yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
intricate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English intricat(e) (“entangled, intricate”), from Latin intrīcātus, perfect passive participle of intricō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more intricate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intricate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intricates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intricating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intricated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intricated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
pos: adj
examples: The architecture of this clock is very intricate.
As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
It is next argued that the discretion must be exercised in a reasonable manner and that the question whether a will was in fact executed or not would seldom be an intricate question and was not so in this case.
From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.
gloss: Difficult to disentangle, puzzle apart, or resolve; enigmatic, obscure.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search;
Nor ſees with how much Art the Windings run,
Nor where the regular Confuſion ends.
His style of writing […] was […]fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […]with the utmost clearness.
gloss: To become enmeshed or entangled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
gloss: To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.
Antonyms: extricate
Derived words: disintricate
intricacy
intricately
intricateness
overintricate
unintricate
Translations:
pioneer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess).
Inflected forms:
form: pioneers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pioneering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pioneered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pioneered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.
Translations:
namaste
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit नमस्ते (namaste, literally “salutation to you”).
Inflected forms:
form: namastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: namastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: namasteing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: namasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: namasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A greeting in contexts relating to Indian culture or the New Age movement.
pos: intj
examples: First of all, Namaste to you! It is my sincere hope that the words of this book will assist you in living with full appreciation for all the moments of your life. Remember that each one is special and brings something to your life[…]
I shuffled from one foot to the other outside the room, as I delayed going in. Finally, I took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and knocked on the door. 'Come in.' It seemed that Vimla was expecting me. 'Namaste.' She said, and gestured for me ...
"What a lovely wedding for you both. Namaste," he said, his hands in prayer formation, his smile wide and confident and sincere. “Congratulations to you both.” “Thank you, Father,” Brian said. “Namaste to you, sir,” Priya added.
gloss: Thank you (via a misunderstanding of the meaning of the associated gesture).
pos: intj
tags: proscribed
gloss: The traditional greeting when saying the word namaste, with folded hands and a slight bow.
pos: noun
examples: Krishnan introduced one of the girls as his sister. She was a small, frail-looking girl with a pretty smile. She clasped her hands, made a namaste and said, “Hello, nice meet you. My name is Karishma.” “Hello, Karishma,” said Natascha.
gloss: In yoga, the pose associated with this word, usually with the flat hands held palms together, fingers up, in front of the heart and a slight bow.
pos: noun
gloss: To utter "namaste".
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The yoga instructor namasted, and the class began.
Translations:
benched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more benched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most benched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fitted with a bench, or benches.
pos: adj
Translations:
skitter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: skitters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skittered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.
gloss: To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Both "Dark Snow" and "Aurelia" [by AFI] feature subtle washes of brittle piano à la Decemberunderground, while "She Speaks The Language" boasts a skittering electronic underbelly, and eerie synths are suspended like low clouds in "Above The Bridge."
gloss: To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Skittering," continued the Professor, "is practiced with a strong line about the length of the rod, to which is affixed a small trolling-spoon, a minnow, or a piece of pork-rind cut in the rude semblance of a small fish. The boat is poled along, as in ‘bobbing,’ but farther out in the stream, when the angler, standing in the bow, ‘skitters’ or skips the spoon or bait over the surface just at the edge of the weeds.
gloss: A skittering movement.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: A skitter of activity.
A skitter of gooseflesh.
I had seen an aerial helix of raptors, hawks and harriers riding a thermal, and below them a skitter of ringed plover and other waders, together with more kingfishers than I had ever seen before.
Each day that I went, he stood off by himself, in solitude, came politely to the tee on his own, whacked to the right and left in a skitter of balls, his hair pinched in a clubhouse golf cap that didn't fit, his mouth in grim determination to not make an utter fool of himself, his golf clubs' vinyl bag with the ticket attached to signal his beginner's fees were paid.
With a skitter of excitement, Marcy glanced at the clock on the parlor mantel. It chimed ten, and her gaze flicked to the face of her husband as he lounged in his favorite chair with a newspaper in his lap.
Derived words: skitteringly
skitterish
skittery
Translations:
barbaric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.
Base: βάρβαρος
Affixes: -ικός
Inflected forms:
form: more barbaric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barbaric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth
pos: adj
examples: a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital
Translations:
hunk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Probably borrowed from West Flemish hunke (“hunk; chunk”), of obscure origin. Probably from an earlier *humke, *humpke, a diminutive related to Dutch homp (“hunk; lump”), English hump, equivalent to hump + -kin. The sense of an attractive man is recorded in Australian slang in 1941, in jive talk in 1945.
Base: hump
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: hunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large or dense piece of something.
pos: noun
examples: a hunk of metal
"Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
A cowherd was sitting by the roadside eating this food, and as he was one of those pudding-faced, basin-clipped, decent fellows, he cut off two medium great hunks of bread and cheese for them.
gloss: An attractive man, especially one who is muscular.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The unfortunate thing about calling the season seven finale “The Dragon And The Wolf” is you can’t even reference it by name without picturing Daenerys Targaryen’s long-awaited hook-up with Jon Snow, her strapping hunk of an ally and also her nephew.
Diana’s most recent romantic adventure at that time was with the sturdy hunk Will Carling, captain of the England rugby team, whom she had met in 1995 working out at the Chelsea Harbor Club gym.
gloss: A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
pos: noun
gloss: A honyock.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: "You ain't callin' me a country hunk, are you?" "Hell, naw!" Louie backed away and grinned.
gloss: A material object considered purely as extended stuff without identity criteria.
pos: noun
Related words: bohunk
Derived words: hunkish
hunk of junk
hunksome
hunkvertising
hunky
superhunk
twunk
Translations:
blesser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bless
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 blesser
From bless + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blessers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
pos: noun
gloss: A rich man who offers support (typically financial and material) to a younger female companion in exchange for sex, friendship, etc.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
slang
examples: Other participants suggested that girls with blessers were forward or naughty girls, thus exonerating the actual blessers from blame and responsibility.
Translations:
mainland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English mayne londe; equivalent to main + land. Compare Scots mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land (“mainland”), Faroese meginland (“mainland”), Icelandic meginland (“mainland”).
Compound parts: main
land
Inflected forms:
form: mainlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
pos: noun
examples: […]I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.
You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.
Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.
gloss: The principal island of a group.
pos: noun
gloss: Great Britain.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
examples: All of the people I interviewed were from Protestant backgrounds, with proud British traditions. Yet when they set foot on the mainland, they were met at times with jeering, derision and othering from the very people with whom they were raised to believe they had the most in common.
Derived words: mainland China
mainland Chinese
mainland clouded leopard
mainlander
mainland Europe
mainlandization
mainland Japan
Translations:
arguably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arguōder.
Old French arguerbor.
Middle English arguen
English argue
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English arguable
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English arguably
From arguable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more arguably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most arguably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent, but without absolute certainty.
pos: adv
examples: In the early 1770s the bogey figure for opposition politicians was arguably not so much North in the Commons as Mansfield behind the curtain, the country's greatest lawyer (and another Caledonian to gratify the Scotophobes) keeping an irresolute Cabinet committed to waging war in America.
By random chance alone, 99 times out of 100, the Lions should have won an NFL or NFC championship. Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.
To exploit travel economies of scale, RAIL buys a four-in-eight-day Rail Rover. This is now known as the 'Spirit of Scotland Travelpass', although older users may remember it as the 'Freedom of Scotland' - arguably a better name.
Translations:
implementation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From implement + -ation.
Base: implement
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: implementations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now that the requirements are complete we can move on to implementation.
The Group has recently concentrated on two main objectives, the implementation of a Code of Practice on minor station improvements and the preparation of a stock list of approved items of equipment for railway stations.
Calls for oversight are growing, and the SBA Inspector General has already told lawmakers his office will review implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program in an upcoming investigation.
gloss: A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His implementation works, but it needs some fine-tuning.
Derived words: implementational
misimplementation
postimplementation
preimplementation
reimplementation
Translations:
stubborn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stiborne, stibourne, stoburn, stoburne, styburne, stiborn, of uncertain origin; one hypothesis is that it may be from Old English *stybbor, from Old English stybb (“a stump, stub”) + -or (adjective-formation suffix, as in bitor, whence English bitter).
Inflected forms:
form: stubborner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stubbornest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Refusing to move or to change one's opinion; obstinate; firmly resisting; persistent in doing something.
pos: adj
examples: People are pretty stubborn about their political beliefs, so why bother arguing?
Blood can make a very stubborn stain on fabrics if not washed properly.
gloss: Physically stiff and inflexible; not easily melted or worked.
pos: adj
examples: Under his hand a stubborn latch sprung noisily […]
Synonyms: willful
headstrong
wayward
obstinate
obdurate
contrary
disobedient
insubordinate
undisciplined
adamant
unyielding
rebellious
perseverant
persistent
enduring
Derived words: mule-stubborn
outstubborn
stubborn as a mule
stubbornly
stubbornness
stubborns
stubborn up
unstubborn
Translations:
arguable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arguōder.
Old French arguerbor.
Middle English arguen
English argue
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English arguable
From argue + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more arguable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arguable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That can be argued; that can be proven or strongly supported with sound logical deduction, precedent, and evidence.
pos: adj
gloss: Open to doubt, argument or debate.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: This led to a set of rules (play cannot begin before crossing East Blithedale Avenue), then subrules ("crossing" means reaching the always arguable halfway point of the avenue) […
Derived words: arguably
inarguable
unarguable
Translations:
treatise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tretys, from Anglo-Norman tretiz and Old French traitis (“treatise, account”), from traitier (“to deal with, treat”).
Inflected forms:
form: treatises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
pos: noun
examples: "As you cannot make a speech, you must," said Henrietta, "put it into a treatise."
“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?[…]”
And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
Translations:
duffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: Cognate with duff, which see (origin is uncertain).
Inflected forms:
form: duffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incompetent, indolent, or clumsy person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Besides, I was anxious to take the wheel, the man in pink pyjamas showing himself a hopeless duffer at the business.
gloss: A player having little skill, especially a golfer who duffs.
pos: noun
examples: 4. P-N5 BxP Clearly, Duras intends to have his fun with this duffer.
gloss: A pedlar or hawker, especially one selling cheap or substandard goods.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Among them are several distinct and peculiar street-characters, such as the pack-men, who carry their cotton or linen goods in packs on their backs, and are all itinerants. Then there are duffers, who vend pretended smuggled goods, handkerchiefs, silks, tobacco or cigars; also, the sellers of sham sovereigns and sham gold rings for wagers.
gloss: Cheap or substandard goods sold by a duffer.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Anything substandard, such as a counterfeit or a defective instance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A cow that does not produce milk or produces substantially less than her peers do.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: We have some good cows in this State, but, unfortunately, we have too many duffer cows that are not only being fed and milked at a loss but are eating up a portion of the profit of the good cow which is being milked alongside them.
The truth is that cattlemen love a typical cow for her beauty and symmetry of form; but every herd-testing dairyman knows that an ugly animal may be a good producer, while many a beautiful cow is a duffer.
gloss: A cattle thief or thief of other livestock; one who alters the brands of cattle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
dated
examples: Judy was an associate (‘stud’) of a Whitefella cattle duffer named Brigalow Bill (aka WJJ Ward).
In the mid-1860s a duffer named James Harnell, who went by the nickname Narran Jim, had taken stock he′d stolen from the district around Culgoa and Narran rivers across Queensland to the Cooper.[…]An alert Bulloo Downs stockman contacted the police, and when Police Inspector Fitzgerald and eight Aboriginal troopers tracked Narran Jim and surrounded him while he was sleeping, the cattle duffer woke to find himself looking down the barrel of Fitzgerald′s revolver and seven years in jail.
The cattle duffer′s escape would have been impeded by those young ones. Calves can be unruly unless you move them carefully in the company of their mothers.
His book-sized Electronic Shepherd prototype is sensitive enough to hear a sheep bleating, a dog barking, a whistle or human command, or even the vehicle or mustering dogs of a potential sheep duffer.
gloss: A racing pigeon that does not perform well.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Discophora.
pos: noun
Derived words: dufferdom
dufferish
dufferism
Translations:
ecumenical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From ecumenic + -al. By surface analysis, ecumene + -ical.
Base: ecumenic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: œcumenical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: oecumenical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [William] Wake’s immense correspondence on behalf of Christian unity has been analysed fully, if not definitively, by Norman Sykes, and related to the situations in France, Switzerland, and Germany, but we may adventure a comment upon it without recapitulating an intricate, and like ecumenical narratives generally, often tedious, story.
Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.
Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical’.
Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.
gloss: General; universal; catholic; worldwide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
Derived words: ecumaniac
ecumenical council
ecumenicalism
ecumenically
ecumenical movement
Ecumenical Patriarch
ecumenicism
ecumenicist
ecumenicity
ecumenism
nonecumenical
protoecumenical
unecumenical
Translations:
charity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English charite, from Old French charité, cherte, chariteit, cariteit, from Latin cāritās.
* The Tyndale Bible uses native English love instead.
Inflected forms:
form: charities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.
The event raised money for local charities.
He donated half his earnings to charity.
give to charity
registered charity
gloss: The goods or money given to those in need.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Benevolence to the less fortunate; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: act of charity
gloss: In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: July 20, 1677, John Mitchell Mason, letter to a friend
Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou witl judge others with the judgment of charity.
You go fuck yourself. You think I'm in this for charity?
gloss: Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.
gloss: A free throw.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
countable
informal
uncountable
Synonyms: charitable organization
Derived words: anticharity
charidee
charitarian
charity begins at home
charity box
charity boy
charity case
charity girl
charity label
charityless
charity mugger
charity shop
charity stamp
charity stripe
charityware
chug
chugger
cold as charity
discharity
incharity
kiss of charity
metacharity
principle of charity
Roman charity
sharity
uncharity
Translations:
circumpolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Latin circum
Latin circum-bor.
English circum-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os
Proto-Hellenic *pólos
Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)der.
Latin polus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Late Latin polārislbor.
English polar
English circumpolar
From circum- + polar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Located or found throughout a polar region.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a circumpolar star
Derived words: noncircumpolar
Translations:
cowcatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: advertising
broadcasting
business
marketing
media
radio
rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From cow + catcher.
Compound parts: cow
catcher
Inflected forms:
form: cowcatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cow catcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plough-shaped device affixed to the front of a locomotive (or other large vehicle), usually wedge or V-shaped so as to push or deflect objects on the tracks out of the way, to clear out the train's path and prevent the risk of derailment or major damage to it.
pos: noun
examples: With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.
The locomotive was black, an ungainly contraption led by the triangular snout of the cowcatcher, though there would be few animals where this engine was headed.
It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher.
gloss: An advertisement at the start of a program.
pos: noun
examples: Hitchhiker and cowcatcher plugs will be considered.
National advertisers have probably been major contributors to this practice through the use of so-called hitchhike and cowcatcher announcements.
Sometime in the mid-40s, the Hummerts canceled Mr. Keen and Easy Aces from their early evening periods on CBS, which also killed my cowcatchers and hitchhikes.
Related words: fender
lifeguard
snowplough
Translations:
pedagogue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogue.
Inflected forms:
form: pedagogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pædagogue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: paedagogue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: pedagog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: pedagogues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pedagoguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pedagogued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pedagogued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pædagogue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: paedagogue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: pedagog
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
pos: noun
examples: Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded.
"No, that won't work." Reynders sighed, not in frustration — she was an excellent pedagogue, and never got frustrated while instructing — but in mental exhaustion. This project was testing the limits of what she could handle, in her state, though that was nothing compared to the number it was doing on Udo's head. "But it doesn't need to work. ATCP doesn't ossify, that's why it's armageddon-proof. We'd never be able to make this function if we were using standard protocols."
gloss: A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
pos: noun
examples: And novv I have gone thus far, perhaps you vvill think me ſome pedagogue, vvilling, by a vvell-timed puff, to encreaſe the reputation of his ovvn ſchool; but ſuch is not the caſe.
gloss: A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To teach.
pos: verb
Related words: pedagogic
pedagogical
pedagogically
pedagogy
cholagogue
demagogue
galactagogue
ochlagogue
Derived words: pedagoguese
pedagoguette
Translations:
remiss
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English remisse, remysse, from Latin remissus (“languid, negligent”), perfect passive participle of remittō (“remit”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It would be remiss of me, in my duties, if I did not give credit where credit was due.
gloss: Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thou never waſt remiſs, I bear thee witneſs:
Its motion becomes more languid and remiss.
Related words: remise
Derived words: remissful
remissly
remissness
Translations:
inadvertent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin inadvertēnsbor.
English inadvertent
Borrowed from Medieval Latin inadvertēns.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not intentional; not on purpose; not conscious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We check everything because an inadvertent error could be disastrous.
gloss: Inattentive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: The Sharpers about Town very ingeniously understood themselves to be the undesigning Part of Mankind what Foxes are to Lambs, and therefore used the Word Biting to express any Exploit wherein they had over-reach'd any innocent and inadvertent Man of his Purse.
Synonyms: unintended
accidental
Related words: advert
inadvertently
advertent
Translations:
emerge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)
Inflected forms:
form: emerges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emerging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emerged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emerged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To come into view.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
gloss: To come out of a situation, object, or a liquid.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: He emerged unscathed from the accident.
The Soviet Union emerged from the ruins of an empire.
The submarine emerged from the ocean.
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
gloss: To become known.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Gradually the truth emerged.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
Synonyms: forthcome
heave in sight
Related words: emergence
emergency
emergent
Derived words: coemerge
re-emerge
reemerge
unemerged
Translations:
make-work
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From make + work.
Compound parts: make
work
Inflected forms:
form: makework
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business.
In that COVID era, in June of 2020, I interviewed the anthropologist David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, a few months ahead of his untimely death. His book had suggested that many modern jobs were make-work, created out of “managerial feudalism,” where bosses needed minions around to feel important and signal their importance to other bosses. Graeber felt vindicated by the revolution in working life triggered by COVID, which had exposed some jobs as “essential”—while others were not. Those nonessential workers, he concluded, never needed to clog highways, or sit through meetings where, one by one, people would update the boss while everyone else stared off into space, contemplating what they’d rather be doing with their brief time drawing breath, aka office life.
Translations:
gravitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrophysics
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin gravitāt-, past participial stem of gravitō.
Inflected forms:
form: gravitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gravitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gravitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gravitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move under the force of gravity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Theſe, who have nature's ſteps with care purſued,
That matter is with active force endued,
That all its parts magnetic power exert,
And to each other gravitate, aſſert.
gloss: To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
The guests slowly gravitated to the kitchen.
The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.
As the presence of any considerable number of priests on an ocean steamer is supposed to bring rough weather, so the addition of a few hundred parsons to the population of Edinburgh is believed to induce rain,—or perhaps I should say, more rain.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
A considerable amount of new rolling stock has been built for the main line services during recent years, and the older stock has gravitated to the secondary and branch lines.
I lingered with seven new friends from Chicago on a back balcony, where concert attendees waiting to be convinced traditionally congregate. The more we drank, the farther up front we gravitated. I finished the show a few feet from the stage.
Related words: gravitation
Derived words: antigravitate
degravitate
gravitative
nongravitating
selfgravitating
Translations:
equatorial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more equatorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most equatorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: equatorials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, near, or relating to the equator.
pos: adj
examples: That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.
gloss: Relating to the midline of any approximately spherical object.
pos: adj
gloss: of a bond, lying approximately in the plane of a ring, perpendicular to its axis
pos: adj
gloss: A kind of telescope mounted so as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the Earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known.
pos: noun
Derived words: amphiequatorial
antiequatorial
circumequatorial
diequatorial
Equatorial Guinea
equatorially
equatorial plane
French Equatorial Africa
nonequatorial
paleoequatorial
postequatorial
preequatorial
pseudoequatorial
retroequatorial
subequatorial
trans-equatorial
transequatorial
Translations:
pier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
architecture
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pere (“bridge pillar, breakwater”), from either Anglo-Norman pere (“stone”, from Latin petra) or Old French *piere (Old Northern French pire, from either Late Latin *petricus or pēra "satchel"); compare Medieval Latin pira.
Inflected forms:
form: piers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
pos: noun
examples: Your boat is docked at the pier.
gloss: A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
pos: noun
examples: There is a gaming arcade on the pier.
A fresh breeze comes off the water and down the pier.
Ryde Pier's claim to fame is being the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier, with construction starting in 1813.
gloss: A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
pos: noun
examples: The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.
gloss: A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
pos: noun
gloss: A long corridor-like building with multiple gates extending from an airport terminal.
pos: noun
examples: The new £216m pier will be used by all airlines currently operating out of T2, with more and more flights gradually moving over to the new pier once it becomes fully operational.
Related words: jetty
mole
wharf
Derived words: abutment pier
Brighton pier
chain pier
end-of-pier
end-of-the-pier
finger pier
gatepier
pierage
piered
pier glass
pierhead
pierless
pierlike
piermaster
pier runner
pierside
pier table
pierwise
rocking pier
take a long walk off a short pier
take a long walk on a short pier
you don't fish off the company pier
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пристан
roman: pristan
lang: Finnish
word: laituri
lang: French
word: ponton
lang: German
word: Steg
lang: German
word: Bootssteg
lang: Polish
word: pirs
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: laimrig
lang: Swedish
word: pir
lang: Swedish
word: brygga
pliable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French ploiable, from ploiier (“to fold”). By surface analysis, ply + -able. Compare pliant.
Inflected forms:
form: more pliable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pliable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Soft, flexible, easily bent, formed, shaped, or molded.
pos: adj
examples: You will find the clay perfectly pliable as long as it stays moist.
gloss: Easily persuaded; yielding to influence.
pos: adj
Related words: pliability
pliancy
pliant
ply
Derived words: impliable
nonpliable
pliableness
pliably
unpliable
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yapığan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əyilgən
lang: Bulgarian
word: пластичен
roman: plastičen
lang: Bulgarian
word: ковък
roman: kovǎk
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 易彎 /易弯
roman: yìwān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 易曲折的
roman: yì qūzhé de
lang: Dutch
word: plooibaar
lang: Finnish
word: taipuisa
lang: Finnish
word: notkea
lang: French
word: pliable
lang: French
word: pliant
lang: German
word: biegsam
lang: German
word: geschmeidig
lang: Greek
word: εύκαμπτος
roman: éfkamptos
lang: Greek
word: εύπλαστος
roman: éfplastos
lang: Greek
word: ευλύγιστος
roman: evlýgistos
lang: Italian
word: malleabile
lang: Italian
word: pieghevole
lang: Italian
word: flessibile
lang: Italian
word: adattabile
lang: Italian
word: modellabile
lang: Japanese
word: 曲げやすい
roman: mageyasui
lang: Japanese
word: しなやかな
roman: shinayaka na
lang: Korean
word: 유연(柔軟)한
roman: yuyeonhan
lang: Latin
word: flexilis
lang: Manx
word: so-lhoobagh
lang: Māori
word: kōpēpē
lang: Māori
word: kōngohe
lang: Māori
word: kōpē
lang: Polish
word: giętki
lang: Polish
word: gibki
lang: Portuguese
word: maleável
lang: Portuguese
word: moldável
lang: Portuguese
word: flexível
lang: Romanian
word: pliabil
lang: Romanian
word: pliant
lang: Russian
word: ги́бкий
roman: gíbkij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: savitljiv
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: савитљив
lang: Sicilian
word: ncunucchiàvili
lang: Sicilian
word: gnutticàvili
lang: Slovak
word: ohybný
lang: Slovak
word: tvárny
lang: Slovak
word: poddajný
lang: Spanish
word: plegable
lang: Spanish
word: plegadizo
lang: Tocharian B
word: wlaṃśke
lang: Ukrainian
word: гнучки́й
roman: hnučkýj
confection
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English confescioun, borrowed from Old French confeccion (French confection), borrowed from Latin cōnfectiōnem, from confectus, past participle of conficere (“prepare”), from com- (“with”) + facere (“to make, do”). Originally "the making by means of ingredients"; sense of "candy or light pastry" predominant since 1500s.
Inflected forms:
form: confections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: confections
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confectioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confectioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confectioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
pos: noun
examples: The table was covered with all sorts of tempting confections.
gloss: The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
pos: noun
gloss: The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
pos: noun
examples: The defense attorney maintained that the charges were a confection of the local police.
gloss: An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: She found a sexy, lacy confection in a lingerie drawer and quickly slipped into it.
gloss: A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Was it not a goodly poison that he gave!
Why, he's as well now as he was before.
It shuld have been some fine confection
That might have given the broth some dainty taste
gloss: To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
pos: verb
Related words: confect
confectionary
Translations:
interpreted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: interpretted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Executed directly, rather than via a compiled binary representation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: