yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
preparation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English preparacion, from Middle French preparacion, from Latin praeparatio, praeparationem. Morphologically prepare + -ation.
Base: prepare
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: preparations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præparation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of preparing or getting ready.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I went over my notes in preparation for the exam.
gloss: The state of being prepared; readiness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: That which is prepared.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The traditional remedy is a bitter preparation made from steamed herbs.
gloss: That which is prepared.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is prepared.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
uncountable
gloss: Devotional exercises introducing an office.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: prepare
Derived words: out of preparation
preparational
preparationism
preparationist
preparation room
repreparation
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: preparació
lang: French
word: préparation
lang: French
word: concoction
lang: German
word: Präparat
lang: German
word: Probe (Anatomie)
lang: Greek
word: παρασκεύασμα
roman: paraskévasma
scrapbook
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From scrap + book.
Compound parts: scrap
book
Inflected forms:
form: scrapbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrapbooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrapbooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrapbooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrapbooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A book, similar to a notebook or journal, in which personal or family memorabilia and photos are collected and arranged.
pos: noun
gloss: To create scrapbooks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
instruct
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin īnstrūctus, perfect passive participle of īnstruō (“I instruct; I arrange, furnish, or provide”).
Inflected forms:
form: instructs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instructing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instructed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instructed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To teach by giving instructions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
Supply me with the habit and instruct me
How I may formally in person bear me
Like a true friar.
What a dishonour’s this, to me, to have so Dull a Father, that needs to be instructed in his Duty.
1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 156, 14 September, 1751, in Volume 5, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 177,
[…] the design of tragedy is to instruct by moving the passions,
[…] I should deem you a man sore sick, it may be, yet not so sick but that an instructed and watchful physician might well hope to cure you.
At the Laundromat I instruct Chris on how to operate the drier, start the washing machines […]
gloss: To tell (someone) what they must or should do.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy.
What, shall a child instruct you what to do?
All the servants were instructed to address her as “Mum,” or “Madam” […]
Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”
gloss: To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this.
Related words: instructable
instructible
instruction
instructive
instructor
instructress
overinstruct
reinstruct
underinstruct
uninstructed
Derived words: instructability
instructee
instructer
instructology
instructory
misinstruct
preinstruct
uninstructing
Translations:
engagement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From French engagement. Equivalent to engage + -ment.
Base: engage
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: engagements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appointment, especially to speak or perform.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The lecturer has three speaking engagements this week.
prior engagement
a future engagement
gloss: Connection or attachment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Check the gears for full engagement before turning the handle.
gloss: The feeling of being compelled, drawn in, connected to what is happening, interested in what will happen next.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: In a recent study with a movie recommendation site […], higher message interactivity in the form of footprints of user actions, responsive suggestions in a search box, and live-chatting with an online agent led to greater perceived contingency and engagement with the site, which ultimately created more positive attitudes toward it and higher intention to recommend the site to others.
Mr. Yudkowsky said OpenAI might have primed ChatGPT to entertain the delusions of users by optimizing its chatbot for “engagement” — creating conversations that keep a user hooked.
gloss: The period of time when marriage is planned or promised.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We are enjoying a long engagement, but haven't yet set a date.
gloss: In any situation of conflict, an actual instance of active hostilities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The engagement resulted in many casualties.
gloss: The point at which the fencers are close enough to join blades, or to make an effective attack during an encounter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: After engagement it quickly became clear which of the fencers was going to prevail.
gloss: A performance metric representing an instance where a user interacts with some content after an impression.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
gloss: A performance metric representing an instance where a user interacts with some content after an impression.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes in France will show that misinformation got six times as much engagement on Facebook as real news, The Washington Post reports.
“Healthy engagement” is how the company describes its aim. “We are building ChatGPT to help users thrive and reach their goals,” Hannah Wong, OpenAI’s spokeswoman, said.
Synonyms: commitment
action
Antonyms: apathy
disengagement
Related words: engage
battle
campaign
Derived words: disengagement
engagement chicken
engagement ring
line of engagement
nonengagement
postengagement
preengagement
reengagement
rule of engagement
unengagement
Translations:
lang: Russian
word: соедине́ние
roman: sojedinénije
theater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron, “a place for viewing”), from θεᾰ́ομαι (theắomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.
Inflected forms:
form: theaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: theatre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.
Percy had been too big for the town since he got back from the war. He served in the Pacific theater, behind the lines keeping up the supply chain.
gloss: A lecture theatre.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!
gloss: A cinema.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.
gloss: Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: I worked in theater for twenty-five years.
gloss: Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A conspicuous but unproductive display of action.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
derogatory
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The Senate confirmation hearings were just theater.
security theater; hygiene theater
ACTA proponents rely on claims of a growing piracy and counterfeiting threat. In the absence of credible evidence of the threat or that the measures in ACTA will reduce the threat, ACTA is no more than enforcement theater.
Related words: amphitheater
Derived words: antitheater
cybertheater
intertheater
microtheater
minitheater
multitheater
nontheater
paratheater
posttheater
pretheater
theaterette
theaterless
theaterlike
theaterwide
theatral
theatric
theatrical
theatrically
atmospheric theater
boat-in theater
dinner theater
dubbing theater
guerrilla theater
home theater
hygiene theater
illegitimate theater
kabuki theater
legitimate theater
movie theater
moving-picture theater
musical theater
security theater
senior theater
shout fire in a crowded theater
shouting fire in a crowded theater
stock theater
street theater
theatergoer
theatergoing
theater-in-the-round
theater in the round
theater kid
theaterland
theater of cruelty
theater of fact
theater of panic
theater of protest
theater of the absurd
theater of the mind
theater of the streets
theater of war
theatremaker
theatermaker
variety theater
Translations:
gaga
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French gagabor.
English gaga
Borrowed from French gaga.
Inflected forms:
form: more gaga
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gaga
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mentally senile.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.
gloss: Crazy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?
gloss: Infatuated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.
Derived words: go gaga over
Translations:
mandible
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).
Base: mandō
Affixes: -bula
Inflected forms:
form: mandibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mandibula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of the upper and lower segments of a bird's beak.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials.
pos: noun
Synonyms: fang
Related words: mandibulary
mange
manger
jowl
Derived words: hemimandible
mandibular
mandibulate
mandibulous
micromandible
Translations:
Malaysian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay Melayuder.
English Malay
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
English Malaysia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Malaysian
From Malaysia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Malaysians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the country of Malaysia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the Malay language spoken in Malaysia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the Malay Archipelago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: But, in their intercourse with strangers and enemies, the treachery of the Malaysian character is fully displayed.
gloss: A native of Malaysia.
pos: noun
gloss: A native of the Malay Archipelago.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The insular position of the greater parts of the Malaysians has made them expert and intrepid mariners; and they have carried to a high degree of perfection the construction of their various kinds of vessels. The Achinese and the Siaks of Sumatra, the Macassars and Bugis of Celebes, the Tagales of Luzon, and the natives of Mandanao, Sooloo, and Bali, excel all the other Malaysians in this art.
Synonyms: Malayan
Malay
Derived words: Malaysian English
Malaysian exploding ant
Malaysianness
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: Maleisies
lang: Arabic
word: مَالَيْزِيّ
roman: malayziyy
lang: Asturian
word: malayu
lang: Asturian
word: malasiu
lang: Belarusian
word: малайзі́йскі
roman: malajzíjski
lang: Bulgarian
word: малайзийски
roman: malajzijski
lang: Catalan
word: malaisi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 馬來西亞 /马来西亚
roman: Mǎláixīyà
lang: Czech
word: malajsijský
lang: Finnish
word: malesialainen
lang: French
word: malaisien
lang: Galician
word: malaisiano
lang: Galician
word: malaio
lang: German
word: malaysisch
lang: Indonesian
word: Malaysia
lang: Italian
word: malese
lang: Malay
word: Malaysia
lang: Maltese
word: Malazjan
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: malaysisk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: malaysisk
lang: Persian
word: مالزیایی
roman: mâleziyâyi
lang: Polish
word: malezyjski
lang: Portuguese
word: malaio
lang: Romanian
word: malaiez
lang: Russian
word: малайзи́йский
roman: malajzíjskij
lang: Russian
word: мала́йский
roman: malájskij
lang: Spanish
word: malasio
lang: Swedish
word: malaysisk
lang: Tagalog
word: Malasyahin
lang: Ukrainian
word: малайзі́йський
roman: malajzíjsʹkyj
lang: Welsh
word: Maleisaidd
exsanguination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exsanguinate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English exsanguination
From exsanguinate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: exsanguinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bloodletting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hemorrhage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of draining the blood of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats. Indeed, they may have killed in a similar way - by exsanguination.
gloss: Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
centrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
seismology
Etymology: From Middle English centrum, from Latin centrum. Doublet of centre/center.
Inflected forms:
form: centra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A centre.
pos: noun
gloss: The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
pos: noun
gloss: The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
pos: noun
gloss: The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.
pos: noun
Translations:
bugle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman buglebor.
Middle English bugle
English bugle
Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
Inflected forms:
form: bugles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bugles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bugling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bugled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bugled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A horn used by hunters.
pos: noun
gloss: A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
pos: noun
gloss: The sound of something that bugles.
pos: noun
examples: the bugle of an elk
gloss: A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
pos: noun
examples: Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.
The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.
All in the merry strand, With the ran, ran tan, And the tippy, tippy tran, And away with the royal bow! wow! wow! And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.
a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox
gloss: To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
pos: verb
examples: “It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
Derived words: bugle-player
bugle player
bugler
bugle scale
buglet
contrabass bugle
Kent bugle
key-bugle
keyed bugle
Translations:
gusto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gusto, from Latin gustus (“taste”). Doublet of cost (see Etymology 3 there).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Enthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He sang with more gusto than talent.
Sing, Johnny One-Note / Sing out with gusto / And just overwhelm all the crowd
And the sound increases … the power grows … gusto becomes something else: rage.
They take sledgehammers to statues with an uncommon gusto – destroying in seconds what may have survived centuries.
Germany regeared for the second half: same shape, more control. Mexico had lost some of their vim. And before long the game had turned on its head, with Germany able to keep the ball now, Kroos hitting his range, and Mexico less adept at seizing possession, unable to spring forward with such gusto.
gloss: An individual's fondness or liking of a particular flavour
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
examples: Why should you force wine upon us? We are not all of your gusto.
gloss: The style in which a work is done, artistic style. (occasionally) the prevailing style in matters of taste.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Designs..are of very mean Gusto.
gloss: Aesthetic appreciation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Another, who has no Gusto of either sort, believes all those they call Virtuosi to be half-distracted.
gloss: (Of food) Flavour or savour
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: Melons of the richest gusto abound everywhere.
Translations:
usurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Anglo-Norman, from Old French usurier, Latin ūsūra (“interest”).
Inflected forms:
form: usurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an exorbitant, exploitative, or illegal rate.
pos: noun
examples: Vſurers, you are none of theſe cryers vnto God, but thoſe that hourely vnto God are most cryde out againſt. God hath cryde out vnto you by his Preachers, GOD hath cride out vnto you by the poore ; Pryſoners on their death-beds haue cride out of you : and when they haue had but one houre to interceſſionate for their ſoules, and ſue out the pardon of their numberleſſe ſins, the whole of that howre (ſauing one minute, when in two words they cryde for mercy,) haue they ſpent, in crying for vengeance againſt you.
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
"You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."
Translations:
bubblegum
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From bubble + gum.
Compound parts: bubble
gum
Inflected forms:
form: bubblegums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bubble gum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bubble gum
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet chewing gum formulated to be stretchy so the chewer can blow bubbles with it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A type of pop music marked by sweetness, pep and charm (rather than depth or complexity).
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
sometimes
uncountable
examples: Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.
gloss: A light pink colour, like bubblegum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Tasting like bubblegum.
pos: adj
gloss: Sweet, perky, or youthful; (music) poppy.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
informal
examples: Last year, the Daily Mail found that Emily in Paris, a bubblegum dramedy starring Lily Collins, plugged 37 brands throughout 10 episodes.
Derived words: bubblegrunge
bubblegummy
Bubbline
Translations:
wyrm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English wyrm. Doublet of worm, which was inherited.
Inflected forms:
form: wyrms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
pos: noun
gloss: A huge limbless and wingless dragon or dragonlike creature.
pos: noun
Related words: Jörmungandr
sea serpent
worm
Translations:
conniption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Since 1833, from American English. Unknown origin, probably a fanciful alteration of corruption etc., or maybe related to captious.
Inflected forms:
form: conniptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fit of anger or panic; conniption fit.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
I'm in conniptions for the final act you came here for
[…]threatened by the conniptions gripping Wall Street
MARC JACOBS is the Michael Bloomberg of the West Village and also its Sam Walton. Jane Jacobs would have loved him, if she wasn’t overcome by conniptions at his oozing influence over her beloved neighborhood streets.
The Dodgers tried late to make a push for him last winter, with their splashy offseason already over the billion-dollar mark. They expressed interest in him over the trade deadline, even if prying him from the San Francisco Giants would have caused a conniption for fans of the historic rivals.
gloss: A fit of laughing; convulsion.
pos: noun
examples: The joke was not that funny, but he went into conniptions laughing.
Translations:
typhus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-, extended form of *dʰew- (“scatter like dust”).
Inflected forms:
form: typhuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Typhoid and typhus have similar names and symptoms, but are different diseases.
Translations:
redundancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English redundant
English -cy
English redundancy
From redundant + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: redundancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being redundant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the fulneſs of the creature is limited, it ariſeth juſt to ſuch a degree and proportion, but Gods fulneſs is infinite, as it hath its Reſplendency, ſo its Redundancy, it knows neither bounds nor bottom.
gloss: A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 2006, Lauren Bean, Richard E. Friedman, Chapter 5: School Safety in the Twenty First Century: Adapting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11, James J. F. Forest (editor), Homeland Security: Protecting America′s Targets, Volume 2: Public Spaces and Social Institutions, page 108,
Staff redundancy is needed in the event that a supervisor and key unit supervisors are not present or unable to act in an emergency.
gloss: Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: 1981, New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates, Volume 442, page 4212,
Has he received any representation from Air New Zealand management about redundancy proposals for Air New Zealand staff; and, if so, do these proposals include redundancy agreements?
1983, UK House of Commons, Papers by Command, Volume 40, page lvi,
The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels […] .
In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
As well as fighting against pay freezes (the RMT is about to ballot members of TransPennine Express), the union is seeking agreements with Network Rail and train operators that there will be no compulsory redundancies (it already has this agreement with ScotRail). [...] Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies.
gloss: surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: backup
retirement
Antonyms: non-redundancy
employment
hiring
Derived words: antiredundancy
Common Access Redundancy Protocol
cyclic redundancy check
CRC
Department of Redundancy Department
georedundancy
redundancy check
Translations:
bonhomie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *dʰéǵʰōm
Borrowed from French bonhomie, bonhommie (“good-heartedness; extreme credulity”), from bonhomme (“chap, fellow; courageous man; peasant; unwise man who allows himself to be deceived and dominated”) (from bon (“good”) + homme (“man”)) + -ie (suffix forming feminine, usually abstract, nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: bonhomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A friendly, good-natured, pleasant manner; an affable and approachable disposition; friendliness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His ungainly person and awkward manners were against him with men accustomed to the graces of society, and he was not sufficiently at home to give play to his humor and to that bonhomie which won the hearts of all who knew him.
[T]he unknown Arlo Guthrie takes the stage, ending up in the movie, and – through sheer bonhomie – selling a million copies of Alice's Restaurant.
While Mr. Romney was used to being the man in charge, as a former CEO, governor, and presidential nominee, Mr. Curtis has spent the last seven years in Congress quietly developing a reputation for bipartisan bonhomie.
gloss: An atmosphere of friendliness and good cheer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A cheerful remark.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Derived words: bonhomous
Translations:
canter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.
Inflected forms:
form: canters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cantering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cantered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cantered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four-legged animals.
pos: noun
gloss: A ride on a horse at such speed.
pos: noun
gloss: To move at such pace.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: lope
Derived words: counter-canter
canterer
in a canter
at a canter
Translations:
wazoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a variant of kazoo.
Inflected forms:
form: wazoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "When you get burned once," Markham continued, "as I did in 'Second Hundred Years' ... where I got my wazoo shot off ..."
“He's doing it wrong! I am much more suave, debonair, and sophisticated than that!” “Yes, Dan, that's a very debonair stain you have on your shirt.” “I'll have you know I have sophistication coming out the wazoo!”
gloss: A horrible person; an arsehole.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Even now, in the spring, the river softly cries, 'Menthol, Menthol, you are one wazoo. One day I'm the elf next door and the poof I'm a river.'
Derived words: through the wazoo
up the wazoo
out the wazoo
Translations:
technically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English technical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English technically
From technical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more technically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most technically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Based on precise facts, which, however, may be contrary to common belief or casual terminology.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonym: stricto sensu
Technically, he was Canadian, but everyone assumed he was American.
Technically, a guinea pig is not a pig, nor is it from Guinea.
Mary Slessor wasn’t technically the first missionary to oppose twin killing in Calabar, but she was unquestionably the most effective and relentless.
gloss: Based on formal (de jure) arguments, which, however, may be misleading.
pos: adv
examples: technically correct
Due to an omission in the peace treaty of the Russo-Japanese War, Montenegro was technically at war with Japan for 102 years.
Stalin was not technically the Head of State.
Number 1.0 [the head bureaucrat of a legion of bureaucrats]: Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct — the best kind of correct. I hereby promote you to grade 37.
"I warned you not to gaze upon my grand godson with that spell. I warned you it would not work properly. Granted, you couldn't hear me then any more than you can now, and you'd never met Tedd, but I diiiid technically say it!"
For the Japanese, however, it's easier to summarize what is still afloat. Nagato, Kongō, and Haruna are technically still afloat, but all three are quite clearly on their way to the bottom.
gloss: In terms of technique.
pos: adv
examples: Although she is technically gifted, her piano playing lacks passion.
In Choosing Children one literally feels as if one were entering the lives of these parents and feels welcomed as they share their experiences with us openly and generously. Technically, this effect is enhanced by the straightforward camera work.
gloss: In a technical (involving specialized knowledge) way.
pos: adv
examples: The ladies were not much the wiser, though, I confess, they were not far removed from the door. The great men inside talked indistinctly and technically, and once Doctor Dillon was so unfeeling as to crack a joke […]
gloss: According to the current state of technology.
pos: adv
examples: For now, it is technically impossible to have a manned flight to Mercury.
Derived words: nontechnically
Translations:
mom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of momma.
Inflected forms:
form: moms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Ireland
UK
form: Mum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Ireland
UK
form: moms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: momming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mommed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mommed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mam
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Mom
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: mum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Australia
Ireland
UK
form: Mum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Australia
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: Mother.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
South-Africa
US
West-Midlands
colloquial
informal
examples: To find out what moms really want this year, we turned to the best source possible: our own mothers.
At a very early age, Knowles says she was taught not to draw any attention to herself. “Pretty is as pretty does,” her mom used to say.
gloss: Mother.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
South-Africa
US
West-Midlands
broadly
colloquial
informal
examples: (spoken by the father) I don't share it with mom! Right, mom?
gloss: An adult female owner of a pet.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To care for in a motherly way.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
informal
transitive
examples: The shock of my news had worn off, and now she'd want to know where I was, how I was doing, and she'd sniff out that I was with someone. “I just wanted to check in on you.” That was Mom. Totally unashamed about momming me.
He tried to tell me how to live, to mom me, I told him fuck off, […]
Related words: Mother’s Day
Derived words: almond mom
angel mom
autism mom
ballet mom
biomom
birdmom
bonus mom
cannamom
crunchy mom
deadbeat mom
grandmom
granola mom
helicopter mom
hockey mom
insta-mom
Instamom
listmom
momager
mom and apple pie
mom and pop
mom-and-pop
mom and them
momarazzi
mombie
mom blogger
mom bod
mom cave
momhood
momic
mom-in-law
momism
mom jeans
momless
momlike
momly
mommish
mommy
momnesia
momness
momoir
mompetition
mompreneur
momsplain
momsy
mom test
momtini
momtrepreneur
momzilla
Octomom
refrigerator mom
scrunchy mom
security mom
silky mom
soccer mom
stage mom
stepmom
supermom
tiger mom
Twimom
waitress mom
wine mom
your mom
Translations:
impervious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin impervius (“that cannot be passed through”), from in- (“not”) + pervius (“letting things through”).
Inflected forms:
form: more impervious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impervious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unaffected or unable to be affected by something.
pos: adj
examples: The man was completely impervious to the deception we were trying.
Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
For the past decade there were two more or less universally acknowledged truths about digital advertising. First, the rapidly growing industry was largely impervious to the business cycle.
gloss: Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
pos: adj
examples: Although patchworked and sagging, the roof proved impervious to the weather.
The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
gloss: Immune to damage or effect.
pos: adj
examples: The old car seemed to be impervious to the wear and tear of age.
Antonyms: pervious
Derived words: imperviously
imperviousness
impervium
Translations:
breathing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English breethder.
Middle English brethen
English breathe
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English breathing
From breathe + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: breathings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church? / CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. / LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind. / DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
gloss: Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the breathings of the Holy Spirit
gloss: Aspiration; secret prayer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let us then begin Heaven here, in the Frame and Temper of our Minds, in our heavenly Affections and Converſation; in a due Prepation for, and in earneſt Deſires and Breathings after that bleſſed State vvhich vve firmly believe and aſſuredly hope to be one day poſſeſſed of: […]
gloss: Having life; living; alive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas.
Derived words: 444 breathing
abdominodiaphragmatic breathing
accessory breathing
base-pair breathing
belly breathing
box breathing
breathing apparatus
breathing cave
breathing time
breathing while
circular breathing
deep breathing
hand breathing
heavy breathing
Kussmaul breathing
labored breathing
low breathing
mouth breathing
mouthbreathing
nasal breathing
overbreathing
rough breathing
smooth breathing
square breathing
stagger breathing
Translations:
superego
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).
Compound parts: super
ego
Inflected forms:
form: superegos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: super-ego
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
pos: noun
examples: Still, it would be an error to believe that psychoanalytic theory makes no contribution to describing and assessing different types of ethical conduct. The crucial notion in this connection is the relative rigidity or flexibility of the superego. The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood. The mature or normal superego, on the other hand, is flexible; it can evaluate the situation at hand and modify the rules accordingly. Thus, in an early, classic paper, Strachey suggested that the basic aim of psychoanalytic treatment is to make such “mutative interpretations” as would help to render the patient’s “rigid superego” more “flexible”.⁸ Like the psychoanalytic theory of the superego, on which it is based, this view suffers from the limitation of being silent on what sort of rigidity is considered bad or undesirable and what sort of flexibility is considered good or desirable.
Anthropic has positioned itself as the AI industry’s superego: the firm that speaks with the most authority about the big questions surrounding the technology, while rival companies develop advertisements and affiliate shopping links […].
Translations:
cautious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cauti(on) + -ous. Compare Latin cautus.
Base: caution
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more cautious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cautious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using or exercising caution; careful; tentative
pos: adj
examples: He took a few cautious steps toward the cave.
Antonyms: careless
incautious
neglecting
uncautious
aggressive
bellicose
daredevil
dauntless
reckless
Translations:
penurious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
Inflected forms:
form: more penurious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most penurious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Miserly; excessively cheap.
pos: adj
examples: The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
gloss: Not bountiful; thin; scant.
pos: adj
examples: The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
gloss: Impoverished; wanting for money.
pos: adj
examples: The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
As the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover, conceived in 1872 and opened between the first two places in 1881 and to Andover and the L.S.W.R. in 1883, it was one of many small, ambitious and penurious Victorian lines, deeply concerned in the skulduggery characteristic of inter-railway dealings of that age and vexed by the G.W.R.
Related words: penury
Derived words: penuriously
penuriousness
unpenurious
Translations:
Oedipal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Oedipus
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 Oedipal
From Oedipus + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: oedipal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Œdipal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: œdipal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Oedipus complex.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Freudian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Freud
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Freudian
From Freud + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Freudian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Freudian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freudian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Freudians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freudian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud's scientific theory and psychotherapy called psychoanalysis.
pos: adj
examples: But perhaps the greatest threat of Freudian theory concerned what lurks in the unconscious mind.
gloss: Relating to or influenced by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).
pos: adj
gloss: Susceptible to analysis in terms of unconscious thoughts or desires.
pos: adj
gloss: A follower of Freud or his methods.
pos: noun
examples: To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."
Derived words: anti-Freudian
Freudianism
Freudianness
Freudian slip
neo-Freudian
post-Freudian
pre-Freudian
Translations:
improvident
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the Latin improvidens, equivalent to in- + provident.
Base: provident
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more improvident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most improvident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: failing to provide for the future; reckless
pos: adj
examples: When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy. They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful.
gloss: incautious; prone to rashness
pos: adj
Antonyms: provident
Derived words: improvidence
improvidently
Translations:
libation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lībātiō, from lībāre (“to take a little from anything, to taste, to pour out as an offering”).
Inflected forms:
form: libations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of pouring a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While we to Jove the pure libations pay,
 Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?
gloss: The wine or liquid thus poured out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A beverage, especially an alcoholic one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
humorous
often
uncountable
examples: […] watching you, the waiters, not quite making eye-contact but scanning for any little way to be of service, plus plum-jacketed sommeliers walking around to see if you need a non-buffet libation…
What's more, Swedish researchers found that the fat and fiber in nuts slow the absorption of alcohol into your bloodstream. This can help smooth out the effects of moderate alcohol consumption. For best results, try to eat about 15 minutes before taking your first libation.
Related words: libate
libationer
potation
Derived words: libational
libationary
libatious
Translations:
barrage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French barrage (“barrage, barrier”) c. 1859. Compare barrier.
Inflected forms:
form: barrages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barrages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy curtain of artillery fire directed in front of one's own troops to screen and protect them.
pos: noun
examples: The 75s of V Corps fired a standard rolling barrage, while the larger 155 mm and 8-inch pieces fired standing barrages 500 meters beyond the barrage line. For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.
gloss: A concentrated discharge of projectile weapons.
pos: noun
examples: Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,[…]most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
gloss: An overwhelming outburst of words, especially of criticism.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Lesser lawyers who were vague in oral argument faced a barrage of sarcasm or, if he agreed with them, constant chiding to do better.
gloss: A "next hit wins" contest to determine the winner of a bout in case of a tie.
pos: noun
gloss: Type of firework containing a mixture of firework types in one single-ignition package.
pos: noun
gloss: To direct a barrage at.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Maybe now her daughter would stop barraging her with questions about her past.
Derived words: balloon barrage
barrage balloon
barrage jamming
counterbarrage
rolling barrage
tidal barrage
Translations: