yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
intonation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French intonation, from Medieval Latin intonatio, from intonō + -tiō.
Base: intonō
Affixes: -tiō
Inflected forms:
form: intonations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She well knew the power of intonation, and thought that, in the absence of the curled lip, the contemptuous twitch of the nose, and the supercilious toss of the head, her message might be acceptable for Louisa's sake,...
gloss: A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This additional cause of the intonation of thunder, together with the simile with which it is illustrated, is copied from our poet, both by Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii, 431, and Isidorus, Orig. xiii.
As when sulphureous fires, within the caves
Of earth long pent, with intonation loud
Burst through the riven rocks, and far as eye
Can reach their furious devastation spread,
So sudden, so resistless was the force
Of this blasphemer's bold appeal to arms.
In anxious expectation stood the crowd,
When the shrill clarion's intonation loud
Gave notice that the challenger drew nigh.
but Sir Hugh still exclaimed, —"Louder, old man, far louder!" till at last the minstrel, in obedience to his best and dearest friend, struck the harp with such violence, that not only did the strings break, but even the instrument itself burst asunder with a long melancholy intonation.
gloss: Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her intonation was false.
gloss: Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: intonable
intonate
intonational
intonationally
intonator
intone
intoner
Derived words: intonation unit
just intonation
Translations:
intoxication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: intoxications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.
gloss: The state of being intoxicated or drunk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of intoxicating or making drunk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Excitement leads to enthusiasm, that moral intoxication, whose effects seem incredible to the sober, while the influence which produces the extravagance appears more extraordinary than the act itself.
Derived words: alcohol intoxication
auto-intoxication
autointoxication
infoxication
lipointoxication
monointoxication
postintoxication
public intoxication
reintoxication
water intoxication
Translations:
intubation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Probably coined in 1880–1884 by Joseph O'Dwyer, M.D.; in widespread publication in 1887.
Inflected forms:
form: intubations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entubation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in cases of croup.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Intubation, it is now claimed, offers these advantages. Since the revival of this procedure by Dr. O'Dwyer a little more than a year ago, it has been tested in many cases
Before proceeding to demonstrate the method of practising intubation of the larynx on this little cadaver, I will pass around for your inspection a few of the principal varieties of tubes devised to overcome obstruction in the larynx in croup and other forms of stenosis. They will serve to show the different stages of development through which this operation has passed from its inception in January 1880 to the present time.
Translations:
invagination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English invaginate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English invagination
From invaginate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: invaginations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process where an anatomical part invaginates upon itself or into another structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the methods by which the various germ layers of the ovum are differentiated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: disinvagination
Translations:
invader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English invade
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 invader
From invade + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: invaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who invades a region.
pos: noun
examples: He remarks on the growth of the pretensions of the invaders since the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum which put the Northern warriors only on the same level as the twelf[-]hyndmen, or ordinary thegns.
The underroot tendril! We are at fault for giving the invader a path to Lady Brianna.
gloss: An intruder (especially on someone's privacy).
pos: noun
Derived words: bioinvader
cyberinvader
home invader
pitch invader
space invader
Translations:
invective
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French invective, from Medieval Latin invectiva (“abusive speech”), from Latin invectīvus, from invectus, perfect passive participle of invehō (“bring in”), from in- + vehō (“carry”). See vehicle, and compare with inveigh.
Inflected forms:
form: invectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more invective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most invective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A severe or violent censure or reproach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...
gloss: A harsh or reproachful accusation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Politics can raise invective to a low art.
gloss: Characterized by invection or railing.
pos: adj
examples: Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.
Derived words: counterinvective
invectivist
Translations:
investigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English investigacioun, from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio. Morphologically investigate + -ion.
Base: investigate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: investigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.
Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.
carry out an investigation
the matter is awaiting investigation
The case is still under investigation.
Railway police are making a full investigation into the matter, and the headmasters of schools have been approached, but it is difficult in such cases to discover the culprits, unless they are caught red-handed.
"Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."
The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, […] In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s fury toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats’ congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.
Translations:
invigoration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: invigorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of invigorating or the state of being invigorated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.
Translations:
invitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
bridge
fencing
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English invitacioun, ynvytacioun, from Latin invītātio, reinforced by Middle French invitation. By surface analysis, invite + -ation. Displaced native Middle English lathinge from Old English laþung (see dialectal English lathing).
Inflected forms:
form: invitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
gloss: A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.
gloss: Allurement; enticement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.
To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.
Derived words: disinvitation
do you need an invitation
e-invitation
invitational
invitation envelope
open invitation
reinvitation
uninvitation
unvitation
Translations:
invocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English invocacioun, from Old French invocacion, from Latin invocatio, invocationem. Equivalent to invoke + -ation.
Base: invoke
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: invocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the invocation of papers or evidence into court
gloss: An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: McNeil (D) contended that his courtroom appearance with an attorney for the West Allis crime constituted an invocation of his Miranda right to counsel and that his subsequent waiver during police-initiated questioning regarding the Caledonia crime was invalid.
As a matter of legal principle, the State should report whether all the necessary conditions for the invocation of the right of self-defense were existent.
This chapter might have been titled “The First 'First Civil Right'”: before Richard Nixon's 1968 invocation of the right to protection from (black) crime, Truman Democrats advocated protection from (white) lawlessness as the first essential right.
gloss: The act of invoking, such as a function call.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: evocation
invoke
Derived words: invocational
misinvocation
reinvocation
remote method invocation
Translations:
irascible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French irascible, from Late Latin īrāscibilis, from Latin īrāscī (“to be angry, enraged”) + -bilis. See also -ible.
Base: -ible
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: more irascible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irascible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easily provoked to outbursts of anger; irritable.
pos: adj
examples: The divine Plato, whose doctrines are not sufficiently attended to by philosophers of the present age, allows to every man three souls—one, immortal and rational, seated in the brain, that it may overlook and regulate the body—a second consisting of the surly and irascible passions, which like belligerent powers lie encamped around the heart[…]
Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.
I am naturally irascible, and if I could have shaken this negative gentleman vigorously, the relief would have been immense.
[…] a never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible—did he not fling a badly baked plum pudding through the window upon Christmas Day?
Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage — suckers! — and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma.
gloss: Relating to the irascible passions.
pos: adj
examples: The irascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of the irascible faculty."
Related words: irate
ire
Derived words: irascibility
irascibleness
irascibly
unirascible
Translations:
irrigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio.
Inflected forms:
form: irrigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”
Translations:
irritation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French irritation, from Latin irrītātiō, from irrītāre (“to excite”). By surface analysis, irritate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: irritations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of irritating or annoying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What irritation causes you to be so moody?
gloss: The state of being irritated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It has already been established that the crew was competent and qualified for operation of AS66. With the exception of some overtones of irritation about the manner in which another aircraft, N799Y, affected the flight's progress into the Juneau area, the recorded cockpit conversation, in general, reflects a relaxed but businesslike atmosphere.
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
CNN spoke recently with several Conyers residents who said they still have blurry vision, shortness of breath, throat irritation or chronic headaches since the chemical plant fire.
gloss: A thing or person that annoys.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hip pain is a common complaint in children and may indicate a very mild irritation in the hip joint or may be the symptom of a very severe abnormality
Related words: irritable
irritate
Derived words: abirritation
counterirritation
irritant
irritational
irritative
photoirritation
Translations:
isthmian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English isthmus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English isthmian
From isthmus + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more isthmian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most isthmian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: isthmians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of an isthmus.
pos: noun
Translations:
iteration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin iterātiō, from iterō. Morphologically iterate + -ion.
Base: iterate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: iterations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recital or a second performance; a repetition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A variation or version.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The architect drafted several iterations of the floorplan before deciding on his final design.
Still going strong in his ninth decade, Wein celebrates his 88th birthday behind the piano accompanied by the latest iteration of his band, the Newport All-Stars, featuring tenor saxophonist […]
If proximity is built into the very concept of ecology, not to mention iterations of environmentalism such as the local food movement, then a distancing mode like irony seems utterly unecological and unenvironmentalist.
Three or four complete iterations of various options are needed to gain cross-industry agreement.
gloss: The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single repetition of the code within such a repetitive process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The code calculates the appropriate value at each iteration.
Synonyms: repeat
Derived words: hexation
iteration mark
pentation
subiteration
tetration
Translations:
jailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gayoler, gayler, jayler, from Old French jaiolier, gaiolier, from jaiole. By surface analysis, jail + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: jailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaoler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
dated
form: gaolor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: jailor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes some of the ejected ministers preached to them privately, and now and then the jailer allowed Mr. H. to go out in the night to preach to them, and administer the Lord's Supper.
But the next morning came, and my coffee was brought by her mother; the next, and the next, by the under jailers; and Angiola continued grievously ill.
The jailer was also roused by the earthquake and came to the outer door; he was perhaps a soldier, or at least had something of Roman discipline, giving him presence of mind.
Translations:
jollification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jolly
English -fication
English jollification
From jolly + -fication.
Inflected forms:
form: jollifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A merrymaking; noisy festivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I shall go down with you on Wednesday in time for the jollification on Thursday. I always enjoy that day; they are such nice, friendly people, those good Hollingford ladies.
1872, Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Justice Harbottle,” Chapter 2, in In a Glass Darkly,
[…] old Judge Harbottle had arranged one of his dubious jollifications, such as might well make the hair of godly men's heads stand upright for that night.
[…] the streams would run with wine instead of water and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.
Translations:
joust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *juxtō, *iuxtō, *iuxtāre, from Latin iūxta (“close to”). English since the early 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: jousts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: just
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jousts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jousting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jousted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jousted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: just
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.
pos: noun
examples: medieval joust
gloss: To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
pos: verb
examples: The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.
gloss: To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
pos: verb
examples: verbally joust
Politicians often joust with words during debates.
gloss: To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: jostle
jouster
outjoust
Translations:
kinky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kink + -y. Compare Spanish canquiñi (“nappy”).
Base: kink
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: kinkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kinkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
pos: adj
examples: kinky hair
It seemed that there had never been a time when he had not known this moment of waiting while the packed church paused—the sisters in white, heads raised, the brothers in blue, heads back; the white caps of the women seeming to glow in the charged air like crowns, the kinky, gleaming heads of the men seeming to be lifted up—[…]
gloss: Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other sexual practices.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: What had I been expecting, behind that closed door, the first time? At the very least some minor sexual manipulation, some bygone peccadillo now denied him, prohibited by law and punishable by amputation. To be asked to play Scrabble, instead, as if we were an old married couple, or two children, seemed kinky in the extreme, a violation in its own way.
Their male customers are often identified as lonely, sleazy, and into kinky sex[…]
Scars on my back were revealed from when I was whipped by a sadomasochistic ex-lover. I wondered if it bothered anyone, but it only seemed to make everyone harder than they already were. I was a kinky girl.
We begin to see that a kinky relationship is complex and difficult to maintain. And yet, Sir Sultan Stud’s harem arrangement is only the tip of the iceberg. Kinky people are capable of amazingly complicated relationships that are not for the faint of heart.
gloss: Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
pos: adj
Derived words: kinkily
kinkiness
kinky hair disease
Menkes kinky hair syndrome
nonkinky
unkinky
Translations:
madman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mad
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English madman
From mad + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: madmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who is insane or mentally disturbed.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who makes risky and questionable decisions.
pos: noun
gloss: A daredevil.
pos: noun
Derived words: madman theory
semimadman
Translations:
madness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English madnes, madnesse; equivalent to mad + -ness.
Base: mad
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: madnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Though this be madneſſe, / Yet there is Method in 't: […]
You were lonely for a man
I said, "Take me as I am"
'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while
Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
gloss: The state of being angry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Rash folly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: sanity
Derived words: canine madness
gluten-free madness
March Madness
method in the madness
method to one's madness
midsummer madness
moon madness
mulga madness
premadness
running madness
semimadness
that way madness lies
Translations:
insanity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A three-part word (root 'sane', prefix 'in-' meaning 'not', suffix '-ity', meaning 'the state of'). Derived from Latin precursory equivalents. Two possible candidates for construction order:
* insane + -ity: īnsānus (“unhealthy; insane”) + -itās
*: Latin īnsānus (“unsound in mind; mad, insane”), from in- + sānus (“sound, sane”). Modern forms of roots: in- + sane
* in- + sanity: in- (“lacking; without”) + sānitās (“health; sanity”)
*: Latin sānitās (“sound in mind; sane”), from sānus + -itās. Modern forms of roots: sane + -ity
Base: insane
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: insanities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being insane; madness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The defendant pleaded insanity in the hope of getting a reduced sentence.
But the bed-side of Lady Marchmont had a darker lesson than the grave, the ravings of insanity revealed the fiery world of that beating and passionate heart. Ethel could only feel too fearful, too humbled, for judgment; but she wept, even while she prayed, beside her early friend.
Antonyms: mental health
saneness
sanity
Translations:
folly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English folie, from Old French folie (“madness”), from the adjective fol (“mad, insane”).
Inflected forms:
form: follies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
 That this was all folly.
gloss: Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.
gloss: A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.
“The Villa Straylight,” said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, “is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. […]”
It has been a long time since new follies were springing up across the great estates of Britain. But the owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.
A great deal of eccentricity was expressed through the trend for ruin follies. But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.
Related words: fool
foolery
foolish
Derived words: folliful
folly tower
garden folly
Translations:
protect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: Attested in English since 1530, from Latin prōtēctus (“covered, protected”), past participle of prōtegō, prōtegere (“to cover the front, protect”) from prō, prō- (“before, in front of”) + tegō, tegere (“to cover”), see tegument. Displaced native Middle English shelden, from Old English sċildan (“to protect,” literally “to shield”).
Base: tegō
Affixes: prō-
Inflected forms:
form: protects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: protecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: protectest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: protectedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: protects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: protecteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: protect
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: protecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: protected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to protect a child from danger
This antivirus package will protect your computer from hackers.
Condoms are designed to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases.
But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
gloss: To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
pos: verb
Synonyms: shield
beshield
Derived words: calprotectin
cardioprotect
chemoprotect
chondroprotect
cryoprotect
deprotect
immunoprotect
neuroprotect
neuroprotectin
overprotect
photoprotect
protecc
protectability
protectable
protectant
protectee
protectible
protectin
protection
protective
radioprotect
reprotect
seroprotect
shoot and protect
underprotect
unprotect
Translations:
prevent
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English preventen (“anticipate”), from Latin praeventus, perfect passive participle of praeveniō (“to anticipate”), from prae (“before”) + veniō (“to come”).
Inflected forms:
form: prevents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preventing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prevented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prevented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prævent
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I brush my teeth regularly to prevent tooth decay.
Barriers have been put up to prevent more people (from) entering the stadium.
Scotland must now hope Georgia produce a huge upset and beat Argentina by at least eight points in Sunday's final Pool B match to prevent them failing to make the last eight for the first time in World Cup history.
gloss: To take preventative measures.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent!
gloss: To come before; to precede.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
Then had I come, preventing Sheba's Queen, / To ſee the comelieſt of the Sons of Men; […]
gloss: To outdo, surpass.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
gloss: To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: their ready guilt preventing thy commands
Derived words: preventability
preventable
preventative
prevent defense
preventer
preventible
preventingly
prevention
preventive
preventor
preventory
unpreventability
unprevented
Translations:
deteriorating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more deteriorating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deteriorating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Getting worse.
pos: adj
examples: On Monday, chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) cut its sales outlook for the fourth quarter, citing “deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China.” Last week, Intel’s (INTC) CEO also noted that “trade and macro concerns, especially in China, have intensified.”
Antonyms: improving
Translations:
matchless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).
Base: match
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more matchless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most matchless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no match; without equal.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he Prince was to declare the victor in the first day's tourney, who should receive as prize a warhorse of exquisite beauty and matchless strength.
It was not his matchless talent that exalted Koufax beyond his greatest contemporaries so much as it was his knowledge that character was not connected to talent.
gloss: Having no mate.
pos: adj
examples: In this comedy, a matchmaker has a matchless daughter. Try as he might, he cannot seem to find anyone for her.
Derived words: matchlessly
matchlessness
unmatchless
Translations:
malady
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English maladie, from Old French maladie (“sickness, illness, disease”), from malade (“ill, sick”), from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”), 1st century AD. See also malice and habit.
Inflected forms:
form: maladies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
pos: noun
examples: As, to prevent our maladies unseen, / We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.
The maladies of the body may prove medicines of the mind.
gloss: A moral or mental defect or disorder.
pos: noun
examples: Love's a malady without a cure.
Synonyms: ailment
disease
disorder
distemper
illness
sickness
Derived words: maladious
Translations:
ailment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ail
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English ailment
From ail + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: ailments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)
He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.
Translations:
madwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mad
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English madwoman
From mad + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: madwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.
pos: noun
examples: but there seemed to be no reality in the whole scene except poor little Miss Flite, the madwoman, standing on a bench and nodding at it.
A madwoman with cropped hair and staring eyes stumbled into the column just ahead of our party, shouted words no one could understand, and fled among the trees.
Translations:
acrophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From acro- + -phobia.
Inflected forms:
form: acrophobias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: phobia or strong fear of being high above ground level
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You know, being elevated to the position of Chairman has given me rather a bad attack of acrophobia.
But it's no place for anyone with acrophobia, what with its myriad drop-offs and switchbacks.
You know, acrophobia? I get nervous just standing this close to the edge.
Acrophobia describes an intense fear of heights that can cause significant anxiety and panic.
The definition of acrophobia is, simply put, a phobia of heights.
Acrophobia is an intense fear of heights. If a person has acrophobia, being high up or thinking about heights may cause them to have a panic attack.
Acrophobia is a persistent and intense fear of heights. People with acrophobia will experience panic and sudden anxiety in a variety of situations involving heights.
Antonyms: bathophobia
Translations:
grep
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.
Inflected forms:
form: greps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
pos: verb
examples: You can't grep dead trees.
Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]
gloss: To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
Derived words: greppable
Translations:
claustrophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from Latin claudō (“to shut, close; to imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal.
Affixes: -phobia
Inflected forms:
form: claustrophobias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The abnormal fear of closed, tight places.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She complained of emaciation, nervousness, tenderness of the scalp, weakness of the back, claustrophobia, and other morbid fears.
The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.
(Editor’s note: Those who suffer from claustrophobia, kabourophobia, arachnophobia or thalassophobia are advised to skip the above trailer.)
Antonyms: agoraphobia
Translations:
inundation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French inundacion (“flood”) (French inondation), from Latin inundatio (“flood”), form of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (English inundate). By surface analysis, inundat(e) + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: inundations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inundating; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being inundated; flooding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
gloss: An overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: There is an inundation of tourists in summer, but in winter the town is almost deserted.
But he did not long abuse my patience, for the objects before him had now put him by all his, and, coming out with that formidable machine of his, he lets the fury loose, and pointing it directly to the pouting-lipt mouth, that bid him sweet defiance in dumb-shew, squeezes in the head, and, driving with refreshed rage, breaks in, and plugs up the whole passage of that soft pleasure-conduit, where he makes all shake again, and put, once more, all within me into such an uproar, as nothing could still but a fresh inundation from the very engine of those flames, as well as from all the springs with which nature floats that reservoir of joy, when risen to its flood-mark.
Related words: inundate
Translations:
invalidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From invalidate + -ion or in- + validation.
Base: invalidate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: invalidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of invalidating, or the state of being invalidated
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: confirmation
establishment
foundation
validation
Translations:
inveterate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1574; borrowed from Latin inveterātus (“of long standing, chronic”), perfect passive participle of inveterō and participial adjective (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, into”) + veterō (“to age”), from vetus, veteris (“old”). Cognate with Italian inveterato, French invétéré. By surface analysis, in- (“not, opposite”) + veterate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more inveterate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inveterate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: deep-rooted, ingrained, ineradicable, indelible, radicated, chronic, permanent
an inveterate disease
an inveterate habit
a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.
In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.
gloss: Having had a habit (usually a bad habit) for a long time.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: hardened, chronic, dyed-in-the-wool
an inveterate idler;   an inveterate gambler;   an inveterate smoker
an inveterate traveller
"Say no more," interrupted Henrietta: "the very mention of that inveterate gossip accounts for every thing. Do let me, my dear Mrs. Courtenaye," and she took her hand with a kindness that was irresistible, "let me warn you against allowing your happiness to be the sport of a woman like that;...
[S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.
Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.
gloss: Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
pos: adj
examples: A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty[…]
1765–70, Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland
This his lordship perused with a countenance, and scrutiny, apparently inveterate.
Synonyms: bred-in-the-bone
deep-rooted
deep-seated
dyed-in-the-wool
ingrained
inveterate
long-standing
radicated
Antonyms: casual
transient
Related words: inveteracy
inveterately
innate
obstinate
Derived words: inveterateness
inveteratist
Translations: