yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
symbolize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French symboliser.
Inflected forms:
form: symbolizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: symbolizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: symbolized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: symbolized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: symbolise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To be symbolic of; to represent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Doves often symbolize peace.
The broken chain symbolizes freedom.
The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
gloss: To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To convert something into a symbol.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The overwhelming majority of these poems consists of wedding-songs, intended for the various ceremonies of the wedding and the daily festivities of the first week after the wedding. But these are not wedding-songs in the ordinary sense. In them, the wedding is symbolized. The poet speaks, indeed, of bride and bridegroom. But thereby he in no sense signifies the young human pair, but rather, true to cabbalistic implication, he intends the bridegroom to be God while the bride is the personified people of Israel.
gloss: To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The pleasing of colour symbolizeth with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth symbolize with harmony.
They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
gloss: To hold the same faith; to agree.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.
Synonyms: harmonize
represent
Derived words: missymbolize
nonsymbolizing
resymbolize
symbolizable
symbolization
symbolizer
Translations:
discernible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French discernable; spelling changed from -a- to -i- in the 17th century to conform to Latin discernibilis. By surface analysis, discern + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more discernible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discernible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: discernable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.
pos: adj
examples: There is a discernible performance difference between a Porsche and a Civic.
To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.”
This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.
Translations:
incorruptible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incorruptible, from Latin incorruptibilis. By surface analysis, in- + corruptible.
Inflected forms:
form: more incorruptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incorruptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incorruptable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uncorruptible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uncorruptable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: incorruptibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: incorruptable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: uncorruptible
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: uncorruptable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
pos: adj
gloss: Not subject to corruption or decay.
pos: adj
examples: Let us run in the straight road the race that is incorruptible
gloss: A person whose body does not decompose after death, a sign of holiness.
pos: noun
gloss: One of an ancient religious sect of Alexandria, whose adherents believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, and pain only in appearance.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: incorruptibleness
incorruptibly
sea-green incorruptible
Translations:
corruptible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more corruptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corruptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: bribable, that can be bought
pos: adj
examples: They systematically corrupt a very corruptible race, (for some time a growing nuisance amongst you)
gloss: perishable, subject to decay
pos: adj
examples: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Peter 1:18.
that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and golde,
Derived words: corruptibleness
corruptibly
Translations:
egocentric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From ego- + -centric.
Inflected forms:
form: more egocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most egocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: egocentrical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: egocentrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: egocentrical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Selfish, self-centered, self-absorbed.
pos: adj
gloss: Egotistical.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to spatial representations: linked to a reference frame based on one's own location within the environment (as when giving the direction as "right" rather than "north"); opposed to allocentric.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is egocentric.
pos: noun
Derived words: egocentrically
egocentricity
egocentric predicament
nonegocentric
Translations:
vagrancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vagrant
English -cy
English vagrancy
From vagrant + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: vagrancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being a vagrant
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The city introduced new laws dealing with vagrancy.
He was arrested on charges of vagrancy.
vagrancy laws
charge of vagrancy
combat vagrancy
Translations:
geosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + -sphere.
Base: geo
Inflected forms:
form: geospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The solid body of the Earth.
pos: noun
Translations:
unintelligent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English intelligent
English unintelligent
From un- + intelligent.
Inflected forms:
form: more unintelligent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unintelligent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not intelligent.
pos: adj
examples: "That young girl," he added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
Translations:
floundering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flounderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle.
pos: noun
examples: Just as with other recent reports by various bodies on HS2 and the ticket office closures, the National Audit Office's effort on the rail reform process is a devastating exposé of the failings and floundering of a dying administration that has failed to understand the value of having an efficient rail network.
Translations:
insufficiently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From insufficient + -ly or in- + sufficiently.
Base: insufficient
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more insufficiently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most insufficiently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sufficiently.
pos: adv
examples: The machine was decommissioned because it was producing widgets insufficiently.
Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.
Translations:
surprisingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English surprising
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English surprisingly
From surprising + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more surprisingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most surprisingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that causes surprise because it is unexpected, or unusual.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: unexpectedly, unusually
The house was surprisingly small for such a numerous family.
Not surprisingly, the electrician didn't come at the time he had said.
Chema'd, surprisingly, paid for everything.
François Hollande has moved a step closer to becoming the first Socialist president of France in a generation by beating the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, in the first round of elections. But the surprisingly high vote for the extreme-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, boosted the overall figures for the right and meant that the final runoff vote on 6 May remains on a knife edge.
Translations:
unsatisfied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English satisfied
English unsatisfied
From un- + satisfied.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsatisfied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsatisfied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not satisfied, especially with the quantity of something; dissatisfied; uncontented.
pos: adj
gloss: Not gratified; not having been fulfilled or met.
pos: adj
examples: I made no answer, for I could not - especially before Leo - tell her that since I had seen her face I knew that it would always be before my eyes, and that I had no wish to prolong an existence which must always be haunted and tortured by her memory, and by the last bitterness of unsatisfied love.
Translations:
rated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more rated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Scolded, rebuked.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
[H]e merely passed by sheepishly with a rated, scowling look.
gloss: maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
pos: adj
gloss: Having a particular rating or rate
pos: adj
Derived words: nonrated
underrated
Translations:
netting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English netting
From net + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: nettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Who ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view'd a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights, and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]
The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. … Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
Translations:
pacing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pacings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
pos: noun
examples: We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings, etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.
Translations:
brilliantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brilliant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English brilliantly
From brilliant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more brilliantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brilliantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brilliant manner; with brilliance.
pos: adv
examples: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.
Translations:
reversed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Turned or changed to the contrary; inside out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Resupinate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonreversed
pall reversed
photoreversed
reversedly
reversed pall
sides reversed is
unreversed
Translations:
activated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more activated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most activated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
pricked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Punctured by small holes.
pos: adj
examples: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
gloss: Listening carefully.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.
Synonyms: pierced
punctured
Related words: prick up one's ears
Derived words: pin-pricked
unpricked
uppricked
Translations:
inexcusable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inexcusable, from Latin inexcusabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more inexcusable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inexcusable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: not excusable
pos: adj
examples: It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.
Translations:
excusable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French escusable, from Latin excusabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more excusable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most excusable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possible to excuse; worthy of being excused.
pos: adj
examples: excusable reason
gloss: Describing an illegal act that was committed involuntarily, for example under false information or because of a faulty device. Distinguished from justifiable, describing an illegal act that was intentional but justified for other reasons.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
Antonyms: inexcusable
Derived words: excusableness
excusably
nonexcusable
unexcusable
Translations:
catering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: caterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
UK
uncountable
gloss: The business of providing such services for special occasions.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: The act of one who caters (to something).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.
Derived words: catering trolley
self-catering
Translations:
contrasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English contrast
English -ed
English contrasted
From contrast + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more contrasted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contrasted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Set in contrast (of two or more things).
pos: adj
gloss: Displaying or marked by contrast; contrasty.
pos: adj
examples: Brittany was one of France's most heavily contrasted regions.
Derived words: autocontrasted
contrastedly
uncontrasted
Translations:
dyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.
pos: adj
examples: Gon. That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water.
Girded with girdles vpon their loynes, exceeding in dyed attire vpon their heads, all of them princes to looke to, after the maner of the Babylonians of Caldea, the land of their natiuitie:
Translations:
waxed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more waxed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most waxed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of an object, coated or treated with wax in order to make it shiny or waterproof, or to protect it.
pos: adj
Translations:
quartered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more quartered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quartered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
darting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: more darting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most darting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dartings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by sudden, quick movements.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: dartlike
Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.
Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.
Stella was very quick, very darting.
gloss: A motion or gesture that darts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue.
Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
gloss: The use of darts (folds stitched on a garment).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
signified
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semiotics
Inflected forms:
form: signifieds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The concept, object or person that is referred to by a sign or signifier.
pos: noun
examples: Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.
In Peircean terms, topics are interpretants: signifieds that become new signifiers in the endless semiotic chain of interpretations.
Translations:
strengthening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: strengthenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is strengthened.
pos: noun
examples: From 1945 onwards, deterioration in the condition of the brickwork in the arch soffits was kept under close observation, and in 1951 it was decided that strengthening must be undertaken.
Translations:
limping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: limpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of one who limps.
pos: noun
Translations:
uplifted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more uplifted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uplifted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lifted upwards, raised.
pos: adj
examples: To the northeast and northwest of the uplifted area there was a belt of depression, mainly in land areas.
Some of the female figurines depicted women with uplifted arms while others portrayed pregnant females with uplifted arms in the process of giving birth.
gloss: Joyous, hopeful or inspired.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
reformed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: more reformed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reformed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Martin Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
pos: adj
examples: The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.
gloss: Amended in character and life.
pos: adj
examples: a reformed gambler/drunkard/alcoholic/criminal
gloss: Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Derived words: nonreformed
reformedly
semireformed
unreformed
Translations:
thwarted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thwarted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thwarted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Frustrated, obstructed or prevented.
pos: adj
examples: He knows I should only laugh at his desertion; and he would not like to be the one who was left, which he knows I should do for the first thwarted whim.
There is no blockage in their instinctive life, and when the two men fight the physical closeness is not a substitute for a thwarted sexual life.
Translations:
uneducated
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English educate
English -ed
English educated
English uneducated
From un- + educated.
Inflected forms:
form: more uneducated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uneducated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uneducateds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not educated.
pos: adj
examples: Ben Carson said his Republican rivals aren’t his biggest threat in the presidential election – it’s uneducated voters.
gloss: Someone who lacks education.
pos: noun
examples: […] A few mojaheddin and militants screaming about our oil money and yelling about foreign interference, and we a bunch of uneducateds, how could we have known that they would do this to us.”
If you want to see evil in his books, you'll have to search into the uneducateds and the poors (something that is usually mistaked as racism from Lovecraft).
So what happened? It’s fun to point the finger. Some say it was the poors, or the uneducateds, or even the third-party voters. No matter the scenario, it’s always fun to blame someone else and throw up your hands (while a finger on each is pointed of course).
Translations:
signifying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: signifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: signification
pos: noun
examples: For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.
Translations:
unreasonably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unresonably, equivalent to unreasonable + -ly, after resonably (whence reasonably) and (originally) Late Latin irratiōnābiliter.
Base: unreasonable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unreasonably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unreasonably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unreasonable manner.
pos: adv
examples: He behaved unreasonably.
Fye, you confine your ſelfe moſt vnreaſonably: Come, you muſt go viſit the good Lady that lies in.
When I employ myself upon a paper of morality, I generally consider how I may recommend the particular virtue which I treat of, by the precepts or examples of the ancient heathens; by that means, if possible, to shame those who have greater advantages of knowing their duty, and therefore greater obligations to perform it, into a better course of life: besides that many among us are unreasonably disposed to give a fairer hearing to a pagan philosopher, than to a christian writer.
When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world; and I wished most intensely that she would always be so pleasant and amiable, and never push me about, or scold, or task me unreasonably, as she was too often wont to do.
Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.
gloss: To an unreasonable degree.
pos: adv
examples: The team was given an unreasonably short amount of time to put together a presentation.
1737, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Alderman Barber dated 30 March, 1737, in The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Edinburgh: J. Balfour, 1766, Volume 11, p. 126,
Thus bishops, deans, and chapters, as well as other corporations, seldom or never let their lands even so high as half the value; and when they raise those rents which are unreasonably low, it is by degrees.
The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics.
I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
Translations:
argosy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.
Inflected forms:
form: argosies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A merchant ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A merchant flotilla, fleet.
pos: noun
examples: Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses, And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her, And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next.
gloss: An abundant supply, boatload.
pos: noun
examples: The wreck was total—as total as that ever is which trusts its all to one argosy.
...here smiting with irresistible force some adamantine rock of gross ignorance or cruel superstition, there shaking with its mighty voice of thunder some dread abyss where lurks the taint of covert vice, or crouches the misshapen form of monstrous irreligion, coursing through gloomy chasms and deep dark ravines, and laying bare to the glorious rays of universal and progressive intelligence the golden sands of philosophic lore and scientific research, ever widening, ever expanding, the while bearing richly-freighted argosies of accumulated lore onward through years, and ephochs, and cycles — forever onward — to the borad bosom of that illimitable ocean of perfected wisdom which, unsweapt by temporal gale, unruffled by even a transient breeze of earthly misconception or scepticism, placid and profound, sleeps forever beneath the beams of the eternal sun.
Yet we may be grateful to him for saving for us from the wreck of ancient literature some waifs and strays which, but for his humble labours, might have sunk irretrievably with so many golden argosies in the fathomless ocean of the past.
Pushkin's passage adumbrates the specific contents of Atravinsky's first and third tableaux, which suggests it may actually have helped guide the composer's imagination as he threaded his way among the songs in Kireyevsky's, Tereshchenko's, and Sakharov's immense argosies of wedding lore.
Returning to the Shakespeare lines with which this discussion began, one should note that “Rose” is nowhere to be found among the hundred currently most popular girls' given names in America, having been elbowed out by argosies of Tiffanys, Courtneys, Kimberlys et al.
Translations:
bastardy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English bastardie (also as bastardrie), a borrowing from Middle French bastardie. Equivalent to bastard + -y.
Base: bastard
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: bastardies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being illegitimate, of being born to an unmarried woman and man or as the fruit of adultery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.
The Mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:—
There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,
Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:
Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,
Only for saying he would make his son
Heir to the crown;—meaning, indeed, his house,
Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so.
Translations:
beachy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English beachy
From beach + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: beachier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beachiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
pos: adj
examples: O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!
gloss: Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
pos: adj
examples: 2004 Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean. — USDA site
Derived words: beachiness
Beachy Head
unbeachy
Translations:
bedfellow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English bedfelawe, equivalent to bed + fellow.
Compound parts: bed
fellow
Inflected forms:
form: bedfellows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One with whom one shares a bed.
pos: noun
examples: Yong budding Virgin, faire, and freſh,& ſweet, / Whether away, or whether is thy aboade? / Happy the Parents of ſo faire a childe; / Happier the man whom fauourable ſtars / A lots thee for his louely bedfellow.
Car[azie]. / In the day I waite on my Lady when ſhe eates, / Carry her pantophles, beare vp her trayne / Sing her aſleepe at night, and when ſhe pleaſes / I am her bedfellow. / Gaz[et]. / How? her bedfellow, / And lye with her? / Car[azie]. / Yes, and lye with her.
Therefore, grave mistresses of fate, I pray / That I may never live to see the day / When Zeus takes me for his bedfellow;
gloss: An associate, often an otherwise improbable one.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: They say that "misfortune makes men acquainted with strange bedfellows". The old hereditary Whig Cabinet ministers must, no doubt, by this time have learned to feel themselves at home with strange neighbours at their elbows.
Certain aspects of reprint publishing are more akin to university press publishing than to any other sector of the publishing industry, but the relationships between the two frequently create unwilling bedfellows.
Statistics and truth can be uneasy bedfellows when it comes to football, but one fact could not be ignored: neither side has a player with more than seven goals to his name.
Related words: bedshare
Derived words: bedfellowship
strange bedfellow
Translations:
blessedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blessednesse, equivalent to blessed + -ness.
Base: blessed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: blessednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or state of being blessed; holy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But earthlyer happy is the roſe diſtild, / Then that, vvhich, vvithering on the virgin thorne, / Grovves, liues, and dies, in ſingle bleſſedneſſe.
It matters little to tell you of my blessedness; but my very heart was filled with the light of those radiant eyes, which were to me what the sun is to the world.
Translations:
blessedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blessedly, blessidly, blestly. By surface analysis, blessed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blessedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blessedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a blessed or holy manner.
pos: adv
examples: Therefore ſhould every Souldier in the Warres doe as euery ſicke man in his Bed, waſh euery Moth out of his Conſcience: and dying ſo, Death is to him aduantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly loſt, wherein ſuch preparation was gayned: […]
gloss: Happily, joyfully; fortunately.
pos: adv
examples: We shall blessedly meet again never to depart.
Translations:
brawler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English brawler, brawlere, equivalent to brawl + -er.
Base: brawl
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: brawlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.
pos: noun
examples: The world hath noted. And your name is great
In mouthes of wiſeſt Cenſure. What's the matter
That you vnlace your reputation thus,
And ſpend your rich opinion, for the name
Of a night-brawler? Giue me anſwer to it.
A Biſhop then muſt be blameleſſe, the huſband of one wife, vigilant, ſober, of good behauiour, giuen to hoſpitalitie, apt to teach;
Not giuen to wine, no ſtriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not couetous;
One that ruleth well his owne houſe, hauing his children in ſubiection with all grauitie.
(For if a man know not how to rule his owne houſe, how ſhall he take care of the Church of God?)
gloss: A beat 'em up game.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Classic brawlers ranging from Double Dragon to Streets of Rage and even Brutal Legend created my initial seed of interest for working on one," Deighan said.
Synonyms: rooster
Translations:
flowerpot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flower
Proto-Germanic *puttaz
Old English pott
Proto-Germanic *puttaz
Frankish *pottder.
Vulgar Latin pottum
Old French potbor.
Middle English pot
English pot
English flowerpot
From flower + pot.
Inflected forms:
form: flowerpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flower pot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower-pot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.
pos: noun
examples: O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot
 How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize:
Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot
 That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.
I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
As a multifaceted kitchen enabler, nothing can quite supplant the gorgeous, timeless, ever-available, often dirt-cheap terra-cotta flowerpot.
The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others.
Translations:
butchery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bocherie, from Old French. See butcher for more.
Inflected forms:
form: butcheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The butchering of meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine
gloss: A butcher's shop; a meat market.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.
Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn
To do this piece of ruthless butchery
gloss: An abattoir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: 1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.
1901 There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them. — Henry Lawson, A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek.
gloss: A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading.
gloss: A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: teurastus
Z-car
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Z-cars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the several early models of a police car.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
Zed-car
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Zed-cars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Z-car
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Z-car.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
caparison
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French caparasson (Modern French caparaçon), from Old Spanish caparazón, from Old Occitan capairon.
Inflected forms:
form: caparisons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caparisons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caparisoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caparisoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caparisoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
pos: noun
examples: And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.
That very year they received an order from Gustaf II Adolf of Sweden (1594-1632) for a large number of tapestries and four caparisons.
gloss: Gay or rich clothing.
pos: noun
examples: What boots it, that my Fortune decks me thus / With unſubſtantial Plumes; when my Heart groans / Beneath the gay Capariſon, and Love / With unrequited Paſſion wounds my Soul!
gloss: To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings.
pos: verb
examples: Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse
Translations:
xerostomia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English xero-
English stoma
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
English xerostomia
From xero- + stoma + -ia.
Inflected forms:
form: xerostomias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Abnormal dryness of the mouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Craig Welzbacher (actor) (2013), 6:02 from the start, in "First Days" (Modern Family), season 5, episode 2: “Claire (Julie Bowen): Amazing! You guys are actually hanging out by the water cooler. / Office worker (Craig Welzbacher): I have xerostomia. It's chronic dry mouth.”
Translations:
paperclip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: paperclips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paperclipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paperclipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paperclipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fasten with a paper clip.
pos: verb
Translations:
engageable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English engage
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English engageable
From engage + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: able to be engaged
pos: adj
Translations:
eponymously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eponymous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English eponymously
From eponymous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in an eponymous manner; as the title character of a book, etc.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ergative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐργᾰ́της (ergắtēs, “labourer, worker”) + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘belong or relating to; of the nature of; serving to; tending to’ forming adjectives).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the subject of a transitive construction having grammatical cases or thematic relations different from those of an intransitive construction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The case systems of ergative languages are counter-intuitive to speakers of many Indo-European languages.
The most common situation is for nouns to inflect according to a nominative-ergative pattern, while pronouns at least superficially follow a nominative-accusative pattern. That is, nouns have a single case (nominative) marking intransitive subject and transitive object functions, and another case (ergative) for transitive subject function.
For Podopa, the actor of most transitive verbs (and of some intransitive verbs as well) may occur with or without the ergative case suffix, but with a semantic difference. The ergative suffix indicates that the actor is acting independently, is self-motivated, and exerts his personal control over the situation; while its lack indicates that the actor is performing according to his set social obligations, not according to his own independent will, and does not assert his personal control over the situation.
The ergative case marks the agent of a transitive verb. The ergative suffix is -le/-re/-lle/-ʔille. The form of the ergative suffix is /-le/ for the indefinite and /-ʔille/ for the definite after the consonants /ʔ/, /k/, /t/, /p/, /b/, /ŋ/, /n/ and /m/.
In Section 1 I will discuss the existence of a class of ergative adjectives in Dutch[…]. It will be demonstrated that there are a number of arguments supporting the claim that the class of adjectives should be divided into ergative and unergative adjectives. A large number of adjectives that are unergative according to the tests provided in Section 2 appear to be ergative with respect to their argument structure.
Another difference between C. Barwar and Kurdish is the fact that in C. Barwar the compound perfect construction is not ergative. […] In Kurdish, on the other hand, the corresponding compound construction, which appears to have been the model for the NENA [North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic] construction, is ergative in form when the verb is transitive. The loss of the ergative inflection in C. Barwar and most other NENA dialects is again a development internal to NENA. The original ergative type of construction has survived only in a few Jewish dialects on the eastern periphery.
Translations:
highwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From high + water.
Compound parts: high
water
Inflected forms:
form: highwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of high water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
morne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French morne, morné, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: mornes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The blunt head of a jousting-lance.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, rounded hill.
pos: noun
Translations:
conjoined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From conjoin + -ed.
Base: conjoin
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110,
And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!
Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.
Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.
These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.
gloss: Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it.
O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us.
But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.
gloss: Combined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."
I have seen another woman who, from taste and necessity conjoined, has gone into practical affairs, carries on a mechanical business, partly works at it herself, […]
Derived words: conjoinedly
conjoined twin
nonconjoined
unconjoined
Translations:
slaveholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slave + holder.
Compound parts: slave
holder
Inflected forms:
form: slaveholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who owns slaves.
pos: noun
Translations:
gouty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout + -y.
Base: gout
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: goutier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: goutiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from gout.
pos: adj
examples: When days and years proclaim you’re old —
 A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
Then for support you can lay hold
 O’ the upright of your umberella.
He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]
Translations: