yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tabard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French tabart (“simple sleeveless overtunic; heavy overmantel”), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: tabards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
pos: noun
gloss: A sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
pos: noun
examples: The long rows of wheat-shocks marched like soldiers in worn yellow tabards.
‘I still cannot believe I actually did that!’ Maureen told me, recalling that time her and the Nanas turned up at former prime minister David Cameron's house in Oxfordshire on a tank Vivienne Westwood lent them, wearing tabards that said ‘The Oven Gloves Are Coming Off’.
This is the point at which someone usually suggests riders wear a numbered, hi-vis tabard.
gloss: A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: And thereupon, behold, a knight on a black horse appeared, clothed in jet-black velvet, and with a tabard of black linen about him.
gloss: A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The heralds in their tabards were marvellous to behold, and a nod from Rouge Croix gave me the keenest gratification.
Along the narrow winding path between the great oak trees there rode a dark sallow man in a scarlet tabard who blew so loudly upon a silver trumpet that they heard the clanging call long before they set eyes on him.
She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.
Related words: surcoat
scapular
Derived words: tabarded
tabarder
Translations:
cha
Part of speech: noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Chinese 茶 (chá), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la, via two routes: in some cases from Hindustani चा (cā) / چا (cā) (a variant of the same root, from Persian چا, which led to chai), from Northern Chinese; in other cases from 茶 (chá) /t͡sʰɑː²¹/, the pronunciation found in Canton (Guangzhou), where the British bought much of their tea in the 19th century. Doublet of tea, which is from the Amoy Min Nan pronunciation tê.
Inflected forms:
form: char
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: chaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Tea, (sometimes dialect) specifically masala chai.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Would you like a cup of cha?
[Krazy Kat, bringing a full tray:] Look, folkses – hot dogs, hot cha, hot peppa pots, hot timollies – hot kuffy. ^([sic])
gloss: Used to count out steps, particularly involving the hip-shaking sections of rhythmic Latin dances.
pos: particle
examples: One–two–cha–cha–cha
Three–four–cha–cha–cha
Translations:
check-swing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: check-swings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A swing in which a batter starts to swing for a ball but stops the swing shortly before the ball reaches home plate.
pos: noun
Translations:
chenille
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French chenille. Doublet of canicule.
Inflected forms:
form: chenilles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely soft and bunchy fabric often used to make sweaters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.
Translations:
requisition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle English requisicion, from Old French requisicion, from Medieval Latin requisitio. By surface analysis, requisit(e) + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: requisitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: requisitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: requisitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: requisitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: requisitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A formal request for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the surrender of fugitives , by authorizing the Governor , in his discretion , on requisition from a foreign government , to surrender up fugitives charged with murder , forgery , larceny , or other crimes[…]
gloss: A formal request for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a requisition used upon an infeftment of annual rent
gloss: A formal request for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a lab requisition for blood tests
gloss: A formal request for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was the policy of the American army to procure voluntary labor whenever possible, but a sufficient number of volunteers was frequently not obtainable. In such cases, a requisition for additional labor was served on German civil officials.
First, a civilian settlement is not a “need of the occupying army” for which requisition is permitted.
To the extent the law of occupation permits the confiscation or requisition of property, taking control of cyber infrastructure or systems is likewise permitted.
gloss: A formal request for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a requisition for clothing, troops, or money
gloss: That which is required by authority; especially, a quota of supplies or necessaries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A call; an invitation; a summons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a requisition for a public meeting
Amid the many mirrors called into requisition by Lady Townshend's fête, not one gave back a lovelier likeness than that which reflected the face and form of Lady Marchmont.
gloss: To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies, or transport.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The 1,000-year-old village was requisitioned in the 1960s, first in a reforestation plan and then as an army training ground. The Castilla-La Mancha regional government accuses Fraguas Revive of illegally occupying the site, which lies within a natural park.
Derived words: derequisition
moonlight requisition
nonrequisition
purchase requisition
requisitionary
requisitionist
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: искане
roman: iskane
lang: Bulgarian
word: заявка
roman: zajavka
lang: Finnish
word: anomus
lang: Polish
word: rekwizycja
lang: Russian
word: запро́с
roman: zaprós
lang: Russian
word: зая́вка
roman: zajávka
lang: Russian
word: тре́бование
roman: trébovanije
caprice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Italic *kaput
Latin caput
Vulgar Latin capus
Old Italian capo
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗrder.
Latin ērīcius
Old Italian riccio
Old Italian caporiccio
Italian capricciobor.
French capricebor.
English caprice
Borrowed from French caprice, from Italian capriccio, from caporiccio (“fright, sudden start”). Doublet of capriccio.
Inflected forms:
form: caprices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An impulsive, seemingly unmotivated action, change of mind, or notion.
pos: noun
examples: Though more thoughtful than Madame de Mercœur, yet it asked far more knowledge of society—that wilderness of small intricacies—for her to penetrate into the motives of those who seemed so suddenly struck with her fascination; but she was too clear-headed to be deceived, and set it all down under one general belief in caprice.
It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.
She is said to be the finest swordswoman on the Continent. Yet, notwithstanding her caprices, she is a noble-minded woman.
gloss: A brief romance.
pos: noun
examples: The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that a caprice lasts a little longer.
gloss: An unpredictable or sudden condition, change, or series of changes.
pos: noun
examples: After that we cast off all allegiance to immediate, tangible, and time-touched things, and entered a fantastic world of hushed unreality in which the narrow, ribbon-like road rose and fell and curved with an almost sentient and purposeful caprice amidst the tenantless green peaks and half-deserted valleys
gloss: A disposition to be impulsive.
pos: noun
examples: Yet, Britain, vvhence this Caprice of thy Sons, / VVhich thro' their various ranks vvith fury runs? / The cauſe is plain, a cauſe vvhich vve muſt bleſs; / For Caprice is the Daughter of Succeſs, […]
This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them, for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so […] as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people as possible.
Skill, endurance, and perseverance may almost be called muscular virtues; and fatigue, velleity, caprice, ennui, restlessness, lack of control and poise, muscular faults.
In selecting Bran Stark, the lords of Westeros are choosing to value these stories and memories above whatever other qualities might make a good ruler, and more specifically, put an end to the caprices of heritage that have allowed bloodlines to wreak havoc on good stewardship of these kingdoms.
gloss: A capriccio.
pos: noun
Related words: capricious
Translations:
chypre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: French Chypre (“Cyprus”), the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917.
Inflected forms:
form: chypres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chipre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a family of fragrances built on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.
pos: noun
Translations:
hacktivist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of hack + activist, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.
Compound parts: hack
activist
Inflected forms:
form: hacktivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hactivist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who engages in hacktivism.
pos: noun
examples: One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist..
However, there remain many cybersecurity concerns about the railways. For example, and perhaps more pertinently, 'hacktivists' - hackers with a political rather than a financial motive - in Belarus were reported to have taken breached computers that control rail movements in the country in an effort to delay Russian supplies to their front line in the early stages of the war against Ukraine.
Translations:
hacktivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of hack + activism, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.
Compound parts: hack
activism
Inflected forms:
form: hactivism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of promoting a political agenda by hacking, especially by defacing or disabling websites.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: Hacktivism is a form of activism for social change that appropriates computers and electronic networks for this purpose. Also called electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism is geared to political ends.
My aim will be to identify and highlight the potential problems of the existing approach that is followed when dealing with hacktivism and its impact on user rights, protesters, and overall cybersecurity.
Translations:
lewis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lewis, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French lous, plural of lou, loup (“the name of a kind of siege engine”, literally “wolf”); or related to clevis.
Inflected forms:
form: lewises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cramp iron inserted into a cavity in order to lift heavy stones; used as a symbol of strength in Freemasonry.
pos: noun
gloss: The son of a Freemason, envisaged as assisting his father in heavy work or in old age.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: A kind of shears used in cropping woollen cloth.
pos: noun
examples: After the preeming period, the lads are put either to the gig-machines, or to the lewises in the cutting or shearing-room.
Translations:
kong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
games
mahjong
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 槓 /杠 (gong³ / gung³).
Inflected forms:
form: kongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of four identical tiles.
pos: noun
gloss: A call declaring the formation of such a set.
pos: noun
Related words: kong bak pau
Translations:
kelly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kellies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary table of a drilling rig.
pos: noun
gloss: A roly-poly (toy).
pos: noun
examples: Tumblers, tilters and kellys are those toys which have a circular base with a weighted end. They sway to and fro and are not knocked completely over. They derive from the East and have various names, but most represent stability in some form or another.
Derived words: kelly bushing
kelly drive
kelly hose
Translations:
enfranchise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
property
Etymology: From Old French enfranchir (“to set free, enfranchise”), from en- (“in”) + franchir (“to set free”), equivalent to en- + franchise.
Base: franchise
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: enfranchises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enfranchising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enfranchised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enfranchised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To grant the franchise to an entity, specifically:
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Parental control had been so decisive in Louisa's case that marriage bonds had not hitherto enfranchised her from the former; she, therefore, at the proper time of light, appeared on the arm of Signor Riccardini, and laid her purse on the lap of her mother (who she knew had at least three hundred pounds in possession), at the risk of being deemed extravagant by her husband.
gloss: to convert a copyhold estate into a freehold estate
pos: verb
tags: England
Wales
historical
Related words: franchise
disenfranchise
Derived words: enfranchisable
enfranchisement
enfranchiser
Translations:
developing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: developings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the process of development.
pos: adj
examples: a developing foetus
gloss: Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized.
pos: adj
gloss: A process of development.
pos: noun
examples: In the developings of an inscrutable Providence, the kingdoms of the earth have become embroiled, and who can say where the complication will terminate?
Derived words: developing country
undeveloping
Translations:
detachment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French détachement. By surface analysis, detach + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: detachments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of detaching; separation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But the horse has left his mark, for his successor is a mechanical horse designed to a large extent to copy the leading characteristics of the live horse; easy attachment to or detachment from its load, a small turning circle, a small appetite for petrol, but giving a much higher acceleration and speed, and so capable of much greater distances, so that fewer cartage units are required.
gloss: The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The unit so dispatched.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Vietnamese sovereignty over the Paracels dated back at least to the early 19th century, when Emperor Gia-Long sent a detachment to Hoang Sa Island, it remained until the establishment of French protectorate over Annam, when France assumed responsibility for the islands.
gloss: A permanent unit organized for special duties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: selflessness
Derived words: autodetachment
overdetachment
photodetachment
redetachment
semi-detachment
subdetachment
Translations:
disappearance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disappear + -ance.
Base: disappear
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: disappearances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of disappearing or vanishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wireless phone technology led to the disappearance of once-common coiled cords for telephone handsets.
As hundreds of volunteers and police scoured parks and waterways in an area of New Orleans Tuesday, there were many questions but few answers about the disappearance 11 days ago of a 26-year-old teacher.
gloss: Passing out of sight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From the shore, they watched the disappearance of the ships' masts into the haze.
gloss: Leaving secretly of without explanation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prosecuting attorney was concerned about the potential disappearance of witnesses.
gloss: Cessation of existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A single undoubted cure of a demonstrated cancer or sarcoma by this treatment would be enough to say definitely that the treatment exerts some specifically curative influence, for the spontaneous disappearance of undoubtedly malignant growths of this character is almost unknown.
Derived words: forced disappearance
redisappearance
Translations:
franchisor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English franchise
English -or
English franchisor
From franchise + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: franchisors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A company which, or a person who, grants franchises.
pos: noun
Translations:
franchiser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English franchise
English -er
English franchiser
From franchise + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: franchisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A franchisor, a company which or person who grants franchises.
pos: noun
examples: But franchisers don't sell many of their thirty-three billion hamburgers per year in blue highway towns where chophouses must draw customers through continuing quality rather than national advertising.
gloss: A person who has the right to vote.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: No man oppresses thee, O free and independent Franchiser: but does not this stupid Porter-pot oppress thee? No Son of Adam can bid thee come or go; but this absurd Pot of Heavy-wet, this can and does!
Derived words: subfranchiser
Translations:
franchisee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English franchise
English -ee
English franchisee
From franchise + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: franchisees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A holder of a franchise; a person who is granted a franchise.
pos: noun
examples: The critical milestone is the December 2020 timetable, when new franchisee East Midlands Railway is due to start operating electric trains southwards from Corby into London St Pancras.
Translations:
speller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spell
English -er
English speller
From spell + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: spellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who spells.
pos: noun
examples: I'm a slow reader but a good speller.
Without insisting on a difference between the inventors and the spellers of words, Socrates makes short work of this case.
gloss: A participant in a spelling bee.
pos: noun
gloss: A book used to learn how to spell properly.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A spell checker.
pos: noun
examples: But Word's spelling program still isn't fully integrated into the word processor. For one thing, any changes and corrections you make from the speller's menus don't appear on-screen until you get back to your original file.
Related words: misspell
misspelling
pronunciation respelling
pronunciation spelling
respell
respelling
spell
spellable
spell-check
spell check
spelling
spelling bee
spelling book
spelling pronunciation
Derived words: fingerspeller
Translations:
steadfastly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stedefastly, stedefastliche; equivalent to steadfast + -ly.
Base: steadfast
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more steadfastly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most steadfastly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a steadfast manner; firmly; with conviction
pos: adv
examples: He steadfastly refuses to go out with her.
She saw him shake his tall form erect, look at her strangely and steadfastly, and then, noiselessly, stealthily slip away amid the rocks and trees.
Monarch who through her seven decades of public service became a figure of fascination by remaining steadfastly private.
Hmm, yes, 'negotiations' is an interesting choice of words given that ministers have steadfastly refused to meet the unions for the past year; a clear case of industrial inaction.
Translations:
chieftain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cheveteyn, cheftayne, from Old French chevetaine, from Late Latin capitaneus (English captain), from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (English head), itself from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Doublet of captain; related to chief.
Inflected forms:
form: chieftains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A leader of a clan or tribe.
pos: noun
examples: VI. THE PUYUMA GROUP.
The tribes belonging to this group occupy the plains in Hinan and that neighbourhood, and call themselves "Puyumas," but the Chinese call them the "Hinan Savages". The Puyumas formed a very powerful State some 300 years ago, and united under one single rule as many as seventy isolated tribes scattered over the land, stretching from Hakusekikwaku and Seikoko to Harogwai in the southern part of the island, and were at one time so powerful that the chieftain was called by foreigners "The King of Hinan".
They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.
gloss: A leader of a group.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The robber chieftain divided up the spoils.
Derived words: chieftaincy
chieftaindom
chieftainess
chieftess
chieftainly
chieftainry
chieftainship
subchieftain
underchieftain
Translations:
punctilious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punctilio
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English punctilious
From punctilio (“fine point in exactness of conduct”) + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more punctilious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most punctilious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
pos: adj
examples: With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
He was punctilious. According to those who worked with him, even his paperwork was the best they'd seen.
gloss: Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
pos: adj
examples: Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.
Every editor at Merriam-Webster deals with the Black Books at many points during their tenure. The Black Books are the in-house set of rules for writing a dictionary (commonly called a style guide) as conceived and written in punctilious detail by the former editor in chief Philip Babcock Gove, for the creation of Webster’s Third.
Related words: point
punctuate
punctual
punctuality
punctuation
Derived words: overpunctilious
punctiliously
punctiliousness
unpunctilious
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: педантичен
roman: pedantičen
lang: Dutch
word: precies
lang: Dutch
word: pietepeuterig
lang: Finnish
word: pilkuntarkka
lang: German
word: pedantisch
lang: German
word: genau
lang: German
word: präzise
lang: Polish
word: drobiazgowy
lang: Polish
word: formalistyczny
lang: Polish
word: pedantyczny
lang: Polish
word: skrupulatny
lang: Russian
word: педанти́чный
roman: pedantíčnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pongail
lang: Spanish
word: puntilloso
operated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more operated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most operated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: operated by the means specified e.g. a battery-operated toy
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
gloss: having undergone an operation
pos: adj
examples: Further light is thrown on homosexuality in Australia by the supposition of Spencer and Gillen that the mika operation (urethral subincision), an artificial hypospadias, is for the purpose of homosexual intercourse. Klaatsch has discussed the homosexual origin of the mika operation on the basis of information he received from missionaries at Niol-Niol, on the northwest coast. The subincised man acts as a female to the as yet unoperated boys, who perform coitus in the incised opening. Both informed Klaatsch in 1906 that at Boulia in Queensland the operated men are said to "possess a vulva."
Derived words: battery-operated
coin-operated
hand-operated
power-operated
unoperated
Translations:
frangible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English frangible, frangibil, from Middle French frangible, or from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere (from frangō (“to break, shatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + -ibilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon).
Inflected forms:
form: more frangible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frangible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frangibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.
pos: adj
examples: A certain learned and curious Author gives us the following Characters or Properties of Glaſs, whereby it is diſtinguiſh'd from all other Bodies, viz. […] That it is frangible when thin, without annealing.
Another object still [of roasting iron ore], is to make the ore more frangible, that it may be easily broken into fragments of a suitable size for smelting.
Folklorists claim that the superstitious belief that opening an umbrella indoors augurs misfortune has a more recent and utilitarian origin. In eighteenth-century London, when metal-spoked waterproof umbrellas began to become a common rainy-day sight, their stiff, clumsy spring mechanism made them veritable hazards to open indoors. A rigidly spoked umbrella, opening suddely in a small room, could seriously injure an adult or a child, or shatter a frangible object.
So, to make sure that I stay both current and deadly, I built the range, where the guys can sharpen their lethal talents, and—careful always to use only approved military weapons—I can sharpen mine. Shooting, after all, is a frangible skill. At SEAL Team Six we shot daily.
gloss: Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.
pos: noun
examples: For extreme close range training, frangible bullets – those that disintegrate on hitting a hard target – are available. I have found the Winchester frangible loads especially suitable to high-volume training with the 9mm pistol. Frangibles are intended to give peace officers real safety when training at close range with steel reaction targets and vehicles used as range props.
Is there some law of nature that states that an assassin can only use one kind of ammunition? Couldn't he just as easily load a frangible bullet and a nonfrangible one into his magazine as two frangibles or two regular, hardened rounds?
Like other lethal-use frangibles, it is designed exclusively for use against soft targets. The "projectile" is composed of tungsten powder encapsulated by a traditional copper jacket. The powdered medium itself does not comprise a solid-mass projectile, per se, but it is tightly packed and contained within the jacket, which acts as the container. Like all frangible projectiles, these projectiles return to powder when impacting an object.
Antonyms: infrangible
indestructible
nonbrittle
unbreakable
unfragile
unfrangible
Translations:
straighten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From straight + -en. Compare Scots strauchten (“to straighten”).
Base: straight
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: straightens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: straightening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: straightened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: straightened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to become straight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [S]o / Do these upbear the little world below / Of Education,—Patience, Love, and Hope. / Methinks, I see them group'd in seemly show, / The straiten'd arms upraised, the palms aslope, / And robes that touching as adown they flow, / Distinctly blend, like snow emboss'd in snow.
gloss: To become straight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to straighten one's affairs
straighten one's account
Tuilagi and Ashton started in lively fashion, centre Tuilagi doing what he does best, straightening and bursting into the line, and Ashton always looking to leave his wing and get involved in the action.
gloss: To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bribe or corrupt.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make heterosexual.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: It has been said that to survive in this Wasp society, Blacks must straighten their hair, Jews must straighten their noses, and Gays must straighten themselves. But we will no longer tolerate being straightened. It is the doctors and the straight society who must change.
It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the "straightening" procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.
Related words: straiten
Derived words: enstraighten
prestraighten
restraighten
straightenable
straightener
straighten one's face
straighten out
straighten up
unstraighten
Translations:
straightener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English straighten
English -er
English straightener
From straighten + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: straighteners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
pos: noun
gloss: Anyone or anything which straightens.
pos: noun
gloss: A prearranged fight to settle a dispute.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A bribe.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 'Injection or not, the bloody thing won't move an inch with juice and it ain't got any. Yeah and here comes the law.'
Cool as a cucumber, Ernie said, 'Leave him to me. I'll give him a straightener.'
Derived words: hair straightener
stream straightener
Translations:
controlling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more controlling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most controlling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: controllings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exerting control over a person or thing.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: His mother is very controlling.
gloss: The act of exerting control.
pos: noun
examples: What humble submission presided within; / How free from the reign, and controllings of sin.
Translations:
repeating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: repeatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That repeats; repetitive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a decimal: recurring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a decimal: recurring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: one point two repeating three four
gloss: Repetition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
Synonyms: repetitious
Related words: repeating back
repeating circle
repeating coil
repeating rifle
Derived words: nonrepeating
stereorepeating
unrepeating
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: toistuva
lang: German
word: periodisch
lang: Italian
word: periodico
lang: Manx
word: beayn
disabled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habeō
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -ilis
Latin habilis
Old French ablebor.
Middle English able
English able
English disable
English -ed
English disabled
From disable + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more disabled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disabled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made incapable of use or action.
pos: adj
examples: In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.
gloss: Having a disability.
pos: adj
gloss: Legally disqualified.
pos: adj
Synonyms: incapacitated
indisposed
invalid
Antonyms: abled
enabled
Derived words: antidisabled
disabledness
multidisabled
neurodisabled
nondisabled
predisabled
semidisabled
undisabled
Translations:
distilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more distilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been produced by means of distillation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The distilled spirits are bottled and sold at a handsome profit.
gloss: Having been subjected to distillation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Once the spirits have been removed, the distilled mash is a waste product, although it is salable if a buyer can be found who can put it to some other productive use.
Derived words: bidistilled
distilled verdigris
distilled water
distilled wine
hydrodistilled
undistilled
Translations:
validation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French validation. By surface analysis, validate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: validations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of validating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not.
gloss: Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation, proof or verification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process whereby others confirm the validity of one's emotions or perspective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Praise is a judgment. It says, “I like the way you look or perform.” Validation demonstrates acceptance. It says, “I accept who you are, independent of how you look or perform.” When people claim that we shouldn’t rely on “external validation,” they are confusing validation with praise.
gloss: The process of identifying a new prisoner's gang affiliation.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: cross-validation
validation suite
Translations:
prepayment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English payment
English prepayment
From pre- + payment.
Inflected forms:
form: prepayments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-payment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A payment in advance.
pos: noun
gloss: A cost paid in a fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the cost is recognized
pos: noun
Derived words: nonprepayment
prepayment penalty
Translations:
disturbing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disturbing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disturbing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
pos: adj
examples: A disturbing film that tries to explore the mind of a serial killer.
His behaviour is very disturbing.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
Translations:
freshness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fresh
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 freshness
From fresh + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: freshnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being fresh.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: the clear freshness of water from a mountain spring
gloss: Impudence; cheek.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
examples: "Now we're getting on, sir," was the mollified admission. "You mustn't mind a bit of freshness, so to speak. You took me by surprise, that's what it was, and I've been wound up ever since that happened."
Translations:
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܬܵܙܘܼܬܵܐ
roman: tazuta
lang: Belarusian
word: све́жасць
roman: svjéžascʹ
lang: Catalan
word: frescor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 新鮮 /新鲜
roman: xīnxiān
lang: Czech
word: čerstvost
lang: Czech
word: svěžest
lang: Danish
word: friskhed
lang: Dutch
word: frisheid
lang: Dutch
word: versheid
lang: Esperanto
word: freŝeco
lang: Finnish
word: raikkaus
lang: French
word: fraîcheur
lang: Galician
word: frescor
lang: German
word: Frische
lang: Greek
word: φρεσκάδα
roman: freskáda
lang: Hebrew
word: רעננות
lang: Hindi
word: नूतनता
roman: nūtantā
lang: Hindi
word: नवीनता
roman: navīntā
lang: Hungarian
word: frisseség
lang: Italian
word: freschezza
lang: Japanese
word: 新鮮さ
roman: shinsensa
lang: Latvian
word: svaigums
lang: Latvian
word: spirgtums
lang: Māori
word: kaimatatanga
lang: Mauritian Creole
word: freser
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: friskhet
lang: Polish
word: świeżość
lang: Portuguese
word: frescura
lang: Portuguese
word: frescor
lang: Romanian
word: prospețime
lang: Russian
word: све́жесть
roman: svéžestʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: свјежина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: свежина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svježina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svežina
lang: Spanish
word: frescura
lang: Spanish
word: frescor
lang: Swedish
word: friskhet
lang: Swedish
word: fräschör
lang: Turkish
word: tazelik
lang: Ukrainian
word: сві́жість
roman: svížistʹ
impractical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English practical
English impractical
From im- + practical.
Inflected forms:
form: more impractical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impractical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not practical; impracticable.
pos: adj
examples: "I can't leave you here alone with these cutthroats, and you certainly can't venture into the jungle with me; yet someone must go in search of your father. He is more than apt to wandering off aimlessly, regardless of danger or direction, and Mr. Philander is only a trifle less impractical than he. ...
Translations:
impracticable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English practicable
English impracticable
From im- + practicable.
Inflected forms:
form: more impracticable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impracticable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
pos: adj
examples: It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish. This is a measure of how difficult it is to envision a social order that does not rely on the threat of sequestering people in dreadful places designed to separate them from their communities and families.
gloss: impassable (of a passage or road)
pos: adj
gloss: unmanageable
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ; […]
H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable, and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.
Derived words: impracticability
impracticableness
impracticably
Translations:
impracticality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impractical
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English impracticality
From impractical + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: impracticalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being impractical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fashion has often deliberately hindered bodily functions and emphasized impracticality.
gloss: Something which is impractical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: infeasibility
unrealizability
Translations:
impractically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English impractical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English impractically
From impractical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more impractically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most impractically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an impractical manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
impracticability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From impracticable + -ability.
Base: impracticable
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: impracticabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being impracticable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.
gloss: An impracticable thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: practicability
Translations:
extraordinaire
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French extraordinaire. Doublet of extraordinary.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
gloss: (of a person) Particularly skilled; unusually active; particularly successful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: He was a dancer extraordinaire.
Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.
there will be Tom Cruise, as spy extraordinaire Ethan Hunt, running as fast as he can, jumping off cliffs and ultimately saving the day after surviving many close calls.
gloss: Something particularly remarkable or outstanding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "The very best of Swiss dining in this essentially rural country is as much about experience as culinary extraordinaire."
Translations:
blinded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Deprived of sight; thus:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: blinded by perinatal vertical transmission of gonorrhea
gloss: Deprived of sight; thus:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: blinded by the light
gloss: Lacking intellectual discernment, as for example because of greed or stupidity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Willingly prevented from knowing certain information that, were it known, might bias an outcome or decision (either consciously or unconsciously).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Covered by blinds.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: blinded windows
gloss: Displaying a particular destination or route number on the blinds.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bus was blinded for route 100 to the city centre.
Derived words: blindedly
Translations:
dana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit दान (dāna) or Pali dāna.
Inflected forms:
form: dāna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The virtue of generosity or giving, a form of alms, in Indian philosophy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
aerolite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From aero- + -lite.
Base: aero
Inflected forms:
form: aerolites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meteorite consisting of silicate minerals.
pos: noun
Translations:
aggiornamento
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian aggiornamento (“updating; adjournment”), from aggiornare (“update; postpone”) + -mento (“-ment”), from French ajourner (“to postpone”), q.v. Doublet of adjournment.
Inflected forms:
form: aggiornamentos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aggiornamenti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of update, especially in reference to Italian scholarship or (Roman Catholicism) the updating of doctrine and practices by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the 1962–1965 Second Vatican Council.
pos: noun
examples: Buonocore's comments and bibliographical aggiornamenti are again exemplary.
Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state.
Translations:
bollocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bollockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe reprimand.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
vulgar
examples: "[…] He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!"
Translations: