yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
neigh
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.
Inflected forms:
form: neighs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: neighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: neighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: neighed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The cry of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: To make its cry.
pos: verb
examples: For hovv […] ſhall I knovv thee to be a man, vvhen thou kickeſt like an aſſe, neygheſt like an Horſe after vvomen, raueſt in luſt like a Bull, raueneſt like a Beare, ſtingeſt like a Scorpion, rakeſt like a VVolfe, as ſuttle as a Foxe, as impudent as a Dogge; ſhall I ſay thou art man that haſt all the Symptomes of a beaſt?
"I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"
gloss: To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
pos: verb
gloss: To scoff or sneer.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Yes, yes, 'tis he. I will assure you Uncle, the very he, the he your Wisdom plaid withal, I thank you for't, neighed at his Nakedness, and made his Cold and Poverty your Pastime; […]
Derived words: neigher
Translations:
chattel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chatel, from Old French chatel, from Medieval Latin capitāle (English capital), from Latin capitālis (“of the head”), from caput (“head”) + -alis (“-al”). Compare the doublet cattle (“cows”), which is from an Anglo-Norman variant. Compare also capital and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Inflected forms:
form: chattels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tangible, movable property.
pos: noun
examples: […] although of course the firm had changed hands many times over the centuries, […] But the box has always been part of the chattels, as it were.
gloss: A slave.
pos: noun
examples: Not all his servants and chattels are wraiths!
Related words: capital
cattle
Derived words: chattelhood
chattel house
chattelism
chattel paper
chattelship
chattel slavery
human chattel
Translations:
tangible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)
Inflected forms:
form: more tangible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tangible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tangibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.
pos: adj
gloss: Perceptible; able to be perceived.
pos: adj
examples: While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way.
gloss: Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.
pos: adj
examples: And for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.
Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation's tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and [not] using language appropriate for the workspace.
gloss: Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.
pos: adj
gloss: A physical object; something that can be touched.
pos: noun
gloss: Real or concrete results.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, but what are the tangibles?
Antonyms: intangible
Related words: real
palpable
touch
Derived words: nontangible
tangible asset
tangibleness
tangibly
untangible
Translations:
fils
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French fils (“son”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: père
Translations:
materialistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English material
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English materialistic
From material + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more materialistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most materialistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
pos: adj
examples: Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
gloss: Synonym of materialist, of or concerning materialism.
pos: adj
examples: But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
Related words: materialism
Derived words: amaterialistic
antimaterialistic
hypermaterialistic
immaterialistic
materialistically
nonmaterialistic
postmaterialistic
unmaterialistic
Translations:
materialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French matérialisme. By surface analysis, material + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: materialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?
gloss: The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.
Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.
With the rise of Cartesian and Hobbesian mechanical philosophy and materialism in the 16th and 17th centuries, the classical argument for the immateriality of the intellect and will was simply ignored and then forgotten.
gloss: Synonym of matter, material substances in the aggregate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
rare
uncountable
Related words: materialist
materialistic
idealism
physicalism
Derived words: antimaterialism
dialectical materialism
eliminative materialism
historical materialism
hypermaterialism
neo-materialism
new materialism
nonmaterialism
philosophical materialism
postmaterialism
scientific materialism
speculative materialism
transcendental materialism
Translations:
guile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gile, from Anglo-Norman gile, from Old French guile (“deception”), from Frankish *wīl (“ruse”), from Proto-Germanic *wīlą, from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with wile.
Inflected forms:
form: guiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Astuteness often marked by a certain sense of cunning or artful deception.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was a result that owed a lot to a moment of guile from Ramires but more to a display of guts from the Brazilian and his team-mates after Terry's needless dismissal eight minutes before half-time for driving a knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez off the ball.
Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.
gloss: Deceptiveness, deceit, fraud, duplicity, dishonesty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
gloss: To deceive, beguile, bewile.
pos: verb
examples: Who means no guile, be guiled soonest shall
Derived words: guiler
guilesome
Translations:
layoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lay offdeverb.
English layoff
Deverbal from lay off.
Inflected forms:
form: layoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lay-off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
pos: noun
examples: One of the muscles on the point of the shoulder was torn loose and it didn't need more than a glance to see that Mr. Hickey was in for a long lay-off. He wouldn't pitch again for quite a spell, if ever;
But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
After a ten-month layoff, during which extensive testing had taken place in conjunction with AEI, the 'Blue Trains' resumed full operation on October 2 1961, [...].
At tech companies that spent recent years expanding paid parental leave, parents have felt the whiplash of mass layoffs in an especially visceral way.
gloss: A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
pos: noun
Related words: lay off
Derived words: postlayoff
Translations:
overall
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English overall, overal, from Old English ofer eall, ofer ealle (“over all”), equivalent to over + all. Compare Saterland Frisian oural, uural (“everywhere”), West Frisian oeral (“everywhere”), Dutch overal (“everywhere”), German Low German overall, överall (“everywhere; all over”), German überall (“all over; everywhere”), Danish overalt (“everywhere”), Swedish överallt (“everywhere; overall”).
Compound parts: over
all
Inflected forms:
form: more overall
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overall
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: overalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All-encompassing, all around.
pos: adj
examples: We believe also that a controlled economy cannot be understood without some overall view of the controlling institutions: hence our short studies — shorter by far than the original drafts — of the central administration.
"The cranium is clearly plesiomorphic in overall form, presenting primitive traits shared by earlier hominins," the authors wrote.
gloss: Generally; with everything considered.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Overall, there is not enough evidence to form a clear conclusion.
gloss: A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps.
pos: noun
tags: US
in-plural
Synonyms: overslop
slop
Derived words: overalled
Translations:
overalls
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A loose-fitting garment worn over regular clothes to protect them.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
gloss: Loose-fitting pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
plural
plural-only
examples: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
gloss: Trousers traditionally worn by cavalry.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
Derived words: biballs
shortalls
waist overalls
Translations:
overbearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English overbear
English -ing
English overbearing
From overbear (“to bear down (on)”) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more overbearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overbearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly bossy, domineering, arrogant, forceful, intense, or annoying.
pos: adj
examples: In the same year, 1844, negotiations were begun to strengthen the North Union's position by an amalgamation with the Liverpool & Manchester and Grand Junction companies, but at the eleventh hour the shareholders took exception to the rather overbearing ways of the Grand Junction, and backed out.
Translations:
sabotage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Inflected forms:
form: sabotages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sabotages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sabotaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sabotaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sabotaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A deliberate action aimed at weakening someone (or something, a nation, etc) or preventing them from being successful, through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
pos: verb
examples: The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.
Our plans were sabotaged.
The Hedjaz Railway is best known for its connections to T. E. Lawrence, whose fame as "El Orens", the railway wrecker, spread quickly throughout Arabia. He arrived at Yenbo in December, 1916, and immediately started his campaign to sabotage the railway, but to keep it sufficiently in working order to allow supplies to reach Medina.
Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
Derived words: self-sabotage
Translations:
saboteur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French savate
French sabot
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French saboter
French -eur
French saboteurbor.
English saboteur
Borrowed from French saboteur.
Inflected forms:
form: saboteurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who intentionally causes the destruction of property in order to hinder the efforts of their enemy.
pos: noun
Translations:
vandalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: vandalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism: spray paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.
Bradford once boasted two stations with overall roofs. The pair were swept away in the 1970s in an act of corporate and civic vandalism.
President Donald Trump seemed to issue a warning to individuals who participate in Tesla vandalisms, as reports of destruction to vehicles, dealerships and charging stations surge across the country. […] When asked about his comments at the White House on Friday afternoon, Trump called the vandalism suspects "terrorists" and appeared to argue what was happening with Tesla vehicles was worse than what happened during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
Translations:
vandal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1660s, “willful destroyer of what is beautiful or venerable”, from Vandal, referring to a member of an ancient Germanic people, the Vandals, who are associated with senseless destruction as a result of their sack of Rome under King Genseric in 455. During the Enlightenment, Rome was idealized, while the Goths and Vandals were blamed for its destruction. The Vandals may not have been any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire English poet John Dryden to write, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface (1694). However, the Vandals did intentionally damage statues, which may be why their name is associated with the vandalism of art. The coining of French Vandalisme by Henri Grégoire in 1794 to describe the destruction of artwork following the French Revolution popularized the idea further, and the term was quickly adopted across Europe, including as English vandalism.
Inflected forms:
form: vandals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who needlessly destroys, defaces, or damages things, especially other people's property.
pos: noun
examples: Vandals spray-painted obscenities on the side of the building.
The anonymous vandal was blocked after going on a vandalism spree.
Translations:
vandalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vandal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English vandalize
From vandal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: vandalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vandalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vandalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vandalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vandalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: American, Canadian, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.
pos: verb
Translations:
varmint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Dialectal form of vermin, derived from Latin vermis (“worm”), c. 1530–1540s. Perhaps influenced by Latin vargus (“bandit, outlaw, scoundrel”), though the pronunciation in /ɑː(ɹ)/ is more likely due to the same lowering of /ɛr/ > /ar/ found in carve < Middle English kerven and starve < Middle English sterven. The final syllable is probably altered after -ment; compare parchment < Middle English parchemyn.
Inflected forms:
form: varmints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pestilent or predatory ground-borne animal, especially one that kills or harasses a farmer's animals or crops.
pos: noun
gloss: An obnoxious person or troublemaker.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: You'd be but a fierce young hound indeed, if at your time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!
Derived words: varminter
Translations:
vermin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vermyn, vermyne, from Old French vermine, from Vulgar Latin *verminum (“vermin”), collective noun formed from Latin vermis (“worm”). Compare vermiculate and vermivorous. See also worm.
Inflected forms:
form: vermins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various common types of small insects or other animals which cause harm and annoyance.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
examples: The area was crawling with all sorts of vermin: fleas, lice, mice, and rats to name a few. Thus, we felt as if vermin were crawling over us.
Vermin was everywhere; night and day it crawled gaily over the walls and ceiling, about our bodies, and into our very food, and, although the subject did not interest us, a naturalist would have delighted in the ever-changing varieties of insect life.
gloss: An animal that preys on game, such as a fox or a weasel.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
gloss: An obnoxious or mean and offensive person.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
examples: Bring these vermin to the Palace of Justice.
Related words: varmint
Derived words: verminicide
verminer
Translations:
callus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin callum (“hard skin”). Displaced Old English wearr.
Inflected forms:
form: calluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calli
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
form: calluses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: callusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: callused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: callused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally
gloss: The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In orchids, a fleshy outgrowth from the labellum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In grasses, a hardened extension from the base of a floret, which may or may not elongate and is often covered in hairs or bristles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To form such hardened tissue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: calliferous
callous
Derived words: callousy
callused
calluslike
callusy
subcallus
Translations:
vellum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French velin (French vélin), from Latin vitulinus (“of a calf”), as if derived from Old French veel (“veal”).
Inflected forms:
form: vellums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of parchment paper made from the skin of a lamb, baby goat, or calf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Little, however, of the wall was seen, for it was nearly hidden by the arched book-cases; and the ponderous tomes, mostly bound in black or white vellum, long since grown dingy with age, contrasted forcibly with the gayer ornaments of their habitation.
From this list are purposely omitted books printed upon vellum, Books of Hours of the Virgin Mary, and illuminated books; for these are rarities within reach of the wealthy only.
The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision.
gloss: A writing paper of very high quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: bookfell
parchment
Derived words: vellum cloth
vellum paper
Translations:
Velcro
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of French velours (“velvet”) + French crochet (“hook”).
Compound parts: velours
crochet
Inflected forms:
form: Velcros
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Velcroing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Velcroed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Velcroed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fasten with Velcro.
pos: verb
examples: He was standing on a chair Velcroing red balloons to himself.
He had a seat in a leather recliner and hit the remote, which he had Velcroed to the chair.
Toasters and microwaves were Velcroed to kitchen counters. Televisions and VCRs were Velcroed to their stands.
Two officers stormed into I-tier, still Velcroing their flak jackets.
Translations:
socker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of soccer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
eutectic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὔτηκτος (eútēktos, “easily melted”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + τήκω (tḗkō, “to melt”). Coined as an adjective (along with the noun eutexia) by British scientist Frederick Guthrie in 1884.
Inflected forms:
form: eutectics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing the chemical composition or temperature of a mixture of substances that gives the lowest temperature at which the mixture becomes fully molten. A further requirement is that that temperature is lower than the melting point of any of the pure component substances.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Describing the thermodynamic equilibrium conditions where a liquid coexists with two solid phases.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For a mixture with two components at a fixed pressure, the eutectic reaction can only happen at a fixed chemical composition and temperature, called the eutectic point.
gloss: A material that has the composition of a eutectic mixture or eutectic alloy.
pos: noun
gloss: The temperature of the eutectic point.
pos: noun
Derived words: anchieutectic
eutectic alloy
eutectic mixture
eutectic point
eutectofelsite
eutectoid
eutectophyre
hypereutectic
hypereutectoid
hypoeutectic
hypoeutectoid
Translations:
African
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested as a noun in early New English Aphricane, Africans (plural), Middle English as Affrican, Aufrican and Old English as Africanas (“Africans”) (only plural). From Latin āfricānae, from āfricānus, from Āfricus.
The adjective appears in the 16th century, as Affricane, Africane, African.
Latin Āfricus is from Āfri (singular Āfer), the name of an ancient people of North Africa (near Carthage, in Tunisia), with the suffix -icus. āfricānus is formed by addition of the -ānus suffix.
By surface analysis, Africa + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more African
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most African
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Afrikan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
sometimes
form: Afric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
form: Africans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Afrikan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
sometimes
form: Afric
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
poetic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Africa.
pos: adj
examples: Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
gloss: Black; (dated, offensive) synonym of negroid.
pos: adj
examples: The truth is that I know the guy had African skin and a shirt of some sort.
In vivo and in vitro approaches in understanding the differences between Caucasian and African skin types: […]
gloss: A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
pos: noun
examples: Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
But new research suggests another possibility: all Africans may have ancestry from “West Eurasian” populations which moved back into Africa after the “Out of Africa” event ~50,000 years ago.[…]
The Cameroonian’s case is unique as many Africans denied Schengen visas rarely appeal or contest the decisions in court.
Translations:
aft
Part of speech: noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Old English æftan (“behind”); possibly originally superlative of of (“off”). See after.
Inflected forms:
form: afts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: further aft
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther aft
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more aft
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest aft
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest aft
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most aft
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: further aft
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther aft
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more aft
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest aft
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest aft
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most aft
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
gloss: At, near, or towards the stern of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
pos: adv
examples: I came safe on board, but I felt anything but easy about the boat and the boy; my thoughts were not where they should be, for every moment I had to give the boat and the boy a look, and at last I saw a sea strike the boat aft, which gave it a send forward and under, and the next moment he was gone.
gloss: located at the back of a boat, ship, or airplane
pos: adj
Antonyms: fore
forward
Translations:
afternoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.
Base: noon
Affixes: after-
Inflected forms:
form: afternoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: afternoone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
pos: noun
examples: Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on his stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
And I love to live so pleasantly/Live this life of luxury/Lazing on a sunny afternoon/In the summertime
For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons.
gloss: The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Buck.[…]Theſe both put by a poore petitioner
A care-crazd mother of a many children,
A beauty-waining and diſtreſſed widow,
Euen in the afternoone of her beſt daies
Made priſe and purchaſe of his luſtfull eye,
Seduc t the pitch and height of al his thoughts,
To baſe declenſion and loathd bigamie,
By her in his vnlawfull bed he got.
gloss: A party or social event held in the afternoon.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: arvo
aft
undern
afternoon
undertime
Antonyms: morning
Related words: forenoon
early morning
dawn
first light
postdawn
midday
evening
dusk
night
midnight
Derived words: aft
afternoon delight
afternooner
afternoon farmer
afternoonish
afternoon tea
arvo
crafternoon
good afternoon
midafternoon
preafternoon
this afternoon
Translations:
afterthought
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
Proto-Indo-European *teng-der.
Proto-Germanic *þankijaną
Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht
Old English þōht
Middle English thought
English thought
English afterthought
From after- + thought, probably modelled on forethought. Compare also the verb afterthink.
Base: thought
Affixes: after-
Inflected forms:
form: afterthoughts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reflection after an act; a later or subsequent thought, action, or expedient.
pos: noun
examples: She packed her sandals only as an afterthought, but she was glad she did.
gloss: Something additional to the original plan or concept.
pos: noun
examples: This whole remodeling was an afterthought; we were only going to paint and call it good.
The lighting in the corridor just dabbles of arcs, afterthoughts, smears. The light a grime that gives him a slight headache. The same type as when it has rained, remained humid, a fetid stale of ozone over everything.
For most of the past three decades, the natural world was treated almost as an afterthought by world leaders. If discussed at all, it was with platitudes about the need to save polar bears and tigers.
Related words: afterthink
Translations:
afterwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: temporal-location
time
Etymology: From Middle English afterwardes, from Old English æfteweard (“behind”) + -s (“(adverbial genitive)”). By surface analysis, after + -wards.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At a later or succeeding time; after that;
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.
Antonyms: beforehand
Translations:
agate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
media
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle French agathe, from Latin achatēs, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).
Inflected forms:
form: agates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ends of the veil, drawn over her head, were embroidered with silver; she had long gold ear-rings; to a rich and large gold chain was suspended a cross set with precious stones; and over the arm of her chair hung a rosary of agate beads.
Yes: living among the cohabations^([sic]) of Faust himself, among the litharge and agate and hyacinth and pearls.
gloss: The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹⁄₂-point.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
uncountable
gloss: One fourteenth of an inch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
gloss: A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A marble made from agate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
Related words: aggie
Derived words: agate glass
agatelike
agate line
agate ruler
agate snail
agateware
agatiferous
agatiform
agatine
agatization
agatize
agaty
connie agate
eye agate
lace agate
moss agate
Translations:
so-so
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English so so, from Old English swā swā, equivalent to so + so. Compare Dutch zozo (“so-so”), German soso (“so-so”), Norwegian så som så (“so-so”).
Compound parts: so
so
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Neither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: The dessert was pretty good, but the meal was so-so.
[I]n ſome Iriſh Houſes, vvhere things are ſo-ſo, / One Gammon of Bacon hangs up for a ſhow; […]
He [Robert Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty.
gloss: Neither very well nor very poorly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: He performed so-so during the tryouts, and the coach was undecided whether to add him to the team or not.
Translations:
aged
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more aged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: further aged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther aged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthest aged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest aged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agèd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: agèd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Old.
pos: adj
examples: I knocked on the door and an aged man opened it.
The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
gloss: Having the age of.
pos: adj
examples: Aged 18, he had no idea what to do with his life.
John Mathews, aged about 18, stood at the bar with his hands in his pockets, alike indifferent to a verdict of acquittal or guilty.
Forty-six percent of drivers aged 18 to 24 said they would choose Internet access over owning a car, according to the research firm Gartner.
gloss: Having undergone the improving effects of time; matured.
pos: adj
examples: aged whiskey
The Lethrblaka's blood, to Eragon's astonishment, was a metallic blue-green, not unlike the verdigris that forms on aged copper.
gloss: Old people, collectively.
pos: noun
tags: collective
plural
plural-only
with-definite-article
examples: the aged
health insurance and retirement income for the aged
Synonyms: hoary
Derived words: aged care
agedly
agedness
aged R-value
bottom-aged
bottom aged
college-aged
dry-aged
home for the aged
hyperaged
mid-aged
midaged
middle-aged
nonaged
older-aged
overaged
photoaged
school-aged
superaged
teen-aged
teenaged
top aged
top-aged
unaged
un-aged
Translations:
jumpy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jump
English -y
English jumpy
From jump + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: jumpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jumpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nervous and excited.
pos: adj
examples: It was the butler who saw him go. Twelve o'clock at night and raining hard. So next night I was up at the house and, sure enough, master was off again. Stephens and I went after him, but it was jumpy work, for it would have been a bad job if he had seen us.
"I wish it was well over," admitted Hollyer. "I'm not particularly jumpy, but this gives me a touch of the creeps."
gloss: Tending to jump; full of jumps.
pos: adj
examples: We moved at a good clip, so I reached up to pull shut the window coverings, just in case this jumpy frog decided to escape.
Meanwhile, the car pursued its jumpy course, and I could not prevent myself laughing.
Derived words: jumpily
jumpiness
Translations:
keepsake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From keep + sake.
Compound parts: keep
sake
Inflected forms:
form: keepsakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
pos: noun
examples: And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
My little keepsake—only a brooch—lay on the table at her bedside, with her prayer-book, and the miniature portrait of her father which she takes with her wherever she goes.
He wished you to have it, as a little keepsake he had prepared—it is only a purse, Miss Wilfer—but as he was disappointed in his fancy, I volunteered to come after you with it.
It seemed to me that if I owned an elephant that was a keepsake, and I thought a good deal of him, I would think twice before I would ride him over that bridge.
He walked on hastily, and as he went he hid Jezebel's keepsake first under his cloak, and then deeper, under the sober grey justicor, or waistcoat, near the place where his Presbyterian heart was beating all too unsoberly.
Clam-shells are fashionable keepsakes. You write your name and the date inside one and your friend writes hers in the other and you exchange.
Meghan’s growing list of As Ever products includes a crepe mix, a shortbread mix with flower sprinkles, apricot spread in “keepsake packaging”, a limited-edition orange blossom honey and various teas.
gloss: Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses as capital and sentimental stories as interesting.
[…]it was the Italy that we know from the steel engravings in old keepsakes and annuals, from the vignettes on music-sheets and the drop-curtains at theatres; an Italy that we can never confess to ourselves—in spite of our own changes and of Italy’s—that we have ceased to believe in.
Derived words: keepsaky
Translations:
luxurious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English luxurious, from Old French luxurios (modern French luxurieux), from Latin lū̆xuriōsus (“rank, luxuriant, profuse, excessive, immoderate”), from lū̆xuria (“rankness, luxury”), from lū̆xus (“extravagance, luxury”). By surface analysis, luxury + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more luxurious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most luxurious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very fine in quality and comfortable.
pos: adj
examples: a luxurious hotel suite
With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
Baby, what you doin' now? / You're pissin' me off / But your hair is so luxurious / And your lips are so soft
gloss: Enjoying the pleasures of luxury, accustomed to luxury.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Invalids, and luxurious persons, require more artificial arrangements for travelling on the camel.
When one looks at the elegantly dressed people round the gaming table, who perhaps laugh at everything which impresses other people with awe, who scoff at the Church and the Bible, one could scarcely think it possible that these enlightened, pleasure-loving, luxurious men of the world, carry on in secret, cabalistic nonsense, turning over cards, fortune telling, studying the significance of signs and dreams […]
Related words: luxuriant
luxuriate
luxuriously
luxury
Derived words: luxuriosity
luxuriousness
luxurity
overluxurious
semiluxurious
superluxurious
ultraluxurious
unluxurious
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: luxuriós
lang: Dutch
word: luxueus
lang: French
word: de luxe
lang: Galician
word: luxurioso
lang: German
word: luxuriös
lang: Italian
word: lussurioso
lang: Portuguese
word: luxuoso
lang: Romanian
word: luxurios
luxury
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria (“rankness, luxury”), from luxus (“extravagance, luxury”).
Inflected forms:
form: luxuries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more luxury
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most luxury
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings; the state of being that they create.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: splendor, grandeur, grandness, decadence
gloss: Something desirable but expensive and that one can live without.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […]”
And with Millennial and Gen Z consumers accounting for a growing proportion of spending, the luxury market is increasingly sensitive to the social and environmental causes they identify with. […] With all this in mind, here are CNN Style’s best small luxuries for the conscientious gift giver: […]
gloss: Something that is pleasant and desirable but not necessary in life (whether expensive or not).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sir Humphrey Appleby: Bernard, what do you want? / Bernard Woolley: I want to have a clear conscience. / […] / Sir Humphrey Appleby: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries (laugh track)?
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
gloss: Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:
gloss: Copulation; the act or action of sex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
gloss: Very expensive.
pos: adj
gloss: Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
pos: adj
Related words: luxe
luxuriant
luxuriate
luxurious
luxuriously
Derived words: antiluxury
hard luxury
lap of luxury
luxurist
luxury belief
luxury box
luxury good
luxury tax
nonluxury
quiet luxury
semiluxury
soft luxury
superluxury
ultraluxury
unluxury
Translations: