yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
marsh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere.
Base: mere
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: marshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.
pos: noun
examples: Many animals live in the marsh.
Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.
Translations:
compensate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: compensates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compensating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: compensatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: compensatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: compensates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compensateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: compensate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: compensating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compensated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
pos: verb
gloss: To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
pos: verb
examples: It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
gloss: To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
, Preface
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
gloss: To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
pos: verb
examples: I hate that old car because it steers a little to the left and I'm always compensating for that when I drive it.
To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Synonyms: reimburse
offset
acclimate
accommodate
accustom
adapt
accord
amend
appease
atone
equate
expiate
harmonize
indemnify
level
reconcile
rectify
redeem
redress
remedy
remunerate
requite
resolve
restitute and restitution
square
compensate
compense
dispense
make good
make up
recompense
restore
Related words: compensation
compensatory
compensable
compensably
recompense
Derived words: compensatable
compensator
decompensate
malcompensate
miscompensate
overcompensate
precompensate
recompensate
undercompensate
Translations:
decry
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: C. 1600, from Middle French decrier (“to denigrate; depreciate”), from Old French descrier (“to shout”) (modern décrier). Doublet of descry. The pejorative meaning had not been present in the Middle English loan, but it was present in the French word from at least the 13th century, with a meaning of "to denigrate; depreciate; to announce the depreciation or suppression of a currency", presumably from the interpretation of de- as meaning "down, inferior".
Inflected forms:
form: decries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To denounce as harmful.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nothing is more uſual and more natural for thoſe, vvho pretend to diſcover any thing nevv to the vvorld in philoſophy and the ſciences, than to inſinuate the praiſes of their ovvn ſystems, by decrying all thoſe, vvhich have been advanced before them.
All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.
While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.
For London, Beeching decries the low fares, resulting in an inability to justify investment in capacity enhancement despite severe overcrowding.
gloss: To blame for ills.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: decriable
decrial
decryingly
undecried
Translations:
rant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).
Inflected forms:
form: rants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ranting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ranted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ranted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
pos: verb
gloss: To disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner.
pos: verb
examples: Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.
gloss: To criticize by ranting.
pos: verb
gloss: To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To dance rant steps.
pos: verb
gloss: A criticism done by ranting.
pos: noun
gloss: A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
pos: noun
Related words: screed
ramble
rave
Derived words: outrant
rant and rave
ranter
/end rant
rantful
rantsona
ranty
semirant
Translations:
frail
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.
Inflected forms:
form: frailer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frailest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
pos: adj
examples: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,
Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
Its nest is composed of the frailest materials, and is light and small in proportion to the size of the bird
gloss: Weak; infirm.
pos: adj
examples: Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.
O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids
gloss: In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
pos: adj
gloss: Mentally fragile.
pos: adj
gloss: Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
pos: adj
gloss: To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.
pos: verb
Related words: fractal
fraction
fracture
fragile
fragility
frailty
Derived words: frailish
frailly
frailness
frail sister
frailsome
lily-frail
overfrail
prefrail
unfrail
Translations:
impertinent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English impertinent, from Middle French impertinent, from Old French impertinent, from Latin impertinēns; by surface analysis, im- + pertinent.
Inflected forms:
form: more impertinent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impertinent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: impertinents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
pos: adj
examples: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
gloss: Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Curious speculations, and the contemplation of things that are impertinent to us, and do not concern us, nor serve to promote our happiness, are but a more specious and ingenious sort of idleness
How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
gloss: An impertinent individual.
pos: noun
examples: Get near fat Mr. Dutton, and behind the screen of his prodigious elbow, you will be comfortably recessed from curious impertinents.
Related words: impudent
Derived words: impertinently
impertinentness
unimpertinent
Translations:
invert
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
chemistry
civil-engineering
engineering
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French invertir.
Inflected forms:
form: inverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inverted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inverts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, / As if these organs had deceptious functions.
Seldom, alas! the power of logic reigns / With much ſufficiency in royal brains. / Such reaſ'ning falls like an inverted cone, / Wanting its proper baſe to ſtand upon.
gloss: To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undergo inversion, as sugar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
pos: verb
examples: [H]e had miſgouerned the ſtate, inuerted his treaſures to his owne priuat […]
gloss: To turn (the foot) inwards.
pos: verb
gloss: An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
pos: noun
gloss: The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
pos: noun
gloss: The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
pos: noun
gloss: An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
pos: noun
gloss: A homosexual person, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: We can seldom, therefore, congratulate ourselves on the success of any "cure" of inversion. The success is unlikely to be either permanent or complete, in the case of a decided invert; and in the most successful cases we have simply put into the invert's hands a power of reproduction which it is undesirable he should possess.
gloss: Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: invert sugar
Synonyms: invert
reverse
up-end
Antonyms: normalize
standardise
unreverse
Related words: inversion
convert
Derived words: invertase
invertasome
inverted
invertible
invertin
invertive
invertomer
invertor
invert sugar
reinvert
uninvert
invert enzyme
Jenny invert
Translations:
ref
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clippings.
Inflected forms:
form: refs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
examples: On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.
Translations:
unmount
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English mount
English unmount
From un- + mount.
Inflected forms:
form: unmounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unmounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unmounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unmounted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please unmount the external hard drive before unplugging it.
You must unmount the filesystem before running the data recovery tool.
Translations:
athlete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English athlete, from Latin āthlēta (and probably also partly from Middle French athlete), from Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs), from ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete for a prize”), from ἆθλον (âthlon, “prize”) or ἆθλος (âthlos, “competition”).
Inflected forms:
form: athletes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A participant in any of a group of sporting activities including track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who actively participates in physical sports, especially with great skill; a sportsperson.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: She's the first athlete in her sport to obtain a corporate sponsor.
Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
gloss: An exceptionally physically fit person.
pos: noun
Synonyms: sportsperson
competitor
jock
pro
sportsman
sportswoman
Antonyms: nonathlete
Related words: athletic
athletics
-athlon
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Derived words: athletehood
athlete's foot
athleticism
athletocracy
biathlete
cyberathlete
decathlete
e-athlete
ethlete
heptathlete
mathlete
neutral Paralympic athlete
nonathlete
para-athlete
parathlete
Spanish athlete
student-athlete
student athlete
superathlete
triathlete
world's greatest athlete
Translations:
zealot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Initially only found as Middle English zelote, an epithet of Simon the Zealot, acquiring its current senses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Middle English derives from Latin zēlōtēs, from Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs, “emulator, zealous admirer, follower”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”), from ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”).
Inflected forms:
form: zealots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Zealot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
historical
Senses:
gloss: One who is zealous, one who is full of zeal for their own specific beliefs or objectives, usually in the negative sense of being too passionate; a fanatic.
pos: noun
examples: For Modes of Faith let graceleſs zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whoſe life is in the right:
gloss: A member of a radical, warlike, ardently patriotic group of Jews in Judea, particularly prominent in the first century, who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule and vigorously resisted the efforts of the Romans and their supporters to convert the Jews.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
historical
gloss: A member of an anti-aristocratic political group in Thessalonica from 1342 until 1350.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: jealous
jealousy
zeal
zealotry
zealous
Translations:
zealous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English zelose, from Latin zēlōsus, from zēlus + -ōsus, from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate, to be jealous”). By surface analysis, zeal + -ous. Doublet of jealous.
Inflected forms:
form: more zealous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: zealouser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
uncommon
form: most zealous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: zealousest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
uncommon
form: zelous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Full of zeal; ardent, fervent; exhibiting enthusiasm or strong passion, particularly in matters of religion.
pos: adj
examples: They neuer paſſe for the procuring of Gods honor, neither regard they how much they be bound vnto him. But euery man in the meane ſeaſon followes his owne likings. One burnes in couetouſneſſe, and another in vaine glorie, ſeeking to be aduaunced to authoritie and honour, and to bee taken to be I wote not what. Thus ye ſee at what point they bee, which will needes be taken to bee greateſt and zealouſeſt Chriſtians.
I had almoſt forgotten to acquaint your honor, that one major Alford (who was in mr. Love's conſpiracy) was of the graund inqueſt at Saliſbury, and was very zealous in his highneſſe ſervice here, and his good affection and wiſe carriage here, did much advantage the buſſineſe.
[S]orting them into ſeveral congregations of a moderat number, out of the ableſt and zealouſeſt among them to create elders, who, exerciſing and requiring from themſelves what they have learnd (for no learning is retaind without conſtant exerciſe and methodical repetition) may reach and govern the reſt: […]
Johnſon was truly zealous for the ſucceſs of "The Adventurer;" and very ſoon after his engaging in it, he wrote the following letter […]
Doubtless many will exclaim against the Roman Catholic Church for this; but the simple truth is that Protestantism was no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine.
Newt Gingrich […] left Congress in 1998, following GOP midterm-election losses that many blamed on his zealous pursuit of Bill Clinton's impeachment.
Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
Translations:
ardent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested circa 14th century as Middle English ardaunt, borrowed from Anglo-Norman ardent and Old French ardant, from Latin ardentem, accusative of ardēns, present participle of ardeō (“to burn”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ardent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ardent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of ardor; expressing passion, spirit, or enthusiasm.
pos: adj
examples: This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
Nor gushing tears, nor ardent prayers, shall shake our firm decree.
gloss: Providing light or heat.
pos: adj
tags: literary
Related words: ardency
ardently
ardent spirits
ardor
Derived words: ardentness
Translations:
passionate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.
Base: passion
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more passionate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most passionate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
pos: adj
examples: Mandy is a passionate lover.
gloss: Fired with intense feeling.
pos: adj
examples: 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,
Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.
gloss: Suffering; sorrowful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.
Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Related words: impassion
impassionate
impassioned
passion
passive
passivity
patience
patient
Derived words: nonpassionate
overpassionate
passionate friendship
passionately
passionateness
unpassionate
Translations:
fanatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1525. Learned borrowing from Latin fānāticus (“of a temple, divinely inspired, frenzied”), from fānum (“temple”). Influenced by French fanatique.
Inflected forms:
form: more fanatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fanatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fanatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fanatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fanatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Fanatical.
pos: adj
examples: But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast / To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
gloss: Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause.
pos: noun
examples: The reclusive tycoon calling himself the Illusive Man is a human nationalist focused on advancing human interests, whatever the cost to non-humans. The Citadel Council regards him as a fanatic posing a serious threat to galactic security.
A zealot can't change his mind. A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. —Winston Churchill (attributed)
A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. —George Santayana
Derived words: fanaticize
nonfanatic
ultrafanatic
unfanatic
Translations:
floury
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English floury, equivalent to flour + -y. Piecewise doublet of flowery.
Base: flour
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: flourier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: flouriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling flour.
pos: adj
examples: These mashed potatoes have a floury texture.
gloss: Covered in flour.
pos: adj
examples: The baker wiped his floury hands on his apron.
gloss: High in starch; tending to break down easily when cooked.
pos: adj
examples: Boil four large floury potatoes till they are thoroughly done; peel them and mash them smooth with the back of a spoon
As we all know, there are great differences among potatoes; some are waxy, others floury; and these, again, vary according to the manner and degree of cooking.
Antonyms: unfloury
waxy
Related words: wood flour
Derived words: flourily
flouriness
floury baker
floury miller
Translations:
outie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English ūt
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *-ai
Proto-Germanic *ūtai
Proto-West Germanic *ūtē
Old English ūte
Middle English oute
English out
English -ie
English outie
From out + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: outies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outtie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: outy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Anything convex; especially:
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Anything convex; especially:
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Anything convex; especially:
pos: noun
tags: childish
euphemistic
informal
gloss: An extrovert.
pos: noun
Antonyms: innie
Translations:
innie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Germanic *in
Proto-West Germanic *in
Old English in
Middle English in
English in
English -ie
English innie
From in + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: innies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything concave; especially:
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Anything concave; especially:
pos: noun
tags: informal
slang
gloss: Anything concave; especially:
pos: noun
tags: childish
euphemistic
informal
gloss: An introvert.
pos: noun
Antonyms: outie
Translations:
adobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Egyptian ḏbt
Demotic Egyptian tb
Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe)der.
Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba)
Andalusian Arabic طُوبَة
Andalusian Arabic طُوبder.
Spanish adobebor.
English adobe
From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian ⁠⁠ (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).
Inflected forms:
form: adobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,
The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
gloss: The earth from which such bricks are made.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A house made of adobe brick.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever[…].
Derived words: adobe bread
adobelike
adobe lily
superadobe
Translations:
orbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English orb
English -ed
English orbed
From orb + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more orbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the form of an orb; round; spherical.
pos: adj
examples: Orbed is the moon and bright,
 And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Translations:
addend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Short for addendum, by surface analysis, add + -end.
Inflected forms:
form: addends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: addends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: addending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: addended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: addended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.
pos: noun
gloss: A moiety added to another molecule.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish with an addendum.
pos: verb
gloss: To furnish with an addend.
pos: verb
Related words: add
addition
successor
summation
+ =
+ +... =
Translations:
adept
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Italic *-skō
Latin -scō
Latin apīscor
Latin adipīscor
Latin adeptusbor.
French adeptebor.
English adept
Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Inflected forms:
form: more adept
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: adepter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adept
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adeptest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
pos: adj
examples: Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
gloss: One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
pos: noun
examples: adepts in philosophy
When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
Antonyms: inept
Derived words: nonadept
Translations:
adipic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin adeps (“lard, fat”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or derived from adipic acid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: adipose
adiposeness
adiposis
adiposity
Derived words: adipate
adipyl
aminoadipic
ketoadipic
Translations:
adsorb
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From French adsorber, from Latin ad- (“to”) + sorbeō (“suck in”).
Inflected forms:
form: adsorbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adsorbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adsorbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adsorbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To accumulate on a surface, by adsorption.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: The gas was purified by adsorbing the impurities onto active carbon.
Translations:
afire
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 13ᵗʰc., from Middle English afire, equivalent to a- (“on”) + fire. Figurative usage from late 14ᵗʰc.
Base: fire
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more afire
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most afire
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more afire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most afire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On fire (often metaphorically).
pos: adv
gloss: On fire (often metaphorically).
pos: adj
Translations:
agave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀγαυή (Agauḗ, “Agave”), from ἀγαυός (agauós, “noble, illustrious”).
Inflected forms:
form: agaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave of succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles, flowering at maturity after several years, and generally dying thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.
pos: noun
examples: On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
1893 Charles Richards Dodge, A Report on the Leaf Fibers of the United States. Pub: Govt. print. office Washington
The work of cutting the leaves, even from these isolated plants, was in the nature of an ordeal. Every member of the party took a knife and attacked the thicket, no one escaping the experience of bleeding hands and arms and of more or less injured clothing. If there is any place where strong language is halfway excusable it is in a thicket of Agave' decipiens.
It was one of the large, vicious varieties of agave, each individual plant an upturned rosette of stiff, fibrous, fleshy leaves, some of them over a meter long on the big parent plants.
Translations:
alamo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish álamo. Doublet of elm.
Inflected forms:
form: alamos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; a cottonwood (Populus spp.).
pos: noun
Translations:
aldrin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Alder + -in. Named after German chemist Kurt Alder (1902–1958).
Base: Alder
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: aldrins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An insecticide and persistent organic pollutant containing a naphthalene-derived compound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
aleph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אָלֶף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif.
Inflected forms:
form: alephs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alif
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alaph
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: olaph
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
pos: noun
gloss: The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
pos: noun
examples: The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.
Related words: alpha
Derived words: aleph-beth
aleph-null
aleph-one
aleph-zero
since aleph
Translations:
alga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin alga.
Inflected forms:
form: algae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: algæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
pos: noun
examples: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
Translations:
algal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin algalbor.
English alga
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 algal
From alga + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: algals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or like, algae.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wallace [...] came closer to the dense algal stink of the lake.
gloss: An alga.
pos: noun
Translations:
alkane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholbor.
German Alk(ohol)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Alkyl
German alk-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
German -an
German Alkanbor.
English alkane
From German Alkan, formed as alkyl + -ane.
Base: alkyl
Affixes: -ane
Inflected forms:
form: alkanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: The carbon chain of an alkane may be linear or branched, but must not contain loops (cycles); its chemical formula is of the form CₙH₂ₙ₊₂.
Whereas production levels of short-chain alkanes in plants are insufficient to provide an economically viable fuel source, the genes encoding the alkane biosynthetic pathway may provide a biotechnological resource for engineering fermentation organisms with the capacity to convert biomass to an alkane-based fuel.
The oxidation of the simplest alkane methanol is carried out by methylotrophs that may be obligate or facultative.
2012, Chulsung Bae, Chapter 3: Catalytic Carbon-Boron Bond Formation via Activation of Alkane C-H Bonds, Pedro J. Pérez, Alkane C-H Activation by Single-Site Metal Catalysis, Springer, page 73,
Alkanes are extremely unreactive toward nucleophiles and electrophiles because they are composed of nonpolar, strong, saturated C–H and C-C bonds.
Translations:
alkene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: alkenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unsaturated, aliphatic hydrocarbon with one or more carbon–carbon double bonds.
pos: noun
Translations:
allyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ālium
Latin allium
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English allyl
From Latin allium (“garlic”) + English -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: allyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical, CH₂=CH-CH₂-, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-compounds
Translations:
aloe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English alwe (“fragrant resin of an East Indian tree”), from Latin aloē, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓λόη (ălóē), from Hebrew אָהָל (ʾāhāl) or related Aramaic forms, ultimately from Tamil அகில் (akil); reinforced in Middle English by Old French aloes.
Inflected forms:
form: aloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aloë
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Any plant of the large and variable genus Aloe.
pos: noun
examples: 1885 Ferdinand von Mueller: Select Extra-tropical Plants, Readily Eligible For Industrial Culture Or Naturalization. pub: Melbourne: J. Ferres
Aloe ferox, Miller. South-Africa. This species yields the best Cape-aloes, as observed by Dr. Pappe. The simply inspissated juice of the leaves of the various species of the genus constitutes the aloe-drug. It is best obtained by using neither heat nor pressure for extracting the sap. By re-dissolving the aqueous part of Aloes in cold water, and reducing the liquid through boiling or other processes of exsiccation to dryness, the extract of aloes is prepared. The bitter sap, used for dressing wounds, keeps off flies very effectually. It deserves introduction particularly in veterinary practice.
'…you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.' 'Yes,' said Cyril; 'Jane used to bite her nails.' 'But I broke myself of it,' urged Jane, rather hurt, 'You know I did.' 'Not till they put bitter aloes on them,' said Cyril.
gloss: Misnomer for any large, vaguely aloe-like plant, such as Agave.
pos: noun
examples: In mercy I put a bullet through his skull, and he fell sprawling among the aloes.
gloss: A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.
pos: noun
Related words: agave
maguey
Derived words: aloe-emodin
aloelike
aloe vera
aloin
American aloe
coral aloe
lignaloe
lign aloe
xylaloe
Translations:
alp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, back-formation from alps pl, via French from Latin Alpes (“high mountains, especially those of Switzerland”). Compare Old Saxon elbon (“Alps”), Old High German Alpūn (“Alps”); Old High German alba (“alp, mountain”)).
Inflected forms:
form: alps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
pos: noun
examples: Nor breath of Vernal Air from ſnowy Alp.
Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps ariſe!
There is a great alp of sand, one hundred metres high, between the pines and the ocean, […]
gloss: An alpine meadow.
pos: noun
examples: At the alp of Khyarkuti, a wide flat at the junction of several glens[…]
Derived words: alpine
alpinely
alpinism
alpinist
alpland
Translations:
althea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin althaeabor.
English althea
Borrowed from Latin althaea.
Inflected forms:
form: altheas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants of the genus Althaea; the hollyhocks and mallows, native to Eurasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
alum
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English alum, alum, alym, alyme, from Anglo-Norman alum, alun, from Latin alūmen.
Inflected forms:
form: alums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alumn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aluming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: alumn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Venice also needed alum for trade, since it was the point of departure for overland transportation of alum to southern Germany and its cloth-manufacturing Free Cities.
A natural astringent and antiseptic, potassium alum was coveted for its medicinal and cosmetic properties.
gloss: Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With weld and cochineal, which are colouring matters the most sensible to the action of sulphate of iron, the purified alums gave us colours more brilliant, fresh, and in a slight degree lighter; while those with our common alums were all duller, and evidently of a deeper hue.
For similar reasons, aluminium sulphate and alums are used in dyeing cloth.[…]Normally alums are soluble in water and insoluble in alcohols.
In structure, the alums consist of simple ions, being not complexes, but double salts. Potash alum or potassium alum is the common alum, with the formula KAl(SO₄)₂·12H₂O) which, for convenience, may be written K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O
gloss: To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The silk should be boiled at the rate of 20 parts of soap per cent. , and then alumed. The aluming need not be so strong as for the fine crimson
After drying, the cloth was alumed and finally dyed.
Synonyms: potash alum
Related words: aluminiferous
aluniferous
aluminiform
aluminilite
aluminise
aluminize
aluminite
aluminous
alunite
alunogen
apjohnite
bosjemanite
halotrichite
kalinite
websterite
Derived words: alum-basket
alum cake
alum earth
alumed
alumiferous
alumina
aluming
alumish
alumium
alum mine
alumocalcite
alum rock
Alum Rock
alum root
alumroot
alum schist
alum shale
alum slate
alumstone
alum stone
alum works
ammonia alum
burnt alum
cake alum
carmalum
chrome alum
chrome-ammonia alum
common alum
feather alum
filter alum
hemalum
iron alum
magnesia alum
manganese alum
manganoso-magnesium alum
native alum
papermaker's alum
plume alum
plumose alum
potash alum
pseudo alum
rock alum
Roman alum
saccharine alum
silver alum
soda alum
sodium alum
unalumed
Translations:
clique
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by claque, though this may have happened in French rather than in English.
Inflected forms:
form: cliques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cliques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cliquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cliqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cliqued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
pos: noun
examples: This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique.
gloss: A subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
pos: noun
examples: The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
gloss: A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...
you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats^([sic]) usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.
gloss: A shortened form of the Skeleton Clique, the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots.
pos: noun
examples: The Skeleton Clique, often referred to as just 'the clique,' is what members of the Twenty One Pilots fandom have dubbed themselves.
gloss: To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: independent set
Related words: cliquey
claque
Derived words: anticlique
biclique
cliquedom
cliqueless
cliquemate
clique number
cliquery
clique tree
clique width
cliquey
cliquish
cliquism
coclique
hyperclique
Skeleton Clique
subclique
Translations: