yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
blending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blend + -ing. Cognate with Faroese blending (“mixture, crossing”).
Base: blend
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: blendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of something being blended.
pos: noun
examples: blendings of old and new
Light and dark grounds are used indiscriminately, and indeed there is such a blending of the two styles that on some of the vases it would be difficult to say whether the design was light on dark, or dark on light.
Translations:
asserting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: assertings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making assertions.
pos: noun
examples: From this perspective, when one evaluates assertions one is primarily evaluating assertings performances on the part of asserters, and the evaluations of what is said in those assertings in some way depend upon these prior evaluations.
Translations:
wistfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wistful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English wistfully
From wistful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more wistfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wistfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wistful manner.
pos: adv
examples: The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
Translations:
unfolded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not folded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The campaigners main requests are to have a dedicated space for unfolded prams on trains, with a reservation system for that space.
Translations:
towered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with a tower.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nontowered
towerless
Translations:
grievously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grevously; equivalent to grievous + -ly.
Base: grievous
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more grievously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grievously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grievous manner, severely.
pos: adv
examples: [T]he king ſent to the ſea ſixe good ſhippes, well manned and vitayled for the warre: […] for ſaffegarde of the Merchauntes, and other the kinges ſubiectes, that were greuouſly ſpoyled and robbed on the ſea, by Frenchmen, Scottes and other rouers.
Thoſe Chriſtian Captiues, which you keepe as ſlaues, […]
when they chance to reſt or breath a ſpace,
Are puniſht with Baſtones so grieuouſly,
That they lie panting on the Gallies ſide.
That's why this failure of the super committee represents a reckless, irresponsible gamble by our "leaders" in Washington. It's difficult to remember a Congress that has put the nation so much at risk in the service of ideology and to hold onto office. Partisans on both sides are grievously failing the country.
Translations:
avenging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: avengings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is avenged.
pos: noun
Translations:
faltering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English falter
English -ing
English faltering
From falter + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more faltering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most faltering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: faultering
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: falterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: faultering
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: hesitant, halting
pos: adj
gloss: hesitancy
pos: noun
examples: But it is the doubt thrown on the prospect of arrival, the falterings of purpose and belief, the renewals of hope that give the novel its drive and energy.
Translations:
ruffled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having ruffles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It would have slid easily across the floor if not for the ruffled undersurface causing friction.
gloss: Puffed up like a bird's feathers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Bothered.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
Derived words: unruffled
Translations:
suspecting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more suspecting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suspecting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
raving
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ravings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more raving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most raving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more raving
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most raving
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.
gloss: Talking wildly.
pos: adj
examples: Oh, what an extraordinary idea! I have served 11 governments in the past 30 years. If I'd believed in all their policies, [proceeds to describe contradictory policies by different parties], but above all, I would have been a stark-staring raving schizophrenic! (laugh track).
gloss: Causing excitement or wild praise.
pos: adj
examples: She was not considered a raving beauty.
gloss: Incoherently
pos: adv
examples: He went stark, raving mad.
Derived words: ravingly
Translations:
splashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more splashed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most splashed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
snapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of a snap.
pos: noun
examples: Snappings, audible or palpable, were noted in 45 cases (77 per cent). They were either heard in the course of the examination (about half), or were mentioned in the anamnesis.
gloss: The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
pos: noun
examples: There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
Translations:
genuinely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *-os
Old Latin -os
Latin -ūs
Latin genuīnusbor.
English genuine
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English genuinely
From genuine + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more genuinely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most genuinely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
pos: adv
examples: I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers.
This was an emphatic performance and victory, the hosts controlling affairs from pretty much first to last in a display that suggested they are genuinely moving forward once again.
Translations:
reviving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: revivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A revival; a bringing back to life.
pos: noun
examples: I believe I may venture to say that I am not [mistaken] that where the divine life is implanted by the Spirit of the living God, that life admits of decrease and increase, admits of dreadful decays, and also of some blessed revivings.
Translations:
practising
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From practise + -ing (suffix forming gerund nouns, and present participles of verbs).
Base: practise
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: practisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Engaged in the practice of some activity or profession.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the practice of law by a legal practitioner; specifically, relating to a legal practitioner's status of being currently certified to practise law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You really should seek advice from a practising solicitor.
gloss: The act of one who practises.
pos: noun
Translations:
persevering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: perseverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more persevering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most persevering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: perseverance
pos: noun
gloss: Tending to persevere.
pos: adj
Translations:
responding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: respondings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: response
pos: noun
examples: Nor were their ardent hopes disappointed; for in a short time the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
Translations:
presiding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having authority over; vested with the authority to preside over.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
murdering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: murderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of committing murder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the speedy perpetration of these licensed murderings
Translations:
disclosing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disclosings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of disclosure.
pos: noun
examples: The undulation, that is, was within the disclosings, not something separate which disclosed them from without by being directed upon them.
Translations:
lounging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: loungings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who lounges.
pos: noun
examples: It is a world of idle 45-minute loungings in the basement waiting for the machine to finish its cycle […]
Translations:
laboring
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: laborings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: labouring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more laboring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most laboring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: labouring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who labors; toil; work done.
pos: noun
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
hammering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hammerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period of being beaten or hammered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Repeated hammerings by the smith thin the metal and make it tough.
Hearing a hammering on the door, I ran downstairs to open it.
gloss: A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A heavy defeat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
tilted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
video-games
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a vehicle, fitted with a tilt (canvas covering).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Through the thicker mist that afternoon a white tilted cart sailed joltingly, taking its bearings from the various landmarks rather than from the undefined track.
gloss: In a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Derived words: untilted
Translations:
disengaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disengage
English -ed
English disengaged
From disengage + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more disengaged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disengaged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not engaged; at leisure; free from occupation or attachment; unconnected; detached.
pos: adj
examples: “Calm yourself, dear Arthur,” she said, in her low rich voice, and sniffled sweetly and gravely upon him. Then, with her disengaged hand, she put the hair lightly off his throbbing forehead.
gloss: Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: These perused, the Major took out his pocket-book to see on what days he was disengaged, and which of these many hospitable calls he could afford to accept or decline.
‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’
Derived words: disengagedness
Translations:
flagging
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Inflected forms:
form: flaggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength; dwindling.
pos: adj
examples: These cars without doubt were the salvation of the C.I.E. network, as they provided fast, economical services with a degree of comfort which did much to retrieve a flagging passenger traffic.
gloss: A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which something flags or tires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]
gloss: The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.
gloss: Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: false flagging
foot-flagging
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: väsyminen
thawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thaw
English -ing
English thawing
From thaw + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: thawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something thaws.
pos: noun
examples: Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
Translations:
disappearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disappearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: disappearance
pos: noun
examples: Sudden and extensive disappearings and fresh appearings would startle and confound us, and if continued, would shatter our sense of personality out of us.
Translations:
coughing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coughings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cough; the act of coughing.
pos: noun
examples: The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings, and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action […]
"I've been directed here to find Miss Susan Pike," the man outside explained, between fresh coughings. ¶ "Well, then, mog your boots out of this as quick as ever you can!" my Aunt replied, with great promptitude. "You won't find her here!"
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis and another boy interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
gloss: A repetitive vocalisation of a bird or other animal that resembles human coughing.
pos: noun
examples: The nocturnal sounds of the mountains were new to him, yet they fell upon his ears like the soft voice of a half-forgotten love. Many he intuitively sensed—ah, there was one that was familiar indeed; the distant coughing of Sheeta, the leopard; but there was a strange note in the final wail which made him doubt.
Translations:
complacently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complacent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English complacently
From complacent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more complacently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most complacently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a complacent manner; overly calm and contented; not troubled.
pos: adv
examples: At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”
Translations:
discriminating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more discriminating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discriminating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to perceive fine distinctions between similar things; perceptive
pos: adj
gloss: Having a discerning judgment or taste
pos: adj
Derived words: discriminatingly
enantiodiscriminating
indiscriminating
nondiscriminating
undiscriminating
Translations:
branching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: branchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process of forming a branch.
pos: noun
Translations:
coarsely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier coursely, from Middle English coursly (“naturally, logically”); equivalent to coarse + -ly.
Base: coarse
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more coarsely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most coarsely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a coarse manner
pos: adv
examples: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
Wild nuts, peas, vetch, a legume which had edible seed pods, and grasses were often combined with pulses like beans or lentils, the most commonly identified ingredient, and at times, wild mustard. To make the plants more palatable, pulses, which have a naturally bitter taste, were soaked, coarsely ground or pounded with stones to remove their husk.
Translations:
perpendicularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perpendicular
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perpendicularly
From perpendicular + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perpendicularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perpendicularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a perpendicular manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
bookkeeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bookkeepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: book-keeping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: book keeping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The skill or practice of keeping books or systematic records of financial transactions, e.g. income and expenses.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: General tasks for maintaining a system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: recordkeeping
record-keeping
scorekeeping
timekeeping
time-keeping
Derived words: bookkeeping machine
double bookkeeping
Hollywood bookkeeping
nonbookkeeping
Translations:
polyposis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polyp
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English polyposis
From polyp + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: polyposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hereditary disease characterised by numerous polyps that erupt in various parts of the body, especially the colon
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
polyptych
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύπτυχος (polúptukhos, “with many folds”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “a fold”).
Inflected forms:
form: polyptychs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A work consisting of multiple painted or carved panels joined together, often with hinges.
pos: noun
examples: [...], a polyptych is a painting with more than one section – a diptych is a painting in two parts or sections, a triptych in three, and so on. Perhaps the most famous polyptych is the Ghent Altarpiece by the early Flemish painters Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
Translations:
polysome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English -some
English polysome
From poly- + -some (“nucleic body”).
Inflected forms:
form: polysomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a polyribosome
pos: noun
Translations:
polysemous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin polysēmus, from Ancient Greek πολύσημος (polúsēmos), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, mean”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of polysemic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rhetoric
examples: But just how are the meanings associated with a polysemous word related? A look at the entries for polysemous words in different dictionaries shows that lexicographers cannot agree on how to divide up the semantic space […]
Translations:
polyuria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -uria.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: polyurias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of an abnormally large amount of urine; one symptom of diabetes
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
polyvalent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -valent.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: more polyvalent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyvalent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Multivalent; having a number of different forms, purposes, meanings, aspects or principles.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a high valence, especially more than three.
pos: adj
gloss: Having multiple valencies.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing antibodies to more than one kind of pathogen.
pos: adj
gloss: Having several different syllabic or semantic meanings depending on the context.
pos: adj
examples: The approximately 1000 different cuneiform signs form a complex script system in which practically every symbol is polyvalent, i.e., having multiple phonemic and/or semantic realizations.
Derived words: antipolyvalent
polyvalently
Translations:
gavotte
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”, literally “glutton, boor”), from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.
Inflected forms:
form: gavottes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gavottes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gavotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gavotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gavotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform this dance.
pos: verb
examples: You had one eye in the mirror as / you watched yourself gavotte / And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner / They'd be your partner, and / You're so vain
"Upbeat I can do." Karen paged through the options for a while, her pretty face tight, jaw clamped shut, then perked up at something she saw and jabbed the buttons like she wanted to speak to their manager. A bright, jangly guitar burst out of the wall speakers. George Harrison's voice announced that contrary to appearances, it was all right. Karen gavotted into the middle of the bar to dance, eyes closed in rapture.
Translations:
lace-curtain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the practice of putting lace curtains in the windows.
Inflected forms:
form: more lace-curtain
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lace-curtain
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having social aspirations, or pretending to be middle class.
pos: adj
Translations:
recuperation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recuperātiō. By surface analysis, recuperate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: recuperations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gradual restoration to health.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Instance of getting something back.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Raoul Vaneigem] I have nothing in common with the spectacular recuperation of a project that, in my case, has remained revolutionary throughout.
Related words: recuperate
recovery and reconstitution
Derived words: nonrecuperation
Translations:
nearsightedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nearsighted
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English nearsightedness
From nearsighted + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: nearsightednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being nearsighted, myopia.
pos: noun
Translations:
lacrimation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin lacrimātiō. By surface analysis, lacrimate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: lacrimations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lachrymation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The shedding or flow of tears; crying.
pos: noun
tags: literary
uncountable
usually
Translations:
repetitious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more repetitious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most repetitious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by repetition, especially excessive repetition.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: tedious; see also Thesaurus:wearisome
Translations:
droning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dronings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dull humming sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For a long while a man may hear the droning of little insects and yet not be aware that he hath heard them, so may the gods not hear our prayers at first until they have been very oft repeated.
gloss: Tedious and monotonous speech or writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Just be glad you never had to suffer my dronings first hand, Rufe.
Translations:
goldilocks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From goldy + locks. Goldilocks is a traditional children's story and its protagonist.
Base: goldy
Inflected forms:
form: goldilocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goldylocks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A goldilocks aster, Aster linosyris.
pos: noun
Derived words: Goldilocks
goldilocks buttercup
wood goldilocks
Translations:
moneymaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English monymaker; equivalent to money + maker.
Compound parts: money
maker
Inflected forms:
form: moneymakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: money-maker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: money maker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that earns or makes money; anything lucrative or profitable.
pos: noun
examples: With careful management, she hoped to grow her small business into a real moneymaker.
“The media don’t really give young people role models anymore,” says Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver. “Now you get role models like Donald Trump and all of the moneymakers — no one with real ideals.”
School lunch as a moneymaker is not possible in most public schools because the federal National School Lunch Program that provides subsidies to feed low-income students specifically prohibits it.
In a sense, The Bleeding Edge is about the privatization of our well-being; our bodies and illnesses are money-makers and, even if we know that our doctors have our best interests in mind, a treatment is some way a transaction between a patient and a glacially huge pharma-medical conglomerate out to make a profit.
gloss: (usually a woman's) butt, ass, rear end
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Shake your moneymaker / You gotta shake your moneymaker / And then?
gloss: A lady’s breast.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: One who makes (especially counterfeit) money.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
hornpipe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn + pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.
Base: horn
Inflected forms:
form: hornpipes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hornpipes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hornpiping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hornpiped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hornpiped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
pos: noun
gloss: A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
pos: noun
gloss: A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
pos: noun
gloss: Music played to the hornpipe dance
pos: noun
gloss: To dance the hornpipe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: hornpiper
hornpipist
Translations:
postbellum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin post bellum (literally “after the war”).
Inflected forms:
form: post-bellum
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of the period following a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For most Europeans, a postbellum world had seemed the self-evident future, says Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö.
gloss: Of the period following a war.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Midway through Donald McCaig’s unexpectedly diverting novel, “Rhett Butler’s People,” a black man about to be lynched in the post-bellum South asks Rhett to please shoot him dead before the mob breaks into the jail and does worse.
Synonyms: post-war
Antonyms: antebellum
pre-war
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: следвоенен
roman: sledvoenen
lang: Catalan
word: postguerra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戰後的 /战后的
lang: Czech
word: poválečný
lang: Dutch
word: naoorlogs
lang: Estonian
word: sõjajärgne
lang: Finnish
word: sodanjälkeinen
lang: French
word: d’après-guerre
lang: German
word: Nachkriegszeit
lang: Greek
word: μεταπολεμικός
roman: metapolemikós
lang: Italian
word: postbellico
lang: Japanese
word: 戦後の
lang: Korean
word: 전후의
roman: jeonhuui
lang: Polish
word: powojenny
lang: Portuguese
word: pós-guerra
lang: Portuguese
word: após-guerra
lang: Romanian
word: postbelic
lang: Russian
word: послевое́нный
roman: poslevojénnyj
lang: Spanish
word: de posguerra
lang: Swedish
word: efterkrigs-
lang: Turkish
word: savaş sonrası
cancan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cancanbor.
English cancan
Borrowed from French cancan.
Inflected forms:
form: cancans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: can-can
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cancans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cancanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cancanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cancanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: can-can
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
pos: noun
examples: They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.
gloss: A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
pos: noun
gloss: To dance the cancan.
pos: verb
Translations:
handpick
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + pick.
Compound parts: hand
pick
Inflected forms:
form: handpicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handpicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: handpicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: handpicked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hand-pick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To pick or harvest by hand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To select carefully and with individual attention.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each year they handpick seven candidates for next year's committee.
Related words: hand-carry
hand carry
handcarry
hand-deliver
hand deliver
hand-feed
handfeed
hand-knit
hand knit
handknit
handmake
hand-raise
hand-wash
hand wash
Derived words: handpick out
Translations:
ham-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ham-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ham-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.
The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
Translations:
ham-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ham-handed
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ham-handedly
From ham-handed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ham-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ham-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily
pos: adv
Translations:
humorless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English humor
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English humorless
From humor + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more humorless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humorless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: humourless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
At the risk of seeming humorless, we would like to point out some problems with the "bisexuality" insurance cartoon which appeared in the April Fool's issue of GCN.
Antonyms: amused
funny
Translations:
hoarder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.
Base: hoard
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hoarders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
pos: noun
examples: A bill to demonetize existing French gold coinage has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies by Deputies Lenoir, Bouffandeau, and Eymond. The purpose is to force hoarders to bring out gold estimated at 4,000,000,000 francs which is still kept in hiding in spite of patriotic appeals to the owners to exchange it for notes.
Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.
Translations:
poacher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English poach
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 poacher
From poach + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: poachers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water
pos: noun
gloss: An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
pos: noun
examples: Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.
gloss: Any of type of fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.
pos: noun
gloss: An American wigeon (Anas americana).
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
Related words: poaching
Derived words: poacher turned gamekeeper
poacher's pie
poacher's pot
sea-poacher
Translations:
poaching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: poachings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pockmarked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pockmarked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pockmarked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having pockmarks.
pos: adj
gloss: Pitted, or scarred with holes.
pos: adj
examples: After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.
For SAC66 is better known as Batty Moss (or Ribblehead) Viaduct - the magnificent, Grade 2-listed, 24-arch structure that strides over the pockmarked ground between Ribblehead station and Blea Moor signal box.
gloss: Incomplete, lacking, having holes.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: The student had, at best, a pockmarked understanding of the subject matter.
Derived words: Spock-marked
Translations:
podiatry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From pod- + -iatry.
Base: pod
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Chiropody.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
chiropody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)bor.
New Latin chiro-lbor.
English chiro-
English pod-
English -y
English chiropody
From chiro- (“hand”) + pod- (“foot”) + -y.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the feet (and formerly the hands).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
poignancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: poignancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being poignant
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly funny, detract from the poignancy and the emotional intimacy of the episode.
Translations:
poignantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English poignant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English poignantly
From poignant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more poignantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most poignantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a poignant manner.
pos: adv
examples: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
Translations:
pointedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pointed
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pointedly
From pointed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pointedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pointedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism.
pos: adv
examples: The film echoes a central question from all the Wick films, though: is he a natural-born murderer? Or a good man underneath it all? "This is who you are," the Marquis tells him. "A killer." The question is pointedly unresolved here.
In a second ruling on Sunday, Immergut expanded on her earlier order, temporarily blocking the administration from deploying troops from any state to Portland, and pointedly questioning an administration attorney over what she characterized as an attempt to circumvent her earlier order.
gloss: Wittily or pithily.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
gloss: Markedly, intentionally conspicuously.
pos: adv
examples: I was pointedly ignored.
Translations:
pointillist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pointilliste.
Inflected forms:
form: pointillists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism
pos: adj
gloss: An artist who paints in this style
pos: noun
Translations:
poisoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English poysener; equivalent to poison + -er.
Base: poison
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: poisoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who poisons something or someone.
pos: noun
gloss: A cook working in the outback.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
humorous
informal
examples: A station ‘poisoner’ in his own kitchen is a dictator indeed.
Derived words: sweet pole
lead poisoner
Translations:
poisonously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English poisonous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English poisonously
From poisonous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more poisonously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most poisonously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a poisonous manner.
pos: adv
examples: c. 1900, Thomas Edison, quotation
The x-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally.
To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
gloss: Using poison.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
Translations:
poky
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By shortening from poker machine (“gambling device”).
Inflected forms:
form: pokies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pokey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pokier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pokiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pokey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gambling device based on the card game poker.
pos: noun
gloss: Slow.
pos: adj
gloss: Stupid; mentally dull.
pos: adj
Translations:
polemically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From polemical + -ly. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -al + -ly.
Base: polemical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more polemically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most polemically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a polemical manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
polemicist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From polemic + -ist. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -ist.
Base: polemic
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: polemicists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes polemics.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who puts forward controversial views.
pos: noun
examples: The choice is between a polemicist with deep ties to the alt-right movement, or a conventional policy professional with an open channel to the political establishment that Trump ran against, but which he needs to pass an agenda.
You know Ann describes herself as a polemicist...
A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F. Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation.
Synonyms: polemist
polemic
Translations: