yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
customary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English custumary, from Medieval Latin custumarius. By surface analysis, custom + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: more customary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most customary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: customaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage.
pos: adj
examples: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.
"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to be tastier in Japan.
gloss: Holding or held by custom.
pos: adj
examples: customary tenants
The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
gloss: A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
pos: noun
Related words: consuetude
costumal
costume
custom
customer
customization
customize
Derived words: customarily
customariness
customary international law
customary marriage
customary unit
noncustomary
uncustomary
Translations:
cuvette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cuve
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Middle French -et
French -etder.
French -ette
French cuvettebor.
English cuvette
Borrowed from French cuvette.
Inflected forms:
form: cuvettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
pos: noun
gloss: A cunette.
pos: noun
gloss: A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
pos: noun
examples: The cell / DNA mixtures were nucleoporated in 1 cm transfection cuvettes according to a predefined program on the Nucleofactor.
gloss: The inner lid of a timepiece.
pos: noun
Derived words: autocuvette
electrocuvette
hemocuvette
microcuvette
nucleocuvette
Translations:
dally
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dalien, from Anglo-Norman delaier. Doublet of delay.
Inflected forms:
form: dallies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dallying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dallied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dallied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.
pos: verb
examples: I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power / To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause, / Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.
[…] after we by our presumptuous delays have put off God, and dallied with his grace; […]
[…] we have trifled too long already about a matter of such infinite moment, it is perfect Madness to dally any longer. […]
gloss: To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Not dallying with a Brace of Curtizans, / But meditating with two deepe Diuines:
Mr Dombey in the meantime stood bolt upright in the carriage like a highly respectable ghost, looking on too; while Cleopatra and the Major dallied as two ancient doves might do.
So, at the sound of that stirring call to battle, George jumped away from the gentle arms in which he had been dallying; not without a feeling of shame (although his wife's hold on him had been but feeble), that he should have been detained there so long.
2024, The November Nethack Tournament achievements
Dally with a foocubus
gloss: To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
pos: verb
gloss: Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
pos: noun
examples: What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.
Derived words: dallier
dallyingly
dilly-dally
undallying
Translations:
damnation
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English dampnacioun, from Old French dampnacion, from Latin damnatio.
Inflected forms:
form: damnations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Expressing annoyance or disappointment; damn; dammit.
pos: intj
examples: Oh damnation! The window doesn't shut!
"Damnation!" he yelled, spinning round. "He's shot the box out of my hand!"
Derived words: damnation of memory
nondamnation
predamnation
Translations:
dandelion
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dentdelyon, from Old French dent de lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Latin dēns leōnis, referring to the jagged shape of the plant's leaves. The term is now rare in French (together with liondent, calque from Germanic), but compare Spanish diente de león, Portuguese dente-de-leão, Italian dente di leone, German Löwenzahn, Norwegian Bokmål løvetann, Welsh dant y llew, all descendants, calques, or loan translations of the Latin term. First attested in the late 14th c.
Displaced various words, including native Old English ǣġwyrt, native Middle English houndes-tooth, and English tell-time and swine's snout; and mostly displaced English cankerwort, monk's head, and pissabed.
Inflected forms:
form: dandelions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum, characterised by yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the sanguine hue of the poppy and the hibiscus, the gold of the daisy and dandelion, the dark green of the sorrage on either side, and the blue and purple of the blossoming mulberry and sycamore
There are asexual variants among all sorts of creatures, including jellyfish, dandelions, lichens and lizards.
gloss: The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A yellow colour, like that of the flower.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: blue dandelion
Bolander's mock dandelion
dandelion and burdock
dandelion clock
dandelion coffee
dandelion greens
dandelionlike
dandelion salad
dandelion seed
dandelion tea
dandelion wine
dandelion yellow
desert dandelion
dwarf dandelion
fall dandelion
false dandelion
Italian dandelion
Kazakh dandelion
Russian dandelion
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: voikukankeltainen
lang: German
word: Löwenzahnfarbe
lang: German
word: Löwenzahngelb
lang: Polish
word: kolor mniszka
lang: Spanish
word: color leonado
lang: Spanish
word: color aleonado
lang: Volapük
word: tarakafloraköl
lang: Volapük
word: tarakaflorayelov
daze
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English, back-formation from dazed.
Compare Old Norse dasask (“to become weary”), with reflexive suffix -sk, Swedish dasa (“lie idly”), and Icelandic dasask (“to make weary with cold”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *dusāną, to slumber.
Alternatively from Middle Dutch dasen (“act silly”).
Inflected forms:
form: dazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dazes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dazing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dazed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dazed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The state of being dazed
pos: noun
examples: He was in a daze.
gloss: A glittering stone.
pos: noun
gloss: To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: confuse, benumb
Derived words: blue daze
Translations:
dean
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English den, deen (“dean”), from Anglo-Norman deen and continental Old French deien (modern French doyen), from Latin decānus. Doublet of doyen.
Inflected forms:
form: deans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
pos: noun
examples: Lucretius versus the Lake Poets ' Nature I loved ; and next to Nature , Art . '
Dean , adult education may seem silly .
What of it though ? I got some willy - nilly
The other evening at your college deanery .
And grateful for it ( Let's not be facetious!)[…]
gloss: A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
pos: noun
gloss: The senior member of some group of people.
pos: noun
examples: dean of the diplomatic corps - a country's most senior ambassador
dean of the House - the longest-serving member of a legislature
All of the switchboard operators had been parties to it, including Marie Willis. Their dean, Alice Hart, collected[…]
gloss: To serve as a dean.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To send (a student) to see the dean of a college or university.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Related words: decanal
doyen
Derived words: archdean
dean and chapter
deanery
deaness
Dean of the Arches
deanship
rural dean
subdean
undean
Translations:
debacle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French débâcle, from débâcler (“to unbar; unleash”) from prefix dé- (“un-”) + bâcler (“to dash, bind, bar, block”) [perhaps from unattested Middle French and Old French *bâcler, *bacler (“to hold in place, prop a door or window open”)], from Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum (“rod, staff used for support”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.
Also attested in Old French desbacler (“to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading”) and in Occitan baclar (“to close”).
The hypothesised derivation from Middle Dutch *bakkelen (“to freeze artificially, lock in place”), a frequentative of bakken (“to stick, stick hard, glue together”) no longer seems likely due to the lack of attestation of *bakkelen in Middle Dutch and by it having the limited meaning of "freeze superficially" in Dutch.
Inflected forms:
form: debacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: débâcle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: debâcle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: débacle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia […] and lays the ground for a military debacle.
The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the Prudhoe Bay oil spill] thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.
gloss: A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
pos: noun
examples: […] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, […]
For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually […]
When this débâcle commences […], the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed […]
Translations:
debarkation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: debarkations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Disembarkation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
debilitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French débilitation.
Inflected forms:
form: debilitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
decapitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From French décapitation.
Inflected forms:
form: decapitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the headsman's axe was sharp and his aim was true, decapitation was a quick and relatively painless form of death.
The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.
gloss: The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A decapitation strike carried out by drone killed many of the country's senior generals.
Even those who welcome the decapitation of the Iranian regime may feel deep unease about America’s behavior.
gloss: The unseating of a senior politician.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The decapitation of the Foreign Secretary was a significant publicity coup for the opposition.
The Lib Dem contender hoping to accomplish a bit of pre-emptive decapitation is Andrew Crawford.
Some also thought that the Lib Dem decapitation strategy had kept him cornered in his constituency during the campaign, unable to play a wider role.
Nearing 2.30, stoking fears of a disastrous night for the Lib Dems, the Tories achieved their first "decapitation" ‑ a visibly shocked Lembit Opik, in once-safe Montgomeryshire ‑ while evading their own biggest risk of high-profile embarrassment: Oliver Letwin held Dorset West.
Synonyms: beheading
Derived words: decapitation strike
decapitation secretion
Translations:
decease
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
Inflected forms:
form: deceases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deceases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deceasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deceased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deceased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Death, departure from life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
formal
uncountable
examples: So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease […]
I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
gloss: To die.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.
gloss: To cause to die.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
Derived words: deceaser
postdecease
predecease
Translations:
deceit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English deceyte, from Old French deceite, deçoite, from decevoir (“to deceive”), from Latin dēcipere (“to cheat, mislead”).
Inflected forms:
form: deceits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deceipt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The whole conversation was merely a deceit.
gloss: An act of deceiving someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father.
gloss: The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.
His mouth is full of curſing, and deceit, and fraud : vnder his tongue is miſchiefe and vanitie.
gloss: The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: deceit
deceitfulness
deceptiveness
dissimulation
duplicity
fraudulence
fraudulency
trickery
perfidy
underhandedness
Related words: deception
Derived words: deceited
deceiteous
deceitful
deceitless
self-deceit
Translations:
decentralization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
Latin centrum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin centrālisbor.
English central
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English centralize
English decentralize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English decentralization
From de- + centralization or decentralize + -ation.
Base: centralization
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decentralizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decentralisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of decentralizing
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being decentralized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: recentralization
Related words: decentralize
Translations:
decimation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin decimātiō, a punishment where every 10th man in a unit would be stoned to death by the men who were spared. Used by the Romans to keep order in their military. Compare septimation and vicesimation.
Inflected forms:
form: decimations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
countable
uncountable
examples: By decimation and a tythed death; / If thy Reuenges hunger for that Food, / Which Nature loathes, take thou the deſtin'd tenth, […]
gloss: The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And the vvhole Army had cauſe to enquire into their own Rebellions, vvhen they ſavv the Lord of Hoſts, vvith a dreadful Decimation, taking off ſo many of our Brethren by the vvorſt of Executioners.
General Secretary Mick Lynch said: "It is crystal clear that the planned cutbacks on ScotRail and SWR are just the tip of the iceberg, as cynical employers use the cloak of COVID-19 to smuggle through the decimation of jobs and services on Britain's railways.
gloss: A tithe or the act of tithing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: decimate
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: desimointi
deck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.
Inflected forms:
form: decks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
gloss: To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Wow, did you see her deck that guy who pinched her?
gloss: To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
pos: verb
Derived words: deck over
deck out
Translations:
declamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French déclamation, from Latin dēclāmātiō, dēclāmātiōnem, from dēclāmō, dēclāmāre; see declaim.
Inflected forms:
form: declamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His recitations were prompt and correct, and his answers were given with confidence. But perhaps he did himself most credit in declamation. He had always been very fond of that, and though he had never received and scientific instruction in it, he possessed a natural grace and a deep feeling of earnestness which made success easy. He had selected an extract from Webster--the reply to the Hayne--and this was the showpiece of the afternoon. The rest of the declamation was crude enough, but Harry's impressed even the most ignorant of his listeners as superior for a boy of his age.
gloss: A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: mere declamation
Derived words: melodeclamation
Translations:
decoration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin decoratio: compare French décoration. Morphologically decorate + -ion.
Base: decorate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: decorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
gloss: Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Refurbishment; renovation
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: adornment
decoration
embellishment
ornament
garniture
garnish
garnishment
ornamentation
Related words: decorate
Derived words: decorational
decorationist
decoration worker
immunodecoration
interior decoration
nondecoration
overdecoration
redecoration
table decoration
Translations:
dedication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Originated 1350–1400 from Middle English dedicacioun, from Old French dedicacion (“consecration of a church or chapel”), from Latin dēdicātiō, equivalent to dēdicātus+-iōn.
Inflected forms:
form: dedications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dedicating or the state of being dedicated.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: work with dedication
Her dedication is admirable.
gloss: A note addressed to a patron or friend, prefixed to a work of art as a token of respect, esteem, or affection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Her dedication for the book was only a cryptic "Once again, for T".
gloss: The event, or the ceremony celebrating it, marking an official completion, opening, or beginning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Near-synonym: inauguration
The building's dedication is scheduled for next week.
gloss: The deliberate or negligent surrender of all rights to property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the dedication of this right-of-way
Derived words: baby dedication
dadication
dedicational
livication
nondedication
prededication
rededication
Translations:
deepen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deep
English -en
English deepen
From deep + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: deepens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deepening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deepened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deepened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make deep or deeper
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They deepened the well by 200 feet.
gloss: To make darker or more intense; to darken
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The event deepened the prevailing gloom.
gloss: To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: News of her death deepened my sorrow.
gloss: To make lower in tone
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.
gloss: To make more thorough or extensive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The class deepened my understanding of the subject.
gloss: To make more intimate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The shared experiences deepened our relationship.
gloss: To make more sound or heavy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hypnotist then proceeded to deepen his trance.
gloss: To become deeper
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
gloss: To become darker or more intense
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The crisis deepened in the following weeks.
We may be pardoned our nostalgia, those of us who can remember the old days, the days before the grouping and before standardisation, when we see, as today we see so often, the derelict and abandoned buildings of what were once railway stations, for the life which they used to enjoy we lived with them. There they stand, today, as the dusk deepens about them, lampless, cold and deserted.
gloss: To become lower in tone
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His voice deepened with age.
gloss: To become more thorough or extensive.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His skill in deciphering the texts deepened with practice.
gloss: To become more intimate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The conversation deepened and they began to truly share.
He's in the process of breaking up with one boyfriend, who refuses to let their relationship deepen, and courting another, who promises to be somebody with whom he could grow old.
gloss: To become more sound or heavy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The new bed allowed my sleep to deepen.
Synonyms: depthen
Derived words: deepener
deepeningly
overdeepen
Translations:
defamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French diffamacion (French diffamation), from Latin diffāmātiō. By surface analysis, defame + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: defamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of injuring another person's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She sued his ex-boyfriend for defamation and is seeking $14,000.
In a closed trial on December 24, 2004, the People’s Court of Jinshui District in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, convicted Zhang Ruquan, along with his associate Zhang Zhengyao, in a public prosecution on charges of defamation that “seriously undermined social order or the state interest.” The two were sentenced to three years in prison for defaming former Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
An hour later, when the Fox board approved the wire payment for $787.5 million — one of the largest known defamation settlements in history — Fox acknowledged what we needed it to acknowledge: spreading false claims comes with a huge price tag.
Merryday, who was appointed by President Geroge^([sic]) H. W. Bush, said the complaint contains eighty pages of repetitive claims and praise for President Trump, but fails to establish the two counts of defamation alleged.
Translations:
defecation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 17th century, borrowed from Late Latin dēfaecātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: defecations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: defaecation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: defæcation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of voiding feces from the bowels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several processes for the removal of impurities, or for clarifying various materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The juice after it leaves the mill has a more or less green color, due to the presence of large quantities of chlorophyl and other vegetable substances, which must be removed. This process is known as defecation.
Synonyms: big jobs
bowel movement
cack
call of nature
crap
crapping
defecating
defecation
doing one's ease
doing one's easement
dump
dumping
easement
hod
motion
number two
poo
pooh
poop
purging
sharn
shit
shitting
spraying
taking a shit
Related words: defecate
feces
Appendix:Toilet slang
Derived words: Anti-Defecation League
hyperdefecation
open defecation
Translations:
defoliation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defoliate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English defoliation
From defoliate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: defoliations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
deformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Old French deformation, see deform. Morphologically deform + -ation.
Base: deform
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: deformations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: plastic deformation versus elastic deformation
permanent deformation
structural deformation
The metal showed signs of deformation under stress.
Earthquakes can cause severe ground deformation.
gloss: The act of deforming, or state of being deformed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: deformational
deformation energy
deformation retract
deformation-retract
elastic deformation
electrodeformation
hyperdeformation
ice deformation
plastic deformation
predeformation
professional deformation
retrodeformation
superdeformation
taboo deformation
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: աղավաղում
roman: aġavaġum
lang: Armenian
word: դեֆորմացիա
roman: deformacʻia
lang: Armenian
word: այլանդակում
roman: aylandakum
lang: Bulgarian
word: деформация
roman: deformacija
lang: Bulgarian
word: обезобразяване
roman: obezobrazjavane
lang: Catalan
word: deformació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 變形 /变形
roman: biànxíng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 形變 /形变
roman: xíngbiàn
lang: Czech
word: deformace
lang: Danish
word: deformering
lang: Danish
word: misdannelse
lang: Dutch
word: vervorming
lang: Finnish
word: venymä
lang: French
word: déformation
lang: Georgian
word: დეფორმაცია
roman: depormacia
lang: Georgian
word: ფორმის შეცვლა
roman: pormis šecvla
lang: Georgian
word: ფორმის დამახინჯება
roman: pormis damaxinǯeba
lang: Indonesian
word: deformasi
lang: Italian
word: deformazione
lang: Italian
word: storpiatura
lang: Italian
word: storpiamento
lang: Kazakh
word: пішінінің өзгеруі
roman: pışınınıñ özgeruı
lang: Kazakh
word: деформация
roman: deformasiä
lang: Macedonian
word: изобличување
roman: izobličuvanje
lang: Macedonian
word: изобличеност
roman: izobličenost
lang: Macedonian
word: деформација
roman: deformacija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: deformasjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: deformasjon
lang: Polish
word: odkształcanie
lang: Polish
word: zniekształcanie
lang: Polish
word: deformowanie
lang: Romanian
word: deformare
lang: Romanian
word: deformație
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izobličenje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: izobličenost
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: deformacija
lang: Spanish
word: deformación
defray
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French desfrayer, French défrayer, from dé- + Old French fraier (“to spend”).
Inflected forms:
form: defrays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defrayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defrayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.
Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.
In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.
With his legal maneuverings, Trump is showing that he also understands the implications of this election — one that could give him substantial powers as president to defray or dismiss many of the legal threats that he’s facing and to behave in office without future accountability.
gloss: To pay for (something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To spend (money).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: defrayable
defrayal
defrayer
defrayment
undefrayed
Translations:
defuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English fuse
English defuse
From de- + fuse.
Inflected forms:
form: defuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: defuze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To remove the fuse from (e.g. a bomb).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Shepard: I wear a lot of hats, Mr. Vargas. Some days I shut down criminals. Some days I defuse nukes. Some days I like to enjoy private vices. You understand me?
gloss: To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The diplomats are trying to defuse the escalating crisis.
to defuse a hostage situation
In recent months, those tactics have come to include defensive maneuvers aimed at defusing the media counteroperations of the United States and its allies.
As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.
Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.
Related words: defusion
defusive
defuze
Derived words: defusable
defusal
defuser
undefused
Translations:
defy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French desfier, from Vulgar Latin *disfidare (“renounce one's faith”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + fidus (“faithful”). Meaning shifted in the 14th century from "be disloyal" to "challenge". Contrast confide, fidelity, faith.
Inflected forms:
form: defies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion
I once again / Defie thee to the trial of mortal fight.
"So you actually think yours is good-looking?" sneered the Baker. "Why, I could make a better-looking one out of a piece of dough."
"I defy you to," the Hansom-driver replied. "A face like mine is not easily copied. Nor am I the only person of that opinion. All the ladies think that I am beautiful. And of course I go by what they think."
gloss: To refuse to obey.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you defy your teacher you may end up in detention.
Before coalition forces arrived, Iraq was ruled by a dictatorship that murdered its own citizens, threatened its neighbors, and defied the world.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
gloss: To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.
pos: verb
examples: By tossing this nineteenth electron back and forth between its own orbit and that of its lost companion more than twenty-five thousand times a second, a mutilated stone atom is able partially to defy gravity and thus successfully to ride the emerging streams of light and energy, the sunbeams, to liberty and adventure.
“To be determined,” Kane said, “is whether Griner and her towering skill and engaging personality will defy the odds and attract corporate sponsors as part of widespread public acceptance four decades after passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX.”
gloss: To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1603-1625, Beaumont and Fletcher
For thee I have defied my constant mistress.
Dear perfum'd jackets, pennyless breeches; / Dutch flapdragons, healths in urine; / Drabs that keep a man too sure in: / I do defy you all. / Lend me each honest hand, for here I rise / A reclaim'd man, loathing the general vice.
Related words: defiance
defiant
Derived words: death-defying
defiable
defier
defy belief
defyer
redefy
undefied
Translations:
degeneration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French dégénération, from Latin dēgenerātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: degenerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..
Emmanuel Macron sounded like a man in grief. Not angry, not defiant, just a little triste. Europe, he lamented, was suffering a “degeneration of democracy”.
gloss: That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: fatty degeneration of the liver
gloss: Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A thing that has degenerated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations
Synonyms: nerf
Related words: degenerate
degenerative
Derived words: biodegeneration
citrus vein phloem degeneration
cytodegeneration
degenerationism
degenerationist
hepatolenticular degeneration
hyaline degeneration
macular degeneration
microdegeneration
myelodegeneration
myodegeneration
neurodegeneration
nondegeneration
osteodegeneration
predegeneration
vasodegeneration
Wallerian degeneration
Translations:
degradation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French dégradation. Morphologically degrade + -ation.
Base: degrade
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: degradations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This feature of good organization, the conferring of definite local superior rank, and the protection of the incumbent from unnecessary degradation, was discovered centuries ago by another effective institution, the Catholic church.
gloss: The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degradation of labor. Everybody will live only to perfect himself.
Money is the great breaker-up of love and friendship; and this is, I believe, the reason of the common saying, that "large families get on best in the world," because they can receive from each other assistance without degradation.
gloss: Diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The extent of the damage to the military is still unclear and disputed, but the repeated bombings of the army and revolutionary guard bases and installations suggests substantial degradation of Iran's military power. Militarisation had long consumed a vast amount of the nation's resources.
gloss: A gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Overexploitation of land for fuelwood is a further cause of soil degradation in Africa, Asia and South America
gloss: A deleterious change in the chemical structure, physical properties or appearance of a material from natural or artificial exposure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: muscle degradation
gloss: The gradual breakdown of components of a material, as a result of a natural element, i.e.: heat, cold and wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: decomposition
Derived words: antidegradation
autodegradation
Curtius degradation
degradational
Edman degradation
Hofmann degradation
hydrodegradation
immunodegradation
land degradation
neurodegradation
nondegradation
overdegradation
photo-degradation
photodegradation
phytodegradation
predegradation
psychodegradation
thermodegradation
Translations:
dehydration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English hydration
English dehydration
From de- + hydration.
Inflected forms:
form: dehydrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of removing water from something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition in which water in the body drops below normal levels, usually caused by illness, sweating or by not drinking enough.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: hypohydration
Derived words: chronic cellular dehydration
cryodehydration
cyclodehydration
dehydration reaction
redehydration
Translations:
deification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English deificacion, from Middle French deifier + -acion or borrowed directly from Latin deificātiō(n), from deific(ā) (“deify”) + -tiō(n) (noun suffix), from de(i) (“god”) + -ficō (“make”). By surface analysis, deif(y) + -ication.
* In the Christian, theological sense, influenced by the use of deificātiō(n) as Latin translation of Byzantine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).
Affixes: -acion
Inflected forms:
form: deifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Excessive praise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A deified embodiment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.
gloss: Union with God; theosis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There is an experiential component to Maximos’ writings: he draws upon the reality of the contemplative life and in doing so secures deification as the goal of the monastic spiritual life in Orthodoxy.
Synonyms: euhemerization
Derived words: semideification
Translations:
delectation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested from the mid 14th century, from Old French delectation (“enjoyment”), from Latin dēlectātiōnem, accusative singular of dēlectātiō, from the verb Latin dēlectō (“to delight, charm, please”), frequentative of dēliciō, from de- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. By surface analysis, delect + -ation or delectate + -ion. Related to delight and delicious.
Base: delectate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: delectations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great pleasure; delight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Do not let us men despise these instincts because we cannot feel them. These women were made for our comfort and delectation, gentlemen,—with all the rest of the minor animals.
Translations: