yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
indecision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French indécision.
Inflected forms:
form: indecisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.
There was no indecision or delay in the establishment of their relations; Rebecca's heart flew like an arrow to its mark, and her mind, meeting its superior, settled at once into an abiding attitude of respectful homage.
Moreover, in view of the lamentable present indecision of the Government in regard to electrification, the large-scale building of diesel power may prove to have been a farseeing move after all.
I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the—
Translations:
assemblage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
art
arts
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French assemblage. By surface analysis, assemble + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: assemblages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of assembling or bringing together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the assemblage of words and recordings
gloss: A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered. Discovered in 1977, near the city of Suizhou in Hubei Province in central China, the tomb, from the fifth century B.C., has long been considered "one of the most significant archeological discoveries of the 20th century," said Peter A. Young, editor in chief of the magazine.
gloss: A gathering of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
gloss: A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: collage
Derived words: assemblage point
assemblage theory
assemblagist
faunal assemblage
ichnoassemblage
interassemblage
of assemblage
palynoassemblage
reassemblage
subassemblage
superassemblage
Translations:
worrying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English worry
English -ing
English worrying
From worry + -ing.
Base: worry
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more worrying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worrying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inducing worry.
pos: adj
examples: Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.
Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
gloss: The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
pos: noun
examples: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Translations:
guardianship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English guardian
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English guardianship
From guardian + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: guardianships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity.
pos: noun
examples: Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers' daughters and sisters' daughters and your mothers that have suckled you and your foster-sisters and mothers of your wives and your step-daughters who are in your guardianship, (born) of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone in to them, there is no blame on you (in marrying them), and the wives of your sons who are of your own loins and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
An application for guardianship must be founded on two medical recommendations, the procedure being similar to an application for admission for treatment.
Translations:
embellishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English embellish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embellishment
From embellish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: embellishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of embellishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An added touch; an ornamental addition; a flourish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; — she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.
Derived words: overembellishment
Translations:
akka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from a Dravidian language such as Tamil அக்கா (akkā), Kannada ಅಕ್ಕ (akka), Malayalam അക്ക (akka), Telugu అక్క (akka), ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *akka.
Inflected forms:
form: akkas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elder sister.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
soaking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soukynge. By surface analysis, soak + -ing. First attested in c. 1440 in the Promptorium parvulorum.
Inflected forms:
form: soakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more soaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Immersion in water; a drenching or dunking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "We came on a wild-goose chase", grumbled one, as he stirred the fire. "Got nothing but a soaking for our pains".
gloss: The practice of inserting a penis into a vagina and remaining stationary, without thrusting, supposedly used by some conservative Christians in lieu of traditional sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That's probably why everyone is already having anal sex in ninth grade. I mean, let's face it, even the Mormons are soaking.
Mormonism is a culture very much predicated on puritanical commitments[…]the Amazon series Alpha House[…]made much of Mormon soaking, an alternative sex practice engaged in by two LDS characters on the show. Soaking basically allows for penis-vagina penetration but absolutely no friction. Insertion is OK; pumping will send you to hell.
This all-or-nothing attitude implies that penetration equal sex. (Although throngs of folks raised in abstinence-based religions might [take this view]. My favorite is the Mormon concept of "soaking," which means a man sticks his penis in a vagina but doesn't move it around, therefore it somehow doesn't count as sex. Gimme a break.)
gloss: Extremely wet; saturated.
pos: adj
examples: I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
gloss: Of rain, heavy but slow enough to penetrate deeply into the top soil.
pos: adj
Derived words: soakingly
soaking wet
Translations:
spanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is spanned.
pos: noun
examples: The immediate symbolism of these spannings of musical space is evident, but they also contain references to the work's musical motto […]
Translations:
sanctum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sānctum (“that which is holy”).
Inflected forms:
form: sanctums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sancta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place set apart, as with a sanctum sanctorum; a sacred or private place; a private retreat or workroom.
pos: noun
examples: As he descended the stairs, two persons passed him, so remarkably dissimilar in their persons, dress, and carriage, that he could not forbear to look earnestly at them, as forming a criterion of the mixed character of company admissible in such places, and which was to him (with his preconceived notions of the inviolability of the female sanctum) an insuperable objection to such scenes of general resort.
For myself, I had no need to make any change; I should not be called upon to quit my sanctum of the schoolroom; for a sanctum it was now become to me, – "a very pleasant refuge in time of trouble."
A diary, after all, is a sanctum for self-confession.
His colleagues quailed when, in 1986, he first sat on the court as a brash 50-year-old whose experience had been mostly as a combative government lawyer: a justice who, in that sanctum of columns and deep judicial silence, was suddenly firing questions like grapeshot.
Translations:
unaffected
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + affected.
Base: affected
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unaffected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unaffected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unaffecteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not affected or changed.
pos: adj
examples: Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move.
I've lost my mind, I've spent the night / Crying on the floor of my bathroom / But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it / But I guess good for you
gloss: Lacking pretense or affectation; natural.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
gloss: Someone not affected, as by a disease.
pos: noun
Derived words: unaffectedly
unaffectedness
Translations:
catty-corner
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner under influence from catty.
Inflected forms:
form: cattycorner
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: catty-cornered
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cattycornered
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: kitty-corner
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cattycorner
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: catty-cornered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cattycornered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: kitty-corner
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: He takes the Brewer turnoff off the Pike and the road takes him through the town where he first bought gas. As he takes the road marked BREWER 16 he can see cattycornered across the main street the dirtdigger's pumps and his dark window full of glinting shovels and fishing rods.
gloss: Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from one another.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
Translations:
assignation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English assignacioun, from Old French assignacion, from Latin assīgnātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: assignations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his assignation.
These perfumeries were also used as places of assignation and sexual rendezvous.
What assignations followed we can never know, except that, according to Morrie, Rick did once boast that there was more than cake and lemon barley waiting for him up at The Glades when he delivered the church magazine.
‘That you could dare to imagine we’d fail conversationally to countenance certain weekly shall we say maternal … assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard’s tactical-bands unit?’
gloss: The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
gloss: A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: house of assignation
Translations:
reviver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English revive
English -er
English reviver
From revive + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: revivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who revives.
pos: noun
gloss: A chemical compound for making something (such as clothes or a varnished surface) look new again.
pos: noun
Derived words: corpse reviver
driver reviver
Translations:
munition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre (“fortify, defend (with a wall)”) + -tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion.
Base: mūnīre
Affixes: -tiō
Inflected forms:
form: munitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: munitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: munitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: munitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: munitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
gloss: Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A tower or fortification.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
gloss: To supply with munitions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
Derived words: cluster munition
loitering munition
loiter munition
munitionment
submunition
Translations:
rotator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rotate
English -or
English rotator
From rotate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: rotators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which rotates.
pos: noun
gloss: A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.
pos: noun
gloss: A revolving reverberatory furnace.
pos: noun
gloss: A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Derived words: derotator
Faraday rotator
rotator cuff
rotor
shape rotator
Translations:
streetcar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From street + car. Coined before the era of motorcars, the term emphasized a type of car on rails that were in the street (along with foot traffic, wagons, and carriages) rather than on a separate, dedicated railroad, as a railcar is.
Compound parts: street
car
Inflected forms:
form: streetcars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tram or light rail vehicle, usually a single car but sometimes multiple cars attached together, operating on city streets; a trolley car.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.
Tired as he felt at night, and dark and bitter cold as it was in the morning, Jurgis generally chose to walk; at the hours other workmen were traveling, the streetcar monopoly saw fit to put on so few cars that there would be men hanging to every foot of the backs of them and often crouching upon the snow-covered roof.
[…]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide.
Translations:
retter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ret
English -er
English retter
From ret + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: retters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rets.
pos: noun
Translations:
harshness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English harsknes; equivalent to harsh + -ness.
Base: harsh
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: harshnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being harsh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Translations:
virginal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English virginal, from Middle French virginal, from Latin virginālis. The musical instrument is probably so called from being played by young girls.
Inflected forms:
form: more virginal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most virginal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: virginal
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: virginals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being or resembling a virgin.
pos: adj
gloss: Uncontaminated or pure.
pos: adj
gloss: Parthenogenic.
pos: adj
gloss: A musical instrument in the harpsichord family.
pos: noun
examples: His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart, and to cleanse his bosom of the perilous stuff, and cure him by the spell of his music.
Synonyms: chaste
cherry
undeflowered
unfucked
unsullied
vestal
virgin
virginal
Antonyms: debauched
defiled
deflowered
desecrated
fallen
unvirginal
violated
Related words: callow
innocent
pristine
pure
untouched
pubescent
Derived words: virginal membrane
Translations:
curare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a Cariban language; compare Kari'na urari, Trió urari, wïrari, Akawaio urari, Pemon urari, Macushi urari, referring to various vines of genus Strychnos.
Inflected forms:
form: curares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: urare
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: urari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woorari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wurali
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Other South American plants with similar toxins that were also used in arrow poisons, mostly in the family Menispermaceae.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A substance containing the alkaloid D-tubocurarine, used historically as a muscle relaxant during surgery.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: curariform
curarisation
curarization
curarize
Derived words: anticurare
curarine
curarise
-curium
-curonium
leptocurare
pachycurare
tubocurarine
Translations:
doper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dope
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 doper
From dope (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who uses performance enhancing substances for competitive gain, especially illegally.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: 2003: Sam "I can't even explain what I'm feeling right now," says CLark in rec.skiing.snowboard
Would you care to point to some proof other than the Canuck's positive back in Nagano? If you are using that as a basis then all sports would be riddled with "dopers" especially XC skiing.
...the testers are always in a race with the dopers and usually playing catch-up.
gloss: One who frequently uses recreational drugs; a druggie; a stoner.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: That crafty old doper breaks out a "stick" of "tea" and they sit in the sun handing it back and forth, offering the waiter a hit...
2003: Lt. John Hadily, ICE DESTROYS LIVES-TPD DOPERS IN DENIAL in talk.politics.drugs
I will keep posting the fact that if you possess drugs where I am employed and you are caught I'll throw your sorry ass in a cage where the dopers belong.
2006:, Anthony Cormier, Father: 'We're here to find her body', HeradTribune.com
Tamara Toy was a blue-eyed daughter of a preacher, growing up good and God-fearing but eventually getting lost along the way, falling in with dopers and felons and a petty crook who stole her heart.
gloss: A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: doper time
Translations:
quadrille
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
dance
dancing
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.
Inflected forms:
form: quadrilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quadrilles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quadrilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quadrilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quadrilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.
pos: noun
examples: There is plenty of company, consisting of young men and women, all very neatly dressed in white and black - a true Portuguese habit. Quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and mazurkas are danced with great vigour and much skill.
The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.
gloss: The music for this dance.
pos: noun
examples: There was ol' Mickey Coote
 Who played hard on his flute
 When the ladies lined up for a set
 He was tootin' with skill
 For each sparkling quadrille
 Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet
gloss: A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
pos: noun
examples: It now first struck her that she was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
gloss: A choreographed dressage ride, commonly performed to music, with a minimum of four horses.
pos: noun
gloss: To dance the quadrille.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We quadrilled, waltzed, and conversed, in all of which my clever partner excelled; and her charms, combined with the excellent champagne I imbibed, fairly dazzled my imagination.
gloss: Marked with squares.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Penknife, hand-lens, padlock key, marching compass and small cash went in his trouser pockets, leaving the tunic pockets for the little black quadrille notebook, pencil and pen, and the breast pockets for his breviary on one side and cigarettes and matches on the other.
He would write “one paragraph at time”, always beginning each novel in longhand – he favoured notebooks with quadrille lines (those little squares).
Translations:
worsted
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English worstede, worsted, from Worstede (now Worstead; Old English *Wurϸestede), a town in Norfolk, England.
Inflected forms:
form: worsteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more worsted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worsted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Yarn made from long strands of wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.
[T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; […]
"Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs Garth. She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted, knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door.
gloss: The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.
He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck—Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge—an ornament—a charm—a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?
When Flemish weavers settled in East Anglia during the Middle Ages they introduced a technique to the wool trade which produced a cloth of fine fibres and closely twisted yarn. Worstead became the centre for the manufacture of this new material, which came to be known as worsted – after the village.
The cognitive dissonance is plain to see on the faces of recruiters who pretend clothing is no big deal, but are clearly disappointed if you show up to a job interview in a dark worsted business suit.
gloss: Defeated, overcome.
pos: adj
examples: The worsted army fled in disarray.
Derived words: Berlin worsted
Translations:
archdeacon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English arcedekne, archdecon, archdekne, archdekyn, archedeken, archedekyn, archedyacun, archideken, archidiacon, ardekne, ercedekene, ercedekne, erchdekene, erchedekene, erchedekne, erresdeken, ersedekne, ersedekyn, from Old English ærcedæcne, ærcediæcne, earcedæcne (from Late Latin archidiāconus) and Old French arc(h)ediacne.
Inflected forms:
form: archdeacons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
pos: noun
Translations:
censer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English censer, from Anglo-Norman censier, from Old French encensier, from encens (“incense”).
Inflected forms:
form: censers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental container for burning incense, especially during religious ceremonies.
pos: noun
examples: A thousand wax tapers burned in honour of the Madonna. Four beautiful children swung the silver censers before her picture, till a cloud of incense arose and floated in broken masses to the fretted roof, and the whole air was heavy with perfume.
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
gloss: A person who censes, a person who perfumes with incense.
pos: noun
Related words: incense boat
Derived words: hill censer
Translations:
reputed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more reputed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reputed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Accorded a reputation.
pos: adj
examples: He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.
The other young ladies of Sulaco stood in awe of her character and accomplishments. She was reputed to be terribly learned and serious.
gloss: Supposed or assumed to be true.
pos: adj
Derived words: reputedly
reputed quart
unreputed
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: reputado
contemplative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English contemplatyve, contemplatyf, from Old French contemplatif, from Latin contemplātīvus.
Inflected forms:
form: more contemplative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contemplative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contemplatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
pos: adj
examples: Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
gloss: Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
pos: adj
examples: Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
gloss: Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
pos: adj
examples: contemplative faculties
gloss: In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as one's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
pos: noun
examples: Like the white page that surrounds the darkness of each letter you are reading here, eternity surrounds each heartbeat, and as the contemplative watches his breath, he can move out of time through the doorway which opens in the interval between each heartbeat.
The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
Synonyms: attentive
calculant
cogitabund
contemplative
deliberative
intelligent
introspective
meditative
museful
musing
pensive
reflective
speculative
studious
thinkful
thinking
thoughty
thoughtful
wistful
Related words: contemplate
temperate
Derived words: contemplatively
contemplativeness
noncontemplative
uncontemplative
Translations:
peasantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From peasant + -ry, from Middle English paissaunt.
Base: peasant
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: peasantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: They distressed her. They were so stolid. She had always maintained that there is no American peasantry, and she sought now to defend her faith by seeing imagination and enterprise in the young Swedish farmers, and in a traveling man working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants, she groaned.
gloss: Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the gray-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity.
gloss: The condition of being a peasant; the position, rank, conduct, or quality of a peasant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How much low pezantry would then be gleaned / From the true ſeede of honor? And how much honor, / Pickt from the chaffe and ruine of the times / To be new verniſh’d?
He ſhall be armed at all peeces from the mid-thigh vpward with a faire Sword by his ſide, and his Captaines Colours or Enſigne in his hand, which Colours if they belong to a priuate Captaine ought to bee mixt equally of two ſeuerall colours, that is to ſay (according to the rules of Herauldry) of Colour and Mettall, and not colour on colour, as Greene and Red, or Blacke and Blew, or ſuch like, nor yet mettall on mettall as White and Yellow, or Orangetawny and White: for colours ſo borne, ſhew Baſtardy, peaſantry, or diſhonor.
Whoever would appear at the Diet, muſt previouſly become a country-man, or aſſume the peaſantry, and alſo ſue for it with the laudable Land-ſtates and obtain it at the Land-diet.
For certainly Sir I am ſo charitable to believe it was your Paſſion that impoſed upon your Underſtanding; elſe as a Gentleman you could have never deſcended to ſuch peaſantry of Language, eſpecially againſt ſuch a Perſon, to whom (had he never been your Prince) no Law enjoyns (whatſoever his Offences were) the puniſhment of Ribaldry.
Or wherefore, else, O tattered and diminished ’Scutcheon that hung upon the time-worn walls of thy princely stairs, Blakesmoor! have I in childhood so oft stood poring upon thy mystic characters—thy emblematic supporters, with their prophetic “Resurgam”—till, every dreg of peasantry purging off, I received into myself Very Gentility?
Derived words: technopeasantry
Translations:
eightfold
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English eahtafeald. Equivalent to eight + -fold.
Base: eight
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Eight times as much; multiplied by eight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Containing eight parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2003, Richard Morris, The Last Sorcerers, page 213,
The scheme, which Gell-Mann called the eightfold way, grouped mesons and baryons into families.
gloss: By a factor of eight.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: eightfold path
noble eightfold path
eightfoldness
eightfold way
Translations:
barnstorming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: barnstormings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Highly theatrical.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.
gloss: The act of one who barnstorms, or travels making political speeches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He'd been to plenty of barnstormings, but he had been one of those who watched, mainly because he could ill afford to spend the dollar or two the pilot charged for the ride.
Testy voters have peppered GOP lawmakers at town halls, and tens of thousands continue to turn out for a barnstorming tour by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
gloss: Aviation stunts performed for a public audience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
refurbish
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1605, from re- + furbish, from Middle English furbishen, from Middle French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”).
Base: furbish
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: refurbishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refurbishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refurbished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refurbished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: refurbishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We're having the sitting room refurbished, after a leak damaged a large part of the room.
He also makes the point that in France, SNCF is currently refurbishing some TGVs built in 1988.
gloss: A refurbishment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: My bedroom needs a refurbish.
Translations:
snotty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *snuttuzder.
Old English ġesnot
Middle English snot
English snot
English -y
English snotty
From snot + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snottier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snottiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: snottie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: snotties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Running or dirtied with mucus.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.
pos: adj
examples: Greasy hamburgers or snotty eggs? How about some of those fine pancakes that needed a steak knife to hack through?
gloss: Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "None of your business," she said. She can be very snotty sometimes. She can be quite snotty. "I suppose you failed in every single subject again," she said—very snotty. It was sort of funny, too, in a way. She sounds like a goddam schoolteacher sometimes, and she's only a little child.
The people there where mostly white, and mostly poor. There wasn't much of a middle class, except for a few well-educated folk trying hard not to be snotty so their kids wouldn't get beat up at school.
Becky had been trying to move out of the society pages and into stories of more substance in recent months, a major shift for her. When I worked for the Herald, she was kind of a mincy, snotty little thing who dressed in heels and blouses […]
gloss: The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A midshipman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: snottily
snottiness
snotty-nosed
snotty's nurse
Translations:
ill-tempered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-tempered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-tempered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bad-tempered.
pos: adj
examples: Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that can’t be done. Can you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: Riiiight.
Number Two: They are mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Really? Are they ill-tempered?
Spain’s acting prime minister, the socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, has a fresh, if fraught, shot at returning to power after his conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo failed in his attempt to take office in an ill-tempered investiture debate that followed July’s inconclusive general election.
Translations:
disenfranchisement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disenfranchise
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English disenfranchisement
From disenfranchise + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: disenfranchisements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Explicit or implicit revocation of, or failure to grant, the right to vote, to a person or group of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
nonspecific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English specific
English nonspecific
From non- + specific.
Inflected forms:
form: non-specific
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not specific or precise, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: See also: nonspecific symptom, specificity
gloss: Not specific or precise, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not specific or precise, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not specific or precise, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not specific or precise, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: unspecific
inspecific
Derived words: nonspecificity
Translations:
normalizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: that normalizes
pos: adj
Translations:
normativity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin norma
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English normative
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English normativity
From normative + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: normativities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being normative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of being a norm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: That which is normative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: normativeness
Related words: descriptivity
prescriptivity
Derived words: ablenormativity
aetonormativity
allonormativity
amatonormativity
antinormativity
Ashkenormativity
chrononormativity
cisnormativity
heteronormativity
metronormativity
mononormativity
pornonormativity
queernormativity
repronormativity
transnormativity
Translations:
novelistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Italic *nowos
Latin novus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Latin novellus
Vulgar Latin *novella
Italian novellabor.
English novel
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English novelist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English novelistic
From novelist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more novelistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most novelistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having characteristics of a novel.
pos: adj
Translations:
souverain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from French souverain. Doublet of sovereign.
Inflected forms:
form: souverains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gold coin of several former polities of the Netherlands.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
gayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somebody who is gay (in the sense of either homosexual or uncool).
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
derogatory
examples: Many ex-gayers are encouraged to bond with an older straight man from their church.
shut the fuck up you gayer :)
Facist ^([sic]) Frankie, PMSL, you gayers are funny.
Translations:
Philippine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Philippines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Three Philippine women working in Dubai died in their car, trapped by waters gushing down the street.
Translations:
spendy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spend
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English spendy
From spend + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: spendier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spendiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spenny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Australia
UK
Senses:
gloss: Expensive, costly.
pos: adj
tags: British-Columbia
US
examples: Amy: When I get married, I'm gonna register at the UCLA cadaver lab.
Penny: Eww, why?
Amy: Cause I've always wanted a whole human skeleton, and they are really spendy.
Translations:
oafish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oaf
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English oafish
From oaf + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more oafish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oafish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of or resembling an oaf; clumsy, stupid.
pos: adj
examples: "I don't wanter hyar uv nary one uv my gals bein' seen on airy street uv thisyer town, a-havin' no flirty flatter talk with thet wild Culberton younun!" was the popular edict that lazy, oafish fathers shot across dinner tables—as they packed down knivesful of baked chicken dressing, and “sooed" saucers of coffee through long mustaches, like muddy water seeping through broom grass!
Translations:
oceangoing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: * From ocean + going.
* (utter; total): Thorne (see references) states: "The usage is inspired by such terms as 'ocean-going yacht', denoting a larger and more powerful version of the thing in question."
Compound parts: ocean
going
Inflected forms:
form: ocean-going
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Travelling out to sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an oceangoing seal
gloss: Designed and equipped for use on ocean voyages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Utter; total.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: […] an ocean-going bastard he was, too.
[…] an ocean-going shit for much of his life, which helped feed the legend considerably.
Translations: