Proto-Italic *wertō
Latin vertō
Latin advertō
Old French avertir
Middle French advertir
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Middle French -ment
Middle French advertissementbor.
English advertisement
From Middle French advertissement (“statement calling attention”), compare French avertissement (“warning”). See advertise. Equivalent to advertise + -ment.
Base: advertise
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: advertisements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: advertizement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
gloss: A public notice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
gloss: A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The good manners and intelligence of the students are an advertisement for the school.
gloss: Notoriety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.
Related words: advertising
adware
Derived words: ad
advergame
advermation
advert
advertainment
adverticle
advertique
advertisementlike
advertorial
classified advertisement
infotisement
job advertisement
malvertisement
oddvertisement
personal advertisement
pop-up advertisement
preadvertisement
self-advertisement
spamvertisement
spamvertizement
subvertisement
surreptitious advertisement
Translations:
adjustment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-u
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwos
Proto-Italic *jowos
Old Latin *iowos, *iowez-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Old Latin -tus
Old Latin iovestos
Latin iūstusbor.
Old French juste
French juste
French ajuster
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Middle French -ment
French -ment
French ajustementbor.
English adjustment
From French ajustement, or else adjust + -ment.
Base: adjust
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: adjustments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of adjusting something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The settling or balancing of a financial account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The credit card company made an adjustment to my account to waive the late fee.
gloss: The behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Jim graduated, he found adjustment to the working world difficult.
gloss: The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: adjustable
adjuster
Derived words: adjustment account
adjustmental
adjustment center
adjustment disorder
age-adjustment
currency adjustment factor
fine adjustment tool
self-adjustment
Translations:
qua
Part of speech: prep
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin quā (“in the capacity of”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: as; in the capacity of; acting as
pos: prep
examples: Qua work of art, the work of art cannot be interpreted; there is nothing to interpret; we can only criticize it according to standards, in comparison to other works of art; […]
As anatomy, physiology and, later, psychology have developed into more or less well-organized sciences, they have necessarily and rightly come to incorporate the study of, among other things, the structures, mechanisms, and functionings of animal and human bodies qua percipient.
For sleep qua sleep has no experiential content: it cannot turn out, as remarked before, that a man was not asleep because he was not having some experience or other.
I am denying that a dream qua dream is a seeming, appearance or ‘semblance of reality’.
It was qua poet that Byron resurrected the exploded and discarded immortal Christian soul by bodying it forth through the notion of soul conceived as poetic imagination.
2005: Ulfelder, Jay.Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes. International Political Science Review, 26(3), p318. Retrieved 1615 240810 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/30039035.pdf?acceptTC=true.
"In essence, military regimes are autocracies in which the military qua organization performs many of the functions performed by the ruling party in single-party regimes."
2009: Ken Levy, Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Georgia Law Review, p. 24.
Blame qua attitude is the feeling or belief that an individual has committed a wrongdoing, usually a wrongful action and/or harm, and can be reasonably expected not to have committed this wrongdoing. Blame qua practice is the public expression of this attitude – usually by means of censure (written or verbal criticism) or punishment. Generally, the morally worse the wrongdoing, the more severe the censure/punishment.
Sometimes, though, you pick up a novel and it makes your skin prickle — not necessarily because it’s a great novel qua novel, which you can’t know until the end, but because of the velocity of its microperceptions.
gloss: The cawing sound of a crow.
pos: intj
examples: Crows have a language of their own in a wild state that any observant person can learn. […] Then he would straighten his head back and, with the most comical bowing and wagging, say: "Qua qua qua, qua qua qua" for perhaps a minute.
Qua... qua... qua... out of the blue I hear the crows cawing with great fanfare as they announce to the world at large that they are here by my side and intend to probe into my being.
Translations:
island
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Germanic *awjō
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą
Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland
Old English īeġland
Middle English ilond
English iland
English island
From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land.
Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”).
The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
Base: ey
Inflected forms:
form: islands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: islanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: islanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: islanded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: iland
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ylond
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ylelond
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: yland
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To surround with water; make into an island.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We paused at little river cities along the way and walked upon their bushy dikes, and heard tales of overflows in flood seasons, when four feet or more of water islanded the houses.
The car soon seemed islanded in water.
gloss: To set, dot (as if) with islands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the many-islanded Aegean
God dwells in light! Before the ocean of unmeasured space, was islanded with stars serenely bright, reflecting back the radiance of his face - he dwelt above in heaven’s immortal bliss, thinking into existence that which is.
This Apulia is a land of vast pastures and cornfields and olive gardens, islanded with many rich cities, notable if only for the splendour of their churches,[…]
She knew that the town was islanded with many waters - the Hudson, the Harlem and the East rivers, and the Bay - but the rivers were hard to find in the universal velvetiness.
gloss: To isolate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath,—the "heft" of the crop noted and rejoiced over,—the tons of good timothy and clover calculated,— […]
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam / Islanded in Severn stream.
Synonyms: isle
Related words: archipelago
atoll
cay
key
continent
peninsula
ait
eyot
holm
braid bar
crannog
Translations:
quadrant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English quadrant, from Old French cadran, quadrant and its etymon Latin quadrāns, -antis (“fourth part of something, quarter”). Doublet of quadrans.
Inflected forms:
form: quadrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quadraunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the four sections made by dividing an area with two perpendicular lines.
pos: noun
examples: Kids, I swear, I'm gonna love all of you, and equally. I'll be dividing my love into seven equal sections, or "Love Quadrants". Each quadrant will be worth 15 "Love Units" represented by these small brass marbles. You may use these marbles as currency amongst yourselves. Collect 35 "Love Units", you can trade those in for a beach towel with my face on it.
Ops wanted some initiative, blew up their entire quadrant. I'm movin' like Oppenheimer.
gloss: One of the four regions of the Cartesian plane bounded by the x-axis and y-axis.
pos: noun
gloss: One fourth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 90°.
pos: noun
gloss: A measuring device with a graduated arc of 90° used in locating an altitude.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the four categories of team wins and losses, as categorized by strength of schedule.
pos: noun
Related words: octant
sextant
Derived words: abdominal quadrant
four-quadrant
Gunter's quadrant
interquadrant
quadrantanopia
quadrantectomy
quadrantic
quadrantlike
quadrantly
quadrant plate
Translations:
quadrilateral
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin quadrilaterus + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: quadrilaterals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with four sides.
pos: noun
gloss: An area defended by four fortresses supporting each other.
pos: noun
examples: The Venetian quadrilateral comprised Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano.
gloss: Having four sides.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: 4-gon
tetragon
quadrilateral
quadrangle
tetract
Derived words: cyclic quadrilateral
gyroquadrilateral
quadrilateral space syndrome
Translations:
quadruped
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥-
Proto-Italic *kʷetru-
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Italic *pets
Proto-Italic *kʷetrupōts
Latin quadrupedembor.
French quadrupèdebor.
English quadruped
Borrowed from French quadrupède, from Middle French, from Latin stem of quadrupēs (“four-footed, a four-footed animal”), from quadri- (“four-”) + stem of pes (“foot”). Alternatively analyzable as quadru- + -ped. Doublet of tetrapod.
Base: quadri
Inflected forms:
form: quadrupeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quadriped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: quadraped
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: A four-footed or four-legged animal.
pos: noun
examples: Bradshaw knew nothing of the 'wind of change' that was coming in a century's time, so he contented himself with an exposition on the Vale of the White Horse, "deriving its singular denomination from the gigantic carving of that useful quadruped, on a high chalky hill beyond".
gloss: A mammal ambulating on all fours.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tetrapod
Related words: biped
Tetrapoda
Derived words: quadrupedal
quadrupedalism
quadrupedantic
quadrupedism
quadrupedy
Translations:
quadrupedal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóresder.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwr̥-
Proto-Italic *kʷetru-
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Italic *pets
Proto-Italic *kʷetrupōts
Latin quadrupedembor.
French quadrupèdebor.
English quadruped
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English quadrupedal
From quadruped + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Walking on four feet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mikado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 御門 (mikado), from 御 (mi, “honorable”) + 門 (kado, “gate, portal”).
Compound parts: 御
門
Inflected forms:
form: mikados
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mikado
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A former title of the emperors of Japan during a certain period.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any emperor of Japan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literary
examples: The mikados of Japan are its emperors.
An interval of eighty years, occupied by two mikado of whose doings nothing is recorded, brings us to the celebrated female sovereign who invaded and conquered Korea.
Our great Mikado, virtuous man,
When he to rule our land began,
Resolved to try a plan whereby
Young men might best be steadied.
gloss: A game of skill, in which identically shaped (but differently colored and valued) wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining stack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fabric having a stiff twill weave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Chrysanthemum Throne
Derived words: mikadoate
Mikadoism
Translations:
Quaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quake + -er; a name given to members of the Religious Society of Friends, supposedly by the magistrates Gervase Bennet and Nathaniel Barton, when George Fox "bade them tremble at the word of the Lord"; the term was previously applied to certain people who trembled or quaked during religious devotions.
Base: quake
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Quakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Quacker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Whaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
pos: noun
examples: The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
Translations:
qualm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ūtcualm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm (“steam, vapor, mist”) earlier “daze, stupefaction”, which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense “feeling of faintness” is from 1530; “uneasiness, doubt” from 1553; “scruple of conscience” from 1649.
Inflected forms:
form: qualms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qualms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: qualming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: qualmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: qualmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: calm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
pos: noun
examples: [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
"Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?" / "Oh, I have a few qualms, all right. Sure … but not too many. Not yet, anyway.[…]"
Jem’s face showed brief indecision on the ethics of withholding his own dime, but his innate courtesy won and he shifted his dime to his pocket. I did likewise with no qualms.
Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. [Neil] Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements.
Questions of bad taste have hung around Dear Evan Hansen since it debuted on Broadway in 2016, though such qualms were mostly drowned out by praise for Platt’s visceral live performance and the catchy Broadway-by-way-of-Christian-rock tunes from wunderkind songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (who are also responsible for the toe-tapping numbers from The Greatest Showman).
gloss: A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
pos: noun
gloss: A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
pos: noun
examples: This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.
gloss: Mortality; plague; pestilence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
gloss: A calamity or disaster.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
gloss: To have a sickly feeling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: compunction
misgiving
scruple
unease
uneasiness
apprehension
Related words: quell
Derived words: qualmish
qualmishly
qualmishness
qualmless
qualmy
Translations:
quaver
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English quaveren, frequentative form of quaven, cwavien (“to tremble”), equivalent to quave + -er. Cognate with Low German quabbeln (“to quiver”), German quabbeln, quappeln (“to quiver”). More at quave, quab, quiver.
Base: quave
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: quavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quavers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quavering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quavered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quavered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trembling shake.
pos: noun
gloss: A trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing.
pos: noun
gloss: an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
pos: noun
examples: The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
gloss: To shake in a trembling manner.
pos: verb
gloss: To use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Aw come on, guys!" The woman, clearly overwhelmed by the force of the two friends' personalities, quavered on the point of tears.
gloss: To utter quaveringly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We shall hear her quavering them […] to some sprightly airs of the opera.
Related words: breve
crotchet
longa
minim
semibreve
Derived words: demiquaver
demisemiquaver
hemidemisemiquaver
quaver rest
semiquaver
quaverer
quaveringly
quaverous
quavery
unquavering
Translations:
duenna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Spanish duenna or dueña, from Vulgar Latin donna, from Latin domina (“Lady”). Doublet of dame.
Inflected forms:
form: duennas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chaperon of a young lady, usually an older woman.
pos: noun
examples: 'Madam, I have a secret to tell you.' Now the very word secret is enough to rouse any one's curiosity; and, giving a quick glance round to see if her duennas were on the alert, she prepared to listen, and I saw that her eye had caught sight of the letter.
Then he placed her in a house and shut her up in a chamber, appointing ten old women as duennas to guard her, and forbade her to go forth to the Seven Palaces.
I dared not do anything to spoil the image of me she had set up to adore. I had toadied to her when she was the awesome duenna of my darling, and a groveling something still persisted in my attitude toward her.
gloss: A governess or nanny.
pos: noun
Derived words: duennadom
duennaship
Translations: