yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
understandably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English understandable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English understandably
From understandable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more understandably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most understandably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.
pos: adv
examples: Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.
Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.
He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.
Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
gloss: In an understandable manner.
pos: adv
examples: When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.
Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.
Translations:
severance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sever + -ance, from Middle English severaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Old French sevrance, from sevrer.
Base: sever
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: severances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: severaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of severing or the state of being severed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A separation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A severance payment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meta will notify employees who are being laid off on May 20, and will provide severance packages for those in the United States that include “16 weeks of base pay plus two weeks for every year of employment,” according to the memo to workers.
Derived words: nonseverance
severance tax
Translations:
inaugural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French inaugural, from inaugurer, from Latin augurare (“to take omens”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The University of Cape Town hosts an inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Scott […] on Wednesday at 8pm.
In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
gloss: Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 2009 was the inaugural season for New York Yankees' new stadium.
Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.
Derived words: inaugural address
inaugurally
postinaugural
preinaugural
Translations:
gladden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glad
English -en
English gladden
From glad + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: gladdens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gladdening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gladdened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gladdened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause (something) to become more glad.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, / Yet let us think upon the vernal showers / That gladden the green earth, and we shall find / A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand. Alas! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!
gloss: To become more glad in one's disposition.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
Synonyms: beatify
enrapture
begladden
blissen
bright
cheer
fetch
cheer up
cherish
content
delight
elate
elevate
enbliss
exhilarate
fain
gay
gladden
gladden someone's heart
gratify
happify
happy
hearten
jollify
laetificate
light up
make someone's day
perk up
please
raise someone's spirits
rejoice
turn the frown upside down
upcheer
warm someone's heart
warm the cockles of someone's heart
Antonyms: sadden
Related words: happiness
Derived words: begladden
engladden
gladdener
gladden someone's heart
regladden
ungladden
Translations:
joinder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Substantivisation of the Old French verb joindre (“to join”), from Latin iungō (“join”).
Inflected forms:
form: joinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The joining of a litigant to a suit.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction.
pos: noun
examples: A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands.
Derived words: misjoinder
nonjoinder
Translations:
dudes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any group of people, regardless of gender.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
thundersnow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thunder + snow.
Compound parts: thunder
snow
Inflected forms:
form: thundersnows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thunderstorm accompanied by snow, rather than rain or hail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently an attempt to express the pronunciation of French exempt.
Inflected forms:
form: exons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
pos: noun
Translations:
exonuclease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: exonucleases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of enzymes which cleave single nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA) chain.
pos: noun
Translations:
endopeptidase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From endo- + peptide + -ase.
Base: endo
Inflected forms:
form: endopeptidases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of enzymes, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and elastase, which catalyze the splitting of polypeptide chains away from the ends
pos: noun
Translations:
golfer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Scots golfbor.
English golf
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 golfer
From golf + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: golfers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays golf.
pos: noun
examples: It had been 2,836 days since Chris Kirk last won on the PGA Tour. Yet after securing his first victory in over seven years on Sunday, that was not the first milestone the American golfer had on his mind.
“The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
gloss: One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.
pos: noun
Derived words: crazy golfer
golfer’s elbow
golfer’s vasculitis
nongolfer
Translations:
Erasmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.
Inflected forms:
form: Erasmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exchange student taking part in an Erasmus Programme.
pos: noun
gloss: A study period as part of the Erasmus Programme.
pos: noun
Translations:
gladdening
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gladdenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more gladdening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gladdening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A becoming glad.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the buoyancy and gladdenings of her joyous welcome had subsided, she requested that he would make a point of coming to her ball — the same to which Miss Cunningham and her aunt were invited.
gloss: Causing feelings of gladness.
pos: adj
examples: Now, the cheerful sun looks in mockingly; we rejoice not in the face of day; it brings not hope, but memory to our minds; and we only watch the gladdening beams to think that they are shining on the narrow grave.
Translations:
gladdened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gladdened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gladdened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
passivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From passive + -ity.
Base: passive
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: passivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being passive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Submissiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lack of initiative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that one's thoughts or actions are influenced or controlled by an external agent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: passiveness
Antonyms: activity
Related words: passion
passionate
passive
patience
patient
Derived words: interpassivity
nonpassivity
Translations:
subpage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English page
English subpage
From sub- + page.
Inflected forms:
form: subpages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-page
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A web page that is subordinate to another.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
patty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier meaning "small pie" from pattipan (“something baked in a small pan”), from French pâté (“liver paste, pâté”), from pâte (“pastry, dough, paste, batter”) + -é. Doublet of pastie /pasty (“meat pie”), pate (“cheese portion”), and pâté (“finely-ground paste”) and related to pasta and paste.
Inflected forms:
form: patties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
examples: The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.
gloss: A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
gloss: A foolish or stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: England
Related words: meatball
rissole
Derived words: cow patty
Jamaican patty
patty cake
patty case
patty iron
patty melt
pattypan
patty shell
Peppermint Patty
York Peppermint Pattie
Translations:
henpecked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hen + pecked.
Compound parts: hen
pecked
Inflected forms:
form: more henpecked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most henpecked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing matriarch, wife, or girlfriend.
pos: adj
examples: "I noticed that he addressed her as 'My dear,' very genially, without any trace of resentment.... The quickness of the transition made me vaguely ask myself whether he were henpecked,—a shocking conjecture, which I instantly dismissed."
Translations:
unintentionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unintentional + -ly or un- + intentionally.
Base: unintentional
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unintentionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unintentionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without meaning to, in an unintentional manner, not intentionally.
pos: adv
examples: "Oh, no! Mason will not defy me; nor knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness."
And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects.
Translations:
lightbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From light + box. In the Internet sense, originally the name of one specific technique.
Compound parts: light
box
Inflected forms:
form: lightboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
pos: noun
gloss: A box containing fluorescent tubes or LED technology, used to treat people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and circadian rhythm disorders.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of pop-up that is overlaid across a web page while the rest of the content is dimmed.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A backbox.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used in phreaking that indicates when a telephone line is in use by means of a light.
pos: noun
Translations:
Harley-Davidson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The prototype engine was designed by William S. Harley and constructed with the help of Arthur and Walter Davidson.
Inflected forms:
form: Harley-Davidsons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motorcycle of this brand.
pos: noun
examples: Comstock’s dented black Harley-Davidson was parked amid a bevy of bicycles that looked like cowering fawns beside it.
Translations:
Harley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).
Base: hare
Affixes: -leigh
Inflected forms:
form: Harleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hurley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
pos: noun
examples: I was blown away by how much the 800 looks like a Harley. My Harley riding friends always do a double take when they see a picture of it. I personally like the Harleyesque looks and have owned a Vulcan 1500.
Some dealers also took advantage of heightened demand for Harleys to charge more, a move that may have done long-lasting harm. “Dealers were charging more than the suggested manufacturer price and it made Harley look greedy and jeopardized our brand that we spent a long time building,” Mr. Ziemer said.
Translations:
Alban
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the ancient Latin city of Alba Longa.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: But beside this, there existed at Lavinium another tradition, which inverts the order of things by stating that Lavinium was an Alban colony, founded by six hundred Alban families.
Now the Alban dynasti bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.
Reminded of the Alban king’s descent from Silvius, the son of Aeneas, Vergil’s reader must judge the crime of Mettus and his gruesome punishment with greater horror and revulsion.
gloss: Pertaining to Alba, or the area now covered by Scotland.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: At some point during the Picto-Gaelic fusion, St Andrew was adopted as patron of the Alban kingdom.
Translations:
exophthalmos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: exophthalmoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exophthalmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: exophthalmus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
peapod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: Synchronically, pea + pod; diachronically, from a Middle English predecessor compound.
Compound parts: pea
pod
Inflected forms:
form: peapods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pea pod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
pos: noun
gloss: The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
pos: noun
gloss: A small rowboat traditionally used for fishing and lobstering in Maine.
pos: noun
examples: A thick-shouldered boy in yellow oil pants and a duck-billed cap rowed by in a peapod, so close to the rockweed he would have seen her if he'd looked up.
Translations:
comprehensively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comprehensive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English comprehensively
From comprehensive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more comprehensively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most comprehensively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
pos: adv
examples: Ferguson, perhaps recalling how United had been comprehensively outfought in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool last season, opted for a side with a more pragmatic look with Phil Jones moved into a midfield role.
This study aimed to comprehensively review and analyze existing in vivo animal studies and human clinical trials investigating the effects of meteoropathy on health and its pharmacological treatment.
Translations:
complimentary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From compliment (noun) + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complementary.
Base: compliment
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more complimentary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complimentary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the nature of a compliment.
pos: adj
examples: a complimentary remark
But yesterday evening late, when Lewis arrived from down town he found his supper spread, and some presents of books there, with very complimentary writings on the fly-leaves, and certain very complimentary letters, and more or less greenbacks of dignified denomination pinned to those letters and fly-leaves...
gloss: Free; provided at no charge.
pos: adj
examples: complimentary drinks
In the evenings, Ward and PJ offer guests a complimentary drink. This gesture seems to reinforce the hosts' desire to make everyone feel welcome.
gloss: With respect to the closing of a letter, formal and professional.
pos: adj
examples: The complimentary closing is the word grouping used to bring the message or text to a close.
Derived words: complimentarily
complimentariness
noncomplimentary
overcomplimentary
Translations:
surrounds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Things bordering, adjacent to, or near something else; surroundings.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: It was an informative guide to the city and surrounds.
Translations:
endospore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
English spore
English endospore
From endo- + spore.
Inflected forms:
form: endospores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inner layer of a spore.
pos: noun
gloss: A small vegetative spore produced by some bacteria.
pos: noun
Related words: endospory
exospore
Translations:
geostationary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English stationary
English geostationary
From geo- + stationary.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At a fixed distance in three dimensions relative to a particular point on the Earth's surface; generally only possible with orbital satellites.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The measurement is accomplished by observing the Faraday rotation angle of signals from geostationary satellites on a continuous basis.
Translations:
skeezy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy + sleazy.
Compound parts: sketchy
sleazy
Inflected forms:
form: skeezier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more skeezy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skeeziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most skeezy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Despicable, tasteless.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: “It feels really different to pay for access to people,” said Kathryn D. Coduto, a Boston University professor who studies dating apps. “Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy.”
gloss: Sleazy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.
I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls.
The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing.
Related words: skeeze
skeezer
Derived words: skeeziness
Translations:
clotheshorse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From clothes + horse.
Compound parts: clothes
horse
Inflected forms:
form: clotheshorses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clothes-horse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clothes horse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
pos: noun
examples: In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.
gloss: A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
slang
examples: Her mother was a genuine clotheshorse. She had had more kimonos and dresses than room in their chests to store them […]
Related words: clothesline
coat hanger
Translations:
sloe-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having dark eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.
Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.
[S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.
First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.
Translations:
haugh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.
Inflected forms:
form: haughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Northern-England
Scotland
examples: The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]
The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]
Translations:
bunta
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boonta
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Crazy, riotous, out of control.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: When the full forward kicked a goal after the siren, the crowd went bunta.
Translations:
serpentinite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English serpentine
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English serpentinite
From serpentine + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: serpentinites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a metamorphic rock composed of serpentine minerals formed by the hydration of ultramafic rocks
pos: noun
Translations:
servomechanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
Proto-Italic *serwos
Latin servusder.
English servo-
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)der.
New Latin mechanismuslbor.
English mechanism
English servomechanism
From servo- + mechanism.
Inflected forms:
form: servomechanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: servo
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: servo-mechanism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical device for controlling large amounts of power by means of smaller amounts of power and correcting the performance of the device using feedback.
pos: noun
gloss: Any system which controls motion automatically using feedback.
pos: noun
Translations:
flirting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flirtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flirtation.
pos: noun
examples: Drinking and gambling were flirtings with the devil, or giving over to him entirely. So was card-playing.
Translations:
atmospherics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English atmosphere
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English atmospherics
From atmosphere + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: radio interference caused by pulses of electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere as the result of lightning and other events (both natural and man-made)
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.
gloss: elements of the overall background atmosphere or ambiance of a physical location (e.g., retail shop) or a sensory performance (e.g., music)
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Derived words: sferic
sferics
whistling atmospherics
Translations:
blundering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blunderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a blunder.
pos: noun
examples: The captain's blunderings led to the loss of the ship.
Translations:
thundering
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Base: thunder
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more thundering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thundering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more thundering
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thundering
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: thunderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
pos: adj
gloss: Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.
pos: adj
gloss: Very great; extraordinary.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: “I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.
gloss: Very great; extraordinarily.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: "As long as there are any of us left sound and healthy we've got a chance - a thundering good chance."
gloss: A loud percussive sound, like thunder.
pos: noun
examples: I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.
gloss: A thunderstorm.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: thunderingly
Translations:
shunning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shunnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is shunned; avoidance.
pos: noun
examples: His mind began showering him with painful memories, forcing him to relive shunnings that stretched from elementary to high school and a procession of college roommates who'd ignore him after the first week.
Shunnings divided families, turning sisters and brothers into strangers ... . . even if the shunned one repented and returned home.
It was during one of my first “shunnings” that I learned a very valuable lesson. Playground politics, it seemed, dictated that while being shunned by the cool group, it was not acceptable behavior to start hanging around with the “non-cool” group.
Translations:
exostosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Koine Greek ἐξόστωσις (exóstōsis, “a diseased excrescence on the bone”), from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Inflected forms:
form: exostoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A benign, bony growth, often covered with cartilage, on the surface of a bone or tooth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Unquestionably, gentlemen, the bones most liable to exostosis are, first, the femur; secondly, the humeri; and thirdly, the lower jaw. But exostoses are met with on the sternum clavicle, and the bones of the head; in short, I may state, that there are no bones on which exostoses may not be produced.
Exostoses are the most common benign tumors of the EAC.^([External Auditory Canal])
2013, Quinton Gopen, Fundamental Otology: Pediatric & Adult Practice, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, page 381,
Part of the issue is the exostoses themselves, which can lead the surgeon directly into normal important structures. The exostosis may grow medially and become in direct contact with the tympanic membrane. The exostosis may also grow medial to the annular insertion of the tympanic membrane, placing the facial nerve at significant risk.
Translations:
exoticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exotic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English exoticism
From exotic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: exoticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being exotic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.
gloss: Something exotic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Chinese restaurants, now dotting this peninsula like azaleas at Cypress Gardens, have introduced thousands of us Occidentals to the delights of moo goo gai pan. As a result, attempts to produce such exoticisms in our own homes have multiplied.
The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound. Such exoticisms as the xylorimba (Richard Fitz) and glockenspiel (Jeffrey Milarsky) are introduced along with the sounds of shifting sand.
gloss: A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The English pronunciations of Beijing and Chumash with French-like j and ch are exoticisms, as is the spelling T'Sou-ke for the original Anglicization Sooke.
Synonyms: hyperforeignism
Translations:
exotoxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs
Proto-Hellenic *eks
Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek)
Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō)der.
English exo-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English toxin
English exotoxin
From exo- + toxin.
Inflected forms:
form: exotoxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any toxin secreted by a microorganism into the surrounding environment.
pos: noun
Translations:
endotoxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English toxin
English endotoxin
From endo- + toxin.
Inflected forms:
form: endotoxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any toxin secreted by a microorganism and released into the surrounding environment only when it dies.
pos: noun
examples: It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.
Translations:
exotropia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From exo- + -tropia, from Ancient Greek -τροπία (-tropía), from τρόπος (trópos, “a turn”).
Affixes: exo-
-tropia
Inflected forms:
form: exotropias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of strabismus in which the eyes deviate outwards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
antagonizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more antagonizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antagonizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antagonising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to antagonize.
pos: adj
examples: In other words, agents are more persuaded by anti-establishment frames when the establishment is both more antagonizing and more resistant to change.
He had a kind of pugnacity about him that could be very antagonizing.
The actions of such group or movement become more and more antagonizing to actions of other groups or movements over time.
Translations:
antagonized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more antagonized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antagonized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antagonised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been acted on by antagonistic forces.
pos: adj
gloss: Having been aggravated or made into an enemy.
pos: adj
Derived words: unantagonized
Translations:
injudicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English judicious
English injudicious
From in- + judicious.
Inflected forms:
form: more injudicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most injudicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
pos: adj
examples: By introducing, into any Composition, Personages and Actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious Author loses that Communication of Emotions, by which alone he can interest the Heart, and raise the Passions to their proper Height and Period.
In a general light, private theatricals are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious, to attempt any thing of the kind.
“What happens when an editorial assistant on a weekly paper lets the bosses in for substantial libel damages?” He was able to answer that one. “He gets the push and, what's more, finds it pretty damned difficult to land another job. He's on the blacklist.” I saw what he meant. These birds who run weekly papers believe in watching the pennies. They like to get all that's coming to them and when the stuff, instead of pouring in, starts pouring out as the result of an injudicious move on the part of a unit of the staff, what they do to that unit is plenty.
Antonyms: judicious
Translations:
snakebit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snake + bit.
Compound parts: snake
bit
Inflected forms:
form: more snakebit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most snakebit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bitten by a snake.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Experiencing a period of bad luck; unlucky.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Bob was feeling snakebit after losing four games.
gloss: Jumpy, as if expecting to struck by sudden misfortune.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This was followed by the BP oil spill, which made him look snakebit.
gloss: Being drunk and high at the same time.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Related words: snakebitten
Translations:
sinistral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: sinistrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, facing, or on the left side.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Left-handed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having left lateral fault movement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A left-handed person.
pos: noun
Antonyms: dextral
Related words: sinister
Derived words: dextrosinistral
sinistral fault
sinistral fold
sinistrality
sinistrally
Translations:
parvis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parvys, parvis, borrowed from Old French parvis, parevis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Used since the Middle Ages to describe the court in front of St Peter's in Rome, and later, similar courts in front of other churches. Doublet of paradise.
Inflected forms:
form: parvises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parvise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pervis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
pos: noun
gloss: A portico surrounding such a space.
pos: noun
gloss: The porch of a church, or the room over it.
pos: noun
Translations:
chack
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.
pos: verb
gloss: A snack or light hasty meal.
pos: noun
Translations:
pergola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pergola, from Latin pergula.
Inflected forms:
form: pergolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pergole
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pergolo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: pergula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants.
pos: noun
examples: The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
By the little garden pergola open to the winds some fluttered peacocks were blotted nervelessly amid the dripping trees, their heads sunk back beneath their wings: while in the pergola itself, like a fallen storm-cloud, lolled a negress, her levelled, polecat eyes semi-veiled by the nebulous alchemy of the rainbow.
While both pergolas and arbors are most dramatic cloaked in climbing, flowing plants, only a pergola will stand naked as a piece of architecture.
When I first saw the movie, Chocolat, my favorite element wasn't the plot or the character development or even the cinematography. It was the cloth-draped pergola under which a very special birthday dinner was served.
gloss: Such a framework employed to provide shade, especially over a patio.
pos: noun
Derived words: pergolaed
pergolalike
Translations:
swimmingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From swimming (“(adj.) moving in water as an ordinary means of motion; without difficulty”) + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).
Base: swimming
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more swimmingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most swimmingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a gliding motion suggesting swimming.
pos: adv
examples: Bear your Hips ſwimmingly, tholl loll, loll, / Keep your Eyes languiſhing, tholl loll, loll, […]
By the angels who tear forth the ſouls of ſome with violence; and by thoſe who draw forth the ſouls of others with gentleneſs; by thoſe who glide ſwimmingly through the air with the commands of God; […]: on a certain day, the diſturbing blaſt of the trumpet ſhall diſturb the univerſe; and the ſubſequent blaſt ſhall follow it.
The memorable exploit of the noble Secretary in rescuing his friend's dog from merciless winds and waters, deserves to be recorded in letters of gold— […] [W]hen, shortly afterwards, he jumped into the water for this heroic purpose, it was said, that a person who went on so swimmingly, could never get Down, even in the water.
After drawing a correct outline, wash a little "indigo" or "ultramarine" faintly and swimmingly upon the forehead, between the eyes and corners of the mouth;— […]
gloss: In a very favorable manner; without difficulty; agreeably, successfully.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: […] I'faith; how ſwimmingly would this pretty little / Ambling Filly carry a man of my body!
The secretary would not go so far to satisfy the whigs in the house of commons; but there all went swimmingly.
[T]he negociation goes on swimmingly—inasmuch as there is no prospect of its ever coming to a close. Nothing is lost by these delays and obstacles but time; and in a negociation, according to the theory I have exposed, all time lost, is in reality so much time gained—with what delightful paradoxes, does the modern arcana of political economy abound!
She had a turn for narrative, I for analysis; she liked to inform, I to question; so we got on swimmingly together, deriving much entertainment, if not much improvement, from our mutual intercourse.
Things went swimmingly with George. He had weathered a crisis, and was now full of confidence, as well as the show of it.
[A]t any rate I got along swimmingly. The travelling men, after a moment or two of embarrassed diffidence, treated me quite as one of themselves and asked me about my "line" with interest.
If all goes swimmingly, the bill could reach the President's desk by year end.
Translations:
whackjob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whack(y)
English job(bie)
English whackjob
From whack(y) + job(bie).
Inflected forms:
form: whackjobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wackjob
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whack job
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: "He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does."
One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.
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Ronald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs.
Then there's another typical whackjob republican, JD "Heartbeat Away" Vance. He's also just the kind that his voters love, dumb, psychotic, and a real user, not to mention the usual racist douchebaggery that always seems to go with being a republican.
Translations:
oiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An application of oil.
pos: noun
Translations:
oiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more oiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
pos: adj
examples: an oiled machine
a person's oiled body
gloss: Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I got well oiled last night.
It appeared that, being in his own words still considerably "oiled" on his arrival, Bowles's parson had received him into his house with strong disfavour, and, what was worse, put him through a species of inquisition regarding the condition of his soul that had, to again quote Cripps, "nearly sent him mad."
"Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?"
"No, he was on the wagon again. …"
You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.
Related words: oiler
Derived words: nonoiled
oiled silk
unoiled
well-oiled
well-oiled machine
Translations:
dustman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.
Base: dust
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: dustmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman’s hat
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.
Translations: