yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bonus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.?
Proto-Italic *dwenos
Old Latin duenos
Old Latin duonus
Latin bonusbor.
English bonus
Borrowed from Latin bonus (“good”). Doublet of bona.
Inflected forms:
form: bonuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boni
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: bonuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bonusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bonusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bonussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
pos: noun
gloss: An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
pos: noun
examples: I was a bank manager in the 1970s, but I never received or expected to receive a bonus for doing my paid work.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
The employee of the week receives a bonus for his excellent work.
gloss: An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
pos: noun
examples: Spend the time killing things and there's a bonus for each hit - but only for fatalities notched up since the start of your current life.
gloss: One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
pos: noun
gloss: To pay a bonus, premium
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In its adherence to a system of rating which bonusses the most anti-social owners and penalises those doing something to improve the district, the municipality must accept a large measure of responsibility.
The main bulk of the piece-workers (71%) are bonussed for fulfillment of the production quotas by the section, shop or plant on condition they fulfill the norms.
Extracting grants called bonusses from municipal councils had become a fine art in the hands of railway promoters, and by the 1870s councils were aware that huge municipal debts could be mounted up by bonussing railway lines that as often as not never materialized.
Derived words: antibonus
baby bonus
bonus baby
bonus dad
bonus father
Bonusgate
bonus genius
bonus hole
bonus-less
bonus mom
bonus mother
bonus parent
bonus-point
bonus point
bonus question
double bonus
no claims bonus
nonbonus
non-bonus
signing bonus
sign-on bonus
sign on bonus
Translations:
potsherd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English pot-sherd, pot-schord, pot scherd, pot scarth, from Middle English pot, pote, potte (“a container, pot, vessel; especially an earthenware vessel”) (from late Old English pot, pott (“a pot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a type of vessel”)) + Middle English sherd (“piece of fired clay or broken earthenware; potsherd”) (from Old English sceard (“a shard, sherd”), from Proto-Germanic *skardą (“a nick, notch”)); equivalent to pot + sherd (“shard”).
Compound parts: pot
sherd
Inflected forms:
form: potsherds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: potshard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pot-sherd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of ceramic from pottery, often found on an archaeological site.
pos: noun
tags: often
examples: But this madde Amalecke, / Lyke to a Mamelek, / He regardeth lordes / No more than potshordes; […]
[W]ho can deny but that the rod of Gods mouth is indeed Virga virtutis, a rod of strength, an iron rod, able to deale with all humane reaſonings, as a hammer with a potſherd, which though to the hand of a man it may feele as hard as a rocke, yet is too brittle to endure the blow of an iron rod?
Job took a potſherd to ſcrape himself, becauſe his hands were as full of boils as his body: This is the caſe of thy corrupt ſoul: not to be recovered but by Jeſus Chriſ, whoſe ſtrength was dried up like a potſherd, Pſal[ms] xxii. 15.
[I]n the case of pottery, it [epigraphy] is usually taken to include graffiti scratched with a sharp point, and even painted inscriptions which are made before firing as part of the design of a vase, but not written documents (ostraka), in which pot-sherds are merely used as a material to write on instead of papyrus.
Speiser, who made excavations on Vao Island found prehistoric potsherds at a depth of 10 inches, and on the surface of the ground also.
I have been asked about the single most important artifact that I have seen. It is a single broken piece of pottery no bigger than a couple of inches, but its interpretation makes it one of the most significant artifacts in Jewish history. It is an inscribed potshard (a fragment of pottery) from Masada (in Israel) marked with the name "ben Yair." […] While it remains a single potshard marked in ink, it is a powerful symbol of what motivates archaeologists in the field: a simple object that signifies an entire historical event.
Translations:
innkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inkeper; equivalent to inn + keeper. Compare Middle English inholder (“innkeeper”).
Base: inn
Inflected forms:
form: innkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person responsible for the running of an inn, usually the proprietor.
pos: noun
Translations:
cognate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cognātus (“related by blood”), from co- + gnātus (“born”). Compare Portuguese cognato and Spanish cognado. Doublet of connate and cognatus.
Inflected forms:
form: cogn.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: cognates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cogn.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (law) related on the mother's side.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This explanation provoked further great hilarity among the members of the committee. And the frankness was admired by many with which Louit, on his return, confessed to having found, in the course of his excursion, three barns in all, of which two contained empty bottles and the third the skeleton of a goat. But in other quarters this and cognate statements were viewed in another and less friendly light.
gloss: Descended from the same source lexemes (same etymons) of an ancestor language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One of a number of things allied in origin or nature.
pos: noun
gloss: One who is related to another on the female side.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: One who is related to another, both having descended from a common ancestor through legal marriages.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A word either descended from the same base word of the same ancestor language as the given word, or judged to be a regular reflex of the same reconstructed root of proto-language as the given word.
pos: noun
Related words: cognate accusative
agnate
derivation
etymology
etymon
false friend
root
Derived words: cognately
cognateness
cognation
noncognate
cognacy
cognatic
cognatically
false cognate
Translations:
filtrate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the substantivation of New Latin filtrātus (“filtered”) past perfect participle of filtrō (“to filter”). Equivalent to filter (the verb) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Base: filter
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: filtrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filtrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: filtrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: filtrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: filtrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.
pos: noun
gloss: To filter.
pos: verb
examples: Ashes boil'd in Water; and filtrated
Translations:
trill
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English trillen, from Italian trillo, trillare. Compare German trillern, Norwegian trille, Swedish trilla.
Compound parts: true
real
Inflected forms:
form: trills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: triller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trillest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it as an ornament; in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.
pos: noun
gloss: A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.
pos: noun
gloss: To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet.
gloss: To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trill a note, or the letter r
The sober-suited songstress trills her lay.
gloss: True; respected.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: All my trill niggas know who be bringin da funk / Lees and shell toes like it's Black History Month
LAMAR: Oh, really? That's a nice change from fools comin' up on us. / FRANKLIN: That's trill, homie. / LAMAR: You damn straight that's trill, partner, but it's a shame I don't believe it. You wanna drop some notes on that shit, I'll give you the odds, homie.
Middle finger to the critics, me and my nigga Skrillex / You know we finna kill it, A$AP we the trillest
Synonyms: chirl
chirr
quaver
trill
warble
wobble
roll
Related words: birdsong
shake
trembling
vibrate
mordente
tremolo
vibrato
Derived words: trillest
trilly
triller
trillingly
untrill
Translations:
glissando
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian glissandobor.
English glissando
Borrowed from Italian glissando.
Inflected forms:
form: glissandi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glissandos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glissandoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glissandos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glissandoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glissandoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glissandoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
gloss: A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To play with a glissando or sliding effect.
pos: verb
Derived words: glissando babbler
Translations:
dynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English dynamics
From dynamic + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
draco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dracos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
pos: noun
examples: Chop trees with the draco
Translations:
cuatro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cuatro. Doublet of four and quatre.
Inflected forms:
form: cuatros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).
pos: noun
Translations:
achromatopsia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From German Achromatopsie, from Ancient Greek ἀχρώματος (akhrṓmatos), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”), + -opsie. By surface analysis, a- + chromato- + -opsia.
Base: χρῶμα
Affixes: ἀ-
Inflected forms:
form: achromatopsias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: achromatopsy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Total color blindness; the total inability to distinguish colors due to the absence of cone cells in the eyes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
microcontroller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English controller
English microcontroller
From micro- + controller.
Inflected forms:
form: microcontrollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: µC
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: uC
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: MCU
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A microcomputer on a single chip, used to control some device such as an automobile engine or a toy.
pos: noun
examples: The microcontroller is a mini computer which can be programmed to perform different tasks, including monitoring things and making things happen. It is pre-programmed for use with the games projects. See project 17 for how to select games on it.
Translations:
folksy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From folks + -y or folk + -sy.
Base: folks
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: folksier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more folksy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: folksiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most folksy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of common folk.
pos: adj
examples: It’s not hard to see why most people don’t feel like they fit in well with either party. But as long as the folksy and brainy contingents stay on opposite sides of the dance floor, we can look forward to a lot more of this. Bifurcation by education is always bad, but it’s worse for the educated group, because they’ll always be outnumbered. You simply cannot build a political coalition on the expectation that everybody’s going to do the reading. If the brainy group is going to survive, it has to find a way to reunite with the folksy. So maybe it’s worth taking some cues from the most successful ideologies of all time, the ones that have kept the brainy and folksy strains intertwined for thousands of years.
gloss: Characteristic of common folk.
pos: adj
gloss: Characteristic of common folk.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: chummy
Mr. Clooney, as a veteran spacewalker, with his resonant voice and folksy yarns, seems to be channeling every imperturbable astronaut you ever heard speaking from on high.
Related words: folkish
folkishness
folksiness
just folks
Derived words: folksily
folksiness
Translations:
inaccuracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Morphologically in- + accuracy.
Base: accuracy
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inaccuracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This book has a few factual inaccuracies, but only because of the limits of contemporary knowledge. For instance, at the time of writing, Ribbon Falls was thought to be the highest waterfall in the world; today we know that Angel Falls in Venezuela has this distinction.
gloss: Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A move that is considered suboptimal, but not as bad as a mistake or blunder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: accuracy
Related words: inaccurate
inaccurately
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: грешно твърдение
roman: grešno tvǎrdenie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不準確 /不准确
roman: bù zhǔnquè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 錯誤 /错误
roman: cuòwù
lang: Czech
word: nepřesnost
lang: Dutch
word: fout
lang: Dutch
word: onnauwkeurigheid
lang: Dutch
word: onjuistheid
lang: Dutch
word: onwaarheid
lang: German
word: Ungenauigkeit
lang: Greek
word: ανακρίβεια
roman: anakríveia
lang: Māori
word: tapepetanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: unøyaktighet
lang: Portuguese
word: inexatidão
lang: Spanish
word: desacierto
lang: Spanish
word: desatino
lang: Swedish
word: felaktighet
lang: Ukrainian
word: неточність
roman: netočnistʹ
yuck
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps imitative. Akin to Dutch jakkes (“disgusting”). First appeared in the 1960s. Compare also Scots yeuk (“anything that disgusts”), Middle English yuke (“an itchy skin disease" akin to middle Dutch "joke" and modern Dutch "jeuk"”) .
Inflected forms:
form: yucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Uttered to indicate disgust usually toward an objectionable taste or odour.
pos: intj
examples: Yuck! This peanut butter is disgusting!
gloss: Something disgusting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I fetched an orange from a basket and peeled it […] “Make sure you peel as much of the yuck off as possible,” she said. “I hate the yuck."
gloss: A general insult.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
uncountable
examples: Alright, settle down, you yucks!
gloss: To say "yuck"; to express disgust.
pos: verb
examples: I yucked and yicked and spit in the dirt .
Dom was yucking and yelling. He was clumsy and barely got as many with two hands as Mouse did with one.
He was yucking loudly at the plate in front of him.
I shall tell the other one which cream to apply first and then the steps in order, but no yucking will I tolerate.
We are not interested in yucking anyone's yum or shaming anyone who has fantasies or fetishes about ideas of this reallife violence.
We collected birds' eggs, gingerly plucking them from nests high in the trees and holding the eggs in our mouths as we used both hands to climb back down; sometimes they'd crack and the bitter taste of the contents would have us yucking for hours.
gloss: To vomit or gag;
pos: verb
examples: She thought it was overpoweringly gross and yucked great dribbles over the front of her lace blouse .
And she yucked. She forced herself to eat again. And again she yucked.
As he yucked his guts up mere feet from the little passageway, all of John's shame came crumbling down upon him.
gloss: fuck.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
examples: I can see these pro-lifer's screams of “Stop killing the foetus” turn to “I ain't taking no mother yucking nickker home to my mother yucking house."
But when I was out there, I yucked up everything.
Boy, you sure as hell yucked this up.
Antonyms: mmm
om nom nom
yum
Translations:
yum
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: yum yum
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indicating delight at the flavor of food.
pos: intj
examples: Yum! This apple pie is delicious!
gloss: Delicious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: This apple pie is yum!
Translations:
yummy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English yum
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English yummy
From yum + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: yummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: yummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delicious.
pos: adj
tags: childish
colloquial
often
Translations:
Keynesian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Keynes
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Keynesian
From Keynes + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Keynesian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Keynesian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Keynesians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an economic theory based on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, as put forward in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936 in response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, and extensively extended by a large body of followers before and after his death in 1946.
pos: adj
examples: That’s why supply and demand get out of balance in a slump, according to the so-called New Keynesian model that Fed officials and other policy makers lean on.
gloss: A proponent of Keynesian economic doctrine.
pos: noun
examples: We Are All Keynesians Now [title]
If I'd believed in all their policies, [...] I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark-staring raving schizophrenic! (laugh track).
Since the 1960's the Keynesians have also come under heavy criticism by a group of economists known as Neo-Keynesians. The main contention of the Neo-Keynesians is that the Keynesians have no adequate theory on inflation.
Translations:
mart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch mart, markt (“market”) (Modern Dutch markt), from Old Dutch *markat, from Late Latin marcātus, an alternative form of Classical Latin mercātus. See market.
Inflected forms:
form: marts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shop, a store, a market.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
in-compounds
usually
examples: FedMart, Walmart, Kmart, Kwik-E-Mart
gloss: A bazaar, fair, market, or marketplace.
pos: noun
examples: In that day, drovers would drive their cattle to the marts on the coast.
Perhaps ſome Merchant hath inuited him,
 And from the Mart he's ſomewhere gone to dinner:
 Good Siſter let vs dine, and neuer fret;
 A man is Maſter of his libertie:
And by great waters the seede of Sihor, the haruest of the riuer is her reuenew, and she is a mart of nations.
In London; where has commerce ſuch a mart,
 So rich, ſo throng'd, ſo drain'd, and ſo ſupplied,
 As London, opulent, enlarged, and ſtill
 Increaſing, London?
The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to him who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.
The bold little ships even broke through the Gates of Hercules to the open ocean, coasting then northward to take the gold of Ireland and the tin of Cornwall, as well as southward, around the bulge of Senegal, to remote Yorubaland and the distant marts of ivory, gold, and slaves.
gloss: A bargain.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part,
 And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
Derived words: data mart
D-Mart
hypermart
Kris Kringle Mart
minimart
supermart
Wal-Mart
Translations:
quixotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from Spanish Quixote, the surname of Don Quixote, the title character in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more quixotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quixotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Don Quixotic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Don-Quixotic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Quixotic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of the Spanish chivalric hero Don Quixote; possessed with or resulting from the desire to do noble and romantic deeds, without thought of realism and practicality.
pos: adj
examples: Olivier, as you know, was quixotic, and would not permit a secret service and spies.
The message is not subliminal. […] Characters aren’t just quixotic, they cite Cervantes to one another.
The war triggered in [Miguel de] Unamuno the realization that, in hopeless times, quixotic lunacy could save people from the paralysis that often accompanies defeatism.
In the digital age, building a new library filled with old-fashioned printed books seems idealistic, almost quixotic.
gloss: Overly optimistic and moralistic.
pos: adj
gloss: Exceedingly idealistic.
pos: adj
examples: Call it a brain freeze, another 'Aleppo moment,' or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.
Related words: quixotism
quixotry
Derived words: quixotically
unquixotic
Translations:
roost
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English roste (“chicken's roost; perch”), from Old English hrōst (“wooden framework of a roof; roost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrōst, from Proto-Germanic *hrōstaz (“wooden framework; grill”); see *raustijan.
Cognate with Dutch roest (“roost”), German Low German Rust (“roost”), German Rost (“grate; gridiron; grill”).
Inflected forms:
form: roosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roosts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roosting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roosted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roosted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
pos: noun
examples: He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.
gloss: A group of birds roosting together.
pos: noun
gloss: A bedroom.
pos: noun
gloss: The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
pos: noun
gloss: To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spend the night.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.
gloss: To kick (a ball) a long distance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cock of the roost
come home to roost
henroost
roostcock
roostmate
rule the roost
the highest branch is not the safest roost
aroost
rooster
the chickens come home to roost
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: төнәү
roman: tönəw
lang: Central Bikol
word: tugdunan
lang: Catalan
word: jóc
lang: Czech
word: kurník
lang: Czech
word: hřad
lang: Estonian
word: tana
lang: Finnish
word: nukkumapaikka
lang: Galician
word: poleiro
lang: German
word: Nest
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πέτευρον
roman: péteuron
lang: Irish
word: fara
lang: Italian
word: pollaio
lang: Japanese
word: 塒
roman: negura
lang: Latvian
word: lakta
lang: Lithuanian
word: lakta
lang: Macedonian
word: се́дело
roman: sédelo
lang: Māori
word: tūhunga
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vēutīng
lang: Polish
word: grzęda
lang: Portuguese
word: poleiro
lang: Russian
word: насе́ст
roman: nasést
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: spiris
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кокошињац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kokošinjac
lang: Spanish
word: gallinero
lang: Spanish
word: pajarera
lang: Turkish
word: yuva
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تونك
roman: tünek
lang: Ukrainian
word: сі́дало
roman: sídalo
lang: Walloon
word: djoke
lang: Walloon
word: djocoe
ocarina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis
Proto-Italic *awis
Latin avis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -ica
Latin *avica
Late Latin auca
Italian oca
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īna
Italian -ina
Italian ocarinabor.
English ocarina
Borrowed from Italian ocarina (literally “little goose”), due to the musical instrument's resemblance to the animal.
Inflected forms:
form: ocarinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ochorina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.
pos: noun
Translations:
acquirer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acquire
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 acquirer
From acquire + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: acquirers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who acquires.
pos: noun
gloss: A bank or financial institution that processes credit card or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant.
pos: noun
Translations:
acquisition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquīrō, acquīrere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.
Base: acquire
Affixes: -ition
Inflected forms:
form: acquisitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of acquiring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
gloss: The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.
gloss: The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: acquisition
acquist
attainment
gain
gaining
increase
Antonyms: abandonment
deperdition
loss
Related words: receive
property
Derived words: acquisitional
acquisition debt
acquisitioned
acquisition feeding time
acquisitionism
acquisitionist
acquisition prize
acquisition time
compulsory acquisition
data acquisition
deacquisition
gear acquisition syndrome
macroacquisition
misacquisition
nonacquisition
postacquisition
preacquisition
reacquisition
second-language acquisition
statistical language acquisition
third language acquisition
Translations:
activation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
marketing
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
▲
English active
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English activate
▲
English -ation
English -ion
English activation
From active or activate + -ation
Inflected forms:
form: activations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Making active and effective; bringing into a state of activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alarm activations cause the driver to have to stop the train - and in some cases walk back to reset it. The activations caused 1,032 minutes of delays and nine cancellations.
gloss: The process of making a radioisotope by bombarding a stable element with neutrons or protons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which molecules are made able to react.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The promotion of a brand through an event or campaign.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: using shopper activation to convert shoppers into buyers
Derived words: activational
activation analysis
activation energy
activation function
activationist
activationless
activation phrase
activation record
activation syndrome
alloactivation
autoactivation
biactivation
bioactivation
cat activation noise
CH activation
chemoactivation
coactivation
cryoactivation
deactivation
health activation
heteroactivation
hyperactivation
hypoactivation
immunoactivation
inactivation
mechanoactivation
metalloactivation
misactivation
multiactivation
neuroactivation
neuron activation
neutron activation analysis
nonactivation
overactivation
phosphoactivation
photoactivation
postactivation
preactivation
psychoactivation
radioactivation
reactivation
superactivation
sympathoactivation
thermoactivation
time delay toxin activation
transactivation
underactivation
Translations:
nonferrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English ferrous
English nonferrous
From non- + ferrous.
Inflected forms:
form: non-ferrous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Containing no iron.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
actualization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English actual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English actualize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English actualization
From actualize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: actualizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: actualisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: making actual or really existent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
actuarial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English actuary
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English actuarial
From actuary + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to actuaries.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The SOA and CAS jointly sponsor a Web site for those interested in pursuing an actuarial career.
gloss: Relating to statistical calculation, especially pertaining to insurance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But in dealing with the problem of old-age insurance, some understanding of the actuarial principles becomes imperative, because their neglect has led many useful and well-meant experiments to grief.
Derived words: actuarially
actuarial science
nonactuarial
Translations:
vicissitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vicissitude, from Latin vicissitūdō (“change”), from vicissim (“on the other hand, in turn”), from vicis (“change, vicissitude”), whence Portuguese vez and French fois (“time (as in "next time"), occurrence”).
Inflected forms:
form: vicissitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Regular change or succession from one thing to another, or one part of a cycle to the next; alternation; mutual succession; interchange; variability.
pos: noun
gloss: A change, especially in one's life or fortunes.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: And God made.. the Stars, and set them in the firmament of Heaven to illuminate the Earth, and rule the day in their vicissitude...
Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month.
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
The vicissitudes of war in Iraq cast a dreary backdrop for Donald Rumsfeld's first visit to Asian military allies since he became US Defense Secretary in 2001.
Engaged intellectuals were obliged to take a stand on the side of progress and History, whatever the occasional moral vicissitudes.
Despite all the monarchy’s vicissitudes, however, Queen Elizabeth II, a figure from another age, who was stiff and formal and not noticeably particularly warm and empathetic, had won and retained the affection, loyalty and support of the overwhelming majority of the British public, who respected her for her diligence and sense of duty.
Related words: vicar
vicarious
vice-
vice versa
Translations:
meteorology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετεωρολογία (meteōrología), from μετέωρα (metéōra, “celestial phenomena”), nominalized from the neuter plural of μετέωρος (metéōros, “high in the sky”), + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) + -ology (“study of”). First attested in 1563.
Inflected forms:
form: meteorologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: study of meteorology
department of meteorology
She’s studying meteorology at university.
Meteorology helps us understand weather patterns and climate change.
gloss: The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: meteorology report
Synonyms: meteorology
weatherlore
Related words: meteor
meteoric
meteorite
meteoritic
meteoritics
meteoroid
meteoroidal
aerology
aeronomy
weather forecasting
atmosphere
wind
weather
hydrometeor
precipitation
rain
evaporation
storm
cloud
humidity
pressure
temperature
Derived words: aeronautical meteorology
agricultural meteorology
agrometeorology
applied meteorology
astrometeorology
biometeorology
dynamic meteorology
glaciometeorology
hydrometeorology
macrometeorology
mesometeorology
meteorologic
meteorological
meteorologist
micrometeorology
physical meteorology
radar meteorology
radarmeteorology
radio meteorology
synoptic meteorology
Translations:
nox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts
Proto-Italic *nokts
Latin noxlbor.
English nox
Learned borrowing from Latin nox, from Proto-Italic *nokts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.
Inflected forms:
form: noctes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
proscribed
form: noces
pos: noun
tags: plural
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.
pos: noun
Translations:
numinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin nūmen (“nod of the head; divine sway or will; divinity”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting possession or presence of a quality). Nūmen is believed to derive either from Latin *nuō (“to nod”) or from Ancient Greek νοούμενον (nooúmenon, “influence perceptible by the mind but not the senses”) (ultimately from νόος (nóos, “mind; thought; purpose”)).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more numinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most numinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
pos: adj
examples: His interest in numinous objects led him on a quest for the Holy Grail.
The fetish of Huitzilopochtli, bundled up and screened from profane eyes, now preceded the wandering group, carried on the back of his oracle-priest or sorcerer who alone was holy enough to handle safely the numinous object.
He held his own body in numinous esteem.
The use of blood to instill numen into a thing is illustrated by the establishment and annual renewal of Terminus, the boundary marker […] The transfer of numinous power to persons has its example in the drinking of blood by seers in order to get oracular vision.
gloss: Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.
pos: adj
examples: The Will of a King is very numinous; it hath a kind of vast universality in it, it is many times greater than the will of his whole Kingdom, stiffened with ill Counsel and ill Presidents: […]
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. In the songs Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard sang was either some fraction of the truth's numinous beauty (as Mucho now believed) or only a power spectrum.
[Justinian I] had the genius to realize the vast resources available to an east Roman emperor of the early sixth century — an almost numinous past history, a full treasury, an unrivalled supply of human talent in every field.
Is death closer than they think? [Samuel Langhorne] Clemens sets the scene with a numinous description of the men waiting in the corncrib in the "veiled moonlight."
A post-scarcity communism that doesn't dispense with all thoughts of the divine and numinous can't be precluded.
Related words: numen
numinal
numinism
Derived words: numinosity
numinously
numinousness
Translations:
colonus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnusbor.
English colonus
Borrowed from Latin colōnus.
Inflected forms:
form: coloni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sharecropping tenant farmer of the late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
mesa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
Inflected forms:
form: mesas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
pos: noun
examples: A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
gloss: a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
pos: noun
examples: The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
Related words: tablemount
Derived words: Antelope Mesa
Big Mountain Mesa
Black Mesa
First Mesa
Mesa County
mesalike
nanomesa
Second Mesa
Third Mesa
Translations:
v-chip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Stands for violence chip, coined and devised by Tim Collings, promoted by the William Jefferson Clinton Administration.
Inflected forms:
form: v-chips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any censorship technology that allows parents to control the level of objectionable content that their children may see on television.
pos: noun
Translations:
censorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English censor
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English censorship
From censor + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: censorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent undesirable media from being published or propagated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] such a curious thing — it is the only thing left of the old censorship of the press."
During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
The Infantes had contacts among left-wing groups that opposed the dictatorial regime in Spain and their visibility in these circles was a serious concern for the censorship authorities […]
gloss: The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Related words: bleep censor
censor
censorware
bowdlerisation
media democracy
moral panic
Derived words: anticensorship
corporate censorship
cosmic censorship
cosmic censorship hypothesis
cybercensorship
decensorship
noncensorship
precensorship
recensorship
self-censorship
semicensorship
uncensorship
Translations:
nomen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.
Inflected forms:
form: nomina
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nomens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The family name of an Ancient Roman, designating their gens.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […]
Greeks and other provincials who gained Roman citizenship kept their Greek names as cognomens, to which they added Roman nomens and praenomens—usually those of the ones to whom they owed their citizenship.
gloss: The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The adytum is unsculptured, but two monoliths within it bear the name of Physcon and Cleopatra; and in the front chamber of the naos is that of the Ethiopian king “Ashar (Atar)-Amun*, the everliving,” who in some of his nomens is called “the beloved of Isis.”
The following is a list of the prenomens and nomens of Egyptian kings which are of common occurrence, with transliterations into Roman letters.
gloss: A taxonomic name.
pos: noun
examples: Over the decades and centuries, Linnaeus’s binominal system reached ever greater prominence as a standard to categorize and stabilize organismal biology, and it became necessary to trace taxon names, so that duplication and confusion could be addressed or avoided. As a consequence, different areas of biology developed 'codes' of nomenclature, according to which the availability of such nomina could be governed.
Related words: nomen abstractum
nomen acti
nomen actionis
nomen agentis
nomen ambiguum
nomen appellativum
nomen concretum
nomen confusum
nomen correctum
nomen deminutivum
nomen gentilicium
nomen instrumenti
nomen loci
nomen nescio
nomen patientis
nomen periculosum
nomen protectum
nomen rectum
nomen regens
nomen relativum
nomen sacrum
nomen translatum
nomen unitatis
nomen vasis
nomen verbi
nomen vicis
Translations: