yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wooded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English woded (“concealed by trees”), equivalent to wood + -ed.
Base: wood
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more wooded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wooded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with trees.
pos: adj
examples: All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.
One of the loveliest rivers in Wales, the Teifi, loops and swirls down to Llanybyther through a lush valley hemmed in by range upon range of wooded hills.
gloss: Aged in wooden casks.
pos: adj
Related words: wood
woodlike
woodsy
woody
Derived words: well-wooded
woodedly
woodedness
Translations:
woodsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From woods + -man. Compare earlier woodman.
Base: woods
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: woodsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
pos: noun
gloss: Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and firemaking.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Related words: backwoodsman
woodmanship
woodsmanship
Translations:
coxcomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cokke’s comb.
Inflected forms:
form: coxcombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cockscomb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The fleshy red pate of a rooster.
pos: noun
gloss: A foolish or conceited person; a dandy.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Thanks to my stars, I once can see / A window here from scribbling free! / Here no conceited coxcombs pass, / To scratch their paltry drabs on glass; / Nor party-fool is calling names, / Or dealing crowns to George and James.
[F]or tho' I am afraid the Doctor was a little of a Coxcomb, he might be nevertheleſs very much of a Surgeon.
And she nearly started a fight between two young fops in plumed hats and flouncy collars: "Clay-brained coxcomb!" "Mewling milk-livered maggot!"
Derived words: coxcomb chart
coxcombed
coxcombic
coxcombical
coxcombically
coxcombly
coxcombry
coxcomby
Translations:
adiposity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From adipose + -ity, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”).
Base: adipose
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: adiposities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Obesity; the state of being fat.
pos: noun
examples: "Why this sudden concern about adiposity?" asked Hardman.
gloss: The condition of being adipose; adipose tissue.
pos: noun
Related words: adipic
adiposeness
adiposis
hyperadiposity
hypoadiposity
Derived words: central adiposity
Translations:
B-unit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: railways
trains
transport
Inflected forms:
form: B-units
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: B unit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A locomotive with an engine, generator, and traction motors, but without a control cab.
pos: noun
Translations:
parley
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver.
Inflected forms:
form: parleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parleys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parleying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parleyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parleyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: parlay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A conference, especially one between enemies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.
Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it [...]
In the highest-level parley of leaders of the two countries since the accident, President Obama is to meet with Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, on Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, after a nuclear security conference there, to discuss Afghanistan and other security issues.
gloss: To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ſhot, fled amaine and left us [...]
"That is droll. Listen yet one time. You are very spiritual. Can you make a honorable lady of Her?" / "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket. / "Or a haughty gentleman of Him?" cries Madamoiselle, referring to Sir Leicester with ineffable disdain. "Eh! O then regard him! The poor infant! Ha! ha! ha!" / "Come, come, why this is worse Parlaying than the other," says Mr. Bucket. "Come along!"
Jack "parlayed" with them until he had completed his task, and then he closed the gate in their faces.
Mia is a teenage girl from Mexico who can read her mother’s mind. Akhil is a young man in New Jersey who is seeing things through other people’s eyes. And Lily parleys brain-to-brain with friends who are far away from where she lives in Georgia. According to The Telepathy Tapes, a 10-part audio series that is now one of the most popular podcasts in America, Mia, Akhil, and Lily are nonspeaking people with autism who have a special skill: They’re savants for ESP.
Translations:
truce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trewes, triwes, trues, plural of trewe, triewe, true (“faithfulness, assurance, pact”), from Old English trēowa, singularized plural of trēow, trȳw (“faith; pledge; agreement”), from Proto-West Germanic *treuwu, from Proto-Germanic *trewwō (compare Dutch trouw, German Treue, Danish tro, French trêve [< Germanic]), noun form of *triwwiz (“trusty, faithful”). More at true.
Inflected forms:
form: truces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: truces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trucing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: truced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: truced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A period of time in which no fighting takes place due to an agreement between the opposed parties.
pos: noun
examples: An uneasy truce
[I]n about ſix VVeeks or tvvo Months, the Dyſentery gave Truce, in vvhich Time I vvas often fretted vvith ſtrangurious Symptoms.
gloss: An agreement between opposed parties in which they pledge to cease fighting for a limited time.
pos: noun
examples: He asked for a truce with his school enemy for five days.
They should meet that night on some neutral spot to ratify the truce.
[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit mingled, so was their agreement made binding.
gloss: To come to an agreement to cease fighting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Only undaunted Henry de Tracey […] held up the cause; trucing at last, in loyal terms, till the king should become more powerful and be able in person to restrain the country.
Synonyms: armistice
ceasefire
Translations:
orgasmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
The historically "correct" form is orgastic. Nouns from Ancient Greek that end in -sm regularly form adjectives ending in -stic: for example, enthusiasm / enthusiastic, sarcasm / sarcastic. By way of counterexample, the ahistorical -mic also appears in the terms protoplasmic and cataclysmic (instead of *protoplastic and *cataclystic).
Inflected forms:
form: more orgasmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orgasmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: orgastic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to orgasms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Prone to or capable of having orgasms.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: Seemingly every year, another study announces that married women are more orgasmic than single women.
They've helped non-orgasmic women become orgasmic, they've helped orgasmic women become more orgasmic, and they've helped many women experience their first multiple orgasms (we'll talk about that later!).
The gentler the sensation or touch the more orgasmic I am.
gloss: Very exciting or stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: It must be an orgasmic experience to be an astronaut and see the Earth as a little, colourful marble surrounded by blackness.
Related words: orgasm
Derived words: anorgasmic
eargasmic
multiorgasmic
multi-orgasmic
nonorgasmic
orgasmical
orgasmically
postorgasmic
preorgasmic
suborgasmic
unorgasmic
Translations:
orgastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From orgas(m) + -ic (with t as in spastic) or -astic (as in e.g. sarcastic, pleonastic).
Base: orgasm
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more orgastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orgastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Orgasmic (exciting or stimulating; relating to or prone to orgasm).
pos: adj
examples: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
There is surely no more orgastic torture for children than the cries of another child being punished.
In the older half of our sample the nondevout women are somewhat more orgastic than the devout, but in the younger half of the sample it is the devout who are more orgastic.
However, Pomeroy's (1965) data are contradictory, in that he found prostitutes to be more orgastic than normal women.
Translations:
adipose
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”). By surface analysis, adip- + -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.
Inflected forms:
form: more adipose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adipose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
pos: adj
examples: They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs.
gloss: Slightly overweight; chubby.
pos: adj
examples: This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles.
gloss: Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As reviewed in this volume, adipose function is mechanistically linked to diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease.
Derived words: adipokinin
adipose fin
adiposeness
adipose tissue
adipositis
adiposity
adiposogenital
adiposome
adiposuria
adipous
antiadipose
fibroadipose
nonadipose
preadipose
Translations:
tiara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tiāra, from Ancient Greek τιάρα (tiára), of unknown ultimate origin.
Inflected forms:
form: tiaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiarae
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: tiaræ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: The three-tiered papal crown.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornamental coronet.
pos: noun
examples: I had scarcely taken my accustomed low seat at her side, when, opening a casket which stood on the table near her, she took out a diamond tiara, and, placing it in my hair, pointed to the glass. 'Ah, my child!' she exclaimed, 'you well become your future crown!' and, without waiting for my reply, she informed me that my father's negotiations for my marriage had been completely successful, and that the King of Poland had demanded my hand.
[T]heir tiaræ are like those of the magi; […]
The Bactrians wore tiaræ like the Persians, with bamboo bows, and short javelins.
For the latter bears a pair of winged bulls with tiaræ and feathered necks, after the so much admired Assyrian prototype; […]
Shells may also be observed in slightly recessed niches, where pediments are replaced with tiarae and flapping infulae, the jambs of which are not flanked with small columns but with colossal keys with candelabra occupying the space.
During the Bronze Age in the Near East kings and gods often wore tiarae and helmets provided with horns […]
The images of these divinities, including that of Ishtar, were richly dressed and decorated with tiarae (for references see Romano 1988, 133). […] A comparison may also be made with the terracotta statuettes of the daedalic style from Gortyn in Crete, where richly decorated garments as well as high tiarae are worn by female figures (e.g. Rizza and Scrinari 1968, pls XV: 91, XVII: 101).
In the centre of the front side, two male standing figures are shown, dressed in tunicae with long sleeves, wearing tiarae and holding two double headed axes and stylized palm branches in their hands.
Next, I am DJing back-to-back with Diana, Princess of Wales. “The crowd’s ready for the drop,” she shouts in my ear, holding a headphone to her tiara.
Derived words: betiaraed
Tiara
tiaraed
tiaraless
tiaralike
Translations:
granulate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from granulation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, granule + -ate.
Inflected forms:
form: granulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: granulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: granulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: granulated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more granulate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most granulate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To segment into tiny grains or particles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To collect or be formed into grains.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Cane juice granulates into sugar.
gloss: Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular.
pos: adj
gloss: Having numerous small elevations, like shagreen.
pos: adj
Related words: grain
granular
granularity
granulation
granule
Derived words: degranulate
granulater
granulator
microgranulate
multigranulate
regranulate
Translations:
albeit
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”), and thus composed from al (“completely, entirely”) + be (3rd person singular present subjunctive of been (“to be”)) + it.
Compound parts: al
be
it
Inflected forms:
form: albe
pos: conj
tags: alternative
form: albethey
pos: conj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Although, despite (it) being.
pos: conj
examples: VVho are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſvveare that I do knovv your tongue.
The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.
There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs.
Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week.
Pelosi eventually agreed to self-impose term limits, albeit with an escape clause.
Translations:
nonetheless
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A modification of natheless after none, from Middle English natheles, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs. By surface analysis, none + the + less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nevertheless.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.
That's proof to Freire that the party has room for moderate Republicans who are nonetheless loyal Republicans.
Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
Translations:
contemptuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin contemptus (whence contempt) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more contemptuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contemptuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing contempt; expressing disdain; showing a lack of respect.
pos: adj
examples: I don't know that guy, but he just gave me a contemptuous look.
Sir George burst into a loud fit of contemptuous laughter.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
gloss: Worthy of contempt; contemptible.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Rep. Noble told GCN that she, however, had deep concern "regarding the scandalous sexual exploitation and abuse of young children by adults." Noble has called on the community to "support the efforts of the Suffolk County District Attorney's office in unraveling this contemptuous situation.
Synonyms: disdainful
dismissive
slighting
Antonyms: respectful
Related words: contemn
contempt
Derived words: contemptuosity
contemptuously
contemptuousness
uncontemptuous
Translations:
detect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin detectus, perfect passive participle of detegere (“to uncover or disclose”), from de- + tegere (“to cover”); see tegument, tile, thatch.
Inflected forms:
form: detects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To discover or find by careful search, examination, or probing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
Diesel maintenance schedules are benefiting from work done on the magnificent Hilger & Watts electronic spectrograph for oil analysis, which detects minute quantities of metals in samples of used lubricating oil; [...].
gloss: To work as a detective.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
Related words: discover
find
stumble upon
Derived words: autodetect
codetect
detectability
detectable
detecter
detectible
detection
detective
detectograph
detector
immunodetect
metal-detect
misdetect
nondetect
overdetect
redetect
underdetect
undetectability
Translations:
detach
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.
Inflected forms:
form: detaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: detaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: detached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: detached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take apart from; to take off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to detach the tag from a newly purchased garment
The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table—the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.
gloss: To separate for a special object or use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment
gloss: To come off something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now that the zipper has detached, my winter coat won't keep me very warm.
Synonyms: unfasten
deadhere
earmark
Antonyms: attach
Derived words: detachability
detachable
detacher
detachment
redetach
Translations:
desirable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French desirable.
Morphologically desire + -able.
Base: desire
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more desirable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most desirable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: desirables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Worthy to be desired; pleasing; agreeable.
pos: adj
examples: This applicant has almost all desirable properties.
It has long been recognised that complete segregation of control of the respective services provided by the two undertakings, and of the power supply, signalling, and tracks relating to each was desirable.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
gloss: Sexually attractive.
pos: adj
examples: The desirable Miss Moneypenny, M's all-powerful private secretary, gave him an encouraging smile and he walked through the double doors.
gloss: A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
pos: noun
examples: There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
Antonyms: undesirable
Derived words: desirability
desirableness
indesirable
nondesirable
ultradesirable
Translations:
significantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English significant
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 significantly
From significant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more significantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most significantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a significant manner or to a significant extent.
pos: adv
examples: Irene's English significantly improved after taking a year out in Ireland.
The quality of life is significantly higher than it was twenty years ago.
It's the water that makes this area famous. […] That water is still being used to supply Blackford's two dominant industries, Tullibardine whisky distillery to the south of the village and, more significantly, Highland Spring Group's bottling plant to the north.
It’s commonly cited that undergraduates are significantly smarter than average, with IQs ranging from 115 to 130.
Translations:
burr
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English burre, perhaps related to Old English byrst (“bristle”). Cognate with Danish burre, borre (“burdock, burr”), Swedish borre (“sea-urchin”).
Inflected forms:
form: burrs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grind using a burr (revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
blazing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blazings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very fast.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
gloss: Sexually attractive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: There were enough blazing babes in the place to give a monk a hard-on on sight.
gloss: Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Blazing scarlet is the best; rifle-green the next best.
gloss: Exceedingly angry.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: The divorced couple had a blazing row.
She twirled around, her eyes blazing.
Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
gloss: The act of something that blazes or burns.
pos: noun
examples: the blazings of many fires
Related words: trailblazing
Derived words: blazingly
blazingstar
unblazing
Translations:
reflexive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reflexīvus, from Latin reflexus, equivalent to reflex + -ive.
Base: reflex
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: reflexives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a relation R on a set S, such that xRx for all members x of S (that is, the relation holds between any element of the set and itself).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Equals" is a reflexive relation, as it holds for all possible x; "not less" is non-reflexive because it is true only for some x and y, "unequal" is irreflexive, as it never holds between x and itself.
gloss: Of or resulting from a reflex.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The electric shock elicited an automatic and reflexive response from him.
gloss: Producing immediate response, spontaneous.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: a reflexive dislike
gloss: Producing or provoking a reciprocal response.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Shoigu's thinly veiled nuclear threats against NATO are part of the Kremlin's broader reflexive control campaign to influence Western decision-making in Russia's favor and against Western states' own interests. Shoigu's nuclear threats are attempts to push European states to self-deter and reduce their buildups of their defenses – leaving NATO's eastern border largely undefended. These reflexive control efforts are in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's 2021 demand before launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine that NATO not deploy any military forces to states that became NATO members after 1997, including Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.
gloss: Synonym of reflective.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A reflexive pronoun.
pos: noun
gloss: A reflexive verb.
pos: noun
Antonyms: irreflexive
non-reflexive
nonreflexive
Related words: symmetric
transitive
irreflexive
active
passive
neuter
intransitive
Derived words: autoreflexive
hyperreflexive
hyporeflexive
metareflexive
photoreflexive
pseudoreflexive
quasireflexive
reflexicon
reflexive law
reflexiveness
reflexive possessive
reflexive possessive pronoun
reflexive pronoun
reflexive statement
reflexive verb
reflexivity
reflexivization
reflexivize
self-reflexive
unreflexive
Translations:
allegedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alleged
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English allegedly
From alleged + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: According to allegation(s); supposedly, reportedly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, putatively, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, supposedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
The suspect was allegedly involved in the robbery, but his alibi placed him in another state at the time.
The game is allegedly exciting.
Philip Rivers is allegedly having the best season of any quarterback in the league.
...her onscreen tears are allegedly real.
No doubt you’re tired of reading about his colourful escapades – about his glamorous home, his allegedly dodgy tenderpreneur deals, his gushing praise of malevolent dictators, or his soundly articulated international economic policy.
An ATV-riding Texan was a massive problem to Tesla owners when he allegedly rammed his 4-wheeler into multiple cars during an unprovoked hit-and-run spree on Tuesday.
Translations:
finest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Police officers.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: Fifty of New York's finest were on hand for security.
gloss: Members of the military.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
plural
plural-only
examples: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Told him I'd had a fun time with a sailor & he said, "Oh no! Are you corrupting our country's finest?"
Related words: bravest
Officer Friendly
Translations:
sheepdog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From sheep + dog.
Compound parts: sheep
dog
Inflected forms:
form: sheepdogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheep dog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheepdogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sheepdogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sheepdogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sheepdogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sheep dog
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various breeds of dog used for herding sheep; an individual of such a breed.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various breeds of dog used for guarding sheep; an individual of such a breed.
pos: noun
gloss: A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: To chaperon or shepherd.
pos: verb
examples: Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
On June 14, with Kennedy personally sheepdogging it, the No Child Left Behind Act passed the Senate ninety-one to eight.
Derived words: Abruzzese Sheepdog
Catalan Sheepdog
Croatian Sheepdog
Cumberland Sheepdog
Dutch Sheepdog
Gaucho Sheepdog
Gaucho sheepdog
Himalayan Sheepdog
Icelandic Sheepdog
Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog
Maremma Sheepdog
Old English Sheepdog
Patagonian Sheepdog
Polish Lowland Sheepdog
Polish Tatra Sheepdog
Portuguese Sheepdog
sheepadoodle
Shetland Sheepdog
Shetland sheepdog
Shirak Sheepdog
Vikhan Sheepdog
Welsh Sheepdog
Translations:
clingy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cling
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English clingy
From cling + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: clingier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: clingiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency to cling.
pos: adj
examples: a clingy minidress
I conceded I might have slightly mollified if it had been Wendy Rieger in that clingy leopard skin blouse she wears on Channel 4.
gloss: attached to, or possessive of someone, usually a significant other.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
usually
examples: Near-synonym: needy
a clingy ex-girlfriend who won't stop calling
Synonyms: clinging
close-fitting
Derived words: clingily
clinginess
unclingy
Translations:
sempiternal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Old French sempiternel, from Medieval Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperæternus, from semper (“always”) + æternus (“eternal”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Everlasting, eternal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Why not sempiternal / Thou and I? Our vernal / Brightness keeping, / Time outleaping: / Passed the hodiernal!
As they moved through the shop, which existed in a sempiternal twilight by what light filtered through the grimy windows that had not been washed for years, Rita paused to say, "You said there was some good stuff among this junk. Point me out something you wouldn't be glad to give away to get rid of it."
[I]n filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just ‘good friends’?
gloss: Having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether; everlasting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: sempitern
sempiternally
sempiternity
Translations:
henceforth
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hennes forth, hens-forþ, hennes-forþ, from modification of Old English heonan forþ with an adverbial genitive suffix. By surface analysis, hence (“from here”) + forth (“forward”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: From now on; from this time on.
pos: adv
tags: formal
not-comparable
temporal
examples: I will try to do a better job, henceforth, now that I know the proper technique!
My thanes and kinsmen,/Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland /In such an honour named
Henceforth, you shall be known as Darth...Vader.
gloss: Further within this document.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: anymore
any more
as of now
from now on
going forward
hereafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
in future
in the future
moving forward
Antonyms: hitherto
Related words: —
henceafter
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Translations:
henceforward
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English hennes forward, equivalent to hence + forward. Compare Middle English hens-forthward, hennes forthward (“henceforward”).
Compound parts: hence
forward
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: from now on; from this time on
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: In other words, what we can expect to see henceforward, provided that all Regions make the effort, is a welcome brightening-up of stations and improvement in the general standard of amenities.
Translations:
thereupon
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English therupon, theruppon. Equivalent to there + upon. Compare German darauf.
Compound parts: there
upon
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Upon that; thereon.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Once John, being overtaken in drink on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.
gloss: In consequence, or by reason, of that; therefore.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Following that; forthwith; in sequence, but not necessarily in consequence.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Translations:
cuisine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). Doublet of kitchen.
Inflected forms:
form: cuisines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
The restaurant is noted for its excellent cuisine.
gloss: The food prepared using such style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For example, salsa and pico de gallo from Mexican cuisine sometimes include fruits like peach, mango or pineapple, balancing hot peppers like habanero or jalapeño with their sweetness. […] Cookbooks covering cuisines that feature swicy flavor profiles are a great place to start.
gloss: Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A kitchen or cooking department.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
Related words: curry
gastronomy
Derived words: batterie de cuisine
chef de cuisine
fusion cuisine
haute cuisine
modernist cuisine
multicuisine
new Nordic cuisine
nouvelle cuisine
spa cuisine
subcuisine
Translations:
gastronomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French gastronomie, from Ancient Greek γαστρονομία (gastronomía), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) + νόμος (nómos, “knowledge, law”); by surface analysis, gastro- (“cooking”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
Inflected forms:
form: gastronomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of preparing and eating good food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The study of the relationship between food and culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The cooking of a particular area; cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The gastronomy of Mexico is world-famous.
Related words: gastronome
gastro-
gastronomic
cooking
Derived words: bistronomy
gastrophysics
molecular gastronomy
neurogastronomy
Translations:
chanter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant + -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.
Base: chant
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: chanters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chantor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who chants or sings.
pos: noun
gloss: A priest who sings in a chantry.
pos: noun
gloss: The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
pos: noun
examples: the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
gloss: The hedge sparrow.
pos: noun
gloss: One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: chantered
chantress
subchanter
Translations:
bander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bandiz
Old English bend
Middle English band
English band
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bander
From band + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: banders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who bands birds.
pos: noun
examples: He got a banding permit in the early 30s and was an active bander for the rest of his life.
gloss: A device for putting metal bands around crates.
pos: noun
examples: The metal banding he was currently winding round a loaded pallet twisted and snapped like a splinter of wood. He took a deep breath, removed the mangled end from the bander, and started over.
Translations:
sighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.
pos: noun
examples: There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal.
However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].
It’s unclear exactly how many infected rabbits are hopping about, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife has received more than a dozen sightings, mostly in the northern part of the state.
Translations:
spouting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spoutings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That is propelled in a narrow stream or jet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The process or result of something being spouted; that which is spouted.
pos: noun
examples: Spoutings of lava shot from the crest of the volcano.
The spoutings of a large whale can be seen from a great distance.
After these spoutings, the great Geyser remained quiet the whole night ; the water in the meanwhile rose gradually, and the bason was filled about four in the morning.
The average interval between its spoutings is 78 minutes.
Saint-Loup, for another thing, is by way of being a family black sheep: seemingly uninterested in social success, a devoted student of Nietzsche and Proudhon, we are told that his head was full of “socialistic spoutings,” and that he was “imbued with the most prgound contempt for his caste.”
gloss: A gutter under the eaves of a building; guttering.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The spouting was filled with leaves and needed cleaning.
These items will include:
galvanised-steel spoutings and downpipes — if used[…].
The old house, neglected for so many years, needed painting and repairs: the roof leaked and the spoutings had rusted.
Water trickles away from gutterings and down spoutings into the big water tank at the back of the house.
Translations:
veggie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: veggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more veggie
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most veggie
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: There was lots of rice, at least 20 different "veggies" and all kinds of soups.
and eight small dishes of 'veggies,' as we have taught our children lovingly to term that important item of food known as vegetables.
gloss: A vegetarian.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Vegetarian/vegan meals at most colleges are only pretty average. They have a long way to go to provide nutritionally adequate and tasty food for veggies.
gloss: Vegetarian; not eating meat; suitable for vegetarians; without meat.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: One place was too crowded last time, another too expensive, a third she liked but he thought too "veggie."
Diet for a Small Planet was also popular at the time, but it was a little too 'veggie,' a little too new for some people.
The main courses are heavy on beans and may be too veggie for the typical meat eater to swallow but side dishes are less exotic and just as healthy ...
Steven Beeson of Milwaukee won a blue ribbon with this very veggie entree
If becoming veggie can secure Fran Healy a guest spot from Paul McCartney on his album, what would it take to lure Iggy Pop and Lily Allen?
gloss: Vegetable-like, vegetal.
pos: adj
examples: So we actually proved that the old folklore about a dense canopy leading to very veggie wines was true, Noble said.
They're neither too sweet nor too veggie, but like the other bars, have more calories than a bucket of broccoli.
Synonyms: veg
Derived words: veggie garden
veggie dog
veggie burger
veggieburger
Translations:
sesh
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of session.
Inflected forms:
form: seshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A session.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 'We're not going to win a prize for graphics,' said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week.
"There's no opportunity either to take rhythm & blues or leave it alone at this sesh at the Apollo."
“Thank you in advance for respecting my family's privacy-- don't touch me-- while we deal with this isolated incident in which my husband flashed and mooned the beautiful voters of Staten Island after a poorly-timed masturbation sesh.”
gloss: A session.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Then it was on to the wallride for a sesh where numerous tricks were thrown down.
Halo sesh
Went out for a quick sesh today in Huntington. Wore my spring suit.
gloss: A session.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
colloquial
informal
examples: Empty lager bottles […] signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert sesh.
Impulse buys one Saturday afternoon, after a lunchtime sesh in the Ox[…]
gloss: A session.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
colloquial
informal
gloss: To take part in a period of sustained cannabis smoking.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
Derived words: seshy
Translations: