yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
riddled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more riddled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most riddled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Damaged throughout by holes.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
examples: When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written".
gloss: Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
pos: adj
examples: The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
Riddled with guilt for having failed to oppose the project, Zac sacrifices himself by driving the truck into the lab, detonating the explosives at the same time as the Effect reoccurs.
Another anti-extremism organization, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by X on Thursday, calling the suit “riddled with legal deficiencies”.
gloss: Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
pos: adj
examples: a hole-riddled sweater
They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.
Translations:
redshift
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From red + shift.
Compound parts: red
shift
Inflected forms:
form: redshifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: red shift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: redshifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redshifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redshifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redshifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: red shift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An increase in the wavelength of a photon or of light, corresponding to a lower frequency and a shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: (ergative) (said of light or a photon) To shift toward the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum; to change to a longer wavelength and a lower frequency.
pos: verb
Translations:
mystified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: puzzled or confused
pos: adj
examples: 'Do I happen to have it for disposal?' repeated Mr Carlyle in a slightly mystified tone. 'I thought you would have read that the coin has been stolen. […]'
Translations:
sucking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: suckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of sucking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sound or motion that sucks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bloodsucking
clitsucking
cocksucking
dicksucking
dick-sucking
fingersucking
insucking
sapsucking
scumsucking
shit-sucking
suckingly
sucking-pig
thumbsucking
windsucking
Translations:
Jacobs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang - Jacob's Cream Crackers (a brand of crackers) = knackers
Inflected forms:
form: jacobs
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Testicles.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
slang
examples: He has also provided some of the show's funniest moments - when enjoying a bath with Three Degrees star Sheila Ferguson he told her: 'I'm comfortable with anything, love, but you don't want to see my 'Jacobs' hanging out.'
I used to have a Velo seat, which is pretty similar to the KH in design, and I got rid of it for the same reason. The padding was so deep and spongey that my Jacobs used to float to the top as I rode along.
Horseshit every match matters and Alex Ferguson would drag his players out of the club by their Jacobs if they made such a statement.
Translations:
agonising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more agonising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agonising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing agony; very painful
pos: adj
examples: agonising desperation
agonising pain
agonising marathon
agonising wait
Translations:
agonised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more agonised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agonised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing agony
pos: adj
Translations:
agitating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more agitating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agitating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That agitates
pos: adj
Translations:
manimal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of man + animal.
Compound parts: man
animal
Inflected forms:
form: manimals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Standing naked against a wintry landscape, the figure became a screen for the projection of identities--beast, bigfoot, manimal, specter, even, to use a word Newkirk's work encourages one to use in all its dangerousness, spook.
2006 February 1, Paul Z. Myers, Pharyngula, ScienceBlogs
President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!
Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen...and now there's, like, manimal.
gloss: A person compared to such a creature, especially an unkempt and uncivilized, or strong and sexually aggressive man.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 2004 January 1, Michael Burnett, “Tumyeto army”, Thrasher, High Speed Productions, Inc.
Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal.
"Oh, he's so on the team," Diego kept saying.
Translations:
dimly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dim
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dimly
From dim + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dimly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dimly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dim manner; not clearly.
pos: adv
examples: I began dimly to understand.
It was a miserable evening; outside it was snowing and blowing, and in the squire's parlour the candle burned so dimly that you could scarcely distinguish anything in the room but a clock-case with some Chinese ornaments, a large mirror in an old-fashioned frame, and a silver family tankard.
"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
The well-heeled gay yuppies of Bay Village would just as soon banish Drag Queens and hustlers entirely from their lives, only to dimly acknowledge them once a year in flowery paeans to "the gay men and Lesbians who rioted at Stonewall and gave birth to our movement" on Gay Pride Day.
Translations:
shadowy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schadwy, schadowy, equivalent to shadow + -y.
Base: shadow
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: shadowier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shadowiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In shadow; darkened by shadows.
pos: adj
examples: He sat in a shadowy corner.
gloss: Dark, obscure.
pos: adj
examples: He was a shadowy man who rarely spoke.
By 1980, South Korea had overtaken its northern neighbour, and was well on its way to being one of the Asian tigers – high-performing economies, with democratic movements ultimately winning power in the 1990s. The withdrawal of most Soviet aid in 1991, with the fall of the Soviet empire, pushed North Korea further down. Kim Il-sung had held a genuine place on North Korean people's affections. His son was regarded as a shadowy playboy, with rumours circulating over the years that he imported Russian and Chinese prostitutes, and lived a life of profligacy and excess.
But the most frequent guests were as New York magazine put it, “Arab princes, Third World officials, and shadowy European and American businessmen.
gloss: Vague, dim, unclear, faint.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Indulging in fancies; daydreaming.
pos: adj
tags: dated
rare
Related words: umbral
umbrous
Derived words: shadowily
shadowiness
unshadowy
Translations:
indehiscent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English dehiscent
English indehiscent
From in- + dehiscent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not dehiscing when mature; not dehiscent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The farmer wants indehiscent heads of a cereal which can be gathered without shedding their grain.
A rich and dark and indehiscent meat
Antonyms: dehiscent
Translations:
motivation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: advertising
business
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman motifder.
Middle French motifder.
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Late Latin moveō
Late Latin mōtus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin mōtīvumder.
Middle English motif
English motive
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English motivation
From motive (verb) + -ation, probably after French motivation and German Motivation.
Base: motive#Verb
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: motivations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Willingness of action especially in behavior.
pos: noun
gloss: The action of motivating.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which motivates.
pos: noun
gloss: An incentive or reason for doing something.
pos: noun
gloss: A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
pos: noun
examples: The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.
Derived words: antimotivation
countermotivation
demotivation
extrinsic motivation
intrinsic motivation
letter of motivation
motivational
motivationless
nonmotivation
remotivation
submotivation
transmotivation
undermotivation
unmotivation
Translations:
silver-tongued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From silver (“(noun) lustrous, white, metallic element; (adjective) consisting or made of silver; (figurative) soft and clear in sound; eloquent”) + tongued (“having a particular manner of speaking”), referring to the clear musical tone produced when silver is struck.
Compound parts: silver
tongued
Inflected forms:
form: more silver-tongued
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most silver-tongued
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Articulate and charming in speech; eloquent; also, having a pleasant-sounding voice or way of speaking.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: silver-tongued devil
Siluer tongu'd Smith whoſe well tun'd ſtile hath made thy death the generall teares of the Muſes, queintlie couldſt thou deuiſe heauenly Ditties to Apollos Lute, and teach ſtately verſe to trip it as ſmoothly, as if Ouid and thou had but one ſoule.
Mr. [Thomas] Parker ſoon became a pleader at the bar; travelled the Midland circuit; acquired additional eſteem, buſineſs, and property; vvas denominated the Silver-tongued Counſel; and found intereſt enough, in 1705, to cauſe himſelf to be returned a member for the borough, vvith Lord James Cavendiſh, ſon to the firſt Duke of Devonſhire.
[T]he statesman, whose inward feelings had at first so much impeded his efforts to make himself known, had now regained all the ease and fluency of a silver-tongued lawyer of the very highest order.
Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
Translations:
gametophyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From gameto- + -phyte (“plant”).
Base: gameto
Inflected forms:
form: gametophytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
pos: noun
examples: In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.
Translations:
mutilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.
Inflected forms:
form: mutilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cruel practice of female genital mutilation is banned in many countries globally, but it remains widespread among the Bohras - a small Muslim community in India. Now, some Bohra women have started a campaign demanding an end to the ritual, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.
Translations:
pleather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
Proto-Celtic *letrosbor.
Proto-Germanic *leþrą
Proto-West Germanic *leþr
Old English leþer
Middle English lether
English leather
blend
English pleather
Blend of plastic + leather.
Inflected forms:
form: pleathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Faux leather, usually made of polyurethane.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: From the black, belted fur vest and turban-style headgear on the left, to the perforated pleather jacket with gold studs in the middle, to the white shift and black caplet punctuated with ...
Translations:
imitator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
Base: imitate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: imitators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imitatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who imitates or apes another.
pos: noun
examples: Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.
Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.
Translations:
finalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English final
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 finalize
From final + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: finalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: finalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: finalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: finalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: finalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make final or firm; to finish or complete.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As soon as we get the plane tickets, we'll finalize our reservations with the hotel.
gloss: To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: engross
Derived words: finalizable
finalizer
unfinalized
Translations:
clincher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clinch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English clincher
From clinch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: clinchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which clinches; that which makes something final or firm; a decisive factor.
pos: noun
examples: The clincher was that we couldn't wait any longer to leave, or it would get dark.
Newcastle's Dan Gosling was sent off for a foul on Russell Martin but Ba fired in to cut the deficit, before Holt nodded in the clincher.
Even after what turned out to be the clincher, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz and Jorginho went close to forcing a penalty shootout.
Transport Scotland acknowledges that the permanence of the new fares regime could be the clincher in persuading people to "travel more often and make long-term choices with certainty, helping people to leave the car at home".
gloss: A tyre with a bead around the edge to attach to the rim of the wheel when inflated.
pos: noun
Derived words: clincher-built
clincher-work
Translations:
uptick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English tick
English uptick
From up- + tick.
Inflected forms:
form: upticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.
pos: noun
examples: "[…] There has been an uptick in the number of people travelling with us: the evidence suggests the commuter market is growing again."
gloss: A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one.
pos: noun
Antonyms: downtick
Derived words: uptick trade
Translations:
sunken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Caused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sunken ship lay at a depth of 100 feet
sunken mountain ranges I took for islands
gloss: Seeming to have fallen deeper back into the face due to tiredness, illness, or old age.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She looked old and thin with sunken cheeks and hollow eyes.
The heartbreak will take some getting over; the sunken forms of the players at the full-time whistle said as much.
Derived words: sunken-eyed
sunken lane
sunkenly
sunkenness
unsunken
Translations:
archiving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: archivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of storing inactive or historical data in a secure location for long-term retention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
archived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been placed into an archive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pairs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
pos: noun
Translations:
signing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: signings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of concluding a contract, especially by an athlete or entertainer with a company.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In basketball signings, Maryland added depth to its frontcourt by signing 6-foot-9 forward-center Joe Smith of Maury High in Norfolk […]
gloss: A player signed by a sporting organization.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Early goals from summer signings Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Andre Santos proved enough to give Arsenal a narrow win over Olympiakos.
gloss: An event held in a bookshop etc. where copies of a book are signed by the author.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of sign language; skill at using a sign language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: book signing
code signing
fansigning
keysigning
robo-signing
self-signing
signing bonus
test-signing
Translations:
worlds
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To a great extent; much; far.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: The show understands that implied nudity is worlds funnier than actual nudity, and goes to delightful lengths to keep Marge and Homer’s unmentionables out of view.
Translations:
suburbs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The populated area surrounding a city.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Once beyond the limits of the suburbs, when desert darkness of sparse roadlights and flat straight roads took over ... we became silent.
Derived words: snoburbs
Translations:
reporting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reportings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The creation of reports.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The best thing about this database software is how much it automates the reporting.
gloss: The creation of reports.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: journalism
Our reporters do some of the best reporting you'll find anywhere, and some have won Pulitzer prizes.
Related words: reporter
Derived words: mobile reporting
NATO reporting name
nonreporting
reporting point
reporting verb
self-reporting
shoe leather reporting
shoe-leather reporting
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отчетност
roman: otčetnost
lang: Danish
word: rapportering
lang: Faroese
word: frágreiðingararbeiði
lang: German
word: Berichterstattung
lang: German
word: Berichtswesen
lang: Icelandic
word: skýrslugerð
lang: Italian
word: creazione di rapporti
lang: Swedish
word: rapportering
lang: Swedish
word: journalistik
defining
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more defining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Serving to define or distinguish.
pos: adj
examples: The ability to reproduce is a defining characteristic of living organisms.
Translations:
attacking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Italian a-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-
Proto-Germanic *stikaną
Proto-West Germanic *stekander.
Old French atachier
Old French destachier
Middle French destacherbor.
Italian distaccare
Italian staccare
Italian attaccarebor.
French attaquerdeverb.
French attaquebor.
English attack
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English attacking
From attack + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Carrying out an attack.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
maintaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of doing maintenance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
checking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Inflected forms:
form: checkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A checking account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings.
gloss: An act whereby one checks something or someone (in any sense).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The gin had a delayed reaction. Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerous checkings of her map, reached the flat.
gloss: The crossing of solutions in a grid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and getting checking to help with solving the fourth.
What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry' checking is normal but the clues are special.
An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you have checking letters.
Derived words: checking account
extended static checking
fact checking
fact-checking
nonchecking
typechecking
Translations:
differently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin differō
Latin differēnsder.
Old French differentbor.
Middle English different
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English differently
English differently
From Middle English differently; equivalent to different + -ly.
Base: different
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more differently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most differently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a different way.
pos: adv
examples: Things turned out differently from what I'd envisaged.
I was (says Mr. Highmore) forcibly struck with the violence of its pulsation, so much so, that, if it had been differently situated, I should have considered it an aneurism of considerable magnitude.
"You see, gentlemen, I couldn't bear the look of him, there was something in him ignoble, impudent, trampling on everything sacred, something sneering and irreverent, loathsome, loathsome. But now that he's dead, I feel differently."
"How do you mean?"
"I don't feel differently, but I wish I hadn't hated him so."
"You feel penitent?"
"No, not penitent, don't write that. I'm not much good myself; I'm not very beautiful, so I had no right to consider him repulsive. That's what I mean. Write that down, if you like."
Recent research in the field of sociolinguistics and related fields has shown that women and men speak differently.
Antonyms: identically
similarly
Translations:
afflicted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more afflicted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most afflicted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from an affliction, or suffering from pain, distress or disability.
pos: adj
Translations:
articulated
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: articulateds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Constructed with one or more pivoted joints which allow bending of an otherwise rigid structure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a vehicle, composed of component parts each with its own wheels and chassis, e.g. an articulated lorry, articulated bus, or certain kinds of streetcars and trains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The trains are a fixed formation of four articulated vehicles, and are fitted with large vestibules, wide aisles, open gangways and air-conditioning.
gloss: Qualified by an article
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An articulated vehicle, such as a locomotive.
pos: noun
examples: The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
Antonyms: non-articulated
nonarticulated
unarticulated
Derived words: articulated skeleton
biarticulated
hyperarticulated
inarticulated
pseudoarticulated
semiarticulated
underarticulated
Translations:
adorned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more adorned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adorned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been decorated or embellished through applied items or alterations (adornments).
pos: adj
examples: Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne,
As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.
Translations:
arising
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: arisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something arises; origination; occurrence.
pos: noun
examples: If one can discern the arising and ceasing of the four elements innumerable times in one day alone, the changes, arisings, and ceasings of the derivative material qualities are also discerned.
Translations:
answering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English answerynge; equivalent to answer + -ing.
Base: answer
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: answerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving an answer.
pos: noun
examples: An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings.
Translations:
altering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: alterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: alteration
pos: noun
examples: And stand steadfast in the unchangeable life and seed of God, which was before changings and alterings were; and which will remain when they all are gone.
Translations:
conditioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: conditionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any preparation or training, especially athletic training of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
gloss: The storage of a material specimen under specified temperature, humidity for a specified time prior to testing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: air-conditioning
air conditioning
classical conditioning
conditioning house
conditioning time
counterconditioning
operant conditioning
Pavlovian conditioning
postconditioning
pseudoconditioning
social conditioning
Translations:
complaining
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: complainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more complaining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complaining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which someone complains; a complaint.
pos: noun
examples: Elizabeth[…]wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and complainings ;[…]
gloss: Continuously expressing dissatisfaction or annoyance.
pos: adj
Translations:
clearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clear
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English clearer
From clear (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: clearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who or something which clears.
pos: noun
examples: Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding.
gloss: Someone who or something which clears.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool by which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.
pos: noun
Derived words: land clearer
Translations:
bouncing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bouncings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Healthy; vigorous.
pos: adj
examples: a bouncing baby girl
By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.
gloss: Excessively big; whopping.
pos: adj
tags: informal
obsolete
examples: a bouncing reckoning
gloss: The act of something that bounces.
pos: noun
examples: […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.
Derived words: bouncingly
Translations:
cheering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cheerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cheer.
pos: noun
examples: The ships' yards were all fully manned, and the loud cheerings of the crews, and of the countless company in the surrounding boats, emulated the roar of the cannon.
Translations:
happy-go-lucky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: happy-go-luckier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: happy-go-luckiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: happy-go-luckies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: carefree or untroubled
pos: adj
examples: Hill says the shows began to morph from happy-go-lucky, fun series to production-line star-makers, which subconsciously changed the tone of the series: "Reality talent shows made it easier and quicker for audiences to pay to vote for the winner and loser, and to comment positively and negatively on contestants in social media."
gloss: One who is happy-go-lucky.
pos: noun
examples: Now, both these kids are your friends, but one is mature and responsible, taking his time to understand what he is doing and why he is doing it, and the other friend is a happy-go-lucky, who just lets things happen to him.
Sara was presumably the “desperate” girl and Thomas the “happy-go-lucky” who would be vindicated once Sara's baby was born “too soon,” less than nine months after their encounter
Suppose our 'happy-go-luckies' get sea sick.
gloss: A person who does odd jobs.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Then we have a new bunch growing up called "casuals". I looked that up in the dictionary and it means happy-go-luckies. The amount for these happy-go-luckies or casuals involves another 25 per cent of the total amount of the item, and we are asked to vote it without any details whatsoever.
Translations:
sexed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a sex; being male or female.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having had its sex determined; having undergone sexing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a quantifiable libido or particular sex drive.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: highly-sexed
Derived words: bisexed
hypersexed
intersexed
oversexed
supersexed
transsexed
undersexed
unisexed
unsexed
Translations:
implant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
medicine
sciences
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: From Middle French implanter, from Latin implantō. By surface analysis, im- + plant.
Inflected forms:
form: implants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: implanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: implanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: implanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: implants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London.
gloss: To insert (something) surgically into the body.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).
gloss: Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly breast implants.
pos: noun
examples: They existed at a time in history when shock therapy, brain tissue manipulation, implants, drug experimentation and lobotomies were treatments de jour.
Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.
gloss: A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
pos: noun
Related words: implantation
Derived words: nonimplanted
preimplanted
unimplanted
coimplant
implantability
implantable
implantee
implantment
reimplant
misimplant
bioimplant
boob implant
brain implant
breast implant
cochlear implant
implantology
interimplant
microimplant
neuroimplant
nonimplant
osteoimplant
periimplant
postimplant
preimplant
Translations:
overwhelmed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overwhelmed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overwhelmed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Emotionally overpowered.
pos: adj
examples: completely overwhelmed
emotionally overwhelmed
She was overwhelmed with gratitude.
gloss: Emotionally overpowered.
pos: adj
tags: often
examples: He felt overwhelmed by the workload.
Derived words: overwhelmedness
unoverwhelmed
Translations:
marrying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: marryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marriage.
pos: noun
examples: After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.
Translations:
loading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, load + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: loadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is loaded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.
gloss: A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I need to recheck the loadings on the external walls.
The loading on the generators peaks during the early evening.
Comparing both Regions' 1959 services against those of 1939 an appreciable deceleration is evident. This was due to increased loadings, even though more trains were being run, while on the W.R. in particular the increased volume of freight traffic over the line shared the blame.
gloss: An increased rate of pay given to an employee in order to compensate for specified non-standard working conditions, or a lack of specific other benefits. For example, an employee paid a casual loading is paid more than an equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
examples: The position advertised a $40 per hour rate, inclusive of the casual loading.
The salary package also included 30% shift loading to compensate for the long hours.
gloss: A weighting or bias.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We may note with some surprise that the hysteria scale has a positive loading on this factor, i.e. is situated towards the normal rather than the neurotic end.
Derived words: administrative loading
afterloading
axle loading
backloading
breech-loading
carbohydrate loading
carloading
classloading
combat loading
crossloading
electroloading
fluid loading
handloading
loading bank
loading bay
loading coil
loading dock
loading gauge
loading screen
loading space
loading zone
mechanoloading
muzzleloading
overloading
snatch loading
tactical loading
top-loading
toploading
trade loading
wing loading
Translations:
expressing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That translates or transcribes nucleic acid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kidnapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kidnappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kidnaping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Kiryat Malachi native, who had been working as a bartender in Tel Aviv before his kidnapping, was last seen trying to hide next to a car as a terrorist fired a rocket-propelled grenade at him and a friend.
Translations:
excepting
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cept'n
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: 'cept'n
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: with the exception of
pos: prep
examples: Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.
We've all done it, not excepting Borja.
It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
Translations:
discus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.
Inflected forms:
form: discuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
pos: noun
examples: He Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
[Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses—he usually travels with about five of them, […]
gloss: The athletics event of discus throw.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.
And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest, […]
gloss: A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.
gloss: A chakram.
pos: noun
tags: dated
rare
examples: And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh, […]
Derived words: discus fish
discus throw
discus thrower
Translations:
subdural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English dura
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dural
English subdural
From sub- + dural.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Located beneath the dura mater and above the arachnoid mater.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
brock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brok, from Old English broc (“badger”), related to Danish brok (“badger”); both probably originally from a Celtic source akin to Irish broc, Welsh broch, Cornish brogh and thus ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.
Inflected forms:
form: brocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A male badger.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Or with pretence of chasing thence the brock,
Send in a cur to worry the whole flock.
gloss: A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
obsolete
possibly
examples: By sportsmen the stag is called, the first year, a calf or hind-calf ; the second year, a knobber ; the third, a brock ; the fourth, a staggard ; the fifth, a stag ; the sixth, a hart.
gloss: A dirty, stinking fellow.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To taunt.
pos: verb
examples: Then other boys noticed that he had a softness for me, and brocked us both, so that I, who had been as unconscious as ever of anything erotic, suddenly learnt what was going on &, by some profound power of suggestion, what my feelings actually were.
Derived words: brockish
Translations:
inshallah
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”).
Inflected forms:
form: insha'Allah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: in sha Allah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: InsyaAllah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Malaysia
Senses:
gloss: Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
pos: intj
examples: We will sign the contract tomorrow, inshallah.
Hell yeah, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be – inshallah – it will be free!
gloss: Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
sarcastic
examples: Donald Trump: And you'll get it to see it [i.e. his taxes].
Translations:
bars
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Said in response to a statement found to be witty, profound, well-spoken, or impactful.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: That's bars!
Translations:
effectiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Latin effectivusbor.
French effectifder.
English effective
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English effectiveness
From effective + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: effectivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being effective, of achieving results.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
gloss: The capacity or potential for achieving results.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The problem with these precedents is that the Security Council did not authorize intervention in Syria, and an intervention there will thus harm, not help, the Council’s credibility and effectiveness.
gloss: The degree to which something achieves results.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.
United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.
Related words: effect
effective
effectivity
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
Derived words: bioeffectiveness
cost-effectiveness
Translations: