yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
covenanted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bound by a covenant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The formation of dew.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] the dewing of a metal plate when breathed upon, the dewing of the outside of a glass when very cold water is poured into it, […]
gloss: Other condensation (of water vapor or other gases) physically analogous to dew formation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The fact remains that, for a given gas composition, it is the metal temperature that determines whether or not dewing (and hence corrosion) takes place.
Related words: dew point
sweating
Translations:
venting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ventings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is vented.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It wasn't until 1978 that the general public learned that nuclear ventings were not unusual.
gloss: The release of unwanted gas directly into the atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Separate research suggests a switch from the flaring of methane to venting may be behind some of these vast outpourings. […] Venting simply releases the invisible methane into the air unburned, which, until recent developments in satellite technology, had been hard to detect.
Related words: sealing
Derived words: edge venting
Translations:
clovers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the suit of clubs; primarily childish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
snookered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more snookered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most snookered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a situation where the cue ball position is such that one cannot directly hit the required object ball.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In a difficult situation, especially because of the actions of others.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
pooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: poolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Grouping together of various resources or assets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
aerials
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: From aerial (“move involving one or both feet leaving the ground”) + -s.
Base: aerial
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Aerial skiing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The small world of aerials is trying to provide comfort. Athletes from Switzerland, including the former Olympic freestyle skier Andreas Isoz, have been raising funds and planned to go this weekend to Mukachevo, or as close as they could get near the Ukrainian border, to hand off supplies.
Translations:
spewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material spewed or vomited.
pos: noun
examples: One of my first jobs as a biologist was to analyze fish otoliths (ear stones) from sacks of sea lion scats and spewings collected from their haul-out sites on land to identify the species and sizes of the fishes being eaten.
Translations:
delicates
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Garments or cloth items that are delicate and need gentle handling when being laundered, especially underwear or lingerie
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
elastics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A children's game in which players perform various jumping and trapping manoeuvres on long loops of elastic band stretched between two other players.
pos: noun
examples: We could play elastics, or skipping, without the need of anyone else to stand in the loops or hold the rope.
Derived words: aeroelastics
Translations:
brooming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: broomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweeping with a broom.
pos: noun
examples: Each pass will actually receive two broomings. Because of the span, your broom head operates at an angle as opposed to a flat plane in which brooms are normally operated for sweeping.
Then he went out into the spring sunshine to escape from her broomings and brushings, and there Brangwyn presently joined him, and they strolled together up the steep couloir, in the mouth of which the cottage stood.
Translations:
buggering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buggerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of buggery.
pos: noun
examples: I have just narrowly avoided having a buggering.
[…] you look at the videos you brought down from the bedroom. Some feature the gang-buggerings of children; mostly male and mostly Asian or South American. Others show women being mounted by donkeys and other animals, in what looks like a prison.
Translations:
spiraled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spiraled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spiraled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
availing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more availing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most availing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Efficacious.
pos: adj
examples: History in this case was all too availing
Translations:
geeked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more geeked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geeked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under the psychological effects of a stimulant drug; high;
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I'm geeked up and I can't see and all the walls keep looking at me
Last night it was Kush and Ciroc: I was super geeked
Cash flowing, money flowing, yeah that's a super week
gloss: Very excited.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I am not one for lifting in silence – ever. I like to use music to get me geeked up and focused in my training. It always makes a difference for me
I want to be held accountable for my spending and I want to cut out extraneous expenses. To get a kick start on this goal, I checked this book out of the library and I'm hoping it will get me geeked about budgeting.
Translations:
usurping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: usurpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: usurpation
pos: noun
Translations:
havering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English haver
English -ing
English havering
From haver + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more havering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most havering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hesitant; indecisive.
pos: adj
examples: Added to the obstacles which reforming ministers like Turgot […] now had to face was the king's havering inconstancy.
gloss: Long-winded
pos: adj
gloss: Indecision, indecisive behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Havering over the future of the Barnard Castle-Tebay and Penrith line now seems concluded.
Translations:
bayoneting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bayonetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bayonetting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stabbing with a bayonet.
pos: noun
Translations:
hoodwinking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hoodwinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of deception.
pos: noun
Translations:
ciphering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: cipherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A calculation or computation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A cipher (fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed).
pos: noun
Synonyms: reckoning
Translations:
empowering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more empowering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most empowering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That empowers; serving to empower.
pos: adj
examples: Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
Translations:
empowered
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
English empower
English -ed
English empowered
From empower + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more empowered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most empowered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: empowereds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having been given powers.
pos: adj
examples: Empowered staff deliver the goods and exceed your expectations. Disempowered staff develop a 'sullen obedience' where they stop driving new initiatives and just await orders.
gloss: Having been given the power to make choices relevant to one's situation.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Policy moderation in the past, I argued above, has depended on a coalition between civic elites and newly empowered minorities—or at least a resolve by civic elites to discourage a racially polarizing politics of law and order.
gloss: Acting with confidence.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: One who is empowered.
pos: noun
examples: The category of sex tourism, which assimilates phenomena ranging from southeast Asian brothels run for foreign men by international crime cartels with the covert support of national governments (see Hall, 1992 and Truong, 1990) to the 'sugar mummie' phenomenon wherein older women tourists travel to tourist centres in order to enjoy sexual encounters with local youths, is well suited to represent the expolitative character of much of the tourism trade between the developed and less-developed countries in so far as it foregrounds the destructive playing out of empowereds' irresponsible desires on the bodies of those immobilized by poverty and lack of alternative opportunities.
The coolest of these "empowereds" laugh with the shock jocks ogling the hotties and ragging on the fatties and the prudes.
And if he had gotten his hands on Casey while the Heroics kids were fighting those controlled empowereds, he would've made sure that she felt every single bit of agony that he hadn't been able to inflict on her when she was.
Derived words: superempowered
unempowered
Translations:
decanting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a liquid is decanted.
pos: noun
examples: I then took a piece of dry stone, ground it fine in a mortar, and placed the powder in water, the sand particles sunk rapidly to the bottom, while the clay remained suspended, and by several washings and decantings the sand and clay could be approximately separated […]
Translations:
jilting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jiltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rejection of a lover.
pos: noun
examples: It produced its usual crop of marriages, jiltings, slanders, and other embarrassments...
Translations:
jilted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jilted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jilted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
lolling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who lolls.
pos: noun
examples: That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
Translations:
loppers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pruning shears with long handles, used for lopping.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
pilfering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pilferings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is pilfered; a petty theft.
pos: noun
Translations:
embroidering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: embroiderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An embroidered decoration.
pos: noun
Translations:
disembarking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disembarkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disembarkation.
pos: noun
Translations:
indenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: indentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: indentation
pos: noun
examples: From this Observation, I was induced to examine the grains of Wheat themselves, in order to investigate, how, and for what purpose they were formed with those indentings, chinks, or creases.
Translations:
peeking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peekings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who peeks.
pos: noun
examples: Some children, in their furtive peekings and lurkings, spoke of little Taro discovering these unpleasant gifts and hiding with them […]
Translations:
proffering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: profferings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is proferred.
pos: noun
examples: Everywhere there were greetings and profferings of dinner invitations.
Translations:
recounting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: recountings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is recounted
pos: noun
examples: Months after his first mention of the book he was still obsessing, daily it seemed, about minutiae of the Chambers-Alger Hiss espionage confrontation, while his sidekicks histrionically greeted his recountings with a chorus of groans and protests of the “not-again” variety.
Translations:
relenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who relents.
pos: noun
examples: Oh, tell me, if there be any relentings of pity in your bosom, how could you endure it, to behold the agonies of the dying man, as, goaded by pain, he grasps the cold ground in convulsive energy […]
Translations:
stenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: stentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical act of placing a stent, or supporting tube, into an artery, esophagus, or other passage or conduit in the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The chest pains were relieved by coronary stenting.
Translations:
sulking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sulkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sulks.
pos: noun
examples: "He has seen you, too, he says; and thinks you have seen him, hey?" and Dangerfield chuckled more and more knowingly, and watched his shiftings and sulkings with a pleasant grin, as he teased and quizzed him in his own enigmatical way.
Translations:
fisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having some specific type of fist.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations:
pillowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pillowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material used to make pillows.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pillowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pillow
English -ed
English pillowed
From pillow + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With a pillow or pillows.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Day by day, those who watched unremittingly by the bed-side, by the sofa, by the pillowed chair, saw hope recede farther and farther from them.
The grazes on his back redressed, he allowed Sean and the nurse to ease him back against the pillowed bed rest.
Coffee table, end table, pillowed couch were covered in printed matter.
Translations:
chucking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: chuckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The holding of an object in a chuck.
pos: noun
examples: A complete lay-out showing each operation in the three chuckings required to finish a cross-head of typical design is shown in Fig. 11.
Translations:
misinformed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more misinformed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misinformed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
bluebells
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
pos: noun
Translations:
chunked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chunked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chunked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Divided into chunks
pos: adj
Translations:
woofing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English woof
English -ing
English woofing
From woof + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: woofings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of one who woofs; barking.
pos: noun
Translations:
veering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: veerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motion that veers; a sudden swerve.
pos: noun
examples: [H]er mood, though consistently excited, was labile in affect, with sudden veerings from stormy hypomania to fearfulness and agitated depression.
Translations:
narks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nitrogen narcosis.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
Translations:
narked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more narked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most narked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Annoyed, irritated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: What the idea lacks in principle, it surely makes up for in convenience: instead of 12 angry men, only one moderately narked one.
Translations:
impairing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: impairings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: impairment
pos: noun
examples: […] those invasions and impairings to which the smaller revenues of the English clergy are daily subject […]
Translations:
quietening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quietenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something quieter.
pos: noun
Translations:
wafting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: waftings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of wafting; the action of something that wafts.
pos: noun
examples: The following afternoon they fired up an ancient wood-frame charcoal grill and laid on the pig, suffusing the quad with the sweet waftings of barbecue — that is, until the grill caught fire and collapsed.
Translations:
overturning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overturnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is overturned.
pos: noun
examples: But after that there were three general overturnings before Christ came, in the succession of the three great monarchies of the world, after the Babylonish empire.
Translations:
wicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: wickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The material of which wicks are made, especially a loosely braided or twisted cord or tape of cotton.
pos: noun
gloss: Capillarity, capillary effect, capillary motion.
pos: noun
Translations:
confabulations
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: casual conversations; a chat.
pos: noun
gloss: fabricated memories believed to be true, especially in someone suffering from dementia.
pos: noun
Translations:
purloining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: purloinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: theft
pos: noun
examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
[…] I must require you to use diligence in presenting especially those purloinings and imbezlements, which are of plate, vessel, or whatsoever within the King's house.
Translations:
unbuttoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unbuttonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of unfastening buttons.
pos: noun
examples: If your buttonholes are too big for your buttons, or will be after only a few unbuttonings, try reinforcing them using one of the methods on this page.
Translations:
uncoiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uncoilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being uncoiled.
pos: noun
examples: I have no idea that repeated coilings and uncoilings can do any harm whatever to a piece of sound cable[…]
Translations:
uncoiled
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 coiled
English uncoiled
From un- + coiled.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not coiled
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Test large, cylindrical, early portion closely coiled and always completely involute, later and larger portion uncoiled[…]
Translations:
instructs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: shortened form of instructions
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
Translations:
staling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process whereby bread goes stale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
shrilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shrillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound that shrills.
pos: noun
examples: Long, harp-like shrillings, or soft gush of sounds.
Translations:
refactoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: refactorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or process in which code is refactored.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
malingering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: malingerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Owners also restricted access to medical care by routinely accusing sick blacks of malingering. Slave narratives and planters’ records reveal that an owner faced with a sick slave was likely to believe the illness was feigned.
Translations:
chagrined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chagrined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chagrined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling chagrin (at something); vexed; fretful.
pos: adj
examples: She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.
[…] she had nothing but paste ornaments about her; and therefore, observing her own diamonds on a celebrated courtezan, was so excessively, and indeed justly chagrined, that she left the play-house before the representation was concluded.
[…] I felt in both my breeches pockets, and missing therefrom a set of tablets and a tooth-pick case, I endeavored to account for their disappearance, and, not being able to do so, felt inexpressibly chagrined.
1921, Harold Hunter Armstrong as Henry G. Aikman, Zell, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter Two, p. 115,
“She’ll pay it,” Mr. O’Dell told Mr. Jenks with the chagrined expression of a restrained bulldog.
He searched his pockets for money, feeling a little foolish, a little chagrined, having made and lost sums that could colonize a planet, but the woman was moving up the street on shoes with flapping soles and there were no bills or coins in any case to find inside his pants, or documents of any kind.
Translations:
balloting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ballotings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vote or decision made by ballot.
pos: noun
Translations:
balloted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a ballot.
pos: adj
Translations:
shirking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shirkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who shirks.
pos: noun
examples: 1906-1907, Mark Twain, Chapters from My Autobiography
Autobiography […] inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth […]
Midler has never been called a feminist, but one cannot call her anything else better. Every move in her career appears to be one more shirking of categorization.
Translations:
skittering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skitterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who skitters.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes he stopped and listened for sounds of pursuit, but there were none, only the skitterings of rats.
Translations:
Democrats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Democratic Party
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
often
Translations:
furrowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: furrowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A furrowed pattern.
pos: noun
examples: On his bleached worn face are ploughed the furrowings of one hundred and twenty years.
Translations:
refraining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: refrainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who refrains from doing something.
pos: noun
examples: Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain[…]
Translations:
deciphering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decipherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: decipherment
pos: noun
examples: The only request I have to make with regard to such persons as desire to judge for themselves is, not to test the accuracy of my decipherings by the English translations.
Translations:
detracting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more detracting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most detracting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: detractings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That detracts.
pos: adj
examples: Neither is there any thing in the condition of the laborer, more taxing to human exertion, more detracting from honorable self-respect, than any other occupation; on the contrary, agriculture, if we reason from realities, and not prejudices, is the truly noble occupation of life.
"In vino veritas," properly translated, means—that when a man is fairly under the influence of liquor, you see a strong manifestation of his real character. The vain man is vainer, the voluble, more voluble, the morose, more morose; the passionate, more passionate, the detractor, more detracting; the sycophant, more sycophantic, and so forth.
Probably nothing is more detracting and dissatisfying than buying a potted flowering plant which quits flowering as soon as it is taken home.
gloss: detraction; slander
pos: noun
examples: Emulations, heart-risings, evil jealousies, bitter speakings, detractings, and abundance of evil fruit, arise from this root of bitterness […]
Translations:
arraigning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: arraignings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An arraignment.
pos: noun
examples: By no chance did you ever hear from him a whisper of those mean repinings, miserable arraignings and questionings of the Eternal Power, such as weak souls even well disposed will sometimes give way to in the pressure of their despair […]
Translations:
hoarded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Amassed or accumulated, usually to an excess.
pos: adj
Translations:
tutoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tutorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: tuition
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And could she now have so forgotten all his tutorings, that she would give up father, brother—aye, and even her honor—for the sake of this man, whom she had known not yet half a year[…]
Translations:
bellowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bellowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound produced when someone or something bellows
pos: noun
examples: The cries of applause and derision from the spectators, and the formidable bellowings of the exasperated monks who surrounded Pachymius, did not tend to steady his nerves, or render the task of critical discrimination the easier.
Incessant bellowings fill all the earth, Mingled with inextinguishable mirth.
With great heavings and throes, with snortings and bellowings, with scratchings and tearings of its great claws and lashings of its terrible tail, it writhed and fought to be free, and the light of thousands of fireworks illuminated the gigantic struggle.
Translations:
perturbing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more perturbing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perturbing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
aspirated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more aspirated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aspirated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.
pos: adj
examples: In English, word-initial single voiceless consonants are aspirated, so that pit is pronounced [pʰɪt] but spit is pronounced [spɪt].
gloss: In French, describing an initial letter h which, though silent, does not permit liaison or elision with the preceding word.
pos: adj
tags: French
examples: The h in haine is aspirated, so one says la haine, not l'haine.
Derived words: aspirated h
microaspirated
nonaspirated
Translations:
hundredfold
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hundredfold. Equivalent to hundred + -fold.
Base: hundred
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Multiplied by a hundred.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
gloss: By a factor of one hundred.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crocheted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made with crochet (needlework made by looping thread with a hooked needle).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Technically that roast dinner artwork from Queensland's iconic Jazz and Jumpers festival is not knitted, it is crocheted.
Actually, where did this blanket come from? I definitely didn’t buy it. Did someone give it to me as a gift? A crocheted blanket is a terrible gift.
Translations:
overshadowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overshadowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dominating shadow or malign influence.
pos: noun
examples: Such trials to a peaceful people, only enhance their love of peace; for the grief-stricken heart flees to retirement and tranquillity. At the overshadowings of such afflictions, I should never tremble for my country, much less should I despair […]
Translations:
outflanking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: outflankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who outflanks.
pos: noun
examples: There were outflankings and crownings of hills by numbers of thirteen and seventeen men, that made one hold one's breath.
Translations:
defrocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: defrockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formal removal of the rights and authority of a member of the clergy.
pos: noun
Translations:
distrusting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more distrusting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distrusting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to distrust; distrustful; suspicious.
pos: adj
examples: To the contrary, compared to the Pew Research Center respondents who either worked for government or lived in a household with someone who did, those who worked for nongovernmental employers under contracts and grants were usually the most distrusting of all.
Her small stature and quiet nature enables her to slip in and out of places unnoticed... her gentle character allows her to deceive even the most distrusting of men with merely a blink of her wide eyes and an innocent smile.
While these standards of treatment are changing, many intersex people have experienced trauma at the hands of doctors and other medical professionals and may be very distrusting of providers and avoid seeking medical care.
Translations:
distrusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not trusted; considered untrustworthy.
pos: adj
examples: I examine some famous environmental 'disasters', a very distrusted chemical (chlorine), and some favourite environmental panaceas.
There is, as a matter of fact, a movement toward the scientific idea of knowledge in all this that slowly begins to eclipse the confidence in the integrated "judgment of sense" of the human being; where feelings and emotive powers become more and more distrusted by Catholic philosophers and theologians, as the Protestants begin to enshrine the subjective response to religion.
The most distrusted organizations are those that appear inauthentic.
Translations:
bookends
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: Poker sense: because the cards are the first and last in a top straight.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ace and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
defrosting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: defrostings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is defrosted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Insufficient defrosting causes electricity waste by overworking the cabinet and also results in high temperatures.
Translations:
plinking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plink
English -ing
English plinking
From plink + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: plinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noise that plinks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Informal target shooting done at non-traditional targets such as tin cans, glass bottles and wood blocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
forewarning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forwarning, equivalent to forewarn + -ing or fore- + warning. Cognate with German Vorwarnung (“forewarning”), Swedish förvarning (“forewarning”).
Base: forewarn
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: forewarnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advance warning; an omen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Beatrice knew his footstep at a distance that might have defied even the acute listener of the fairy tale; and yet, with even such long forewarning, would blush crimson deep on his entrance.
I have never believed, as some people do, in omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunder-storm.
For many humans, life does end abruptly, without much forewarning.
“It’s kind of this forewarning of like, ‘Hey you’re annoying me, I’m going to crash out,’” he said, “or like, ‘This project I’m working on is going to make me crash out.’”
Translations:
chittering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chitering, chiterynge, equivalent to chitter + -ing.
Base: chitter
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: chitterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a chitter.
pos: noun
examples: Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
Translations:
uncurled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English curled
English uncurled
From un- + curled.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncurled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncurled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not curled; non-curled.
pos: adj
Translations:
crosshairs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A set of two perpendicular lines in the sight of a firearm, used to align the gun with the target.
pos: noun
examples: Industry experts are concerned that if the railway doesn't change tack, it would soon find itself out of step with the needs of the nation and in the crosshairs of a Treasury looking to slash spending.
Derived words: in the crosshairs
Translations:
enshrouding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enshroudings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or situation of something being enshrouded; a covering.
pos: noun
Translations:
envenomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more envenomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most envenomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Poisonous, noxious; embittered.
pos: adj
examples: […] we do not believe that tradition itself, carried back to the earliest record, could come forth with an example more virulent in design, more dark in motive, more envenomed in prosecution, nor more incongruous in accusation, than the Charges and Impeachment of the late Governor General of Bengal.
His early school experiences in the house of the English clergyman at Wimbledon had disgusted him as a boy, and to the last he was very envenomed against the English clergy, whom he charged with express stultification of the people.
Imrédy had hardly entered high politics before he had accumulated a host of personal ill-­wishers besides many envenomed political and financial opponents of his programme.
Translations:
transfected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Infected with nucleic acid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
smashers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Mashed potatoes.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
rerecording
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rerecordings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent recording.
pos: noun
Translations:
zen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Zen. In more general use, popularized by Eugen Herrigel's 1948 Zen in the Art of Archery and Robert M. Pirsig's 1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Inflected forms:
form: Zen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of enlightenment, particularly the kind acquired through Zen meditation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An approach to instruction, understanding, or an activity similarly emphasizing simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: the zen of cooking
the zen of passing the bar exam
the zen of C++
Translations:
fingerpainting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fingerpaintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A painting made with fingerpaint.
pos: noun
examples: When redecorating offices for our clients Richard and Stephanie, we spied their daughter's stunning black and white photographs, as well as her fingerpaintings from kindergarten.
Translations:
rewording
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rewordings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of creating a changed wording.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: rephrasing; rewriting
The first day's proceedings […] were taken up with a rewording of the indictment, to the satisfaction of attorneys for the prosecution and defense. The case will now be heard under criminal, not common, law.
gloss: A changed wording thus produced.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: rephrasing; rewriting
Translations:
repacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: repackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of packing something again or anew.
pos: noun
Translations:
restocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: restockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of replenishing stock.
pos: noun
examples: The new product sold so rapidly that the shelves needed two restockings in a day.
The latter three gave their presidential addresses on matters railway, with Gresley covering the LNER's streamlined trains, Stanier the restocking of the LMSR's motive power ranks, and Bulleid on his 'Merchant Navy' locomotives.
Translations:
foreordained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more foreordained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foreordained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been ordained or arranged in advance; predetermined.
pos: adj
examples: His early interest in the law and politics competed with a call to the ministry and his budding sideline as a rock-and-roll drummer, pianist and composer. But when his demo tapes were lost and his application to divinity school was turned down, he sensed that his career in law was foreordained.
In 1989, when Vice President Dan Quayle nonsensically remarked that "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change," we all dutifully relished the gaffe. But he turns out to have been right. What once seemed foreordained has mysteriously slipped our grasp.
The story is both a fable of power and, as Clark explains, the beginning of the understanding of history as a foreordained "sequence of hegemonies".
[Donald] Trump's sleaziness, like everything else in this train wreck, was completely foreordained—and, again, [Chris] Licht and his producers had to know it.
Translations:
rechristening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rechristenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent christening.
pos: noun
Translations:
relabeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relabelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of giving something a different label.
pos: noun
Translations:
relearning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relearnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of learning something again.
pos: noun
Translations:
reordering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reorderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rearrangement.
pos: noun
Translations:
remolding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English molding
English remolding
From re- + molding.
Inflected forms:
form: remoldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of molding again.
pos: noun
Translations:
reoccur
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English occur
English reoccur
From re- + occur.
Inflected forms:
form: reoccurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reoccurring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reoccurred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reoccurred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-occur
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To occur again; to recur.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
hideousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hidousnes, hidousnesse, hidowesnesse, hydousnes, hydousnesse, hydusnes; equivalent to hideous + -ness.
Base: hideous
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: hideousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
electrochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English electrochemistry
From electro- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
form: electrochemistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of the chemistry associated with the flow of electricity, especially at the surface of an electrode.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
depolymerization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English depolymerize
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 depolymerization
From depolymerize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: depolymerizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: depolymerisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments
pos: noun
Antonyms: polymerization
Translations:
miniaturized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more miniaturized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miniaturized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: miniaturised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That is a miniature version of something
pos: adj
Translations: